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...centre of his class - 60th among 125 cadets. At 21 he wrote, in clumsy, inept calligraphy, a pathetic little self-portrait: "My strongest characteristic: gluttony-I never get enough to eat. My credo: self-respect-I believe in myself. My weak points: none. My favorite book: Momotaro [a heroic fairy tale]. My favorite dish: boiled millet and soup with dry leeks [a poor peasant food...
Gratifying as this was to President Little, it was no more than a temporary solace. For a universal commodity like soap has to be sold in heroic amounts to make money, and, unfortunately, there is little to choose between soaps. Hence competition is nerve-racking, with Procter & Gamble hanging on to some 40% of the U. S. business, C-P-P and Lever Bros. doing about 20% apiece - 200-odd soapmakers scrapping for the rest. Chief competitive weapon: advertising, for which the soapmakers' bill was a cool $40,000,000 last year. It cost C-P-P alone...
Princeton absorbed an unmerciful plastering from the Big Green in Hanover about a week ago, but the Tigers will provide formidable opposition tonight. The Feslermen may be a bit bruised and leg-weary after their heroic efforts to stop Gus Broberg and Company, but they will never stop fighting. And Wes Fesler will see to it that their fight will be an intelligent...
There was no lack of lifted voices and sounding trumpets on this heroic dispute. The gallant heir of the traditions of the Lone Star State, Senator Tom Connally, plumping for Foreign Relations, denied vehemently and at length that his choice was motivated by pride, of which nobody accused him, made it clear at the conclusion of his talk that nobody could accuse him of wanting to aid Finland either. Senator George of Georgia talked just as long in the same cause, proclaiming his inability to tell the difference between sending money to Finland and sending a battleship. Vainly Administration Leader...
...Long before the debate was over, disgusted observers wondered who really needed aid. Between the tweedledee Committee on Banking and Currency, and the tweedledum Committee on Foreign Relations, the Senate wavered in such agony as to make the resistance of Finland seem even more heroic than it had seemed before. Statesmanlike solution of Senator McNary of Oregon was gratefully accepted. His proposal: send the letter to both committees. That meant more delay. As the Committee on Banking and Currency prepared to hear Secretary of State Hull's opinion, and as Senator Brown prepared to revise his bill with Administration...