Word: journals
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...checking the Wall Street Journal for the 19th I find that the rate of exchange quoted for that day was $4.02½ and am wondering where the squeeze comes...
Last week a roomful of businessmen, New Dealers, bankers and labor leaders met in Washington to talk about the Re-employment of Labor and Capital. Host was the Savings Bank Journal's editor, Milton Harrison (TIME, Sept. 30), who has held six similar forums this year. Moderator was a quiet, dark Sullivan & Cromwell partner, Norris Darrell. By 10 p.m., after six hours of good-and ill-natured debate, the embattled forumists had not made much progress towards mutual understanding. The Government-spenders were still unashamed Government-spenders, the let-industry-do-the-job men were still for letting industry...
...sale was small, but it was steady. Soon Roberts was working on The Lively Lady, an early 19th-Century story of privateering and Dartmoor jail. Then he went back to the American Revolution. Rabble in Arms was finished in the hungry autumn of 1933. Wrote Roberts in his journal: "Finished the proofs. Broke and almost dead." Said A. Hamilton Gibbs: "A masterly presentation of the period." Murmured Friend Alexander Woollcott: "A fine murmurous forest of a book...
Last week the American Journal of Digestive Diseases brought into the open a bitter dispute of long standing between physicians and surgeons. Ulcers of the stomach, most doctors believe, are caused by too much acid in the digestive juices. Too much acid corrodes the stomach lining at sensitive points, leaving a raw wound. But why some people have a constant gush of acid, instead of a gentle trickle at mealtime, is a mystery to doctors. Certain it is that tobacco and alcohol do a delicate stomach no good. Many authorities hold that ulcers are the fruits of temperament, for only...
...view of the Crimson's oft-repeated statements that it will be impossible for drafted men to obtain commissions, may I point out that the Army has already approved plans to train selected draftees for reserve commissions? I quote from the Army and Navy Journal, a usually authoritative periodical, for Oct. 5, 1940: "General Marshall (Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army) said this week that during the last three or four months of the draftees' twelve months' training, the Army will select promising officer material from among the trainees and put them in special candidates' schools where they will...