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Oreste Baratieri was a Garibaldi Redshirt and an old-school Italian with a family pride sensitive as a rabbit's lip. Three days he brooded over the telegram from Premier Crispi, then assembled the four Generals under his command for a conference. The Ethiopian army was encamped 18 miles away in a brutal country of cliffs, gullies and thorn-covered hills. It outnumbered the Italians six to one and was equipped with artillery. Even so, all five Italian Generals voted to attack at once for the honor of their commander...
...past year President Percy Hampton Johnston reported earnings of $7,700,000 as against $8,300,000 in 1933. He introduced to little Chemical stockholders the biggest Chemical stockholder (Robert Walton Goelet) and the second biggest (John Mortimer Schiff). And like the old-school banker and Southern gentleman that he is, Mr. Johnston grumbled considerably about the current scene. Samples...
Socialite but not smart is Brearley School. It has never wanted to be smart. The fathers who persuaded Samuel Brearley of Harvard and Balliol to found it were disgusted with the genteel finishing schools of the 1880s. They wanted their daughters to be as well prepared as their sons for college. When Founder Brearley died in 1886 they got for headmaster, James G. Croswell, an old-school classicist from Harvard. In 28 years he set a scholarly tone which Brearley has never lost. In the select sisterhood of Manhattan's half-dozen famed private schools for girls it retains...
Maurice Baring is old-school without being oldfashioned. Urbane without pomp, sentimental but only sensibly so, he has the happy faculty of appearing as a citizen of the world without showing off the labels on his baggage. His latest novel, The Lonely Lady of Dulwich, is a little book (150 pages) but it compasses a full human career without skimping. Deliberately, nostalgically reminiscent, it has the small fragrance of an old sachet...
...Chancellor by an abrupt decree widened the powers of Economics Minister Dr. Kurt Schmitt until he became an Economics Tsar. Old-school Economist Dr. Schmitt is secretive about whether he is yet a Nazi. He is famed for the quiet way in which for months he has shielded Jewish businessmen whenever possible and generally run the Ministry of Economics on sane, rational lines which made him hated by Captain Ernst Roehm and other "Nazi Bolsheviks" now safely massacred. Last week the Cabinet decreed, effective for the next three months: "The Minister of Economics is empowered to take all measures...