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...have rearmed and rebuilt our armies in a degree which would have been deemed impossible a few months ago. We have ferried across the Atlantic, thanks to our friends over there, an immense mass of munitions of all kinds: cannon, rifles, machine guns, cartridges and shells; all safely landed without the loss of a gun or a round. . . ." (British authorities revealed last week that 600,000 badly needed Springfield rifles, 500 field pieces [mostly 75 mm.] and large quantities of ammunition, bought in June from the U. S. Government's surplus World War I stocks, were not only safely...
...earth. To the Pope he wrote: "In their hearts men decline to accept for long the law of destruction forced upon them by wielders of brute force. Always they seek . . . to find again the faith without which the welfare of nations and the peace of the world cannot be rebuilt." To the Vatican as his special envoy he sent Steelman Myron C. Taylor. At that time much hope was built on the Vatican lining up on the side of the democracies. But World War II spread further. Last week the Vatican appeared to be working out its own policy...
...program will be an undergraduate celebration marking the completion of the Colonial reconstruction of University Hall, Brown's original "college edifice" of 1770. Rebuilt by the same architects who had charge of the Colonial restorations at Williamsburg, Va., University Hall is now considered one of the finest examples of interior Colonial design in the country...
Present head of the firm is Solomon's son, plump, jovial Abraham Livingston ("A. L.") Gump, who resembles one of his own Buddhas. He took over in 1906, just before the earthquake. Same year he hired Oriental Expert Daniel Newell, rebuilt the store and its reputation for Oriental art together. Now nearly blind, A. L. is still a shrewd judge of jade by touch. He knows the store so well that he can guide important visitors around and comment on each object, without giving away his handicap...
...patient back on his feet. For liberal education has passed beyond the stage where occasional shots of stimulants--half-hearted attempts at integration--are sufficient to hold off its dissolution into chaos. As it stands now, it has lost its meaning, and can only regain it by being rebuilt from the bottom...