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...realism of mood and swirl of action The First World War cannot be compared in scope or variety with the great ten-volume Photographic History of the Civil War issued in 1911 by Review of Reviews Co. That work still stands as an unchallenged monument to War Photographer Matthew Brady and his aides who also recorded the four-year struggle on some 7,000 wet plates that had to be developed five minutes after exposure. World War cameramen with their improved equipment remain nameless heroes. From the bottom of their portfolios were lifted such blood-curdling pictures as went into...
Three days later Chancellor Hitler's personal newspaper, Der Volkischer Beobachter, sounded a German call to Empire worthy of rash Kaiser Wilhelm II. "The great events that expand the scope of history," said the Chancellor's organ, "take place upon the sea. It is the sea that creates world powers." Praising present-day German pocket battleships as superior to foreign fighting craft. Herr Hitler's paper cried: "We need not be anxious! . . . Today, modern naval tactics enable Germans, with their superior capacity for leadership, to escape the monotony of bombardment of the enemy fleet and to succeed...
...produced a thick book, compilation of the Gifford Lectures he delivered at the University of Aberdeen in 1927-29.* Bishop Barnes recalls that at one point in the 19th Century, science seemed about ready to crowd out religion. But science is not yet free of error or boundless in scope. Bishop Barnes travels its length, then looks toward...
Last week President Roosevelt found another way to help insolvent cities. With his support legislation was drafted to bring cities within the scope of the new bankruptcy law for corporations and individuals. By this means a city might offer its creditors 60? on the $1. If three-fourths of them concurred, it could take its debt agreement into Federal court, have it made binding on all creditors, get a chance to make a fresh financial start...
Students living in large cities will be forced to narrow the scope of their study to selected topics, but the intention is that the report should include a description of the area covered, its location, climate, population, racial composition, and social stratification. The student will discuss the relative importance of its various economic activities, the transportation facilities, and such other factors as will provide an adequate picture of the community in its current setting and its relation to the rest of the country...