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Klaw's article is a fully and colorfully documented study of the William James experiment at Sharon, Vt. He might have done better to take a more representative sector of the movement, where he would have found many of his criticisms inapplicable, but as it is he comes out with a favorable reaction. Harper, on the other hand, sces, in the work camp philosophy, as expounded by William James, dangerous fascist and war-mongering tendencies. The arguments he presents against even voluntary camps are pretty much those of the Student Union, but, as in last month's Hicks controversy...
...Greeks, observing that the enemy was concentrating supplies in the Monastir sector, announced that their troops were "impatiently awaiting the first opportunity of getting at the Germans." Grimly the Yugoslavs pointed out: "It is one thing to conquer the Komitajis' territory; it is another thing to conquer the Komitaji." This week was Orthodox Holy Week, and devout men like General Simovitch (who was not too devout, however, to divorce his first wife and marry one of the handsomest women in Yugoslavia) threw a religious fervor into their fighting...
...report was a 466-page going-over of insurance practices in general, the Big Five life companies (Metropolitan, Prudential, New York, Equitable, Mutual of New York) in particular. Its starting point: that insurance constitutes a huge and powerful sector of the U. S. economy. Some 365 legal reserve life insurance companies in the U. S. have assets totaling over $28,000,000,000. Their annual income exceeds $5,000,000,000, about 8% of 1938's national income. Their market is nearly half the population: the $111,000,000,000 of insurance in force is held by over...
...Home Fleet joined the party in the mists of an early dawn off Ostend. In a sector buzzing with Nazi bombing squadrons, in waters too narrow for maneuvering heavy ships, light cruisers and destroyers paraded past, leisurely shot up Ostend's docks and harbor works, made off for home unscarred...
...ragged Albanian battle front, wherever the Italians tried to push forward, the Greeks pushed them a little farther back. In every sector they wiped out the few gains General Ugo Cavallero had made in a month...