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Well above the Arctic Circle, Wrangel Island lies north of the northeastern tip of Siberia. In 1924 the Soviet Government clinched its title to the land by establishing a permanent white settlement there. Later the settlement of Wrangel Island became an important project in the grandiose Russian scheme to grow cabbages and potatoes in the brief Arctic summer, turn the frozen tundras into a truck farm. Loudest advocate of this scheme is Professor Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, heroic explorer who has been put in charge of the whole Red scheme for developing the Arctic...
...volume to make money. President Paepcke thought that quantity would be his company's salvation. But to conservative Boxmaker Brunt, whose credo was quality, the Paepcke policy seemed all wrong. Stubborn, he started a proxy fight to oust his young boss, lost in 1931. Accepting a lump-sum settlement for his salary contract, Brunt...
...three divisions: Historical (the Old and New Testaments, Biblical criticism, church history) ; Philosophical (theology, Christian ethics, denominational doctrines); Practical (pedagogy, psychology and Christian leadership which includes preaching, church administration and finance, religious welfare work). During the first year, Union students get their first taste of practical field work as settlement-house teachers, Sunday-school leaders, Y. M. C. A. workers, assistant pastors in Manhattan churches. To help students pay their expenses, Union offers scholarships to the lower classmen...
When Mussolini sits down to dictate his terms of settlement, term which no one can now contest, the nations that have backed the wrong horse may see their way to adopting an entirely new diplomatic technique. Either the League must be strongly supported to the common advantage of all, or the French system of alliances will come into universal use. In any event, if the nations come to realize that war cannot be averted by the monks' mummery of ineffective "sanctions", a more sternly pacifistic attitude, especially in the democratic countries, may prevail on the turbulent European scene...
...darkest clouds have rolled away," said he with a wave of his fork. "Final settlement of the war in Africa will be possible after the next session of the League of Nations...