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Freshman manager candidates will report at the same time. The manager-ship competition will continue for six weeks, and will in no way interferon with the work of the mid-year examinations...
...With a view to determining the best method of developing the ship scrapping industry in the United States," so runs a dispatch from Washington, "the Paymaster General of the Navy has invited representative groups of financiers, steel operators, shipbuilders, scrap dealers, chambers of commerce, and editors of trade papers to meet this week at the Philadelphia Navy Yard." It is not too big a meeting when the tonnage involved runs into the millions. Part of it will be actual scrapping, we presume, as when Mr. Ford offers to wave the magic acetylene torch and turn gun-turrets into livers. Part...
...Halls Common Room. "To many people," he said, "procrastination means simply putting off a decision, not deciding anything. It is, however, a very definite form of decision, for natural forces continue to act whether you decide or not, and nature makes the resolution that you cannot make yourself. A ship drifting on a lee shore is as surely bent for destruction as a craft that heads directly toward the rocks...
...proposal, which was to stop the competition in building navies. The essential element in that competition is the battle fleet. The only basis on which that competition can be stopped is to leave those battle fleets as they are. The United States therefore has proposed to scrap every battle ship and battle cruiser in the American, British, and Japanese navies, that was not actually in commission and useful for battle purposes. As estimated in displacement tonnage that leaves the ratio between the American, British, and Japanese navies as 10-10-6; that is for every ten tons that America...
...Counsel of Stamford from 1908 to 1912, and was Democratic candidate for congressman-at-large from Connecticut in 1902, while in the campaign of 1916 he ran for the senatorship of his home state. Serving on the Democratic National Committee from 1900 to 1920, Mr. Cummings held the chairman ship of that body from...