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...England, where a profit is still not without honor, year-end forecasts by bank presidents and industrialists receive-and often merit-sober public consideration. In the U. S. the contrary is so true that last week hardly a bigwig bothered to sound off as 1939 arrived. The few that did-Tom Girdler, Alvan Macauley, J. J. Pelley, Jacob Ruppert-were qualifiedly optimistic. Only Thomas J. Watson, president of International Business Machines Corp. pulled out all the stops, issued an "inspirational" statement on practically every phase of U. S. life. Said he, among other things: "Crime must be reduced...
...late Frank Donald Coster (né Musica), with Richard Whitney, now in Sing Sing Prison, as runner-up. Sportsman of the Year was Tennist Donald Budge, champion of the U. S., England, France, Australia. Aviator of the Year was 33-year-old Howard Robard Hughes, diffident millionaire, who flew a sober, precise, foolproof course 14,716 miles round the top of the world in three days, 19 hours, eight minutes...
...diary is interesting chiefly for the light it throws on his curious motive for writing it. Despite His aristocratic connections,his wealth, his membership in the Privy Council, his welcome to the most exclusive social, political and intellectual circles, Greville believed himself shallow-minded, frivolous, dissipated. His sober diary was a means to improve his mind, a penance for his sins...
Thus St. Luke and St. Matthew reported the most important event of their time-to Christians, the most important event in the world since its creation. This week Christendom marks the anniversary of Christ's Nativity. Sober Christians, celebrating the feast in a world of fears, troubles and confusions, could well wonder whether, in the 1,943 years* since their Saviour's birth, Christendom had ever been so sorely beset...
...business instead of one pushed along by Government. . . . Our people have quite generally become convinced that Government is primarily responsible for business activity. It is as futile for us to believe that we can spend ourselves rich as for us to suppose that a man can drink himself sober...