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Apostle of Defeat. Over & above the squabble over figures, one fact stood out: there is a widening split between the conservative thinking of Dr. Moulton's Institution and the optimistic approach to the postwar problems of business of such groups as C.E.D. As one bigwig summed up: "Brookings Institution...
The Germans tried to stall the widening northward advance of the British Second Army. The British held.
¶ Sweeping reforms in the Army, including a thorough cleanup of the graft-rotted conscription system; disbanding of divisions with low morale to provide more equipment and rice for divisions with higher morale; widening the conscription base to include students.
Last year Dos Passos took his most important journey. His send-off was a soldier's bitter letter. To answer its charges-that workers in industry were making too much money, that civilians should be regimented since soldiers were, that people charged with hampering the war effort should be...
The outer walls of Germany's Fortress Europe shuddered and cracked under heavy Allied pressure. Three widening breaches had been torn in the East Wall, a fourth was opening and Russians were pouring in. The Atlantic Wall was cracked in Normandy; the fissure opened by that wedge seemed to...