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Arjuna and Krishna. The Gitā is just as timely as it was 2,000 years ago, for it opens with the problem of the righteous man's attitude toward war. Drawn up on the historic plain of Kurukshetra, on chariots, elephants, horses and afoot, were thousands of Indian warriors. They had assembled to fight a battle to decide who should rule a kingdom. Arjuna was the rightful contender, and Krishna, in person, was with him on the vast plain...
Twentieth Century now has a plan afoot -devised by Spyros-which may boost his income substantially. Fortnight ago Twentieth Century stockholders by a vote of 1,569,000 to 100,000 shares (largest vote in company history) approved a plan to give Spyros and 19 other company executives options to buy 140,000 shares of Twentieth Century stock in the next eight years at 24-¼:. As president, Skouras can buy 70,000 shares. The rest will be split among 19 officials, down to an assistant sales manager (salary $15,000 a year...
...shrewd Mr. Behn long ago learned all about diversification. In case things go badly below the border, he has still another new project afoot: an I. T. & T. technical mission to help Russia rehabilitate her reconquered communications system. With talk of a $10 billion capital goods market in the U.S.S.R. after the war, an I. T. & T. technician on the ground floor today is the best possible advance agent for I. T. & T. equipment sales later...
...last was already afoot. Tokyo radio hammered harder than ever at India: "Come over to our side. . . . You have nothing to fear from the Japanese." Indian Traitor Subhas Chandra Bose, leading "several divisions" of traitorous Indian troops across the border, was said to have helped "annihilate . . . several British divisions." But even without believing these preposterous claims, Indians could well be impressed by the fact that except for raids by Afghan tribesmen India had actually been invaded for the first time since the Raj took over...
...second term on the slogan "Freedom for Ireland." His last term (1927-31) was his most colorful. Elected on a promise to "punch King George's snoot" if that worthy ever visited Chicago, he found the city's school books filled with British propaganda, discerned a plot afoot to return the U.S. to the British Empire...