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These dormitories will not remain empty long, however, as the Navy will fill out the vacancies. The Indoctrination and Communications Schools at Dartmouth, somewhat akin to the Naval Training School at Harvard, is expected to receive a new contingent of student officers...
President Roosevelt's proposition for the trial and punishment of war criminals, set down in concrete form, and prepared for administration by Professor Sheldon Glueck, paves the way for a distorted "war trial" and a rightfully indignant Germany akin to that which followed World War I. Of the 900 men accused in the original Allied list of 1918, only 45 were included in the abridged "test" list presented to the court at Leipzig. When the trials finally got under way in 1921, two and a half years after the Armistice, only twelve men were actually tried, and six convicted. None...
...handled his orchestra with a gentle, paternal hand, appealed to his players' artistic consciences rather than attempting to dominate them. Under him, the Chicago Symphony developed a bouquet all its own: subtler than that of the hard-driven Eastern symphonies, it was more akin to the Rhine wine that he loved so well. For years the U.S. music limelight almost passed him by. But when, on one of its rare tours, the finely balanced Chicago Symphony gave a concert in Manhattan in 1940, critics rated Frederick Stock among the world's greatest...
...Sanatani Hindu, Gandhi accepts Varna (color), while disavowing the caste system, but stands by the concept of caste in marriage and the profession as the law of heredity. The principle of Swadeshi (home manufacture, i.e., spinning) is akin to the ancient Greek spirit of the hearth and Chinese ancestor worship. Satyagraha was coined by Gandhi from the words Saty (truth and love) and agraha (firmness) as the Hindu interpretation of soul force. Closely akin to this is Christ's admonition to "turn the other cheek...
...away on ice until after the Democrats have won the November elections is the final draft of a National Service Act that will give Paul V. McNutt's Manpower Commission power to cope with "labor emergencies" akin to the powers now held by the British Government...