Word: alertness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proud and happy day was it for Mrs. Mathilda Burling, 55, of Richmond Hill, N. Y. According to Army records her son, Private George B. Burling Jr., of the 52nd Coast Artillery, died of disease in France, is buried at St. Mihiel Cemetery. Alert, energetic Mrs. Burling long ago conceived the idea of having the Government send mothers who lost their sons in France on a pilgrimage to their graves. She organized the Gold Star Association (now disbanded) to promote this scheme. Five years ago she appeared in Washington, got New York Congressmen to introduce her bill for the trip...
Looking more like an alert, smooth-shaven U. S. businessman than ever, M. Pierre Quesnay, youthful manager of the Bank for International Settlements (TIME, April 28), received at Paris last week the formal ratifications by Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Belgium which make operative the famed Young Plan of German Reparations, or as they are now called "International Settlements...
Loud Speaker; Secrets. Silent but alert throughout the London negotiations has been the Navy League of the U. S., well-organized Big-Navy propaganda agency. Founded 25 years ago, this civilian organization headed by William Howard Gardiner of Manhattan favors "limitation by agreement," repudiates "reduction by example." It protests any cut in naval personnel, supports every building program that comes along, spreads naval information far and near. Last week the Navy League lifted a voice of warning against any hasty ratification of the London treaty. That President Gardiner thought he had something ominous up his mufti sleeve was suggested when...
...Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan last week assembled 50 alert Army officers. From the whole service they had been selected for their tact, good morals and efficiency to guide the 4,000 Gold Star mothers and War widows the U. S. this summer is sending abroad to the graves of their sons, their husbands. Before these men at the hotel stood Major General John Lesesne De Witt, Quarter-master-General of the Army, spruce, military, full of last-minute advice. Gravely he informed them...
Fraternities. "ln the eyes of many alert and progressive educators the fraternities stand today in a very serious and weak position. So far have they failed to cooperate or to live up to their possibilities and ideals that ... the fraternity has frequently been the most powerful organ-ized source of moral misbehavior on the campus...