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...Dakota and her two 35,000-ton, $70,000,000 sisters are the world's finest, Secretary of the Navy Knox insisted last week. There were some formidable doubters. These critics of U.S. and British naval design included not only the New York Times's respected Hanson Baldwin but the British Admiralty itself. Boasting about the destruction of the German Bismarck, the Admiralty had said that she and her surviving sister ship, the Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the world. Secretary Knox proudly compared the new U.S. ships' nine 16-in. guns with Bismarck...
This week the New York Times's war analyst, Hanson W. Baldwin, summed up the terrific beating which the German battleship Bismarck took before she finally went down, adjudged her design ahead of anything in the U.S. or British Navies. He concluded...
...Pariahs, which ran 100 nights at the Theatre Moliere in Paris. Then he turned to diplomacy and began his smooth ascent in the Foreign Office.* In 1920 he became private secretary to mammoth, crusty Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon. In 1928 he became Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. In 1930 he became Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and that was when his power began. Though Foreign Secretaries came & went, Sir Robert's influence remained so strong that it was said he was one of the three men who really ruled Britain. (The others...
...other six: Dr. Vannevar Bush, chairman-Dean Richard Chace Tolman of Cal tech's Graduate School; Commissioner of Patents Conway Peyton Coe; M.I.T.'s President Karl Taylor Compton; Dr. James Bryant Conant; Dr. Frank Baldwin Jewett, president of the National Academy of Sciences and chairman of the board of Bell Telephone Laboratories...
...Robert L. Leopold Bobette Sondheim, WheatonHarold R. Rooks Mary Alice Fletcher, LincolnR. Lee Thomas Bette Woodward, Iowa StateWilliam B. Walker, II Dorothy Warren, BeaverAlexander Williams, Jr. Ann Cross, BuckinghamMASSACHUSETTS HALLDavid Baldwin Edith Surrey, WellesleyGeorge H. Blaxter Lois Ann Degener, RadcliffeWilliam C. Hodges Virginia Veale, Katherine GibbsJulian E. Meyer, Jr. Grace Wilson, St. Margaret'sMATTHEWS HALLSamuel Ansell Barbara Cohan, BeaverThomas Axon Ann Nichols, CambridgeDavid Barnes Joan Smith, Cambridge SchoolDonald Beardsley Connie Clark, WestportLucian R. Blackmer Jane Armistead, ErskineMalcolm Broadrick Jane Mansfield, NewtonGordon M. Browne, Jr. Edith Carlton, RadcliffeForrest Buckingham Ruth Stevens, BelmontGeorge Burditt Lue Lahiff, Western Springs, III.Arthur V. Campbell Dorothy...