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...Malcolm Barter '42, Robert A. Bastille '43, Myrton F. Beeler '44 Elihu H. Berman '44, Everett F. Bleiler '42, Stanley Brooks '44, Robert H. Brower '44, Laurence A. Brown Jr. '42, Dugald C. Burns '44, William S. Butcher '44, John Cancian...
...Friends of the Bach Organ, an enthusiastic group of patrons, continues struggling to raise the sum that Aeolian-Skinner demands for it. As to why the University has done nothing about purchasing the organ-that should perplex no one. The Corporation just isn't interested. It will barter its birthright to acquire a new scientific instrument, or some rare species of flora for the Arnold Arboretum, but when it comes to seeing the value of a thing like the Bach Organ, which reaches hundreds of people in a tangible, practical way, the Corporation draws a complete blank...
...isolationists' bargain was better, he was convinced. On the debit side, the U.S. would probably have to trade with a victorious Germany on a barter basis. All exports and imports would have to go under strict Government control. Government would have to lay an even heavier hand on private industry. The U.S. would have to learn to produce as Germany did under Hitler, and figure out a way to keep individual freedom. The U.S. would have to maintain a huge armament program. (But after all, the General told himself: "Hitler ... is mortal and he'll die some...
Died. William Rhodes Davis, 52, the oil world's "mystery man" of World War ii; in Houston, Tex. In 1938 he fixed the barter deal which gave Germany and Italy some 20 million barrels of Mexican oil, some of it expropriated from U.S. and British oil companies, and in late 1939 he came back from Germany with a negotiated peace conference proposal...
...Determined on essential European self-sufficiency, the Nazis, if victorious, will never barter for U.S. surpluses on an equal basis. They do not want foreign trade-except as a political weapon. "We must get this straight once and for all: there is no such thing as having purely economic relations with the totalitarian states...