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...under a Secretary sometimes praised for basing his foreign policy on economics, the Department's economic division has been reduced to mediocre research. Economic world policy for the U.S., if any, is to be shaped in the Treasury and in Leo Crowley's newly begotten Foreign Economic Administration. From Mr. Hull's economic advisers nothing seems expected beyond long-staled routines...
...laurels were somewhat ill-begotten, however, for he was coached throughout the whole process by his brother, Caleb Brokaw '43, who apparently had prior knowledge concerning the ritual of signing up. Brokaw Major even went to the extent of taking pen-in-hand himself so as to insure that no time would be lost...
...Among magazines, TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE are"too vital"to be"analyzed." Nevertheless Howe gives a short chapter to them, larded with numerous gossip-begotten errors of detail but closer to the truth than most accounts. Astonishing remark: that because Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Luce were in the Low Countries in the spring of 1940, "the editorial policy of TIME promptly underwent a sea change...
...advantage, proclaimed (TIME, Jan. 1) that: "Beyond the limits of bourgeois laws and customs, which ordinarily are probably necessary, it can become an exalted task even outside wedlock for German women and girls of good blood to become -not frivolously but imbued with deepest moral concern-mothers of children begotten by soldiers moving to the front without knowing whether they will return or die for the Fatherland...
...this war by the SS. Beyond the limits of bourgeois laws and customs which ordinarily are probably necessary, it can become an exalted task even outside of wedlock for German women and girls of good blood to become-not frivolously but imbued with deepest moral concern-mothers of children begotten by soldiers moving to the front without knowing whether they will return or die for the Fatherland...