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...resolution were such prominent names as : President Ada L. Comstock of Radcliffe College; James M. Landis, dean of the Harvard Law School; Harold M. Westergaard, dean of the Graduate School of Engineering; and Professors W. Y. Elliott, Sidney B. Fay, Bruce C. Hopper, Howard Mumford Jones, S. E. Morison, Bliss Perry, and A. E. Schlesinger...
...Affairs, Dr. Petrovitch got a berth on WRUL, a 50,000-watt powerhouse, last fall. Conditions under which he agreed to operate were simple: a two-month trial at broadcasting three times a week, with no interference from anyone. Within three weeks, the State Department was advised by Arthur Bliss Lane, its Minister in Belgrade, that Dr. Petrovitch was becoming a potent force in Yugoslavia, that he ought to be aired every...
...Roosevelt had been set back. Day later, the Yugoslav leaders who had signed with Hitler were out of office, under arrest; King Peter II was on the throne. Crowds stood cheering, waving U. S., British and Yugoslav flags, before the U. S. legation in Belgrade. Youngish, thin-lipped Arthur Bliss Lane, U. S. Minister, had to push his way through overjoyed celebrators to carry his message to the new Government. Hitler, not Roosevelt, had been set back. But still bigger news for the long term was that U. S. foreign policy had begun to prove effective...
Washington reporters have something new to goggle at. It is a transformation in Army's press section. A month ago it was a hole-in-the-wall bureau, cheerless in appearance, raggedly staffed, desultory in action. Then, from Fort Bliss came short, dark Major General Robert Charlwood Richardson to take over. Last week Army's press section appeared well on its way to becoming an efficient organ for supplying the public with military information...
...involved a fifty per cent jump over last year's figure, nobody knows. Back in the tinselled 'twenties, when Economics, Communism, and Astrology were relegated to the same class as occult sciences, English was a perennial favorite. Who wanted to learn about money? Everyone had plenty. And there were Bliss Perry and Copey and Kirsopp Lake and Kitty and John L. Lowes bubbling over with words of wisdom. They played to standing room only...