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Among the many reasons for the failure of Woodrow Wilson's dream of a vigorous League of Nations, three were outstanding: 1) he conducted most of the postwar debate himself, thus became irrevocably committed on its details; 2) he presented his blueprint to Congress as a rigid specification, take it or leave it-and Congress left it; 3) the American people were suspicious of the kind of planning that emerged from the bickering diplomats at Versailles...
Aside from the magnificent sartorial spectacle which the Ellington band provides on any stage, Duke in 20 years has made practically no concessions to public taste. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1899. His father, a retired Navy Yard blueprint worker, was comparatively well off. The Ellington family owned its own home and even an auto with a bulb horn. Ellington was given piano lessons at the age of six but went through high school expecting to be a painter...
...will go, disclosed "the real reason why I have been out of circulation these last three years." The reason: he has been "building a concrete and comprehensive system-a Treaty of Peace-for the coming world settlement." Without describing the system, the bridge player characterized.it as "a blueprint that works, not dreams," declared that it had been endorsed by "hundreds of professors, statesmen and specialists...
...plans will come. No one can know the final details; no one can say when they will come; no one can guarantee the students will not be subjected to weekly barrages like that which rained upon Cambridge yesterday. We can only wait, confident that the final blueprint will be no slipshod affair...
FORTUNE concedes that its 20,000, word blueprint of "economic revolution" ignores many practical difficulties, that to some critics its arguments "may seem partial or rudimentary, and its conclusions naive." But, say the editors...