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Appointed last week by President Roosevelt to the U. S. Naval Academy's Board of Visitors for 1934-35 were Presidents Rufus Bernhard von Kleinsmid of Southern California; Kenneth Charles Morton Sills of Bowdoin; Marion Luther Brittain of Georgia Technology; Charles Russ Richards of Lehigh; Ralph Earle of Worcester Polytechnic; William Coleman Nevils of Georgetown and Dean Harry Ellsworth Clifford of Harvard Engineering School...
Testament of Youth, by Vera Brittain, reviewed in this issue...
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH-Vera Brittain -Macmillan...
...Valdivia closed down last week. This plant, owned by the U. S. Guggenheims, has a capacity of 700,000 tons of nitrate yearly and is controlled by Cosach, the Chilean nitrate monopoly in which the Government and the Guggenheims are major stockholders. Tersely Cosach's President Medley Gordon Brittain Whelpley called the closing down of Pedro de Valdivia "a constructive move to divide production evenly among the other plants." In Santiago stocky, blue-eyed, part-Italian President-Elect Allesandri said: "I propose to obtain a law that will name a special liquidating commission which will liquidate the assets...
...serious matter was the late famed Joseph ("Joe") Chamberlain's daily practice of appearing in the House of Commons wearing an orchid. This extravagant tradition, though abandoned by his son Sir Austen Chamberlain, now Foreign Secretary, is still staunchly upheld by Sir Harry Brittain, M. P., who was chairman of the British Hospitality Committee for U. S. officers in London during...