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...General Robert E. Wood, so-called iso-lationist-appeaser, of the America First Committee, hailed White's statement as sound stuff. So did Charles A. Lindbergh, who to many Americans symbolizes the narrowest isolation, the broadest appeasement. Immediately protests went up; several members resigned, complaining that the isolationist committee was getting too interventionist...
Students leaving Bertrand Russell's first lecture late yesterday afternoon were treated to a starting contrast in the form of a broadest of rather sour and antiquated dance music issuing from a loud-speaker stop President Conant's house. Investigation revealed that the brains behind the entertainment was 14-year old Ted Conant, son of the President and self-styled competitor of the Crimson Radio Network...
...Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, a report to the alumni on the Harvard year by President Conant, addresses by two of the day's honorary degree recipients, announcement of alumni elections, and the singing of the "Star Spangled Banner," the 78th Psalm, and "Fair Harvard." The exercises will be broadest by the non-commercial shortwave station WRUL, of Boston, on 6.04 and 11.73 megacycles...
Meantime the main waves of Germany's attack rose higher between Noyon on the Oise River and Soissons on the Aisne. The Oise valley was Hitler's broadest, easiest approach to Paris. To command it fully his forces had to storm the high bridge called Chemin des Dames-just north of the Oise-Aisne Canal, and then win a foothold on the Aisne's south bank, to converge on Compiegne and the scene of the 1918 Armistice's signing. This they accomplished by the battle's fifth evening, with appalling loss of life...
...loud kibitzing powers over corporate reorganizations, has watched the progress of 548 companies with pre-bankruptcy assets of $640,200,000 through the courts. Under the Barkley Act (1939) it must approve trust indentures. Under the Public Utilities Holding Company Act (1935) it has the broadest, toughest job of all: authority over the affairs of about half the U. S. power industry, the half (gross assets: $15,000,000,000 plus) that belongs to the great interstate holding-company systems. SEC, with a $5,300,000 budget and a staff of 1,618, has its hands full. Last week Senator...