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Donovan Affair-Broadway's best bugaboo...
...appointed to succeed General von Seeckt as Chief of the Army Command. Since the new Chef is not a full general he is outranked by the generals commanding the two German army corps. Thus the proud title of General von Seeckt, amounting to "Chief of Staff" (ever a bugaboo to the Allies), has been placed ingeniously in abeyance. The new Chef will serve merely as an adviser to Defense Minister Gessler...
...whole attack is a skillful attempt to create a political bugaboo...
...Standard Oil Co. was broken up into its constituent companies. It was an illegal combination in restraint of trade in the Government's eyes, but in the minds of the public it was more than that- a bugaboo for its enormity. That was the day before Babbitt could digest with equanimity huge business transactions retailed in his breakfast journal. Now he has become so used to big figures that he merely glances at the digits in the millions column and lets the remaining zeros trail in the fringe of consciousness...
After the metropolitan press had used to full and florid advantage the announcement from the American Association of University Professors that football was really not the essential item in modern educational policy the Yale News decided to revive that bugaboo of last autumn, the perennial fall guy, football for the momentary display included in this column. That there is a certain sanity in their reaction is apparent. But that this sanity is slightly adumbrated by the clouds of sentimentalism, too often hovering upon undergraduate horizon is even more apparent...