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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shorter the war, the less likely is the U. S. to become involved. But the war will be prolonged if the Allies cannot get arms from the U. S. They will have to stand on the defensive until they can build new arsenals and airplane factories. Rebuttal: If the Allies realize that they cannot get arms from the U. S., they may be more inclined to make peace quickly, or they may be soon conquered by the Germans...
...noncompliance" by belligerent Great Britain with the terms of an 1859 treaty by which Guatemala granted Britain Honduras, Guatemala has for some time claimed the territory. By the treaty Great Britain agreed to build a road from Guatemala City to the Atlantic, but has never done so. This, claims Guatemala, voids the treaty. Last week busy Great Britain indicated it was "disposed" to negotiate...
Around traditional Catholic doctrine, which remained the core of his school, he organized "activities." In the first grade he taught his pupils "The Fatherhood of God" by discussing with them their own families and homes, getting them to build a house, reconstruct Bethlehem and Nazareth (complete with water and sewage systems), erect an altar with Quaker Oats boxes and paper. He also began to teach his first-graders to talk Latin...
...shipyards, already busy (62,000 men in Navy yards and 50,000 in private yards), were invited to bid on about 152,000 tons of new shipping (approximately 1,700,000 man-hours of work are required to build an average 6,400-ton cargo vessel). Bethlehem Steel increased the working hours of 20,000 employes at its Sparrows Point (Maryland) shipbuilding division, at Staten Island planned to hire 2,000 more...
General College's dean is squarejawed, 46-year-old Malcolm Shaw MacLean, who had been a cowhand, college teacher and night editor of the Minneapolis Tribune before he began to build his new kind of college, which he calls "The University of Tomorrow." Believing that college courses had become too specialized for most students, he taught his misfits such broad subjects as biography, "euthenics" (problems of the home). He also undertook to find out all he could about his students-their home life, incomes, diversions, problems, hopes. But Dr. MacLean soon decided that knowing his students' present status...