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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admirable grace that the Harvard athletic community may well be proud of. His thoughts in defeat did not consist of balancing the half-dozen if's of the meet, rather did he praise the men on his team who fought to the last for him and plan to build up for the future the men who failed him to some extent...
Hero Lindbergh's friends in Berlin have indeed given him rare chances to look with a knowing eye at German armaments and more important, into the laboratories where German researchers find new ways to build and kill. Hitler & Co. being anxious to frighten Great Britain and France before Munich, it is more than likely that his reports on German air strength which repolished his reputation last week were the same which helped to tarnish it a few weeks earlier. Certainly the German Government knew, if the U. S. public had forgotten, that Colonel Lindbergh is still an officer...
Frank propaganda is engaged in by Rural Electrification Administration, which is lending $140,000,000 this year to build farmers' cooperative power systems. REA organizes "energizing" celebrations with bands, games, electrical displays and fireworks on the day current is turned on for a new project. Most frequent stunt: selection of a pretty local miss as "Polly Power," to preside over the burial of a kerosene lamp...
...well as the pupils who receive the education. Nevertheless the value of the "undergraduate faculty" plan lies mainly in the new constructive attitude of P.B.H. It has realized that prevention is more vital than cure, that preconditioning accomplishes much more than reconditioning. Phillips Brooks House must continue to build new foundations rather than whitewash the old ones...
Another job ahead for Youth Administrator Aubrey Williams is the training of aviation mechanics in abandoned arsenals, aircraft shops, and school rooms. This is in line with a series of moves to build up personnel reserves and stimulate the aircraft industry, which would be needed in case of war. Said CAA's chairman, Businessman Edward J. Noble, of the student-pilot program: "... A sound measure of national defense . . . sound business for the air industry...