Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Dickinson is a Republican and a Methodist. Each Sunday at the Center Eaton Methodist Church near his home town, Charlotte, he still teaches a Bible Class. Dry and anti-tobacconist, he was elected Michigan's Lieutenant Governor seven times, presided over the State Senate in decent obscurity. Then last March conservative Republican Governor Frank Fitzgerald died and Luren Dickinson succeeded him. In the past three months he has given Michigan its godliest and goofiest government...
...warning that the Japanese are capable of committing hara-kiri on a national as well as individual scale: the more inextricably Japan becomes involved in China the more likely it is that Japan will deliberately attack a stronger enemy and go down blazingly to defeat in a first-class...
...French army is kept democratic by the invariable practice of allowing only one-half its active officers to be taken from Saint-Cyr and the Polytechnique, Gallic West Points. The result has been a businesslike class of fine professional officers. With a hierarchy of officers whose continuity of tradition has not been broken since the 1870s, the French are probably weak on new tactics. They are scholars in warfare. It is typical that able Chief of Staff Gamelin, even-tempered Parisian who studied under Foch at the Staff College, is so close a student of Napoleon's campaigns that...
...Russian, Chinese, Bolivian armies. Young officers are being rushed through training schools, but no short course can make a well-grounded officer. Old Reichswehr sergeants, now lieutenants and captains, are good drill masters, but have more limitations than talents. By recently making officers of men from the lower middle class and even peasants, the Germans have lowered the morale of their old aristocratic officer class. But despite these things, Germany has once more one of the most formidable armies in Europe...
...Louisiana Polytechnic Institute (Ruston, La.) Senior Ann Holstead wrote an essay for her English class. Said Sophomore Varnelle Plastow: "It smells." Thereupon Miss Holstead, a Louisianan, challenged Miss Plastow, a Long Islander, to a duel. Time: the morning after Miss Holstead's graduation. Place: behind the stadium. Distance: ten paces. Weapons: chocolate pies. Result: Miss Plastow got plastered...