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Lines and the Line. The Memorial's neoclassic lines, drawn by the late John Russell Pope, are out of tune with the times. From afar, it appears compact, forbidding, lonely as a mausoleum. From hard by, it is too huge, too white, too coldly monotonous. Yet it will stand as a great national monument, for inside is the spirit of a great...
...thrown on one of the most important, least understood U.S. laws. The renegotiation law was passed by Congress last April to govern the process whereby the Army & Navy regularly negotiate their war-production contracts over & over again to prevent excessive war profits. In the spotlight was a lucid, compact 19-page report by the Senate's hard-working Tru man Investigating Committee. The report lambasted the four price boards (Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Treasury) for "confusion [and] too much secrecy," and suggested improvements...
Madame Chiang had been fingering her compact. Only those standing in the first few rows could see her as she arose; the jeweled wings of her China Air Force pin sparkled against the background of her long, black dress. She had never been afraid on visits to the front in China, she said; she was not so sure now as she saw the pencils flashing across the notebooks and copy-paper. "But I see flashes of smiles coming from your faces, so I feel I am among friends. . . ." The correspondents applauded. She was now in their hands...
Simmering on the financial stove last week was one of the biggest airline mergers in U.S. aviation history: sprawling, 16-year-old Northwest Airlines and fledgling, compact Mid-Continent Airlines. As a single unit the two lines would have 22,000 daily flight miles radiating from Minneapolis-St. Paul (giant American Airlines has over 90,000 miles), a man-sized fleet of big transport planes and more than 5,000 employes. Besides, it would have a strategic "X" route-major lines running north-south and eastwest...
Little new or revealing evidence of those ten tense years is placed before the observer; the events appear in much the same light that illumined them in 1932 or '33. The Japanese betrayal of the Kellogg-Brian compact began the downhill course. Following the Manchurian invasion, Secretary Stimson foresaw repetition of the same form of lawlessness, and American policy began to take shape. By protest and testimonial, American, and later, allied statesmen have been excoriating totalitarian aggression ever since. The rise of Hitler brought warnings from Washington, the invasion of Ethiopia drew pleas for "resumption of international responsibility...