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Omitted from their roster by his own desire-although it was announced that the committee would consult him-was aging, ailing Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch, who set up and headed the 1918 War Industries Board. Mr. Baruch's friend and Wartime coworker, Columnist Hugh S. Johnson, who months ago was ruled out of rearmament councils, called this "bumptious folly." Omitted from the official announcement was any explanation of the speed with which Mr. Stettinius, et al. were picked. Plans for allocating U. S. production could be almost as useful to warring friends of the U. S. as to warring...
...treaty, one of the most binding ever signed between two supposedly equal powers in Europe, provides that Germany and Italy will: 1) consult each other on all questions of "common interest or touching the general European situation"; 2) lend each other full "political and diplomatic support" to eliminate threats to either nation; 3) give each other military aid on "land, sea and air," in case either becomes involved in armed conflict; 4) set up permanent Axis commissions to deal with problems jointly...
...should recommend that the Council take every sport individually, study it, consult captains, players, coaches, Bingham, Samborski, and House secretaries until they know what they are talking about, and then, resisting the impulse to generalize, confine themselves to specific recommendations for each sport. I believe more progress and less furor would follow. John M. Barnaby, Coach Tennis and Squash...
...cozy office in St. Martin's Lane, London, once saucy Nell Gwynn's bedroom, trooped sober-faced British corporation executives last week. Anxious to comply with the forthcoming Civil Defense Bill, which will require camouflage for factories and public utility works, they came to consult Mr. Frederic Stafford, art director of Stoll Theatres Corp., Ltd. Mr. Stafford heads a group of noted stage designers whose new business is to fool enemy bombers into thinking that a power plant is a church, or an airfield a picturesque village...
...more than a course and a half in American History or American literature are eligible to compete in the examination, which will consist of essays based on books selected by the candidate from Part II of the Harvard Reading List in American History. These intending to compete should consult the counselors in the Houses and the Union...