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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personnel, to indicate the condition of material, the efficiency of its operation. When, sometime next month, the Chief of Naval Operations receives reports on Exercise M, he will collate them, then subdivide them according to their interest to the various naval divisions. The engineering bureau may find something to correct or adjust after it reads how the Fleet's power plants functioned in the Caribbean. The communications, navigation and ordnance staffs may do likewise. Who won the battle of the Caribbean is not regarded by the Navy as important. A different set of officers, under actual war conditions, might...
...villain to hiss at-the stolid, pedantic Press of Switzerland. ''The Swiss newspapers," roared Der Angriff, "are read only by those in Germany who have already emigrated in spirit and would emigrate in the flesh for good business. And if occasionally they do report something that is correct, that something is known to the competent political authorities much earlier. If it is something unpleasant, that also does not excite us. No states and no peoples consist of cherubs and seraphs alone. "Whether they [Swiss correspondents in Germany] continue to peep through keyholes and burrow in dirty political washing...
...issue of TIME, Frederick J. Koster, San Francisco, assuming to correct TIME for a statement in its April 2 issue, declared that the attitude of California and of the Pacific Coast has changed entirely in the matter of opening the gates to Japanese immigration, that it is now favorable thereto, and that the initiative to bring about the change originated in California...
...just add up those points and if your figuring is correct you will note that Old Jawn seems pretty well set for 32 points. Just a slip here and a break there and who but Eddie Farrell and his tutees will take the turkey." --By Time...
...businesses which owe their living to advertising revenue. The Saturday Evening Post "may or may not consider itself primarily an advertising medium; it is so regarded by the advertiser and his agent. ... If the press were or could be a disinterested educational instrumentality it might be expected to correct the miseducation sponsored by its advertisers, but then, if the press functioned in the interests of its readers rather than in the interests of its advertisers, it would not publish pseudoscientific, more or less deceptive advertising. . . . Given a literate population, the press becomes one of the instruments of government...