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...action acknowledged that the straitened British would have to keep their reimposed exchange controls awhile. In an exchange of letters between London and Washington, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps promised to lift currency controls "at the earliest possible time." (Few observers expect this time to arrive in the next two years.) U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snyder told Sir Stafford that the $400 million would help Britain "to maintain its present austerity program...
Marshall had resolved to stay out of a propaganda contest with the Russians, yet Marshall answered: "We . . . sincerely desire to see a democratic government established in Germany at the earliest possible moment." Said Bevin: "It is the desire of the British government that at the earliest possible opportunity a central government should be established. But . . . how is it to be elected? What powers is it to have...
Founded as Davidson Academy, the school had Andrew Jackson as one of its earliest trustees; Peabody Library still preserves a biography on whose flyleaf Old Hickory scrawled a withering estimate of his biographer. But it was a damyankee merchant named George Peabody and his $2,000,000 that put Peabody on its feet. Despite this taint, most of Peabody's 1,850 students still come from the South, and President Henry Harrington Hill expects his 125-man faculty and 60,000 alumni to concentrate on Southern schools...
Huntington may be best remembered for his theories about the influence of climate on civilization. He argued that as civilization develops, it moves toward colder regions. The earliest civilized people hardly ventured away from the warm lands of Egypt and Mesopotamia; their technique of life could not cope with even a mild winter. The Greeks and Romans knew more about battling winter, and benefited from the mental stimulus of the north Mediterranean climate. After the invention of the chimney and other body warmers, civilization throve best in North Europe and America, where the cold, changeable climate kept minds alert...
...bang on the head to restore her memory; and Culver has to turn decent and tell her not to worry about him. The British authorities are not in the least concerned about anything except getting Boy & Girl together and out of the country on the earliest possible plane...