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Omitted by error, the address of The March of Time is the same as that of TIME Inc.-135 East 42nd St., New York City. Proud is TIME that hundreds of loyal, enthusiastic readers, lacking full directions, wrote anyway...
...arms, that is a cheap way of supporting the Army's and Navy's own arsenals: du Pont, Remington, Winchester, Colt, et al. In last week's Senate testimony it was brought out that Chief of Staff MacArthur in former years made speeches in the Near East to promote the sale of U. S. arms. A munitions scandal might tar the War and Navy Departments with the same brush used to tar their friends, the arms makers...
These proposals are based on a Japanese contention that the ancient 5-5-3 ratio is outmoded, for the following recently developed reasons: Japan's need of a large navy to protect Manachukuo and the status quo of the Far East; her economic necessity of concentrating in small rather than large ships; her fear of heavy American and British navies in the Pacific as an actual threat to herself, and her determination not to brook the superiority complex of the Occidentals in their efforts to limit the size of her armaments...
...EAST AND WEST?W. Somerset Maugham ?Doubleday, Doran...
...Carleton College at Northfield, Minn. There he quickly picked up proficiency in English, became so nice in his choice of words that he finally decided there were no synonyms in the language. After graduating high from Carleton, Veblen taught for a year in a Norwegian-community school, then went East to study philosophy at Johns Hopkins and Yale, take his Ph. D. He spent the rest of his life looking for a fitting academic rut. For a time he could find no job at all, disgusted his family by loafing at home. Finally he was offered an instructorship...