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...join France, Russia and Italy in any harsh, concerted effort to make him toe dotted lines on which Germany has signed. Last week in Berlin the French Ambassador was received with studied discourtesy by German Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath when he called to protest. On a similar errand the Italian Ambassador was received with the deference Il Duce demands, gets. Considering that words are not enough to impress Hitler, Mussolini this week treated Nazidom to the spectacle of an Italian mobilization. Not calling it by that name, II Duce sent pink mobilization cards out in quantities sufficient...
These whose conception of the work of a team manager comes solely from prep school soon realize that at Harvard a manager is not the valet of an all-demanding team or the errand-boy of a coaching staff. Instead it is his duty to attend to the details of training and competition, in short to tell members of his team what they are to do and when...
With beds crowded into every corner, with new patients arriving even before the old ones had been properly sterilized for their return to the outside world, the work was endless. Yet no errand was too trivial for their attention, and in spite of endless difficulties due to overcrowding, they managed to make their restless patients comfortable and cheerful...
What the British Isles can expect in the likely event that Labor wins the next general election glaringly appeared last week. Just a year ago the London County Council was captured by Laborite municipal candidates, led by onetime Errand Boy Herbert Morrison, "The Next Labor Prime Minister...
Only Scovill left in Scovill is H. Lamson Scovill, a director. The $40,000,000 company is completely dominated by the sons and grandsons of the late Chauncey Porter Goss, who went into Scovill as an errand boy during the Civil War, was president from the turn of the Century to the end of the War. Present head of Scovill is Edward Otis Goss, an affable hard-headed Yankee of 69 who is Waterbury's first citizen and a peer in the Connecticut industrial realm. Below him are four Goss vice presidents, most important of whom is his brother...