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...Holland House had a guaranteed yearly income of $100,000, was functioning temporarily in Radio City's International Building until its new headquarters are built. Said President Fenton Turck: "Holland House will serve as a clearing house for trade and financial transactions between the two countries, providing a focal point, heretofore lacking, for the establishment of contacts and for initiating and carrying on negotiations...
...book's focal characters are two boys who join Ungern-Sternberg simply because they want to fight, graduate from their schooling with a horrifying mixture of sophistication and childish innocence. But it is not the brilliantly realistic description of fighting that gives The Mountains and the Stars its peculiar horror. This is supplied by Ungern-Sternberg's cruelty toward his own officers (he humors the rank-&-file, who dote on him). The high point of his officer-discipline is when he flogs an officer who has shot two Cossacks, then burns him at the stake-a scene which...
...Focal point of the race will not be the Varsity, Jayvees or 150-pounders, but Harvey Love's record-breaking Freshmen. Including Captain Sherm Gray at the 6 position, five members of the boat prepared at St. Paul...
...most exciting races of the afternoon was a half mile duel between Al Hanlon '39 and Rollo Campbell '41. Though Joe Donnelly '40 won the race with a fifty yard handicap to his benefit Hanlon and Campbell were the focal point when they ran abreast down the back stretch, Hanlon in the last few yards edging out Campbell. Hanlon's time was 1 minute, 57.3 seconds...
With most returns in, it appeared certain last week that Progressive candidates had lost often enough to weaken Homer Martin's prestige considerably. In Flint, Mich., focal point of the General Motors empire, with 30.000 union members, the Martin forces won their only important victory. Martin and Frankensteen took the stump personally, and their ticket was returned by nearly 2-to-1. But Detroit's bustling West Side local, with another 30,000 members, re-elected Unity Leader Walter Reuther by 4-to-1. Roland J. Thomas, president of the Chrysler local, a vice president of the international...