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...many problems forced upon the United States by the present European conflict, one of the most important is an educational problem--What shall the schools teach about the war? This question cannot be solved by the method adopted by certain New York schools; there teachers were forbidden to speak about the war. The Graduate School of Education recently held a meeting of schoolmen to discuss the problem more fully. The results of this conclave have meaning for teacher and student alike...
...citizens. All the shipping lines could see were the angular lines of the combat areas defined by the President, wherein no U. S. ship may deliver goods of any sort on penalty of $50,000 fine, five years in prison or both (see map). Through these forbidden seas lay the eight trade routes of 92 U. S. ships, with a Government investment of $195,061,000, an annual gross revenue of $52,500,000. There was plenty of open water elsewhere-notably around South America-but hardly a drop the shipping men could drink...
...Nantucket, she radioed she had been attacked by a submarine, wanted rescuing. To the spot rushed U. S. Coast Guard cutters and destroyers and the U. S. press got excited because Coulmore's message placed her near the zone where the Panama Conference and President Roosevelt had forbidden belligerents to operate...
...picture follows George Eliot's book very closely, so some of the more impossible situations in the plot have to be blamed on her Victorian methods of story-writing. When Maggie Tulliver stands in the forbidden embrace of Philip. Brother Tom conveniently hoists himself over a fence in the background. When Maggie breakfasts with Stephen after having spent an unwilling night in his company, she is seen by all and sundry who might like to defame her character. The poor girl doesn't have a chance...
...need of tariff favors nor in danger of price cutting. It was in the midst of making a cleanup out of the war. For wool is a real war commodity-needed for soldiers' uniforms, overcoats, blankets. The U. S. has no wool surplus and the British Empire has forbidden wool exports outside of the Empire. Besides raw wool, millions of yards of woolens normally imported from Britain (1938 imports: 4,800,000 sq. yds.) will have to be made...