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...good luck, General Amaro as War Minister for former President Plutarco Calles created Mexico's modern army. He has never cut much ice as a politician, but last week when he tossed his sombrero into Mexico's Presidential ring (to succeed Lazaro Cardenas next year) with a forthright denunciation of the present expropriation policy, he created a sensation...
Largest and most publicized of the"Se institutions is Ray Doan's Baseball School, transplanted this year from Hot Springs, Ark. to Jackson, Miss. Ray Doan, a forthright promoter, once managed the bearded House of David baseball team. He specializes in big-name "professors" (this year he has engaged Babe Ruth, Dizzy Dean, Burleigh Grimes, Gabby Street), lures some 300 pupils every spring thereby. In six years 500 Doan graduates have found jobs in organized baseball-mostly in Class D leagues where they might have landed the same job by going directly to the club for a tryout...
Touchiest subjects are political disputes, but most clubs have approved forthright political studies like Vincent Sheean's Personal History, John Gunther's enlightening Inside Europe. Club programs show that much emphasis is placed on light romances. But in the last two years almost every important club in the U. S. has endorsed Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England, which most U. S. critics would place near the top in any list of U. S. post-War works of literature...
...Fluent, forthright, well-informed, Major Eliot's ordinary conversation is a blend of profanity, military terminology and rolling oratorical flourishes. It brought him success as a lecturer; magazine contributions gave him a reputation; and in 1937 he collaborated with Major Richard Ernest Dupuy in writing // War Comes, a survey of potential war zones...
...Evarts, City Solicitor, with insulting organized labor along with Mgr. John A. Ryan and Senator David I. Walsh when he spoke against the proposal Friday. Evarts, Landis said, had labelled proportional representation, a feature of Plan E, as a "crap game," after Ryan, Walsh and labor groups had been forthright in the approval of the referendum...