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...than the Military Cross, which is the officer's decoration corresponding to the Military Medal for other ranks. The D.S.O. fell into disrepute during the late War-as indeed what decoration except the V.C. did not?-for it was issued to field commanders like confetti at a carnival, fr>r successes earned by N.C.O.'s and gloriously anonymous privates of the P.B.I. (Poor Bloody Infantry). The common procedure for incompetent colonels was to give them a D.S.O. and send them back to England...
Calling the green Battle Ringers contemptuously Frösche ("frogs"),* Nazi brownshirts padlocked their headquarters, carried off "Frog" Herbert von Bismarck for a night of grilling questions. Ironically the presses of Frog Chief Dr. Alfred Hugenberg. the Fatherland's newspaper tycoon who made World news fortnight ago by demanding the return to Germany of her pre-War colonies by the London Conference (see p. 17). were obliged to print with an approving tone last week that "The Chancellor received Dr. Hugenberg tonight with no others present and explained to him the reasons for the Battle Ring's suppression...
...stockholders. . . ." Mr. Weber delegated the secretary of Allied to reply and at the end of two months the secretary finally said that Allied saw no reason to change its ways. Then Frank Altschul, chairman of the Listing Committee (leading partner of the well-known private banking house of Lazard Frères with which Eugene Meyer, one of Allied Chemical's big stockholders, has old family connections), personally wrote Mr. Weber informing him that the Committee was going to put the whole question up to Allied's directors. Later Mr. Altschul was told that Allied's direc...
...five children. He was the first settler of a 500-acre tract which had been selected for the town and college of Oberlin. Few months prior, Rev. John J. Shipherd of Elyria. Ohio and Philo P. Stewart, onetime missionary, had obtained land and, in the name of Jean Frédéric Oberlin* planned an institution designed for "the diffusion of useful science, sound morality, and pure religion." Oberlin College opened in December, 1833, received its charter in 1834, first U. S. college to grant degrees to women. Meantime, Pioneer Peter Pindar Pease had built the town...
...Hausmann brewery in Madison. Its bar is now in the new Rathskeller, a strictly masculine sanctuary on whose walls are painted Heidelberg students brandishing steins, a fat monk on a wine cask, a bartender with Speise-und-Getränke Karten, a motto: Des Lebens Sonnenschein ist trinken, lieben, fröhlich sein ("Life's sunshine is to drink, to love, to be merry"). At first the Rathskeller had another bit of Munich realism - a six-inch layer of sawdust on the floor - but it got in people's shoes, was removed. Last week the Rathskeller...