Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris ever-hopeful "Uncle Arthur Henderson, president of the Conference, went round to see Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. Optimistically he pulled from his pocket a new project to outlaw bombing from the air. But there were exceptions: 1) For police purposes, bombing from the air in outlying frontier regions like northwest India and Morocco will be allowed. 2) It will be fair to drop bombs on submarines...
...insurance, old age pensions, and the like, while necessary parts of the present system do not offer a final solution for in the last analysis they are regarded as charity and destroy the fellowship of moral equality that should exist between all members of the population. Now that no frontier exists some equivalent of a right to stake out a claim in virgin territory must be offered and this equivalent is work on public projects...
...students, while remembering the injustices committed under a laissez-faire capitalism, must remember that this country was built up through the efforts of ruggedly individualistic capitalists; these men did great things and are so deserving of thanks. But conditions have changed; the frontier is gone and great industrial organizations have developed. The tine has come for social responsibility; but it is not now, and there never will be, a time for a complete leveling of wealth. Nor is the present a time to listen to destructive agitators like the Communist leaders of the New York taxicab strike, who, with absolutely...
...feature called "The Doctor Tells The Story." It was Editor Patterson's own product. It came to him last month in a letter from Dr. William Edmund Aughinbaugh. elderly physician, lawyer, author, explorer, who worked on plagues in India, Burma, Arabia, China, Latin America, many another far-flung frontier. Dr. Aughinbaugh proposed that the News print a daily anecdote from his long and adventurous career. Editor Patterson liked the idea, decided to try it. For a month the strip ran along with fairly typical reminiscences of a traveled medical man. Then, last week, it burst out with an extraordinary...
...read anything subtle into the grandiose interview Errett Cord gave out last year in Kansas City. Excerpts: "There is more opportunity in the world today than ever. . . . Fortunes change hands every seven years. Who gets them? Somebody else. . . . A clearheaded, hard-working young man never admits a closed frontier. . . . If he can give better service than a corporation, he succeeds the corporation. . . . Intelligent men profit by history. The intelligent young man reads back, then looks forward."* Mercury to the Masses. As leading entrepreneur of the Depression, Cord finds himself at 39 one of the most meteoric figures