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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York's glamorous young Tom Dewey, currently conceded the lead for the G. 0. P.'s top nomination in 1940,has carefully refrained-while hobnobbing diligently in private with influential people from all over-from making a national speech on national issues. He and his friends know well that he is already well-known from coast to coast, by name & fame if not in inner structure. Had they needed proof of this, the University of Illinois last week supplied it. A board of politically-uninfected faculty members awarded to Tom Dewey, for "enrichment of American life and welfare...
While Poland and Germany thus prepared for a showdown, journalistic prophets were busy. New York Times Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye journeyed from Europe to Manhattan to declare "war inevitable." Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor William Philip Simms was more explicit. He wrote from Washington he had "secret information" that Führer Hitler was thinking over the possibility of sudden, simultaneous moves against Poland, Egypt, Suez and Gibraltar. Added" Editor Simms: "A sinister aspect of the report is that Marshal Hermann Göring, hitherto regarded as a moderate in opposition to Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and [Police Chief] Heinrich...
...never rule Germany. Herbert Matthews called the Italian defeat at Guadalajara one of the decisive battles of history. Liddell Hart said Ethiopian mobile tactics would probably swamp Mussolini's invaders. Edgar Ansel Mowrer said that two years of the Chinese War would see Japan's morale crack. G. E. R. Gedye said the Czechoslovakian Army would fight before it would yield. And long ago, before modern methods of communication made foreign correspondence a large and thriving profession, the London Times asserted that, in capturing Atlanta, Sherman had merely lengthened his lines of communication to the point where...
Richard H. Sullivan '39, President of the Council, announced last night that the following Juniors were to serve: John H. Sisson, Robert H. Glazer, G. Scott Olive, Jr., George Dana, and Harold Glickman. Sophomores on the committee are: Francis Simpson, Richard Abernathy, Seth Crocker, and Joseph P. Lyford...
Preceding Hildegarde in the list of entertainers, G-Man Hugh H. Clegg related some of the more daring deeds of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and described the work of Edgar Hoover's public-enemy-snatching machinery in Washington...