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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Army mores have changed profoundly since Wood's time, and particularly since Malin Craig became Chief of Staff. Indeed, the contest for his place demolished the tradition that only West Pointers can get big Army jobs. West Point produced not one of the three officers who were seriously considered. By President McKinley's dispensation Hugh Drum went directly into the Army as a second lieutenant at 18-because his Army father was killed at San Juan. And the third man considered-Major General DeWitt, who now commands the War College-enlisted in the war against Spain...
Many a big poker game ends up in pistol shots, especially when one player has snaffled all the chips. Often the big winner, though honest, gets hurt, or his good friend does. To suggest that the big winner redistribute some of the chips among the losers so that the game can go on and no one get hurt, sounds boy-scoutish. Yet if the game must go on, what suggestion could be more practical...
...shop contract for work onpart of Pennsylvania's new, $60,000,000 Dream Highway (Harrisburg to Pittsburgh). This meant that farmers in Somerset County, who do spare-time work on the roads for extra cash, had to join the union and pay $15 initiation fees in order to get jobs. Six-foot, two-inch Farmer Victor Glessner organized his fellows, smashed the union's county headquarters, ran two organizers away, had another indicted for waving a pistol at protesting ruralites. Having effectively opened the closed shop, Farmer Glessner & friends then organized the Somerset County Independents, vowed to keep...
...worst minority problems in Europe, and last week Yugoslavia, once secured by French friendship and membership in the Little Entente and Balkan Pact, was in a tight spot: the no man's land between the Axis and the British Peace Front. If the Fascist powers can get control of Yugoslavia, they will have taken the first big step to becoming the masters of the Balkans and will be miles further on the road to the British-dominated Near East...
...Dodo") Farnsworth. In 1937 after 13 years in the newspaper business (for four years of which he once covered fishing as well as politics) he quit Hearst for radio, has since been bucking his old crowd to get a place for radio in the press galleries...