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...story of MI-2, which served as the intelligence office for the War, Navy, Justice, and State Departments during the war, and as the American Cryptographic Bureau hidden in New York after the war, written with an axe to grind. For the operations of the "American Black Chamber" were brought to a close in March, 1929 by Secretary Stimson, "the first diplomatist who, though well aware that all great powers have their Black Chambers, had the courage, or was it naivete?--to announce that diplomatic correspondence must be inviolate." The dedication page mentions "our skilful antagonists, the foreign cryptographers...
...sealing fields, where the smaller, weaker vessels of the seal-fishing fleet could follow. 210 feet long over all, and of 31 foot beam, the sheathing of her three-foot-thick hull is of greenheart, a wood now very rare, but known for its ability to resist the tearing grind of the ice. On one of her first voyages north with the sealers, she carried as a member of her crew a youth named Ronald Amundsen, whose achievements later became famous in the annals of polar exploration. It was Captain Amundsen who, in 1926, recommended the staunch old ship...
...college in a tutorial group, the college would be providing its members with the equivalent of Social Insurance policies. There is at least the possibility that friendships arising out of such contacts would do much towards preventing individuals from being or becoming maladjusted, and even more towards converting the grind, the weir, the book-worm, and the recluse into normal social animals, with an interest in current events, the Nugget, Smith sub-suffragettes, and the Harvard game in addition to their intellectual concerns...
Anyone with common sense and no axe to grind with gangland knows that a law such as that which will make it illegal for the honest citizen to own or have in his possession a pistol or revolver is nothing but a tool in the hands of the gangs...
...Democrats both knew, the prime movers for any legislative gain that may be effected in the December- March session of Congress will be the insurgent Senate Republicans, who really are thought to desire an extra session of the 72nd Congress and who have the following legislative axes to grind: 1) Gov ernment operation cf Muscle Shoals, 2) Export Debenture farm-relief, 3) Antiinjunction labor mills, 4) The Norris bill to abolish "lame duck" sessions, 5 ) Large road-building appropriations. Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa last week said he would favor a special session of the 72nd Congress unless...