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...General Staff threw the candidate system into high gear, ordered 350,000 additional officers. Men who showed prom ise were called from the ranks in a hurry. The educational index of new officers dropped from 80% college graduates to less than 20%. But the Army got its officers...
Wild Men. One icy night in 1830, Parisians, passing the famed Comédie- Françise, were terrified to see "a band, wild and bizarre, bearded, hairy, dressed in all fashions save the current ones." The strange creatures were yelling: "We are the Wild Men of art!" "We are the brigands of thought...
Professor John Ise of the University of Kansas will be at Harvard as guest lecturer in economics Monday and Tuesday. Now a visiting professor at Amherst College, he has written extensively on conservation problems, and prepared the Temporary National Economic Committee's report on oil conservation...
...Cabinet. Within 36 hours General Tojo had brought his choices through the grey fog to the palace, presented them to the Emperor. Then he went to report his assumption of office to the Sun Goddess at the Grand Shrine of Ise...
...subjects not likely to be aired are Bishop Abe's practice of worshiping at the Shinto Shrine at Ise and the decision of the Government-inspired church union to modify the Apostles' Creed as suggested by the Ministry of Education. Some of the deletions: the Virgin Birth because it was "immoral," the Resurrection because it was "unscientific and superstitious," the Last Judgment because it implied that the Emperor could be judged...