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Naturally I have followed with keen interest the hue and cry in the press regarding the morale of our Army. . . . My personal opinion is that the bulk of the theories advanced for the Army's lack of morale are based on the "gripes" of a minority of those now in the service who, on the whole, are rather indifferent soldiers in any case. The best illustration of the reasons for the lack of morale of the Army which I have yet seen is the enclosed cartoon (see cut) from . . . the Columbia, S.C. newspaper the State...
...Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary to Bangkok is keen, spare, mild-mannered Willys Ruggles Peck. His joints jut out like scaffolding joists. His Chinese-yellow skin is stretched tight over a shrunken skull. Peck is one of the most tactful, tightlipped, affable men in the State Department, with an Oriental knack for getting what he wants while he lets you think you are walking all over him. If anybody-can hold Thailand safe for democracy, Peck...
Stalwart as her massive mahogany fourposter, a hateful woman whose keen mind and force of character command respect, Regina lures her unloved and invalided husband (Herbert Marshall) home to persuade him to invest his funds in her ratty brothers' scheme: to take advantage of the South's cheap and defenseless labor by establishing a cotton factory in partnership with a Northern capitalist. When he balks, she torments him to death, then emerges triumphant over the rest of the greedy pack...
Wisconsin-born, he was a successful maker of gunny sacks in Texas, a keen jute speculator, when the urge to go to Washington seized him in 1934. It happened one night in a Chicago hotel. Milo Perkins sat down, wrote a letter to Henry Wallace, whom he had never met: "From childhood I have wanted to live in the world so that I could . . . leave it happier because I had worked in it. . . . I am going to throw my whole energies into working for the principles of the New Deal. . . . It occurs to me that you might have just...
Yaleman (ex '18) Bob Johnson was the first admanager of TIME. As vice president and advertising director he had a big share in the successful development of TIME Inc. publications. Earnest, energetic, keen on public service, he was for a year (1935) relief director in Pennsylvania, has been president of the National Civil Service Reform League. Realizing his lack of experience as an educator, President Johnson stipulated that Temple's trustees should create a new job, provost, to supervise the university's educational program. As president, Johnson hopes to develop at Temple a training center for civil...