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Moving of the U. S. Fleet to the Atlantic means rear-guard tactics have played out. One form of action remains for the U. S.: to invite Japan to a round-table examination of the Pacific problem. Thus the U. S. might lump all its Pacific eggs, bargain on behalf of the Philippines, of The Netherlands East Indies, and even Australia, perhaps win for China better terms than are now in sight. The U. S. has much to offer hard-pressed, sorely drained Japan. The U. S. also has much to gain, including insurance of U. S. supply sources...
...examine their own conscience." Before the war, asserted M. Prouvost, Britain had promised to send over 26 divisions; but when the test came, France kept men 48 years old under arms while Britain failed to mobilize 28-year-olds. Finally the French Minister went so far as to lump the Ally with the Enemy: "We ask [England] not to make London a nest of agitation by politicians and separatists. Our foreign policy will not be dictated by England, Germany, or Italy...
...Wilson, the Institute's young (40), affable director who suc ceeded Dr. Breasted, explained last week that the Institute used to get fat annual appropriations from the Rockefellers' General Education Board. In 1936 the Board, which had started to distribute its capital gave the Institute a final lump-sum endowment of $2,000,000. The Institute has since been operating mostly on the income from this, which amounts to about a third of the former yearly grants. Few other U. S. diggers are working the war-clouded Near East. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, however...
...added that it might be easier for students to contribute just a dime or so at a time, or the change from buying a daily paper, rather than making their donations in lump sums. Largest response yesterday came from Eliot House, with about $45 collected...
...from 1938) owns 90% of Cuban-American Manganese Corp. The discoverer of Cuban manganese was a Rough Rider, John Campbell Greenway, later a famed Arizona rancher and copper tycoon who married a schoolmate of Eleanor Roosevelt. Rough Rider Greenway kicked up a lump of ore on a hike over a dusty Cuban road in '98, showed his find to fellow Lieut. David M. Goodrich. Easier to work than U. S. ore because it lies close to the surface, Cuban deposits were far lower grade than the Russian or Indian. Not until 1929 (three years after Greenway had died, four...