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...Plus-Four." If bad management was again carving over Democracy's door the bitter motto, "Too little & too late," immediate responsibility lay on the Roosevelt War Cabinet-the Secretaries of State, War, Navy and Treasury-and the President's manager of the Lend-Lease program, Harry Hopkins. For one reason or another each of them has drawbacks as a manager and administrator of a war effort...
...commemorating their common saint, a man who lived only that we may learn the Golden Rule--shameful because a man of dark hue is publicly shunned in a place devoted to the pursuit of truth and culture, a place where intellect raises man from his smallness--shameful because our motto so brazenly flaunts itself now, as obvious camouflage--"Erudito et religio!"--we have struck our colors, once more, to convention and prejudice! --Duke University Chronicle, April 4, 1941. THE HERMIT PLACE, by Mark Schorer. Random House, New York...
...staff has increased to 24, whose job is to get Army news and make it available. Editor in chief under General Richardson is witty Lieut. Colonel Stanley Grogan, who worked for several New England papers and A. P., served six years as chief of Army Information in Manhattan. His motto is: "Bigger and better coverage of the War Department." Among his smart new assistants (most of whom retain civilian status) are news-wise professionals from such papers as the Kansas City Star and the New York Times. Transferred to General Richardson is West Point's Public Relations Officer Lieut...
Probably the controlling factor in admitting men is distribution, as applied to home-state, school, and field of concentration. While "follow your friends" is always a good motto in selecting a House, beware of applying for admission to the same place as all your prep-school mates, particularly if your scholastic rank is lower than theirs...
...main points of the affirmative were the motto, "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" and the claim that wives would keep students from "wild excursions to Smith, Vassar, and Scollay Square.' In addition, William G. Matthews '43 of the Gold Coasters asserted that the plan would improve the language of undergraduates immeasurably...