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One thing above all others the British Navy was slow to forgive: mutiny. Though Pitcairn Island had become a British colony in 1893, British ships still shunned the faraway, surf-swept island where the mutineers of the Bounty had settled. Until World War II, a representative of the British High...
Rimsky-Korsakov. In Moscow the wounds seemed more like things of the past than of the imminently fearful present. Factory girls still twined flowers in their hair. Water carts sprinkled streets deep with dust under a cloudless sky. Mobile soda fountains sold charged water for 30 kopecks. A lathe worker...
But horses and mules are another matter. Government and farmers alike know they cannot return to the munching, nonmechanical drowse of yesterday's barnyard. The draft and the siphoning off of farm labor by defense industry will call for still more mechanized farming. But at Chicago the shortage of...
As Presidential secretary, Meissner "served as a kind of second memory to the Chief of State," whose own memory tended more & more to wander. Once a Reichstag member strolled into the President's office, munching a sandwich. He put the sandwich wrapper on the table. "My God," shouted Meissner...
Last week, in a packed hall in the Capitol, the Board of Regents held a hearing. The Governor, himself a regent, was there, munching his lunch and prompting his fellow board members. Regent James S. Peters waved a copy of Brown America, a book by the Rosenwald Fund's...