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...fortility of thought and ideas, few outrank Dr. Frederick Jackson Turner, professor emeritus of Harvard, as a dynamic force in the field of American History. His recent death has ended a career of far-reaching influence through-out the United States...
Disappointed at the selection were friends of Maj.-Generals John Leonard Hines, William Lassiter, Hanson Edward Ely, Fred Winchester Sladen, William Ruthven Smith, who all outrank General MacArthur in seniority and who all will retire within 18 months, never to have a chance to be full generals. The proud & pleased friends of General MacArthur pointed out that his youth is an advantage, that since the office was created in 1903 seven Chiefs of Staff have been advanced to it over their seniors' heads...
Unlike General Dawes M. Briand does not hold that an embassy is or should be "secondary"' in comparison with a chamber of commerce. He would deplore that a department of commerce should gradually outrank a state department. The trump M. Briand shook down his rumpled sleeve last week is a big red Ace of Diplomacy. But the stakes?a diplomat always plays for stakes?are Commerce...
...German word ersatz (substitute) has taken on a powerful significance in late years. German research and diligence has found a way to make nitrogen artificially (giving unlimited source for explosives); has made synthetic petroleum; has evolved the small but potent Ersatz Preussen, a warship designed to outrank anything of similar tonnage and armament in other navies...
Outstanding as a financier (and his chief is the only living banker who might conceivably be said to outrank him), he is scarcely less an intellectual. His friends include John Masefield, with whom he travels?H. G. Wells, who visits him? Ramsay MacDonald, who dined with him last month. A liberal himself (he supported Cox and Davis because of the League issue, voted for Hoover last fall), he has in his immediate family almost every shade of liberal opinion. His eldest son (Thomas S.) is now, at 31, a Morgan partner, is far more conservative than Corliss, who voted...