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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Briton who can explain muth to his countrymen about why this war started off so slowly (see p. 31), why the West ern Front was still so quiet last week, is a tall, thin officer of infantry in World War I: Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, 43, D. S. 0. V. C. Few weeks ago Captain Liddell Hart suffered a nervous break down, retired to the west of England, resigned his job as military expert for the august London Times...
...long ago convinced that Nazi destiny is more important than death; French and British youth have found their cause in Hitler's aggressions. But last week as 1,250,000 U. S. students of military age assembled peaceably on the grounds of 1,500 colleges and universities (see p. 46), they were still quite sure they had nothing to fight for, and some of them doubted whether any cause was worth the unpleasantness of dying...
...Daily Princetonian had nothing to say editorially about war. But Editor Robert P. Hazlehurst admitted: "There's not much doubt as to how Princeton men feel about the war: we are naturally biased in favor of the Allies." Meanwhile at Vassar College, in the Miscellany, Editor Nancy Mclnerney of South Bend, Ind., spoke for young womanhood: "We don't want our husbands shot. We favor the cash-and-carry act because it is more neutral...
...succeed Great Northern's late William P. Kenney, directors picked big, brusque, likable Frank James Gavin (58), who joined the road as an office-boy 42 years ago, worked his way up through station agent, division supt., etc., became a rock-ribbed "24-hour railroad man." A brief man (he answers telegraphed queries with a snappy "Yes" or "No"), he has no hobbies, no outside interests but his work. But Frank Gavin, who was G. N.'s executive V. P., knows all about his road from operations to finance. Wise to what is going...
...Pacific Coast their tracks run parallel (G. N. to the north). Bewhiskered, one-eyed, oathy James J. ("Jim") Hill tried to combine them in his G. N. railroad empire in 1895, failed, saw his dream of consolidation in God's country go up in smoke. Last year N. P. had a whopping $4,300,000 deficit; G. N. a piddling (for her) $2,700,000 profit. Today there is no talk of consolidating the twin grain, iron ore, lumber hauling roads that serve much the same territory. Maybe the arrival of new heads Denney and Gavin will revive...