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Dates: during 1930-1939
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YOUR SOLUTION MAN OF YEAR PROBLEM IS PERFECT [TIME...
Decision on that point may be reached after this year's maneuvers, devoted to "Fleet Problem XX," the defense of the eastern shores of the U. S. and (in theory) the Republics of Latin America. An invading "White" fleet will try to outwit defending "Blacks," capture an operating base near the U. S. or Central America. This is no impractical game. Without such a base in Bermuda, the Bahamas or the West Indies, no European invader can get far in the Western Hemisphere. How much of a fleet is necessary in the Atlantic to prevent a foreign navy from...
...problem is not as simple as that; only extremists and superficial thinkers categorically associates permament or international cooperation with war. On the other hand, thousands of airplanes and scores of battleships do not guarantee peace; they merely stimulates mad, competitive rearmament in a vicious circle that benefits no one and creates an atmosphere in which the peaceful adjustment of fundamental problems becomes increasingly difficult...
...fraud were reported by students, for the most part in the Law School, who were living not in the Yard or in Houses but in boarding houses or apartments. Until "Geer" is known to be operating within University precincts, trespassing, the racket is exclusively a Cambridge police problem. Colonel Apted provided the town inspectors with a photograph of the swindler to help them in tracing...
...security problem is a big one for U. S. churches, whose care of their worn-out ministers is a large, often haphazard U. S. business. The 24 denominations of the Church Pensions Conference* have more than $171,000,000 in assets, a total annual income of $15,000,000. They pay nearly $11,000,000 a year to 38,000 clerical pensioners, widows and orphans. How much an individual pensioner gets, after retiring at around 68, depends upon how well-managed his church's pension affairs are. The Episcopal fund, first in the U. S. to be established...