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...Congress is a lusty two-year-old offspring of the International Federation of League of Nations Societies. Its pur poses: to exchange youths' ideas, educate them for international cooperation, rally them to united action for preventing war. To carry out this ambitious program the first World Youth Congress in 1936 opened a one-room office in Geneva, installed there as international secretary a 23-year-old British delegate, small, brown-eyed, comely Elizabeth Shields-Collins, daughter of an East Indian trader. Miss Collins and her collaborator. Michael Wallace, son of the late British Author Edgar Wal lace, did their...
...frenzied passion you have violated the law, insulted the dignity and decency of the State of Ohio, endangered the lives and property, and overwhelmed this peaceable and quiet community by your indefensive course of conduct. . . . No labor union in our land approves or condones the erratic course you have pur sued. You do not represent union labor in its struggles and aspirations. You represent a wayward and unstable element of society...
...formally adopted by the company's directors years ago were the 15 points of Armco policy, starting off with a declaration of high business ethics, winding up with a pru dent word about making good banking connections "in advance of their need" and liberally interlaced with such pur poses as the promotion of "Americanism and a real, live spirit of patriotism." Confused though its policies may seem, Armco is a money-making proposition, old Mr. Verity writing his 20,000 stockholders last week that 1936 earnings were $6,441,000, an improvement over...
...Hanson incident is indicative of the manner in which the State Department serves pur country's interests, that is by pending one of its most able men to a place where he's not needed, then it would appear that the time was ripe for our Chief Executive to use a vacuum cleaner on said Department...
...business, met with a vice president and the district managers. He kept a business appointment in nearby Barrington. The next day he flew to Tulsa, central operating point for his company and terminus for its big telegraph system. He passed two days meeting with depart mental managers, discussing leases, pur chases, operations. The next day he flew to Amarillo where his company has im portant gas holdings. He looked over their reports, took off again. Twice forced down by bad weather, he caught a train at Winslow, Ariz., continued to Los Angeles. There, in a comfortable suite at the Biltmore...