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Paths of Glory told the story of a tested French regiment whose battered remnants, exhausted by a long ordeal in the trenches, were ordered by a glory-hunting general to take a strong German position. When enemy fire swept the regiment back, the angry general murderously commanded a supporting battery to shell the French trenches. He was frustrated by the artillery commander, who refused to obey without a written order. Thereupon the general ordered the regiment to the rear, had three of its members executed as examples to the rest...
...Minimum wages, shorter hours, elimination of child labor, "fair treatment of labor." "But industry is opposed to . . . laws that prohibit the right of a man to work or that attempt to regiment and control the activities of private enterprise...
...capital of Makale. Behind him an Italian officer held high the Italian flag that had been hauled down from the same Ethiopian village in 1896. Behind them both marched a carefully chosen column of Ras Gugsa's own tribesmen, tall fezzed Askaris from Eritrea, and a regiment of Italian Bersaglieri, cock feathers fluttering from their helmets. A thumping band blared Giovinezza while overhead buzzed 21 Caproni bombers led by Il Duce's ace son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano. Ras Gugsa, whose tribesmen had led the unopposed Italian advance all the way from Aduwa, 60 miles...
...individual quotas can be allotted to potato farmers, because the money for enforcing such allotments was not forthcoming from the last session of Congress. The next session of Congress can easily provide the funds, but it may not be necessary. Secretary Wallace, having cold feet about attempting to regiment some 3,000,000 potato raisers, decided, on his own initiative, to take a straw vote among them next January on the question of whether they want obligatory potato control. If a large majority want it, Congress will be asked to appropriate the money. If the majority is small or nonexistent...
During the War Professor Langer served in the First Gas Regiment of the United States Army and participated in the St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives. He is the author of several books on European diplomatic history, and has become an outstanding authority in his field...