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Commonwealth & Empire. The Commonwealth and Empire remain a very great world community. What is the present setup in our group? We are a dual system. In that dual system we follow two different principles. In the Commonwealth, we follow to the limit the principle of decentralization. The members of the group maintain the unbreakable spiritual bonds which are stronger than steel, but in all matters of government and their internal and external concerns, they are sovereign states...
...industry insists that the Missouri story is not typical. But it also insists that combination to fix rates is not only typical but a necessary part of the business. The whole elaborate rating-board setup was established precisely because, in the old days, all-out competition involved cutting rates to the point where everyone -including the policyholder-went broke when a big fire came along. In other words, say the fire underwriters, they are not guilty of violating the Sherman Act, because the Act was never designed to apply to them, anyway...
...Buccaneers. Skipper of the Flying Fish is slim, quiet Commander Glynn Robert Donaho of Normangee, Tex. He remembers when the Flying Fish ran into an enemy task force close to shore. He scored hits on one ship and was taking a setup on a second when an aircraft bomb dropped close aboard. Things got so hot afterwards that one of the crew broke out all the candy in the stores, declaring, "We might as well eat it up now, we may never have another chance." But the Flying Fish survived, sank or damaged 100,000 tons of enemy shipping...
...much time in Washington as Stanford's ambassador to the U.S. Government. Stanford is reputed to have the largest U.S. university program for the specialized training of soldiers, is widely expanding its Far Eastern research, is playing a major role in bringing the U.S. into a global educational setup. For two weeks every month Paul Hanna leaves his wife and children and a Palo Alto hilltop which in peacetime was a tripper's cynosure: a redwood, cement and sheet-glass honeycomb architectured by Frank Lloyd Wright...
...Certain churchmen" may well be Norway's six Lutheran Bishops still at liberty but not officiating, since they refuse to recognize the quisling church setup. Out of reach of questioners is Bishop Eivind Berggrav, whom the Nazis guard in solitary confinement in a cottage near Oslo. Bishop Berggrav observed his 59th birthday last month. As a birthday present, the Nazis took him, under heavy guard, to the dentist...