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...Soto was an even bigger Chrysler headache in 1934, for all models were Airflow. And De Soto's sales dropped from 20,000 in 1933 to about 11,000 last year. From an engineering standpoint the car was a triumph but people were suspicious of an automobile which looked the same from both ends. This year De Soto also has an Airstream in addition to a modified Airflow...
...chief executives as well. He is a gentleman and a sportsman who has made the most of his opportunities in a position which could be termed anything but a bed of roses. He has seen fit to appoint Dick Harlow head coach at Harvard and from the standpoint of getting one who knows football from the ground up and can get the most out of the boys playing it he could not have made a better selection...
Again from the standpoint of a neutral outsider, it would seem to me that a lot more could be done by supporting the system at your institution, right or wrong, rather than by trying to undermine whatever college spirit may still exist by criticising a man and a policy about which obviously the writer knows very little. If every man in the Harvard student body will get behind the administration, Bill Bingham, the coach, and the team, and will stay behind them. Harvard will not only have a winning team, but will justify the hope of every true sportsman that...
...Committee does not feel that these changes would weaken Harvard's educational machinery, but feel, on the other hand, that the best students would be given more freedom and incentive to do excellent work. From the tutor's standpoint, there would be more time for research and writing, the promotion of younger men would inject new blood into the Faculty, and the advancement of the best tutors would encourage the rest...
...Navy Departments do not want U. S. arms makers, on whom their preparedness plans are based, to be tarred, feathered and crippled to make a publicity holiday for Senator Nye. They have sufficient difficulty in getting what they regard as adequate appropriations for themselves. From their standpoint, if foreign governments can be induced to buy U. S. arms, that is a cheap way of supporting the Army's and Navy's own arsenals: du Pont, Remington, Winchester, Colt, et al. In last week's Senate testimony it was brought out that Chief of Staff MacArthur in former years made speeches...