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...mushrooming aircraft industry, failure to supply airplanes to Britain in time to stave off defeat will fall on many manufacturers, who will also share the praise if the job is done well. In the shipbuilding industry, praise or blame is likely to go to one man: a slight, wiry, retired rear admiral of the Navy named Emory Scott Land. For 61-year-old Jerry Land is chairman of the Maritime Commission as well as co-holder of its tennis championship, casual dispenser of its most lurid and effective seagoing profanity. Except for Joseph Patrick Kennedy, who chairmaned the Commission...
Warning against "the hasty abandonment of our liberty in the illusion that by adopting tyrannical measures we stave off tyranny," United States Representative Tom Eliot '28 spoke before the Harvard Liberal Union on "A Democratic Defense" yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
Beside the Battle of 1941, that of Actium (31 B.C.) in which Antony tried to stave off the one-man dictatorship of Octavian (later Emperor Augustus), seems a pathetic farce. Shakespeare tells how Cleopatra finally withdrew her 60 galleys from the action and fled in her sumptuous royal barge, whereupon She once being loof'd, the noble ruin of her magic, Antony, claps on liis sea-wing, and (like a doting mallard) leaving the fight in heighth, flies after...
...Commission will personally distribute the food to the needy. If it is discovered that Germany is appropriating any of the food, all such aid will immediately cease. The chances are, however, that the German government will allow the food to reach the needy civilians, realizing that balanced diets help stave off disease. Germany will be unable to provide the food herself, not knowing how long the war will last and hence how carefully, she must budget her food resources. She should, therefore, welcome the opportunity to have something done for her, and will hardly look a gift horse...
Sponsored by the National Ski Association of America, the Chilean waxed stave artists will be in America for two months. They were sent by the National Ski Association of Chile to compete with skiers from New Hampshire to Colorado...