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...swivel-chair administrator, Assistant Secretary Young traveled 30,000 mi. last year, boarded a train only twice. Mostly he journeys in the Department of Commerce Ford NS-1 which, equipped in club-car fashion with a desk and radio headphones in the cabin, serves as his flying office and from which every detail of airway construction, maintenance, lighting and radio weather-reporting can be observed first hand. Only touch of elegance in the cabin is a brilliant maroon felt pillow with the seal of the Aeronautics Branch (a beacon over which flies the original Wright Brothers' plane) on one side...
After the heavy barrage laid down by The Decline of the West, Philosopher Spengler, cannonader of despair, now uses a single big gun to finish off what scattered hopes remain. His Big Bertha may scare swivel-chair warriors at H. Q., but it goes way over the heads of the boys doing the fighting up in front...
...chair which rotates but does not swivel is the board chairmanship of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Foundation's work is handled by its president, who since June 1930, some four years after he was politically ousted from the University of Washington, has been energetic Dr. Henry Suzzallo (TIME, June 3, 1930). He it is who runs the Foundation's educational surveys, which have been made public in 52 fat brochures (in preparation are studies of the relations of higher and secondary education in Pennsylvania and California). The board chairmanship, a purely honorary post...
Among the first retorts to Editor Harris had been that of Columbia's Head Coach Lou Little, who, having lately broken a vertebra, watches his team from a swivel chair: "If most student affairs were run as cleanly as football, there'd be little to worry about. I've been through college myself, and I know the graft connected with college publications, for instance, is on such a scale that it would put Tammany Hall to shame...
What interested Assistant Secretary Ingalls in this mimic sea battle, what made his swivel chair doubly uncomfortable in the Navy Department, was the fact that for the first time Naval strategists had so arranged their war problem that the full defensive power of aircraft would be truly tested. One side was made top-heavy with sea armament; the other's strength was in the air. At stake was everything "Dave" Ingalls had worked and talked and planned for during his two years in office...