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...Congress' anxiety to forget about the destruction of democracy in Europe, one tenuous connection was allowed to continue. At sea was the Red Cross "mercy ship" McKeesport, which had started out for Bordeaux, heading straight into a combat zone without the necessary guarantee of safe conduct from belligerents. Before Congress was an Administration proposal to exempt Red Cross vessels from the Neutrality Act; otherwise the McKeesport might have to be ordered back. Cried West Virginia's lame-duck Senator Rush Holt: "This resolution of authority might be the spark. ..." Nevertheless, the resolution passed...
...Sargent '96, original educational counselor and publisher of an annual school and college handbook, has categorically stated that American universities--Harvard in particular--forced us in to the first World War and are now doing their best to enroll us in the current edition. His conclusion rests on a tenuous thread of logic running from pro-Allied speeches by university presidents through the control of their educational institutions by the business community to the latter's economic stake in an Allied victory. Essentially, his argument is that the United States went to war in 1917 and will go again...
Last week something as tenuous and perhaps as fleeting as the shadow of a bomber's wing spread over Capitol Hill in Washington. It was an uneasy feeling that all is not well with the U. S. Army and Navy. Congress has made no serious bones about letting the Army and Navy have upwards of $3,500,000,000 in this and the next fiscal year. But the new question was: How good a job are the President, the generals and the admirals doing with the money? By week's end the U. S. press, many...
...stocks and bonds held by Allied investors. Their value is less than 2% of that of all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange. But under the imminent and certain threat of World War II, the hair that held this dagger over U. S. securities markets looked scarily tenuous to market men. If French and British investors had sold their holdings in a panicky rush for dollars, the dagger would have dropped on an already queasy market, drawn real blood...
...only does such a program serve to strengthen the tenuous bond between town and gown, but it also supplies an extremely valuable type of training to the participating students. There is a certain point beyond which no amount of classroom instruction will improve a speaker's technique; then it is that experience comes into its own as the best possible teacher...