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...Strong and Harrison) where experienced men can exert their influence for sanity in financial affairs. Of like importance is the substitution of a multilateral agreement, a set of rules for voluntary participants to observe, in place of bilateral deals that can only fan destructive competition. Both plans write a text based on desperate rearguard campaigns of the '20s and '30s. They recognize the experience leading to the minimal Tripartite Agreement of 1936: that some collaboration, any collaboration, in international money matters is indispensable. "The Tripartite Agreement," said one potent U.S. exporter, "was worth a hundred trade treaties...
Died. Dr. James Ewing, 76, world-honored cancer authority, longtime professor of pathology at Cornell's Medical School (1899-1932); in Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, which he directed from 1913 to 1939. He published his land mark cancer text, Neoplastic Diseases, in 1919, after 20 years of tireless, neuralgia-racked labor. He believed in no universal cancer cure, plugged research, early diagnosis...
...History is not only condensed for text books, it is dehydrated. They can push mathematics and Latin around and pound it in. Not so history. History is real, living and breathing. ... In the average classroom it dies a death of suffocation...
...movie is a blunt, high-spot review of world power politics between 1936 and Pearl Harbor. For the most part a faithful translation of Joe Davies' book, the picture departs from its text only to leave out Ambassador Davies' occasional reservations about the Soviet Union. Without doubts or reservations of any kind, the film devotes itself unabashedly to endearing the Russians to U.S. audiences...
...Army doctors wrote the first U.S. pharmacopoeia (1778) and the first U.S. bacteriology text (Sternberg...