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...greatest NRA shakeup since last summer. Part of a logical transition from code-making to enforcement, it decentralized authority, delegated to an administrative staff many of the powers he formerly exercised. To head this staff he appointed Lieut.-Colonel G. A. Lynch, whom he described as "the most advanced thinker in the U. S. Army." Col. Lynch, a classmate of General Johnson at West Point, was detached from the infantry and assigned to the NRA two weeks...
...Arabian campaign in relation to the rest of the World War and gives the clearest exposition of it extant. He deprecates the view that Lawrence's success as a leader of irregular troops came from innate genius, calls Lawrence a profound student of tactics, a military thinker. Basis of Lawrence's tactical scheme was to avoid battles, destroy Turkish material and morale. Says Lawrence: ". . . Suppose we were an influence (as we might be), an idea, a thing invulnerable, intangible, without front or back, drifting about like gas? . . . To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating...
...narrow way of salvation but the only road to knowledge. When Peter Abelard sought fame as a scholar he inevitably became a tonsured celibate. Within the frame of orthodox Catholic theology (once thought sufficient to contain the universe) Abelard was not only a brilliant scholar but a bold thinker. Envious' and less able enemies had maneuvered him out of one hall of learning after another, but wherever he was he drew throngs of worshipful listeners. Authoress Waddell's narrative finds him at the peak of his career, the shining star of the Paris Schools. When old Fulbert, canon...
...have no way of knowing the cause of antipathy animating the writer and publisher of the magazine. . . . But as to Governor Haskell's relation to the public and to the State of Oklahoma, it was wholesome and constructive. He was a fighter, and like every advanced thinker, was misunderstood by many, and understood by many. His life was closed with nothing substantial showing against his character and many of his most ardent enemies including the great and illustrious Theodore Roosevelt, withdrew his criticism and sent a personal apology...
...denounced as a Shylock with raffendes Kapital while non-Jews and regular contributors-to-the-party are left unmolested with their schaffendes wealth. Last week Germany's tycoons, whose business is increasingly regulated by the Ministry of Economics, shivered at the prospect that so loose and ingenuous a thinker as Herr Feder should have so much power. German industry today is described by Berlin economists as "stagnant." It needs the life blood of fresh capital. German capitalists, whose deposits abroad run into billions, are unlikely to bring much of this money home while they do not know from...