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...last autumn, made the Chinese fearful of being cut off from every source of military supplies except Russia. Consequently steps were taken to increase the flow by other routes. Smuggling was increased all along the South China coast-until fortnight ago the Japanese Navy announced it had had to tighten its blockade...
...made. Nelson is understood to have agreed to a salary of $5,000, right in line with Yale's recent decision to slash the athletic budget wherever possible. Yale's grid gate receipts were $100,000 below expectations this fall, making it necessary for Ogden Miller to tighten the Blue athletic belt without giving up big-time football...
Charles Edison was never very happy either as Assistant Secretary or Secretary of the Navy. Mountains of paper work vexed and baffled him. So, occasionally, did admirals who were his nominal subordinates. They buffeted him from stem to stern when he proposed to tighten the Navy's loose organization, bucked like destroyers in a gale when he partially reorganized the shore bureaus to handle the enormous construction job now under way. And they practically keelhauled him (unofficially) when he came back from inspecting the Pacific Fleet last spring with word that "aircraft have a temporary advantage over ships...
Should the U. S. tighten trade embargoes against Japan? Said Banker Lamont: "A private citizen not familiar with all the factors would not for a moment presume to suggest detailed measures to the Administration whose foreign policy along this line has been so carefully developed." Nevertheless, he pointed out inconsistencies and omissions in U. S. embargoes that still permitted Japan to get war supplies...
...United States peers out into the future, its leaders attempt to find security not only in rearmament and conscription, but in carefully cultivated friendship with Latin America. More and more men will go South to find a career, as cultural exchange increases and trade-nets tighten. Clearly it is a function of a wide-awake college to offer such individuals the chance to prepare themselves. And it is equally clear that, as this new world opens beyond our shores, it is the University's duty to be ready and willing to educate all interested in these peoples and their ways...