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...American history broadcasts, which are being developed with the cooperation of the faculty counsellors of President Conant's program for extra-curricular study of American civilization, will include the following subjects: meaning of the westward movement; agricultural conservation; problem of immigration and foreign minorities; history of trade unionism; history of the Supreme Court; changing concepts of American destiny; economic integration of America; American idealism and religions; history of the theatre; and public health...
...been attacked by a submarine. On his way to her rescue he picked up 36 members of the crew of the British freighter Heronspool, which had also been torpedoed. He finally found the Miguet in flames, could see no sign of the crew, and resumed his course westward. (Word came later that the Miguet's crew had been rescued by the Black Diamond freighter Black Hawk...
Plenty also happened in China to keep U. S. eyes westward to the East. When a Chinese policeman was killed and a Sikh colleague wounded in a Shanghai fracas, polo-playing, hard-working Chairman Cornell S. Franklin of the Shanghai Municipal Council announced that he might ask U. S. Marines to come into the International Settlement and do something the Japanese love to do-restore order. Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei, popping in and out of his fortified castle in Shanghai's "badlands," announced he was "satisfied that Japan's peace conditions toward China do not infringe...
Last week Russia arrived again at the Finland Station, but this time it was really Finland and the trains were running West. As Russia's westward expansion hit the border of the little Baltic country and she presented her demands to Finland's envoy to Moscow, she also presented President Roosevelt with a major problem in statecraft. It forced on him what correspondents did not hesitate to call "the most delicate and momentous" decision of his career...
...almost 40 years has made his living selling the public charts and prophecies about business, announced last week that so far as the U. S. economy is concerned "The war in Europe is unimportant. . . . the important thing is . . . what is going on in the Orient. Trade always has moved westward...