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...purging the officers' ranks was even more important as a morale-booster, for a bad officer does more damage than a bad private. The purge was begun on two fronts. Widest was the Army's group of citizen-officers-the 91,150 from the National Guard and reserve...
...26th meridian, which would still leave Iceland in Europe's hemisphere. When the 26th meridian proved unsatisfactory to the President, Dr. Bowman pondered some more, obligingly came up with Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson's mid-channel theory. According to Explorer Stefansson, the line should run midway through the "widest channel" between Europe and the Americas, would give Iceland to the Western Hemisphere...
...believe in an all-wise and all-loving God, named by whatever name, and that the individual's highest fulfillment, greatest happiness and widest usefulness are to be found in living in harmony with His will...
During a recent Diet session Japan's spouting little Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka seemed to assign to the Asia of the future its widest boundaries yet. Said he: "We Japanese have a heaven-sent right to settle in some part of the United States climatically healthful and enjoyable...
Surely in matters in which there is room for the widest disagreement, legitimate disagreement, between the best of recognized experts in the field, and the field of politics is certainly such as field. Mr. Davis has no intention of making the ability to pay the poll-tax both the right to vote and proof positive of objective, truth. The Crimson scribbler who maligned Mr. Davis in an editor's note attached to Mr. Davis letter must be banished to work for which he is better fitted. He has failed to recognize a master of the serio-jocose. The Crimson will...