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Without yet knowing what was afoot, British vessels encountered Germans at two points far apart. In the Skagerrak a British submarine torpedoed the German transport Rio de Janeiro giving the first alarm that something serious was afoot (TIME, April 15). The other encounter was hundreds of miles away and not till several days later was its outcome known...
Phase Two: Contact. Knowing at last what was afoot, Allied warships arrived in force off ports where the Nazis had landed...
Last week, after nearly 26 years, Richmond's newspaper history completed a full circle. Negotiations were afoot to bring the Times-Dispatch and the News Leader under one management, as they were in 1914 when the Bryans owned them...
...years Dr. Ball fought Prohibition because he considered it an encroachment on States' Rights. Since Prohibition was repealed in 1933 he has fought the New Deal for the same reason. In sulfurous editorials the News & Courier repeatedly attacked the Santee-Cooper River hydroelectric project, which pushing politicians set afoot to get $40,000,000 out of the New Deal for South Carolina (TIME, June 12). He described it as "a set-up of politicians without known qualifications to build and develop industrial plants," called it a project "shot through with extravagance and waste...
...leading clubwomen, sent to Bryn Mawr ("I wasn't allowed to major in English on account of I wasn't good enough and wrote rowdily. . . ."), Martha's perambulations are such that only a good detective could have kept track of her. She has bummed her way afoot over most of Europe, making many an acquaintance on the way, once wrote a novel which she lost in Lake Maggiore, married and divorced famed French Journalist Count Bertrand de Jouvenel, accompanied a French youth delegation to Berlin, returned to the U. S. to roam in Mexico, the Texas...