Word: americans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every cranny for possible time-bombs, not to worry the passengers by telling them, and finally, since crazy though it was, the warning was too serious to dismiss altogether, he was to expect "a Coast Guard vessel and several Navy ships" which would accompany the Iroquois to an unspecified American port...
...Woman, to General Johnson: "Don't you think you could better defend democracy by upholding President Roosevelt, who was elected by the great majority of the American people...
From Rome to London went Walter Duranty to represent the North American Newspaper Alliance. The Associated Press sent Drew Middleton, United Press Webb Miller. Others were Harold Norman Denny of the New York Times, John O'Donnell of the New York Daily News, William Harlan Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News, the Baltimore Sun's, Frank Richardson Kent Jr. (son of tart Washington Correspondent Frank Richardson Kent). Both the Los Angeles Times and Columbia Broadcasting System were represented by an ex-sportswriter, Bill Henry. National Broadcasting Co. chose 58-year-old Brigadier General Henry Joseph Reilly...
...scholars debarked in Manhattan (having had traveling expenses paid by the Rhodes fund), a Swarthmore reception committee met them at the pier, whisked them off to Swarthmore's campus, where they were fed, bedded in dormitories. The Association of American Rhodes Scholars (Rhodes alumni) promptly began to raise money to help them continue their education in the U. S. (Rhodes scholarships are good only at Oxford). Meanwhile Dr. Aydelotte asked U. S. universities whether they cared to give scholarships to his disappointed scholars...
Four days later NYAdministrator Aubrey Williams sent Floyd Reeves, director of the American Youth Commission, on the run to Baton Rouge to find out why Heidelberg had killed himself. As the fall term began, Investigator Reeves reported...