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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hastily having its abovedeck superstructure dismantled for immediate conversion into an aircraft-carrier. As far as this gentleman could ascertain work was proceeding ahead on twenty-four-hour schedule. Local people did not know for sure what the identity of the drydocked vessel was, but it was understood among shipping people that it could only have been the Bremen...
...cannot say," reflected Mr. Clapper at the end of his story, "that it adds anything of historic importance . . . but with me it lingers fondly among the trivia of swirling times, with the poignant fragrance of happier days...
...President's appointments to the War Resources Board roused a whole closetful of undefined, murmured fears among the New Dealers now running Washington. Chairman of the Board was Edward R. Stettinius Jr.-also chairman of U. S. Steel. Serving with him were no Laborites, no Little Businessmen, no Janizaries. Instead, there were such Big Businessmen as A. T. & T.'s Walter Gifford, General Motors' John Lee Pratt, Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood, Manhattan Banker John Milton Hancock. Here, to the shaken Janizariat, was sinister evidence that Franklin Roosevelt, in advance of war, had turned...
...disbanding W. R. B. last fortnight, the President did not end this crisis within a crisis. But at a time when he needed a maximum of accord among those immediately around him, he did achieve at least an armistice, a lull in a war that will some time be fought to a finish...
...Sept. 3, Great Britain's ultimatum to Germany expired. At 11:35 the first air-raid warning wailed over the British capital. Some 8,000,000 unhurried Londoners tramped down the steps of their air-raid shelters, among them George VI, King-Emperor, and his Queen Elizabeth. Half an hour later, the all clear signal given, George and Elizabeth emerged. For him, as Admiral of the Fleet, Field Marshal and Marshal of the Air Force, the war had begun. For her, as for some 15,000,000 other British women, the pre-war life of home and children...