Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mellow firelight flickered about the office of the Secretary of the Treasury one morning last week, dappling its black leather arm chairs, glinting on the glass doors of its bookcases and softening the chill rain that fell outside. Behind his broad mahogany desk sat Andrew William Mellon, his thin patrician face a mask to his own reflections. Around the big room were scattered Treasury newshawks attending what would probably be their last press conference with this shy little man puffing meditatively on a black cigar no bigger than a cigaret. His career as Secretary of the Treasury was over; President...
...faced fighting tops of nine battleships of the Battle Force (Pennsylvania, California, New York, Oklahoma, Nevada, Tennessee, Colorado, Maryland, West Vir-ginia). Their radios were ominously silent and they did not come alone. Trailing in their wake was the naval sinew which complements the nation's mightiest sea arm. Jauntily steamed four light cruisers (Omaha, Cincinnati, Concord, Detroit). Rolling porpoise-wise came 24 destroyers. Like sluggish metal fish, six submarines crawled along with decks awash. Plowing forward in the procession were the Lexington and the Saratoga with aircraft on their flat backs. Mine sweepers, oilers, repair, supply and hospital...
...part of the Versailles Treaty that she is not forced to fulfill, and the chances of forcing payment of reparations are less today than ever. ¶ "Germany can and will pay her private debts provided the French do not use force against her. But Germany is determined to re-arm if France does not disarm. ¶ "The German people as a whole have disavowed and repudiated the Versailles Treaty. France considers it her only guarantee of life. French and German differences have grown worse and they give every evidence of growing still worse in the future. Whether the development comes...
...Houses of Parliament in an automobile. As the clock in Ottawa's Peace Tower struck three, Princess Louise Dragoons escorted him into the Parliamentary Driveway, stiff lines of foot soldiers snapped to salute, a band played "God Save the King." Out stepped Lord Bessborough, Lady Bessborough on his arm. As he entered the hall, he was royally saluted with 19 guns...
...Booth Had Missed? Playwright Arthur Goodman has chosen to imagine that a Negro porter knocked up John Wilkes Booth's arm just as he entered the Ford's Theatre box to shoot Abraham Lincoln.? Thereafter Honest Abe is beset by venomous political intrigue, chief movers in which are club-footed Thaddeus Stevens, treacherous Secretary of War Stanton and complacently egotistical Ulysses Simpson Grant...