Word: beene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The telephone in Franklin Roosevelt's bedroom at the White House rang at 2:50 a. m. on the first day of September. In more ways than one it was a ghastly hour, but the operators knew they must ring. Ambassador Bill Bullitt was calling from Paris. He had...
>One deed came immediately: the President announced his acceptance of Hugh Wilson's resignation as Ambassador to Germany. Mr. Wilson had been home from his post since November. The timing of his permission to resign formally could only be construed as a protest against the invasion of Poland. >Secretary...
He next referred to the formal, legal basis of the country's present-day Neutrality. He would, he said, issue two proclamations: one of his own which "would have been done even if there had been no neutrality statute," and one required by the statute, to which he paid...
That was all U. S. newshawks needed to make them realize what a change had been wrought in the huge, spreading $1,000,000 red-and-white Queen Anne palace that houses the British Embassy on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue.
No. 4. When Lepke Buchalter fled to the G-Men, he was No. 4 on their list of public-enemies-at-large. Ahead of and just below him were four bank robbers. Last week G-Men in Chicago caught his successor in No. 4 position: Joseph Paul Cretzer, a mustached...