Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wheeler, Minton, Schwellenbach, Pepper, Byrd, McNary, Taft, Nye; no, said the Sailors' Union of the Pacific. No, said Congressmen Bloom, Coffee of Washington, along with the Keep America out of War Congress, the National Maritime Union, and Columnists Krock, Denny, Flynn, Thompson, et al. No, said that old Border Statesman Cordell Hull of Pickett County, Tenn., Secretary of State through the 2,445 days of the first two administrations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...Border Statesman. Within one hour up spoke Secretary Hull in Washington to announce a contrary view. A quiet, softspoken, long-suffering ex-judge (keeping close control over one of the hottest tempers in Washington), Cordell Hull's difficulties have long provided left-wing New Dealers with some of their favorite and more malicious anecdotes. They like to tell about the time he was told of the Munich settlement, glanced at the documents, drawled "Sure 'nough" and went on about his business. They tell of the time he spoke with quiet pride of his work as a reformer...
...this was in reply to Germany's continuing to concentrate troops along her Dutch border. Dutch soldiers, standing to their arms about 500,000 strong, removed all road signs in frontier districts, to confuse an invader. Bridges and key roads remained mined. At the same time, to release them for work at home, the Government demobilized the Class of 1924. No one really expected a German push, especially if the Dutch canals and rivers do not freeze solid this winter (as they did last...
...Netherlands' border police last week took into custody Gerrit Albrink, 30, son of a Nazi member of the Dutch Parliament, employe of a German garage owner now serving with the Nazi Air Force. In Albrink's car when he tried to drive into Germany were an assortment of Dutch uniforms-soldiers', railroad guards', postmen's-obviously not intended for a fancy dress ball...
...years ago it found one: neat, elm-shaded Flemington (pop.: 2,700), site of the notorious Hauptmann trial. With a consistent assessment policy, a tax rate that seldom fluctuated, little debt, conservative little Flemington, near New Jersey's western border, looked good to harassed Standard. Into the tiny law office of sedate, greying George K. Large (Princeton '99; former country judge) went a huge new safe to hold the oil firm's records of incorporation. Up went the town's ratables as Standard was assessed $45,000,000 in personal property, paid...