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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park for the week end, Vestryman Roosevelt attended a special service at St. James' Episcopal Church. The President had brought with him from Washington a Bible (King James version), a gift to the church from the King and Queen of England in remembrance of the Sunday last June when they worshipped there with Mr. Roosevelt. Lacking an appropriate passage in the prayer book of the U. S. Episcopal Church, the Reverend Frank R. Wilson read from an English Book of Common Prayer: "O Lord, most heartily we beseech Thee, with Thy favor to behold Thy most gracious sovereign...
...Dies Committee last September, he put himself in danger of a second Federal imprisonment. (In 1917 he was jailed as a conscientious objector to World War I.) Last week the possibility of a second term for Earl Browder, and imprisonment for many another big-name Communist, was brought measurably nearer by the U. S. Department of Justice...
...with 338,000 tons of "contraband'' cargoes seized at control ports to 174,000 tons of shipping lost (as of Oct. 17).* Winston Churchill announced for his Admiralty, moreover, that 29,000 tons of enemy bottoms had been captured and 104,000 tons of new British ships brought into service. Convoys for British shipping were now organized in the Seven Seas. Across the Atlantic a series of radio patrols two hours apart was substituted for transoceanic convoys. S. S. Cameronia arrived "going from lamp post to lamp post" as her commander...
...real possibilities of this material were brought to light in a measure not so long ago when Hank Drinker, erstwhile cub stroke, came through in the heavy sculling singles to win an all college event. Drinker's sculling experience was limited but natural ability seemed to carry him through. However, Drinker is not the only hopeful that remains out of the limelight at Nassau...
Whether their interpretation is accurate or not, no one can really tell, but anyone who has seen the play can readily tell that they have brought a vivid personality to life. Mystic, tragic, almost pathetic, their Lincoln is haunted by a trauma of youth, heckled by a shrewish wife, driven into the White House almost against his will, yet ostensibly he is just a backwoods politician with canny horse-sense and a flair for fence-sitting. None of the rampant idealism usually attributed to Lincoln colors the Sherwood-Massey characterization, and for that reason the play might be considered derogatory...