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...important event in the defense of the U. S. since Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase; 'it would be announced within 22 minutes to the House of Representatives in Washington; from there it would be flashed to all their newspapers. Mr. Roosevelt grinned at his audience's chagrin-a story and no chance to send it. Flourishing his ivory cigaret holder, professorial, relishing the historicity of the scene, he explained...
...leaked out: Leningrad is the only one of the world's ten largest cities without a foreign correspondent. But one thing was certain: that to celebrate its 22nd anniversary last week the Red Army did not take Viipuri. If Joseph Stalin was disappointed, that was nothing to the chagrin of his best friend, Andrei Zhdanov...
Next day Earl Browder was indicted by a Manhattan Federal Grand Jury on two counts, charged with false swearing in 1937-38 passport applications. Maximum penalty on conviction: Five years in prison, $2,000 fine, on each count. Tears of anger and chagrin in his eyes, he pleaded not guilty, was held in $7,500 bail, as the Grand Jury dug into still more evidence of Communist travel habits. Possible was the bagging by Frank Murphy of such Reds as Executive Committeeman Max Bedacht, Publisher Alexander Trachtenberg. And no one could reasonably complain that prosecution for criminal fraud endangers...
...Samuel Hoare, the two most influential Cabinet members outside of Mr. Chamberlain, were in favor of taking it easy and doing nothing. Sir John's appeasement of aggressors began in 1932 when, as Foreign Secretary, he virtually welcomed Japan's invasion of Manchuria-much to the chagrin of the U. S. Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson. Sir Samuel's big try at appeasement came in 1935, when with French Premier Pierre Laval, he arranged a deal to give Benito Mussolini a big chunk of Ethiopia. He had to resign because of public indignation, but soon found...
...shoe salesman to a group of sketches about German War prisoners. But only four of these stories were written in the last year. Besides these, Author March has done some work on a novel, a book of fables, enough short stories to fill another volume. To his chagrin he now discovers that he gets no more writing done than he used...