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...Foreign Minister Molotov prepared to confer with Germany's Ribbentrop, Berlin let it be known that in the new world Germany hopes to create, Russia would have her sphere of influence. This sphere would lie between German Europe and Japanese East Asia, but its exact boundaries were not marked. Russia does and must always fear German expansion eastward more than anything else, and it was doubtful last week if anything Joachim von Ribbentrop could say or sign would reassure Comrade Stalin on that point. Best bet was that Russia would continue to play ball with the Axis against Great...
...steel to the Navy. Many a specialty producer's unfilled orders continued to pile up. One such was little Crucible Steel. Its canny, portly president, Raoul Desvernine, who in last October's phony boom warned businessmen "not to get ahead of the war," urged President Roosevelt to confer "broader" (crackdown) powers on Commissioners Knudsen and Stettinius...
...French sources reported that Hitler and Goring went to Paris to confer with their Air Marshals, and Goring later went to Picardy for consultations at the fighting air bases...
Last Friday, as on every Friday since the beginning of July, 17 men met to confer in the Federal Reserve Building in Washington. Eight of them were subchieftains of C. I. O.; seven of them of A. F. of L.; two were from the independent Railroad Brotherhood. Their chairman: Sidney Hillman, a vice president of Lewis' C. I. O., president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and Franklin D. Roosevelt's labor coordinator for the National Defense Advisory Commission. They were working on the problem of U. S. defense...
...follow the Convention day & night by radio. Even in his office he kept a gadget pocket radio open on his desk. When the Convention sank into confusion after its spiritless opening, he talked long with Harry Hopkins in Chicago, used the direct wire from the White House to confer long with Senators Byrnes and Barkley. When Alabama's Lister Hill, with lamenting tremolos and quaverollos in his voice, placed the name of Franklin Roosevelt in nomination, no sign or word betrayed Franklin Roosevelt's emotion. But Steve Early, an accurate barometer of the President's political feelings...