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...income in March 1937, Franklin Roosevelt tried to spur Congress to pass some of the proposals which have languished there for two months. But this week, after a conference with Senate Majority Leader Barkley, it was admitted that the roads would have to remain in the ditch until Congress meets again next January...
...Archibald Sinclair. This was in the early afternoon, and with much frantic telephoning a late tea party for Herr Henlein was arranged by Laborite Harold Nicolson, M. P. Leftist Nicolson persuaded to take tea with Stooge Henlein three middleweight British Parliamentary figures notable up to now for their last-ditch championship of Anthony Eden at the time he was ousted: Lieut. Commander Reginald Fletcher (Laborite), Brigadier General Edward Louis Spears (Conservative); and Mr. Mark Patrick, former Parliamentary Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Eden's intensely loyal Under Secretary Viscount Cranborne...
...enlarging the U. S. Navy, was considering a provision to provide $15,000,000 "for development of ideas on national defense," Mr. Rice hastened to contribute. His idea: A canal across the U. S. to enable one navy to defend both coasts. His reasoning: A 360-mile ditch between the Missouri and Columbia Rivers in northern Montana would open a waterway at least six feet deep between New Orleans and Portland, Ore. (A 260-mile ditch between the Potomac and Ohio would open a waterway from Washington, D. C. to Cairo, Ill. on the Mississippi...
...Andres Nin, onetime secretary to Leon Trotsky and head of Leftist Spain's POUM (Dissident Communist Party), was murdered and tossed into a ditch outside Madrid eight months...
...bullet-riddled body of Ignace Reiss, a Soviet secret agent who renounced Stalinism, was found in a ditch outside Lausanne, Switzerland, seven months...