Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Room No. 2034 m Washington's Munitions Building is the office of Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring. A few paces down the hall is the office of Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson. Their lairs might as well be in separate buildings. For Messrs. Woodring and Johnson...
Discredited Mr. Johnson canceled an engagement to address the American Legion in Chicago (see p. 17) and dashed to Washington, where his colleagues were waiting to see whether he would resign. When he showed himself at the War Department, he did not act or look like a whipped pup in...
"My younger brother Wally," testified Noah Beery, "lost $80,000, but my brother also wants Gilbert Beesemyer to be given another chance." The former movie villain had scarcely done talking when he suffered a heart attack; he had to be assisted out of the room. "My doctor told me not...
For the first time in its 21 years of noisy, gaudy convening, the American Legion had its annual party last week with most of the world at war. Despite their routine horseplay which for four days turned Chicago upside down, the Legionnaires never quite achieved the hysteria of former conventions...
It appeared in the what-kind-of-a-war-is-this? reports from the first batch of correspondents to reach the Westwall (see p. 31). It appeared in accounts of the mighty invasion of the Russian Army into conquered Poland, in which correspondents, ostensibly praising the Army, declared it had...