Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Everyone is hearing a lot about building extra locks for the Panama Canal in case a lock was destroyed by air-attack from bombers [TIME, Aug. 28]. Could not the extra lock be put out of operation just as easily as the present one, if not the same day...
The Two Neutralities? As he had promised, the President laid down two sets of rules for U. S. Neutrality. In one set he conformed to international usage, in the other to Congressional statute. Ten days after they were drafted, two days after Great Britain declared war, Franklin Roosevelt released the...
Franklin Roosevelt in his proclaimed emergency last week used only three of his emergency powers, 1) He ordered the Army enlarged from 210,000 to 227,000, the Navy from 116,000 to 145,000, the Marine Corps from 19,000 to 25,000, the National Guard from 190,000...
New men for new jobs, new jobs for old hands abounded, as Franklin Roosevelt began to make over his Government to wartime specifications. Changes extended from the Cabinet (see p. 9) down to bureaus where the urgencies of peace-in-war abruptly supplanted the routines of peace. Great was the...
Other correspondents may be lucky enough to send such stories of this war, but it is not likely, for, 24 hours after war began last week, censorship had clamped down over Europe. In Berlin the Army Command announced that no foreign correspondents would be allowed to stay at the front...