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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cruises were not, as you infer, of no military consequence. They were of sufficient importance to warrant commissioning all overseas naval vessels of the Washington Government to make special effort to find him and destroy...
...died just before the New Deal was inaugurated, Homer Cummings of Stamford, Conn, was slated to be Governor General of the Philippines. He went into the Cabinet, vice Walsh, on 48 hours' notice. It was understood he would serve only a two-year hitch, but his willingness to find legal paths to Franklin Roosevelt's goals made the latter persuade him to stay on. However, the path he proposed to enable the New Deal to make over the Supreme Court won him no kudos when it failed...
...visitors' permits of some 12,000 Germans (of all races and creeds) now in the U. S. The President also asked Myron Charles Taylor, now serving as U. S. representative on the Intergovernmental Committee of Political Refugees, to return at once to London, redouble the effort to find some place in the world for unwanted Jews...
...London, U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy conferred with Prime Minister Chamberlain, came to the conclusion that in the present refugee crisis the Intergovernmental Committee needed practical assistance. Ambassador Kennedy and the British engaged in earnest efforts to find a colony or colonies where German Jews could find a haven-the British to supply the land, the U. S. to lend financial assistance. Already the new force of popular feeling was making a new and more active U. S. foreign policy...
Fortnight ago Mr. Cummings went to Pinehurst, N. C. for his annual golfing party (35 male guests). Vexed to find him absent, the President, who wanted to see him about Federal judgeship appointments,** asked him to return to Washington within four days. Mr. Cummings returned at once and the President announced his resignation, accompanied by public exchanges of mutual cordiality...