Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Generalissimo Franco soon responded to the French hints of possible friendship. The French have long dreaded the idea of having the Italian legionnaires fighting with the Rebels at the French frontier. No less pleasing has been the thought that the Rebels' friends have been constructing fortifications on the French-Spanish frontier. Last week the Generalissimo informed France that Italian troops would not be allowed to operate in the frontier sector, and at the same time withdrew an Italian militia brigade from the Catalonian shambles. He also invited a French military mission to come and see for itself that...
...spring, however, when Lawrence begged them to go to Mexico with him, they made excuses. Despite their undying friendship, they concluded "we had had about enough of a good thing...
...birthday (Jan. 30) he cut a cake with 21 candles at the White House for a big party of family & friends including, as usual, members of the Cuff-Links Gang-eight men whose friendship dates back to Franklin Roosevelt's days as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and to whom he gave cufflinks in remembrance of their help in his unsuccessful campaign for Vice President...
Potato Bug. Franklin Roosevelt and his late, trusted Secretary Louis McHenry Howe knew Robert Fechner in World War days when he represented his machinists' union in negotiations with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt. Their friendship continued, and on his 57th birthday (March 22, 1933) Mr. Fechner got a telephone call from Louis Howe suggesting a quick trip to Washington. Tied up with union business and unaware that CCC legislation had been introduced, he put off going for a week. When he did visit the White House, he saw there the original (and largely unchanged) chart...
...President Pedro Aguirre, facing the first big job of his month-old Popular Front Government, took charge of the rescue work. Airplanes, many lent by U. S., French and German air lines, were used to ferry food and medical supplies. Two British cruisers, in Chilean waters for a friendship visit, began transporting medical supplies, evacuating refugees and injured. Greatest need was for medical supplies to prevent the spread of tetanus, typhoid, check gangrene. From their Canal Zone base, two U. S. Army bombers roared south loaded with serums. From Chile's neighbor, Argentina, started a fleet of rescue planes...