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Knowing that the British Isles were smothered by heavy snow, with temperatures the lowest in 46 years (see p. 29), the German Air Force last week set out to plaster enemy shipping in the North Sea. Down on merchantmen, trawlers, fishermen, lightships they swooped. The British Isles were indeed snowbound...
Early in this tragic eleventh week of World War II, the furtive nature of the new German offensive was suspected: mines laid by submarines in British coastal waters. By week's end, despite German denials, this was confirmed. Suspicion grew when a British destroyer, four British freighters (Matra, Ponzano...
Now the President wanted to run for a third term, so he decided that he would have to get the people on his side. He knew that people loved to eat better than anything, and that they spent most of the year sitting around, unemployed, licking their chops while waiting...
"Flanagan attempted to steal the election from me," Sullivan said, "only I caught him in the nick of time." Remarking that he found the polling place in the fire station in a "frightful mess," he said, "there is where they would have tried to steal the votes."
On May 6, 1915, Ambassador Page wrote: "We all have the feeling here that more and more frightful things are about to happen." On May 7, at 4 p. m. an aide handed Page a message: the Lusitania had been sunk by a German submarine and 1,198 men, women...