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...have nothing to say until Justice Black returned from Europe. Last fortnight when Justice Black was addressing some 50,000,000 other U. S. citizens, the President was pointedly riding in an open car (without radio), stopping to exchange small talk with a U. S. Army officer at the gateway to Fort Lewis near Tacoma. Last week, in Chicago, Franklin Roosevelt drove through cheering lines of thousands of Chicagoans to see his old friend, Chicago's top Roman Catholic, George Cardinal Mundelein. Dressed in a black cassock, scarlet mantle and scarlet skullcap, the Cardinal met the President...
Most decisive fight was the capture by Japanese of the twelve-mile-long Nankow pass, strategic gateway to Chahar Province. For 16 days Japanese battalions had struggled with dogged Chinese defenders in pouring rain and a sea of mud. Victory came when the Chinese flank on a 4,000 ft. ledge mounting the pass was turned by Japanese, who crossed the mountains to the west, savagely attacked from above with boulders and bayonets...
...Captain Stewart Dean of the sloop Experiment in 1789. It was to Albany that Inventor Robert Fulton chuffed up the Hudson from New York in the world's first steamboat in 1807 and in 1825, when the Erie Canal was opened to Buffalo, Albany, now the logical gateway to the West, felt its marine prestige assured...
...would have been dismissed a short time ago as nonsense, that via the Cape of Good Hope it is only 10% longer to Melbourne, Australia than via Suez; only 37% longer to Hong Kong; 44% longer to Singapore; 51% longer to Calcutta; and a mere 77% longer to the "Gateway of India," Bombay. That His Majesty's subjects should be invited by Hector Bywater thus to rearrange the contents of their minds and fix on a new lifeline of Empire is fundamentally significant, "imperial and oceanic...
With Mr. Jones's approval the eight railroads* last summer jointly applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to buy M. & St. L. ("The Peoria Gateway"), which has been in receivership for the past 13 years (TIME, Sept. 23). Purchase price was to be $7,200,000, lent by RFC. Last month while I. C. C. hearings were still being held on the plan, Minneapolis citizens got excited, began raising a war chest to fight the M. & St. L.'s dismemberment, asked Congress to go to bat for the integrity of the road. The Senate voted...