Word: gational
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deportation to Rumania, she marched into a Chicago court, changed her story, insisted she betrayed Dillinger. In return, said Tipstress Sage Melvin Purvis, then chief Chicago investigator of the Department of Justic promised to sidetrack deportation proceedings against her. While Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Division of Invest gation denied any such deal, the Chicago judge granted a temporary writ to prevent her deportation...
...course with blind-flying instruments. Engineering Officer Wright had 71 other instruments to read. Weather reports were received every 20 minutes, position reports transmitted every half-hour. The ship flew steadily at 6,000 ft. above a heavy layer of clouds, blotting out the ocean. As night fell Navi gation Officer Noonan made a dozen trips to the aft observation hatch to ''shoot the stars." At midnight the men shared a supper of special self-heating foods. No one slept in the comfortable after-cabin berths. All night the four Hornets droned...
...persistent Washington rumor of last week was that President Roosevelt had been nagged into canceling the airmail contracts by Senators Black and McKellar who felt the airmail investi- gation was about to expire for lack of public attention unless the White House acted dramati-cally...
Chargé d'Affaires Légation Impériale de Perse Washington...
...false belief that their statesmen are advancing toward Disarmament and Peace. Said a spokes man for Count von Bernstorff: "Better a failure and the knowledge of where we stand than this endless prolongation of discussion!" Without daring to propose anything so radical in open meeting, the German dele gation hinted readiness to accept the following proposal : Let every nation in the world agree to limit its artillery to one battery per 1,000,000 citizens. Quickly it became apparent that not even in the single category of artillery are the nations ready even for limitation, much less for disarmament...