Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speakers included: Non-Veterans Mary Pickford and Henry Ford; British and French representatives, who made restrained pleas for the Allied cause; and General Hugh S. Johnson, who had been actively fermenting since World War II began and at Chicago finally blew out the cork. His big idea: Stay out of war. Why? Because: "We all went out in the last war to abolish all former diplomatic games of seven-toed pete with deuces wild. . . . With smiles and smirks our associates accepted our childish enthusiasms-while they took our money and our lives. . . . We were told we were going...
Chief candidate for election as the Legion's national commander was Raymond J. Kelly-genial, redhaired, toothy Irishman, ex-artilleryman. He was one of the War Veterans who petitioned Frank Murphy to run for Mayor of Detroit, and as general counsel of the Detroit Street Railways, was part of Frank Murphy's Detroit "New Deal." Later he was appointed Corporation Counsel, the office he now holds...
...Tragic Hour." There was no scorn in the reports of one expression of desire for peace. All week from Rome came stories that the Pope would propose a general conference, hoping to create a Catholic Polish buffer state between godless Russia and pagan Germany. But no proposal came. Instead, at ten o'clock one morning last week, before the Polish Ambassador, the Polish Primate and a large audience of Polish priests and nuns, the Pope walked to the throne in the Pontifical Palace of Castel Gandolfo, to offer words of consolation to "his children of Catholic Poland" in this...
Their support was chiefly moral. But more concrete help was on its way to Great Britain from her farflung Empire. Australia, which already had five divisions under arms, organized a sixth division of 20,000 men, named Major General Sir Thomas A. Blarney to command...
...African concessions. With some such proposition Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano flew to Berlin to see Adolf Hitler this week. Abruptly-after barely 24 hours and only one talk with Herr Hitler-he went home again, and the German who saw him off was no proponent of peace: Col. General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces...