Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until their bosses began stepping off trains and planes later in the week, Messrs. Welles, Hanes and their Council of Preparedness met every day: Acting Navy Secretary Charles Edison, Acting War Secretary Louis Johnson, Acting Attorney General Thurman Arnold, Naval Chief of Operations Harold Raynsford Stark, Army Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, technicians, advisers, legal men, planners...
With Secretary Morgenthau hunting a homeward boat from Oslo, Secretary of State Hull vacationing in White Sulphur Springs, Postmaster General Farley in Paris, Attorney General Murphy in Narragansett, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins motoring in New England-and with Franklin Roosevelt in fog at sea (see p. 9)-these two politically young men (Hanes, 47; Welles, 46) last week met a war crisis full face...
...spake Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party in the U. S., when he was questioned at the Institute of Public Affairs in Charlottesville, Va. last July 5. Comrade Browder up to last week's end had not been elevated by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. That the U. S. S. R. and Nazi Germany had made up, a shaken world knew...
...dead or alive. Lepke was supposed to have preyed on the fur, garment, painting, trucking and other trades. After that Lepke became a pawn in a political game between Republican District Attorney Dewey, who is grooming himself for a Presidential nomination by racket-busting, and Democratic U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, who wanted the glory of busting Lepke himself...
...February, rumors began to have substance : Plans were afoot for a secret parley in Sweden. One-eyed General Jan Syrovy, the "strong man" who became Premier of Czecho-Slovakia during last September's Crisis and who seemed to disappear when Bohemia-Moravia became a protectorate, was rumored carrying mysterious messages from Hitler to Stalin and back, his object being to better the condition of his fellow Czechs under Hitler and to "revenge Munich." Hitler had told the Ambassador that Germany had no designs on the Ukraine, that Stalin should therefore consider a confidential exchange of views; Maxim Litvinoff stayed...