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Seamen, dead and alive, in lifeboats adrift from Bermuda to Halifax, told the U.S. last week that all was not well off the North American coastline. Near Bermuda a U.S. patrol plane pancaked on the ocean, rescued nine Britons whose tanker was sunk by a German U-boat off New York. A South American steamer spotted a lifeboat half-filled with water and dead sailors, but had to leave them when a periscope broke water near by. Off Nova Scotia, 20 men of the 48-man crew of a torpedoed tanker were picked up. Three semiconscious survivors of the Standard...
...ever received such an award because they have insisted too strongly on what they felt was truth. From abroad John Maynard Keynes, Harold Laski, or Ernest Bevin, of whom with their brilliance, achievement, and human leadership would be far worthier than last year's choice of Tory Lord Halifax. From America young Walter Reuther, who has pointed a new path in labor-capital relations, or the more established leaders of labor such as David Dubinski and Sidney Hillman. Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Paul Robeson in the arts and Clifford Odets and H. L. Mencken in literature are other...
Twelve hours out of New York, 60 miles off Long Island's fingerlike north tip at Montauk Point, the Panamanian tanker Norness pressed toward Halifax. She carried 10,000 tons of fuel oil and a 40-man Scandinavian crew...
...first achievement of the School was the formation of the Harvard Public Health Unit headed by Dr. John E. Gordon, Charles Wilder Professor of Preventative Medicine and Epidemiology. Later, Faculty members joined the Medical School to send an expedition to Halifax, which investigated an advised on the control of serious epidermis of disease at that important port...
...Roosevelt on the arm of his military aide, Major General Edwin ("Pa") Watson, his big hand gripping an ivory-headed walking stick. Then came Mrs. Roosevelt and the President's naval aide, Captain John R. Beardall; Miss Malvina Thompson, Mrs. Roosevelt's secretary; Lord and Lady Halifax...