Word: hull
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rhode Island's Senator Green implored Secretary Hull today to take whatever steps are necessary to get ex-President Benes into this country. Brown University has offered the statesman a professorship of international relations...
...cause, was abhorrent to most U. S. citizens. But after Prime Minister Chamberlain had appealed to Adolf Hitler, and agreed to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, after Czechoslovakia made a gesture of yielding and then prepared to fight, popular disapproval of Dictator Hitler (which Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull had helped to generate), and sympathy for Czechoslovakia as the innocent underdog, underwent a transformation. Nobody wanted the U. S. to go to war, but many were already cheering, "Go to it, Czechoslovakia!'' At pro-Czech mass meetings this feeling welled up. Pacifists like Thomas Mann and "realists...
...alone in his study, pondered sending a personal message (composed for him during the afternoon by Assistant Secretary of State Berle and Chief of European Affairs Moffat), to Adolf Hitler and President Benes, copies to go to London, Paris, Warsaw, Budapest. When he had decided he sent for Secretaries Hull and Welles. They sent for 14 correspondents, who arrived in pajamas and bedslippers under their topcoats, to receive the text of President Roosevelt's world gesture...
...National Physical Laboratories, an analogue of the Bureau of Standards in the U. S. Comprising nearly 30 buildings scattered over 50 acres, the Teddington laboratories check weights and measures, test and develop new materials for industry. It was there that the best shape for the Queen Mary's hull was worked out. On the lower floor of the palace, technicians are busy in their workrooms. In 30 rooms on the upper two floors, recently refurbished, lives one of Britain's most distinguished scientists, William Lawrence Bragg, an authority on electricity and crystallography who became director of the National...
...around Coney Island into Gravesend Bay in New York Harbor, seagoing, 23-year-old Cowboy William J. ("Tex") Langford poked the nose of a $100 put-put in which he had sputtered down from Boston. Moored just off the pier he tied up to was a slim, long yacht hull. The masts were off her, she could have done with some swabbing, but to Tex's longing eyes she was a jimdandy. To a benign-looking stranger gazing off to sea he said so. Then things took a fairy-tale turn. "Glad you like her," said the stranger...