Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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We'll be there if we're wanted, we'll be there.
In Manhattan, Thursday, July 30, 1914 dawned chill and damp. Europe had whelped the first World War and the morning sun, hidden from Wall Street behind a grey overcast, stippled with afternoon gold the dusty packs of Austrian infantrymen marching down to Servia and Armageddon. After the Stock Exchange had...
Seattle: Wharves were clear but no bottoms were available at a time when lumber and logs, wheat and flour, canned salmon, apples, should soon be moving. (Apple shippers were grim; Great Britain. Germany, France take all their exports.) It looked as if Seattle's $1,000,000-a-day...
On a London church two posters appeared last week. One read, PRAY FOR PEACE. THIS CHURCH IS OPEN ALL DAY; the other, IF YOUR KNEES KNOCK, KNEEL ON THEM. But Europe's war-struck millions needed no such calls to prayer. From the crowded churches of a whole continent...
In 1905 Marsh became Winston Churchill's secretary at the Colonial Office. For Marsh it was love at first sight which he never got over. Soon Winston had Lion Hunter Marsh lion-hunting in Africa, although he would not trust Marsh with a gun until a wounded rhinoceros charged him...