Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Columnist Hugh Johnson wrote: "It occurred to me that for days and even weeks, I have been writing about all this dangerous business in a shrill high pitch. . . . If Hitler can wait a week, I can wait a day or two." To the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he said that...
> Lecturing at Harvard, Park Commissioner Robert Moses of New York City said: "In practice, every American knows that we cannot remain absolutely aloof from another world conflict... we shall be lucky if this aid can be confined to money, materials and munitions as distinguished from men. . . ."
> Theatre was injected into the hearings by Actress Helen Hayes. Divesting herself of the majesty which for three years she has worn in Victoria Regina, she threw herself into the role of plain "Mrs. Charles MacArthur," mother of two."* She recalled her grandmother's stories about eight brothers & sisters...
> Newbold Morris of Manhattan (president of the New York City Council) reported that a committee of which he is treasurer had $250,000 to pay for transporting the 20,000 children if admitted, and 1,400 unsolicited offers of adoption. Herbert Hoover chimed in. Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago sent word...
Now that Roosevelt II has partially divided the U. S. Fleet, sending its bulk back to the Pacific, a cardinal Navy doctrine which Alfred Mahan formulated is news. Just before Roosevelt I retired from the Presidency, Alfred Mahan asked him to urge William Howard Taft "on no account to divide...