Word: j
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreign Affairs: Rickard J. Sandler...
Navy Commander: Vice Admiral J. T. Furstner...
...nation into a general war (as an enemy): bomb the nation's property, sink its ships, kill its people. Person most intimately concerned last week with keeping the U. S. out of the European war was the tall, athletic, dressy, rich, charming U. S. Ambassador to Poland, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, who, without training, has proved himself an intelligent, far- sighted diplomat. He could do nothing about U. S. ships, but he quickly moved most U. S. citizens out of killing range, persuaded them to sell their property or move it with them. One citizen he did not move...
With omnipotent J. Stalin sitting quietly by as a plain member of the presidium, Mr. Molotov got his laugh by suggesting that the Anglo-French emissaries asked for promises without themselves having the power to give any. "Frivolity," he called this...
...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 closed for the day, Manhattan's top-flight bankers gathered in the office of young (46) J. P. Morgan who 16 months before on the death of his late great father had become head of the most powerful banking house in the U. S. They gathered to discuss ways & means of safeguarding U. S. business if a European war (fighting had already begun) should come...