Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autumn night last week those historic phantoms had a new historic event to talk over. For as surely as if the votes were already counted, as definitely as if the President had already signed the bill, the U. S. had that day finally jettisoned a principle as old as John Paul Jones, a principle for which it had twice gone to war-the freedom of the seas...
...Dealers now running Washington. Chairman of the Board was Edward R. Stettinius Jr.-also chairman of U. S. Steel. Serving with him were no Laborites, no Little Businessmen, no Janizaries. Instead, there were such Big Businessmen as A. T. & T.'s Walter Gifford, General Motors' John Lee Pratt, Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood, Manhattan Banker John Milton Hancock. Here, to the shaken Janizariat, was sinister evidence that Franklin Roosevelt, in advance of war, had turned elsewhere for counsel. When Louis Johnson announced that Mr. Stettinius as chairman of W. R. B. would wield vast administrative...
Miss O'Leary, daughter of an East Side garageman, got interested in politics when her brother John founded a small Democratic club in their district. She even ran for State Committeewoman, and after hours from her secretarial job made a housewife-to-housewife campaign...
Last week three hitherto steadfast Communists jumped from the train with what dignity they could. Frail, bespectacled Granville Hicks, a free-lance critic, writer (I Like America, John Reed-The Making of a Revolutionary), whose appointment to a Harvard fellowship raised a great stir in 1938, resigned not because he disapproved of the Russo-German Pact, but because bigwig Reds approved it before they could possibly know anything about it. ''The leaders of the Communist Party," wrote Mr. Hicks in the weekly New Republic, "have tried to appear omniscient, and they have succeeded in being ridiculous. They have...
...bitter economic war that Great Britain was waging against Germany last week, as Sir John Simon made clear in his budget message (see p. 24). That Germany would fight back as ruthlessly was made equally clear when blockade-scared Berlin announced that armed merchantmen would be sunk without warning (see p. 34). There was good reason for Germany's retaliatory step, because Britain had already made gains in its economic offensive. Life in Germany was becoming increasingly grim. Items...