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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professional division. Harry Hopkins knew Florence Kerr 30 years ago when both attended Grinnell College, where she later taught, where her husband is now assistant to the president. He knew her again after the War, when both worked for the Red Cross in Louisiana. Howard Hunter has known her well ever since 1935, when Harry Hopkins picked her out of State relief work in Iowa, put her at Hunter's elbow in Chicago running the women's division of WPA's Region...
Flying squads of British police immediately began a round-up of all known Irish extremists living in England. Homes of Irishmen in London and Manchester, the main centres of bombing activity, were searched. Some 20 Irishmen, all suspected of membership in the I. R. A., were arrested. One of them had in his possession a copy of the proclamation, another 40 sticks of gelignite. Six barrels of explosives were seized in a raid at Manchester...
Meanwhile, as fear of Italian trouble enveloped France, it became known that Ally Britain had actually "invaded" it. Deputy Michel Geistdoerfer protested the occupation by the British of the French Minquiers Islands, a group of tiny, rocky islets in the Gulf of St. Malo, halfway between St. Malo and the Isle of Jersey, which have long been used for French lighthouses. Deputy Geistdoerfer said that British "penetration" had been, going on there since 1839 on the basis of a 1360 treaty, and that now the Union Jack was floating over the islands...
...radio receiving sets in Germany, some 5,000,000 are equipped to receive short-wave broadcasts. Not generally known is the fact that the U. S. has quietly entered the short-wave news propaganda battle. Every day in the week for the past year and a half, NBC's 25-kilowatt W 3 XL, its power stepped up to the equivalent of some 150 kilowatts by a directional beam antenna, has sent in the direction of Germany's 5,000,000 shortwave receivers an hour of news, music and Americana calculated to reach Germans between eight and nine...
...foggy sob in his voice. "On the afternoon of June 25, 1931," he lamented, "to a hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, police brought a well-dressed man who had collapsed on a city street. . . . Somewhere, somehow the link that bound him to the past had snapped. . . . The man became known as Mr. X and that man stands beside me tonight...