Word: layings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt told his administrators that never again must the U. S. be caught short, that plans must be drawn up to meet every predictable impact on the U. S. of a war abroad-measures to cushion the shock to the money-markets, to bring home U. S. nationals, to lay a firm foundation for the uncertainties of the future. Even proclamations were ready for the President's bold pen-stroke...
...often he went to the cool gardens of Oxon Hill, Maryland, where poised Mr. Welles lives like an English squire. There they talked ways & means of climbing hurdles One to Five, especially how to convince Espil's boss, Minister Lamas, that with the U. S., not Great Britain, lay Argentina's future...
...years ago the distinguished members of a British Naval Mission to Rumania stopped on a desolate stretch of the Black Sea coast a few miles north of Constantsa. There lay small Lake Tashaul, nearly dry, with a narrow channel leading through sand dunes to the sea. There was no town near by; the country beyond the lake was devoted to sheep raising. This, said the British Admiral, was the place to build Rumania's great Naval base, home of the dreamed-of Rumanian Black Sea Fleet. It was also a convenient spot for refueling, since it was close...
Then King Carol moved to Tashaul to lay the cornerstone of its dike, while the Rumanian Navy proudly publicized figures on its growth: two more submarines to be launched in October; three more gunboats arriving that same month from Great Britain, as well as two new units from Italy, bringing the Rumanian Navy to four destroyers, nine gunboats, three submarines, a fine Danube River flotilla. Tashaul, to be completed by 1941, will be 30 times as big as Constantsa, Rumania's biggest port, will be defended by heavy artillery purchased from Germany, will have both a naval and commercial...
Dean Russell and Mr. Langley began by inviting businessmen to talk at T. C. Then they formed a Lay Council to advise the college, including Chase National Bank's Winthrop W. Aldrich (chairman), A. T. & T.'s Walter Gifford, New York Times's Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger. Last year, having found that educators and businessmen made uneasy companions, Dean Russell hit upon a cause that he thought would wed them: democracy v. totalitarianism. He decided to ho!d at T. C. a great Congress on Education for Democracy. He and Mr. Aldrich went to Europe to invite...