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...West Coast valued safety more than vegetables, more than the comfort or livelihood of foreigners who might be innocent but were still foreigners. Francis Biddle's measures struck most West Coast citizens, indeed, as wishy-washy, especially in giving aliens one to three weeks of grace to move from restricted zones. From California's Attorney General Earl Warren, from 100 sheriffs and district attorneys and from Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron came a demand that all enemy aliens be removed at least 200 miles inland. The Los Angeles County Defense Council wanted them all interned...
...some reason, Ward, an ice-veined 28-year-old Northwesterner who earns a livelihood as secretary of a Spokane "Boosters" Club, was unpopular with the predominantly Omaha gallery. According to widespread rumor, he had made disparaging comments about the Omaha Field Club course. Their dander up, touchy townsmen, 3,000 strong, booed Ward's shots, tried to rattle him as though he were a baseball pitcher. It got so bad President Pierce of the U.S. Golf Association interrupted the match, appealed for better sportsmanship...
...French Equatorial Africa De Gaulle got results. He sent René Pleven there. René Pleven was a zealot for continuing the fight. After he had pointed out that Equatorial Africa depends for its livelihood on the British-controlled coastline, after he had told the inhabitants what would happen to their economy if they refused, one by one the five colonies (Cameroun, Chad, Gabon, Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari) voted to put themselves under De Gaulle without reservations. Even so the old pro-Vichy governor at Brazzaville had to be wrapped in a blanket and deposited across the border in Belgian...
...Patriot Sun's Principles: "Nationalism," "Democracy," "People's Livelihood...
...toward economic unity. More & more problems arose requiring national solutions. Nearly everything but the law rode over artificial State boundaries. In the depression the U.S. began to demand that its Executive be more executive; that the Government govern more, assume the responsibility for its citizens' economic security and livelihood. So the New Deal, although it failed in its frontal assault on the Court, in 1937, was able by indirection to get the Nine...