Word: midnights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt toiled late aboard the U. S. S. Tuscaloosa as it carved the midnight waves to Red Bank, N. J. last week. Fog and finicky fish had spoiled his vacation cruise to Newfoundland. Now another European convulsion had ended it a day early. Franklin Roosevelt sat up late working on an idea of his own: a peace plea to King Vittorio Emmanuele III of Italy, who was trout fishing in the Alps...
...Dewey went home to Owosso, Mich, (pop. 14,500), to see his mother, Mrs. Anne Dewey.* He insisted his trip had nothing to do with politics. So he spent an hour talking to Iowa's G. O. P. boss, Harrison Spangler, sat up till midnight with Missouri's G. O. P. boss, Barak Mattingly and promised him to speak in St. Louis in October; he shook hands with 200 leading Illinois Republicans; on a high school athletic field he prayed for world peace. Each day he was photographed in every front-porch-campaign pose known to the prosaic...
...France to give in, was at its height. Down through the Balkans, through Hungary, Rumania, a flank attack was launched. The button that Fuhrer Hitler had to press was the announcement that Joachim von Ribbentrop was flying to Moscow to sign a non-aggression pact with Russia. At midnight, irresistible hour to lovers of mystery, the Fuhrer pressed the button...
Ordinarily France's reservists get their call to the colors quietly, by mail. It was so last September, before Munich. This time, Daladier commandeered a fleet of Paris busses and taxicabs, formed them into "bucket brigades" with brushes & paste to plaster Paris after midnight with the neat white posters, bearing the crossed flags of the Republic, which spell Mobilization. Next day, the north and east Paris railroad stations were jammed with scores of thousands of young men, averaging in age about 25 years, some in khaki, some in the old horizon blue, most in civilian clothes with their extra...
...Wonder Boy. His start toward such a ranking goes back to a bundle of estimable playlets he turned out in 1934-35 for the Grand Hotel program. This got him an NBC job writing for Rudy Vallee's hour, as well as a Wednesday after-midnight radio dreadful called Lights Out. After two eldritch years, during which Lights Out collected a batch of eerie-minded fan clubs and curdled more next-door neighbors than any program on the air, Arch Oboler left the series in other hands, feeling that not even he could top the high in horror...