Word: moving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Words are of use, but they are not enough. With congress lies the next move--casting off of the shackles of the neutrality act. It will mean a fight to the finish with the isolationists who, though well intentioned, would prevent America from taking steps in her own defense; but it will be worth the effort if some enactment along the lines of the recent Stimson suggestions--combines, perhaps, with certain of the Pittman cash-and-carry provisions--can be made. Only thus, ion fact, can America make more likely her chance of remaining at peace...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt today urged swift Congressional action to pave the way for barter of American farm surpluses for strategic war materials from Great Britain, Belgium and Holland--latest Administration move to aid Europe's Anti-Nazi-Fascist Blee...
...recall from Germany in 1917: "The Foreign Minister of Germany once said to me: 'Your country does not dare to do anything against Germany, because we have in your country 500,000 German reservists who will rise in arms against your Government if you dare to make a move against Germany.' Well, I told him that that might be so, but that we had 501,000 lamp posts in this country, and that that was where the reservists would be hanging the day after they tried to rise...
Immediately after the ceremony, Mr. & Mrs. Gable started back to Hollywood. They told reporters they would not take a honeymoon until Gable was through making Gone With the Wind, and Lombard her next picture, Memory of Love, for RKO. They expected, within two weeks, to move into Gable's ranch house in San Fernando Valley. They did not expect to call it "the House of the Seven Gables." Asked whether she would retire and have children, Carole Lombard blushed...
...Bledsoe, who died five weeks ago. Friends who later stopped into the president's office to wish him well found nothing there but great baskets of flowers. Pacing up & down his cubbyhole next door, President Engel explained: "I can't work around these flowers. I'll move in when they wilt...