Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like Downey) really wants the results more than the office, Philip Bancroft talks sharply about the "racketeering" of city labor organizers who "stir up hate" among his Mexican pickers and Japanese packers. He has made overtures to the A.F. of L. but hedged by asking why farm labor must be regimented anyway...
Today Philip Bancroft is well hated in his own Contra Costa County, but well backed by the forces who feel Candidate Downey must be beaten. He has Herbert Hoover actively behind him, and also Senator Hiram Johnson who regards Sheridan Downey as too "shifty...
...from enemy bombs is an Army problem. That the Army does not expect North Carolina or any other State to be presently bombed is beside the Army's point. For when & if it goes to "defensive war"-whether at home or on foreign soil-it still must protect itself, its occupied areas and the civilian lives and properties thereon...
...which the Army was not primarily concerned last week. Pursuit plane defense is not so soundly organized. Bomber speeds of 250 m.p.h. so nearly equal (and in some types exceed) pursuit speeds that defending planes can no longer count on overtaking offensive squadrons. Hence, to be of use, pursuit must be in the air and ready to fight when bombers arrive at a given point. To be there, pursuit must have warning of the approach and course of enemy bombers. How to provide that warning was the object of last week's game...
...another striking on the east bank near Hong Kong. A Japanese War Office spokesman announced in Tokyo: "Japan is fixed in her determination to crush Chiang Kai-shek's regime; we do not intend to take Hong Kong or Singapore or advance southward in the Pacific; but we must and will carry out our program in China...