Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next Nazi victim to mock Winston Churchill was the British Booth freighter Clement, sunk between New York and Brazil in the South Atlantic by a "sea raider." And down went the Swedish steamer Gun, torpedoed off Jutland...
...Harvard Crimson, under Blair Clark's supervision took its stand with one leg solidly behind the Allies: "The best chance of our remaining neutral is the success of Allied arms." But in the next breath the Crimson added: "Americans wishing to remain neutral must make a new resolve to stay out of this war at any price -Allies win or lose...
...Next day in the House of Commons Laborite John Morgan rose up to ask how many men the Ministry employed. Tall, baldish Sir Edward Grigg, appointed that morning to represent the Ministry in Parliament, answered for the Government: there were 872 in London, 127 provincial employes. A gusty Whew! swept like a wind through the House, followed by cries of anguish. Of these 999, Sir Edward added, 43 were former newsmen, 48 were Ministry officers chosen because they had press or radio experience. His explanation was greeted with a roar of laughter and jeers...
...alone in ridiculing Lord Macmillan's Ministry was the House of Commons. In the Minister's own House of Lords next day Opposition Whip Lord Strabolgi poked gentle fun at him: "Lord Macmillan's position is that he is lying on his back with three Defense Ministers sitting on his chest." (Laughter.) There was need, said Lord Strabolgi, for a man with "journalistic flair" to make the Ministry a powerful department as it was in World War I under Britain's late, great news baron, Lord Northcliffe...
...godfather of the town, His Eminence George William Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, great liberal of the Church, great builder and money-raiser for the sprawling archdiocese he had headed for nearly a quarter of a century. The speech over which they worked was to be delivered next evening at a C. Y. O. convention in Cincinnati. Bishop Sheil was to speak it, but it represented the thoughts of Cardinal Mundelein. His thoughts were of war & peace...