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...days in England, Willkie had talked with hundreds of businessmen-from a dart-playing bricklayer named Albert Phillips to William Edward Rootes, "the British Alfred Sloan," President of The Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders. He had visited 50 factories (in London. Coventry. Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Oldham, Sheffield, Nottingham, etc.). From the evidence so gathered, ex-Businessman Willkie said...
Fifteen-year-old John Anderton of Nottingham, remembering a German bombers' raid on Liverpool the night before the Samaria sailed, told reporters how it felt to come within sight of the skylit glare of New York City. Said he: "Our first thought was to shout, 'Turn out them lights...
...connect the Mersey River with Aire River and the Humber Estuary which flows past Hull. In deep pockets on both flanks of the Pennines lie coal and iron (the min ing regions are shown on the map by tipples) near which the great industrial centres grew - Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham, Manchester. Around these cities lies "black country," shrouded in smoke, lurid at night with the red belch of blast furnaces, so ugly and acrid that a tough people grew tougher to endure it. Rail roads and narrow motor highways, with varied surfacing, tie the Midlands cities together...
Marvin P. Lazarus, of Albany, N. Y., A. B. Union College '40, Kirkpatrick scholarship; Joseph A. Mendenhall, of Nottingham, Pa., A. B. University of Delaware '40, Kirkpatrick scholarship; David K. Robinson, of Royal Oak, Mich., A. B. Princeton '40, Kirkpatrick scholarship; James M. Wilson Jr., of Tilton, Ga., A. B. Emory University '40, Kirkpatrick scholarship; Enno R. Hobbing, '40, of Reading, Pa., Herbert Parker scholarship; and Robert W. Putnam, of Palo Alto, Calif., A. B. Stanford University '40, Theophilus Parsons scholarship...
...moves appeared on the Left of British politics. Representatives of 4,573,000 working people in the Cooperative Party voted only 3-to-1 against a resolution condemning the war as imperialistic and demanding an immediate armistice. Independent Labor Party leaders at a meeting in Nottingham came out flatly for peace...