Word: oct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House order, Wage-Hour's new administrator and trouble-shooter-tough, able Lieut.-Colonel Philip Fleming of the Army Engineers, whom Franklin Roosevelt selected for the job weeks ago (TIME. Oct. 16)-was under her orders...
...they found that the bill would straitjacket U. S. shipping into immobility. While Washington wits called Nevada's Key Pittman a Thalassaphobe, and hinted the next step would be to make offshore swimming illegal, ship lobbyists got busy on sympathetic Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina (TIME, Oct...
Last week to many a U. S. citizen he was a bum.* To a pack of U. S. newspaper pundits, he was worse than that: they thought they saw in his second Isolationist speech (TIME, Oct. 23) the spoor of a Nazi fox. Dorothy Thompson and Walter Lippmann read dread things between the naïve Lindbergh lines. Heywood Broun thought the speech "one of the most militaristic" ever made by an American. To Columnist Hugh S. Johnson he was "Poor Lindy" who had "stepped from his hero's niche...
Roberts ordered the overcrowded President Harding hove to in mounting seas in the Stygian night of Oct. 17. That he was in the vicinity of the hurricane, he knew. But British ships had ceased broadcasting weather reports, which might betray their location to submarines, and he had no specific reports of the storm's path which might have enabled him to avoid it. The President Harding, now actually 200 miles east of the hurricane's core, was suddenly buffeted by a no-mile-an-hour wind, floundered in a sea which rolled up into a single mountainous wave...
...blockade and counter-blockade, which is Great Britain's deepest strategy against Germany, Britain continued last week to score herself far ahead of the enemy with 338,000 tons of "contraband'' cargoes seized at control ports to 174,000 tons of shipping lost (as of Oct. 17).* Winston Churchill announced for his Admiralty, moreover, that 29,000 tons of enemy bottoms had been captured and 104,000 tons of new British ships brought into service. Convoys for British shipping were now organized in the Seven Seas. Across the Atlantic a series of radio patrols two hours apart...