Word: orders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Messrs. Kennedy & Bullitt foresaw war in Europe within the year, that Germany has 6,500 new planes, 3,000 usable old ones, and can build 1,200 a month. Explaining that French resistance to Mussolini held the chief threat of war, Mr. Kennedy was reported as saying that in order to appease Adolf Hitler the British would even allow him to put a base in Canada (which Franklin Roosevelt swears to defend). This Mr. Kennedy quickly denied. A story he did not deny was that much of his information came from Hero Charles Lindbergh (TIME...
Outstanding needs include: anti-tank guns (none on hand; 228 on order); antiaircraft guns (a piddling 24 in service east of the Rocky Mountains; 338 ordered); semiautomatic, 30-round-per-minute rifles (8,000 in service; Army arsenals can produce 5,000 a year); gas masks (100,000 in service, 300,000 needed for the first-line fighters); heavy artillery (only four of the Army's new 155-millimeter field guns are in service); aircraft bombs (the War Department won't release the figures for fear of encouraging potential enemies...
Murphy. The Judiciary sub-committee did not bother to call Frank Murphy before approving him as Attorney General. But he, whose nonenforcement of a court order to eject sit-down strikers from a General Motors plant at Flint in 1937 had been cited against him, was not satisfied. He asked to appear to give "the real, inside story" of his sit-down conduct, which he had never told because "I never wanted to impair my position as mediator." Now that he was no longer Governor he would speak...
Asked to comment upon the plan, Aldrich Durant, Business Manager of the University, to whose office the petition will eventually go, told the CRIMSON last night that the chain had been locked at the early hour at the request of residents and "to maintain peace and order." He pointed out the matter of the noise of automobiles and said that the Housemasters will have something to say in the matter...
Junior Fellow J. C. Oxtoby has developed a new method which makes it necessary to stir one's coffee only once in order to obtain perfect mixing of the coffee with the cream. The mathematics by which he arrives at his new development is too complicated to go into here...