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...Larson also correct many a misconception about the CPI. One of these is that the Creel Committee was entirely responsible for converting a neutral-minded public into a rabid war mob overnight. A lot of neutrality had crumbled away before George Creel finished it off. From Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay to Ambassador Page in London, most of the "best people" in the U. S. had been pro-Ally from the start. On March 11, "War Sunday" had sounded the call to arms in the nation's churches. Four weeks before war the Railroad Brotherhoods said their threatened strike...
...under all home-going Congressmen who voted for Relief restrictions,* said that the sudden cut-off in Government spending was like pushing the country off a precipice. She was reminded of her uncle, Roosevelt I, who used to make herself and other young Roosevelts jump off sandcliffs at Oyster Bay, to teach them how far you slide going downhill and how hard it is to climb back up. Precisely, chimed in her husband; his latest lending program had been devised to create a gentle gradient instead of a cruel precipice...
Birthdays. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 78, wife of the late President, with a party, in Oyster Bay, L. I.; Richard Whitney, 51, former president of the New York Stock Exchange, quietly, in Sing Sing; Hugh Samuel Johnson, 57, columnist and former NRA head, quietly, in Bethany Beach, Del. Said General Johnson: "I sure hate to reach this...
...acquainted with strange winds and tides. Skipper Nichols, however, arriving in Finland just a few days before the races started, was not dismayed. He had been sailing boats for almost 50 years-had handled almost every type of windjammer from the 15-footers he used to sail off Oyster Bay in his undergraduate Harvard days to the big Class J boats Vanitie and Weetamoe he skippered in the America's Cup trials in 1920 and 1930, after he had married J. P. Morgan's daughter. Once he had gone around the Horn-from New York to Honolulu...
Like the majority of U. S. oyster-chewers, Secretary of the Interior Harold lakes has scrupulously eschewed oysters in R-less months. But last week, with the Fisheries Bureau, which believes in year-round oyster-eating, transferred to his department, he let it be known (to the deep satisfaction of the A. F. E. O. I. A. M. Y. W. T.*): "If the Fisheries Bureau is for oysters in summer, Ickes is for oysters, first, last and all the time...