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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other advice to London women last week, see p...
...cities, discontent deep in the underground chambers of the Westwall fortifications (". . . Dugouts are crammed with munitions ... air is foul ... a shortage of food. . . ."). An anonymous physician, just back from Germany, was quoted as saying that Adolf Hitler was under an alienist's care for paranoid manic-depression (see p...
...virtual absence of any news whatever from the Allied fronts. Reporters, barred for the present from the scene of war itself (though a limited number are expected to go later), were dependent on brief and cryptic official communiques. Europe had some 10,000 newspapermen covering the war (including A. P.'s 664,* U. P.'s 500, something like 7,750 men employed by foreign agencies) and most of them had nothing to report. Result was that they picked up rumors where they could. All week long, as the French Army advanced cautiously into no-man's-land...
When President Roosevelt last week invoked the provisions of the Neutrality Act (see p. 9), U. S. aircraft makers were unable to export any more fighting planes. They still had nearly half of recent $160,000,000 British and French orders to deliver but they did not worry. They had stipulated in their contracts that in just this event they should be paid when the planes were delivered to Allied agents within the U. S. The Allies have to take the chance that the Neutrality Act will be modified so that they can use their property...
Married. John Macrae, 72, longtime president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (books), famed for his white whiskers, pink shirts, and garrulous letters to the trade; and comely Opal Wheeler, fortyish, musicologist and schoolmistress; he for the second time, she for the first time; in Rosebank, Staten Island...