Word: p
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anger that he had not publicly vented on the Senate now poured out of Franklin Roosevelt upon the United Press. In a special statement that marked a new high in bad blood between him and the working press, he called the U. P.'s story false. The U. P. stuck to its guns and, when Mr. Roosevelt's next Neutrality move did come, had the satisfaction of noting that it was a moderate statement by Mr. Hull, not a Roosevelt ripsnorter...
...P. Morgan...
...Celebrated during the inquisition of J. P. Morgan by Counsel (now New York Supreme Court Justice) Ferdinand Pecora, was a notation found on an income-tax return, made by an Internal Revenue agent, which read: "Returned without examination for the reason that the return was prepared in the office of J. P. Morgan & Co., and it has been our experience that any schedule made by that office is correct...
...first. By noon some 150 English warplanes, carrying 400 men, were hovering over France; heavy bombers had passed the steel mills of Bordeaux, toward which other squadrons were speeding; medium bombers had circled Orleans, passed Le Mans on their way back to Cherbourg and home. At 2 p. m. the first squadrons of Blenheims and Wellingtons were at their airports; five minutes later the lighter bombers landed...
That was the performance, ending when the last planes grounded at 5 p. m.-flawless from the point of view of Royal Air Force officers who wanted training flights to France; reassuring to French householders who saw the planes descend to 3,000 feet to give them a better look; cheering to Englishmen, who were informed by their newspapers that an equidistant flight over Germany would have taken the planes past Berlin, Hamburg, the Krupp works at Essen; irritating to Germans, whose newspapers screamed "war-mongering." Before popular enthusiasm for the performance ebbed, Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer...