Word: prewar
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...would refer to my prewar writings, you will find that what I actually suggested was that the war might start in a restrained way-with the aggressor only attacking small states, while the big powers on either side refrained from striking direct at each other. That forecast was borne out in September, 1939, and for the nine months following...
...four Republican members (others: Maine's Senator Owen Brewster, California's Congressman Bert Gearhart) had hoped to ferret out some damaging facts about Franklin Roosevelt's prewar conduct. To date, they had failed, although they had helped to bring to light damaging evidence of Army and Navy confusion. Most of the material now going into the record, which had already reached 700,000 words, only spelled out verbose repetition...
...charge of illustration for the West Coast papers. George just likes photography is the way Hearstlings say it. John Randolph (Jack), 35, handles promotion projects (ranging from essay contests to Youth for Christ) in New York, as assistant to general manager Jacob Gortatowsky. Captain Randolph Apperson (Randy), 30, prewar assistant publisher of the San Francisco Call-Biilletin, will probably get a western Hearstpaper when he leaves the A.A.F...
...appetizer, he served up some warmed-over charges that Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) had made prewar deals with Farben, that E.I. du Pont de Nemours had once been part owner of 6% of its stock (which it sold in 1940). But when Colonel Bernstein came to his main dish, it was new, and piping...
...actually more symbolic than real. With currency still unstabilized, banks will be unable to handle foreign-exchange transactions. On Shanghai's native money market the hot dope was that the rate of exchange might be set this month at one thousand Chinese dollars to one American dollar (prewar rate...