Word: safes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From one point of view, Joe Kennedy is a common denominator of the U. S. businessman - "safe," "middle-of-the-road," a horse-trader at heart, with one sharp eye on the market and one fond eye on his children. But he is a super common denominator, uncommonly commonsensible, stiletto-shrewd, practical as only a former president of a small bank can be. As Ambassador Kennedy his attitude is the same as that of Businessman Kennedy: Where...
Franklin Roosevelt had heard disturbing reports that Kennedy: 1) had 1940 ambitions, 2) had pleased British conservatives by telling them a "safe" man would be in the White House after 1940. Came the crisis, and Franklin Roosevelt decided not to change horses in midstream. Joe Kennedy had foretold the flood...
...blown up rails. The diplomatic exodus came to rest at Sniatyn, a town near the Rumanian border where there were boarding school dormitories. Ambassador Biddle got a fine "mansion" on the main street. There were no lights, of course, and no running water, but his wife and family were safe. His British neighbors across the way marveled to see him sweating, stripping to his undershirt, as he loaded baggage into his official car, which was taking his girl clerks into Rumania...
...cloudy afternoon Dutchmen heard the drumming of war engines as a big flight of bombers sped east across The Netherlands, safe from anti-aircraft fire above a thick overcast. From their course, air-wise Dutchmen (who protested this violation of their neutrality) concluded they were headed for three Nazi naval bases (Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Brunsbüttel), clustered in a 50-mile circle around the North Sea mouth of the Kiel Canal. They were right...
...Marshal did not speak softly. He knew his audience. Cheering workmen wanted to hear of the victory. He told them: "German arms on land and in the air have achieved what has been considered unbelievable." They wanted to hear that the Westwall was safe. He said so: "If they should be mad enough to attack our western line, streams of blood will flow." They wanted something to laugh over: "Old Chamberlain said he'd like to live to see the day when Hitler would be removed. Well, he has reached Methuselah...