Word: said
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that question alone did not move him to act last week. The President was in a peculiar and exasperating position. For on him, to his pained surprise, was hung the tag of J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Stettinius and at least three of his fellow boardmen, it was being said, were present or onetime minions of the House of Morgan. By itself this circumstance would have been a nine-day wonder to be pondered and forgotten, along with Mr. Roosevelt's sundry other and short-lived flirtations with Business. What made it a crumb under the President...
...General Marshall's army last week passed its 150th birthday, despite its feuding civilians marched right on with Rearmament. *Asked whether he supplied this piece of ammunition to his friend Mr. Woodring, Columnist-Commentator Boake Carter said: "The safest answer...
...board took the case under submission, said it would report within ten days. Once more Beesemyer went back to his cell to wait...
Addressing his cheering fellow-veterans, he said, "As your national commander I pledge myself to go from this convention and make known to our fellow-citizens your mandate to keep our nation out of any armed conflict overseas. . . . Attempting to cloak our neutrality with a biased belligerency must inevitably lead us straight into...
...appeared in accounts of the mighty invasion of the Russian Army into conquered Poland, in which correspondents, ostensibly praising the Army, declared it had reached that high degree of technical proficiency achieved by the armies in the U. S. Civil War. Of its mechanized might, they said trucks were numerous-so numerous that seldom had so much broken-down machinery been blamed on bad roads. Scorn snowed through stories of impossible Chinese peace proposals from Chungking, in stories of the suppression of the French Communist Party, no less than in the mysterious report that Adolf Hitler might put an abrupt...