Word: said
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navigation had up twelve strikers before a board of investigation, threatened to revoke their seamen's certificates. The C.I.O. National Maritime Union's hulking President Joe Curran had previously ended a similar flareup on two other ships by agreeing to negotiate, making the settlements retroactive. He first said his union had no hand in last week's strikes, later declared: "Our offer to furnish crews without wages for ships carrying refugees free still stands. . . . But common humanity compels us to make some effort to provide for our families before embarking on a voyage through submarine and mine...
...Some of his few intimates insisted before & after he spoke that Charles Lindbergh is for shipping arms and airplanes to the Allies. If he expected his speech to be so interpreted, he was notably naive. It was as the son of his father that he said...
...Veterans of the ist Division (first U. S. troops to go overseas in World War I) met in Los Angeles, took the stump for neutrality. Said one ex-doughboy: "All that we lost in France in 1917 and 1918 was the flower of our manhood and our money . . . it's too late to go back and look for them...
...very good time" to be celebrating birthdays, mused the General. He then recommended that the U. S. Army, having just been upped to 227,000 by Presidential decree, be forthwith increased by Congress to full peacetime strength (280,000). "Finally," said he, "I must again recall our deplorable situation when we entered the World War 22 years ago. Then not a single (military) move had been made ... to prepare for it. That experience with its costly lesson, I am happy to say, appears certain to be avoided in the event that we should again become involved...
...were dead below. Most of the bodies were found, as expected, in the after torpedo room. One of the 26 who went down was missing, presumably washed overboard while the Squahis was being raised and towed. After inspecting the chamber, odorous with old death, Lieut.-Commander Charles B. Momsen said they must have drowned swiftly and mercifully, too quickly even to reach for the Momsen "escape lungs" which he invented. Commander Momsen also observed that the Navy could improve its arrangements for salvage after future submarine disasters...