Word: sails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Friends could take in their stride such a job as helping to get the Jews out of Germany. Last fortnight Rufus Jones and two other Quakers - Headmaster George Arthur Walton of George School near Philadelphia, and Businessman D. Robert Yarnall of Germantown, Pa.- set sail on the Queen Mary, bound for Germany. They hoped to discuss the Jewish problem with German officials: with Adolf Hitler, even, if they could gain...
...name from the directorate of the Bank of France and several railway union leaders were booted from the National Railway Board. This was followed by a flurry of sympathy strikes. At Le Havre the 1,500 crew members of the Normandie were discharged when they refused to sail the liner out of port on schedule. Reservations on the Normandie, including that of Anthony Eden, on his way to the U. S. were transferred to the Cunarder Aquitania...
...back to Rome next week, which suggested that the President planned no crackdown on Dictator Mussolini. Ambassador Wilson said only that his stay in the U. S. should not be called "indefinite." The world press set a watch upon the comings & goings of Mrs. Wilson in Berlin. Should she sail for the U. S., it might be momentous...
...Statesmen (Fri. 4 p. m. NBC-Blue, 4:15 p. m. CBS) sail for the Pan-American Conference at Lima, Peru. Delegates, led by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, speak from a Manhattan pier...
...Frank Theis prepared to sail for Rio, rumor circulated that he was going to trade U. S. wheat for Brazilian coffee. The U. S. has heard a lot lately about European, particularly German, barter with South America and Mexico (machinery for oil and crops); so it seemed reasonable for U. S. traders to defend themselves with similar tactics. But last week the Brazilian Government emphatically denied the rumor. President Getulio Vargas announced that the Government's new coffee policy (like the -U. S., Brazil found crop limitation a failure, now ruthlessly dumps its coffee surplus abroad) had been...