Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meal came a message from Washington. The officials gaped at their honor guest, Admiral Edward C. ("Old Man") Kalbfus. There was no longer much point in greeting the Fleet. Franklin Roosevelt (through Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson) had ordered most of it back to the Pacific (see...
Pondering motive as well as strategy, naval diplomats reasoned that the order 1) was not a peace gesture designed to back up the President's peace message last week (see p. 13) by moving the Battle Fleet 3,000 miles farther westward from Europe; 2) probably was a threat to Japan, should the time come for it to fall in with European war plans, and 3) certainly was a tangible reminder to Hitler & Mussolini that the U. S. has a potent force to be moved here or there at the President's command...
...resigned. This shocked Kansas City as thoroughly as did the 1933 kidnapping of his daughter, Mary, for whom he had to pay $30,000 ransom. When he was renominated last year, he started to "accept" before the council had actually elected him, set Mary to laughing (see cut). Last week he tried to laugh off his unfunny predicament by telling an inquiring reporter how the McElroy lawn was doing. Boss Tom himself ordered his councilmen to fall in with Mayor Smith. Object: to convince the Missouri Legislature that Kansas City could disinfect itself without further aid from Governor Lloyd...
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...last: Trotsky was touchy, Rivera proud. Not long ago Diego Rivera wrote a letter to his (and Trotsky's) good friend, the French surrealist poet, André Bréton, gave it to one of Trotsky's secretaries to type. Léon Trotsky chanced to see a copy of the letter on the secretary's desk, and before he could stop himself, he had read enough to get very angry at Rivera's un-revolutionary and disloyal words. Trotsky made some remarks about Rivera. Rivera found the remarks "unacceptable." Trotsky dispatched a friend to Rivera...