Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lace the Florida Keys, converted by PWA from a defunct railroad into a $3,600,000 motor highway. At Key West, which WPA saved from indigent desuetude, Mayor Willard M. Albury and Admiral William Leahy sat beside the President as he delivered two backseat radio talks in rapid succession (see...
...Golden Gate International Exposition on manmade Treasure Island at San Francisco (see p. 17) he said: "America's newest insular possession . . .is an outstanding example of territorial extension without aggression...
...Europe buzzed excitedly about Mr. Roosevelt's ominous, mysterious "reports." U. S. observers guessed that he might be fighting crisis with crisis, as forest fires are fought. If European crisis-criers (see p. 19) were right and another Munich was really in the offing, his diplomatic flaring might give its makers pause. > Word was that the President would appoint Supreme Court Justice Brandeis' successor before going south. It was understood the new man must be a Westerner. Several names, none of them a standout, were in the air. Then something happened: a journalist friend recollected that extremely able...
Another sub-Cabinet resignation of last week: socialite Wayne Chatfield Taylor as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice president of the Export-Import Bank. One reason: discomfort over the Administration's foreign-fiscal policy (loan to China, airplane procurement for France-see col. 2). Another reason: difficulty in getting along with Mr. Henry Morgenthau...
...further news of national trends, see...