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...Jerusalem stacks of freshly printed placards and pamphlets proclaiming martial law were on hand, ready in case of trouble to be posted up or dropped from British bombing planes. The battle cruiser Repulse sped from Malta to Palestine this week, her decks carrying a full flight of airplanes. Mild High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, who has governed Palestine for several years with a policy of "muddling through," was reported in Jerusalem dispatches as slated to receive a peerage and be replaced in Palestine by drastic Sir John Anderson, the efficiently ruthless sahib who, as Governor of Bengal, suppressed...
...stag cruise-the first vacation since I was married 30 years ago." Stricken with peritonitis in mid-Pacific last week, Mr. Baker was operated upon by his yacht's physician, assisted by a doctor and nurse haled from a passing liner. Radio brought further medical aid from Hawaii, sped by the Navy, the Coast Guard, the U. S. Public Health Service. Mrs. Baker dashed 5.500 mi. by air from Manhattan to arrive in Honolulu the day before her husband died...
...Previews and consultations were provided, one day for A. F. of L.'s William Green, who would not firmly commit himself; another day for C.I.O.'s John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman, who gave generalized approval. After four days of intensive staffwork, the drive began. A message sped to Congress...
Distracting though it might be, Economy was only a froth on the turbulent riptide of Congressional feeling about the President's Court Plan. Son-Secretary James Roosevelt, who sped South last week to join his father at Fort Worth, and Postmaster General Farley, who boarded the Presidential special at Indianapolis, reportedly were both dispatched by Senate leaders to tell the President that his Plan seemed headed for defeat, to beg him to accept a compromise. Polls continued to show the Senate so evenly split that forecasters were suggesting that Vice President Garner might have to break...
Cameras. In a specially-built box, twelve feet long, four feet wide, facing the thrones from a corner of the chancel, three still photographers and two movie cameramen were the eyes of the world. The still plates were handed out through a hole to a waiting messenger, sped in cars to the Central News Agency, headquarters for all services, to be flashed over the world by radio. In New York, the Abbey pictures were ready for reproduction within two hours, but were not very clear. Next evening Aviators Dick Merrill & Jack Lambie took off from Southport, Lancashire...