Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crowd waited motionless, expecting more. No more came. The President, still smiling, turned away and entered his car on the arm of Military Aide "Pa" Watson. On the face of a smiling Marine captain, holding his small son aloft to wave goodby, the smile froze...
...Vice President Richard Frankensteen and a majority composed of other men who may be expected to buck C. I. O. direction. Places for Vice Presidents Wyndham Mortimer on the board and Ed Hall at national headquarters were also arranged. Thus the feudists who all but gutted the union are still within fighting distance of each other...
...grandson ("Little John" Boettiger) in Seattle, had seen and been seen by people all the way from peon pecan-shellers to her son Jimmy's boss, Samuel Goldwyn. On this trip, she said, she had encountered less Isolationist sentiment than ever before. Said she: "There are still people who think that we can cut ourselves off from the rest of the world, but more people are less secure in this belief...
...Roosevelt is no warmonger. For years she has talked and worked for peace. Four years ago she argued that "the war idea is obsolete." Three years ago she still hoped Hitler would work out his destiny through the League. A year ago she expressed the hopeful wish that some day there would not be armies, but just a world police force. But by last February she had to conclude that "moral rearmament," as proposed by the Oxford Movement, for example, would not be enough. "I mean," she wrote, "that, much as we may dislike...
...French Somaliland, has shouted for a share in the Suez Canal. He got nowhere while Partner Hitler snatched territory right & left. In Albania he got a cheap victory; he also gave a ringing answer to Britain's anti-aggression moves and served notice that Rome and Berlin were still on the offensive...