Word: subs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than friends, they were partners in as strange and binding a relationship as any in U. S. political history. Franklin Roosevelt of the baronial Hudson Valley, of Groton, Harvard, the Wilson sub-Cabinet, was the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1920 when he first met Jim Farley, the Irish Catholic, grubbing young politico from plebeian Grassy Point across the Hudson and downstream. Mr. Roosevelt does not remember that meeting; it was at a crowded reception in Manhattan. Jim Farley does, in every detail, down to what his bride said, and the feel of his palm in Franklin Roosevelt...
...ship was well away from the scene did Captain Manning slow down to empty the boats. After all were brought back aboard, the Washington sighted another submarine. Taking no chances on his blinker this time, anxious Captain Manning worked an old sea trick by turning tail on the sub at such an angle that the Washington sailed toward the sun and its rays blinded the possible pursuer, which soon disappeared...
Cities Service, a $1,068,579,000 aggregation of both oil (60%) and utility (40%) properties, is now run by a smooth, smart powerhouse named W. Alton Jones, for many years Doherty's right-hand man. Served with SEC's integration order in March, its sub-holding company, Cities Service Power & Light, answered with a brief, claiming Section 11 unconstitutional, but came to SEC's hearings nevertheless. Last week, Cities Service men heard an SEC lawyer named Frank Field sound off on what integration means to him. His view: concentrating either on its Colorado or its Ohio...
...Allen White, Kansas editor of the "Emporia Gazette," who is national chairman of the committee, the Bay State organization seeks the signatures of one-fourth of the state's population on a giant petition to be sent to President Roosevelt. The new group also will supervise the formation of sub-committees throughout New England...
...relations with the Traveler, charging the paper with "uncivilized" editorial comment on the Fuehrer. This time the object of their fury, is an appeal to the American people to devise the "most hellish instruments of defense" against "this creature Hitler," and "ex-guttersnipe," a "mediocre little man," a "fanatical, sub-standard person," a "dirty gutter fighter," and "infamous beast." In Nazi eyes, it is uncivilized to "defend the eternal verities," to "meet the diabolical challenge of "Hitler the Horrible and his horde...