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From Washington came hints of a partial solution. The U. S. Maritime Commission was mulling a swap of trade routes: let U. S. merchantmen carry British traffic in the Pacific, so that British ships could be transferred to the Atlantic...
...Mary's College, 30 years ago, Joe Engel pitched a perfect (no-man-to-reach-first) baseball game. Grabbed by the Washington Senators, his pitching went sour. Manager Clark Griffith shooed Engel off to the minor-league Minneapolis Millers, told him to swap himself for someone who could play ball. Engel looked the Millers over, sent back Ed Gharrity, a big rawboned catcher. Gharrity turned out to be so good that Engel was hired to scout for Washington...
...Philadelphia suburb. The collection was begun by Peter Arrell Brown Widener, onetime butcher's boy, who made his pile in Civil War meat contracts and later streetcar franchises. His second and only surviving son, Joseph Early Widener, winnowed P. A. B.'s 700 pictures, made many a swap, bought only the best, until 100 canvases, all good and many masterpieces, glowed like jewels in Lynnewood Hall. The Widener collection was valued as high...
...Called by President Roosevelt "the most important defense action since the Louisiana Purchase of 1803" was: 1. The Overton Act to fingerprint aliens. 2. The swap with Britain of 50 old U. S. destroyers for Atlantic naval bases. 3. The fortification of Guam. 4. The Rush Act to confiscate U. S. plants in war time. 5. U. S. purchase of Rolls-Royce plane patents...
...always clear to U. S. citizens is the extent to which the U. S. and Great Britain are cooperating in Britain's war effort. A destroyer swap is one thing, collaboration on South American trade missions another. But many U. S. citizens remain unaware that virtually all U. S. mail going to or coming from Europe is held for examination at Bermuda...