Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Admiral Land, through his Senatorial mouthpiece: If the proposed neutrality bill became law, of 326 U. S. ships (2,150,000 gross tons), 130 (860,000 gross tons) would be forced to rot in harbors. There is now no place for the 137 new Maritime Commission vessels (all ordered...
Last week, to the delight of tourists contemplating the usual spectacle of a Houseful of sleepy fat men, quiet Mr. Woodrum spotted a hole in Ham Fish's position, crashed through it to score standing up. He charged that 37 Republicans and one Democrat, led by Ham Fish, had...
"Only the U. S." Then Herr Hitler (through Dr. Dietrich) tried again one of his offside diplomatic plays. If the U. S. would only tell Britain it would not support her in a war unless she first tried to settle the issues at a conference table, the war would be...
Admiral Nomura, who knows the difference between a quarterdeck and a quartermaster but is a little hazy on parliamentary procedure, came away from the next Cabinet meeting a sad man. "I am like a naval officer," he said, "who has been sent out to sink an enemy ship -and failed...
Through the night they could hear the metallic clatter of tank treads, the ripping tear of exhaust from trucks mired in the mud, the metallic jangle of troops in large numbers on the move. To the Allies this could mean only one thing: the Germans were moving up troops along...