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...Maritime Commission's bigmouthed, ruddy-faced Captain Howard L. Vickery warned the shipowners that "this is our opportunity, and we may not have another, to plan. . . ." They liked one of his suggestions especially. "I told the British," he boomed, "we were going to take a crack at the tramp trade after the war." The proposed weapon: the U.S.'s new ugly ducklings...
...estimated 300 students, teachers, and trade union representatives will tramp the narrow safety island running up Huntington Avenue tonight bearing placards decrying the America First Committee's rally in Mechanics Hall...
...decade came the rattle of musketry in the Shanghai Incident (1932), the spit of rifle-fire in the Chaco (1932-35), the bursting of bombs in Ethiopian villages (1935-36), the volleys of firing squads in Spanish bull rings (1936-39), the screams of murdered Chinese civilians (1937-?), the tramp of Nazi boots through Austria (1938) and Czecho-Slovakia (1939), and at last the mounting crescendo of World...
...momentous, but sometimes Joseph Stalin got off simple, heavy jokes. He said that the Nazis were too smart to put the Italians in the front line; Hitler used them for dishwashers. He laughed loudly at this one, but behind his own laughter he could hear the mechanized, Hitlerian tramp of destiny...
...Joseph Jefferson delighted Unionists and secesh alike with Rip Van Winkle. Hungry customers at Harvey's kept 20 men busy opening oysters. "A valuable Negro" was put up for sale at the county jail. Lilacs bloomed in the dooryards. The new President was driven crazy by "the unceasing tramp" of the Republican office seekers in the White House halls...