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During the decade when the U.S. moved to a pre-eminent position in world affairs, community-minded Cleveland began to discuss foreign relations as avidly as it had discussed neighborhood playgrounds, transit regulations and bond issues...
Petrillo. Petrillo had told her: "We don't want any victories or any fights. We just want to live." The copy, garbled in transit by Western Union, which was on strike, came out in TIME : "We just want to love." When Steinert sought to placate Petrillo by suggesting that the mistake might not have happened if the communications company had not been struck, he laughed and bellowed : "That's right ; these damn unions are gonna ruin the country...
...From then on his role was that of many a Red agent-tours of duty in the Far East, in Spain with the Loyalists, back to Germany, then to France when Hitler rose to power. Eisler and his wife got out of France in 1941 on a U.S. transit visa, stayed in New York City when regulations blocked their intended journey to Mexico...
...Paris Conference's end and the convening of the U.N.'s General Assembly in New York-the world had a chance to draw breath, to look both backward & forward along the rough road it was traveling. The peacemakers and world rebuilders were, most of them, in transit (see below). The world's troubles rode with them every mile...
...taken personally to its destination by Dr. H. Simonnet, of the University of Paris, aboard the He de France on its first post-war crossing to Europe. The cost of the food was about sixty dollars, only one seventieth of the total sum spent on supplies now in transit...