Word: welleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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> Renewed was Soviet Russia's annual U. S. trade agreement, which since 1937 has bound the U. S. S. R. to buy at least $40,000,000 worth of U. S. goods each year (purchased last year: $68,000,000).* There were other signs last week that the U...
Hell immediately popped around Mr. Cudahy. The British and U. S. press, the American Legion in the U. S., resented his comparison of U. S. and Nazi soldiers. Britons steamed at his remarks about the Belgian surrender. But what mostly got up Washington's and London's ire...
¶President Roosevelt ordered an embar go on aviation gasoline to all countries outside the Western Hemisphere (chief targets: Japan, Spain). Dutifully Japanese Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi in Washington handed Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles a formal note of protest. Spain (where posters called for a return of the Philippines...
The Duke: "It gives me great pleasure to be sailing on a ship flying the American flag." In Washington it gave the State Department jitters that British warships were said to be following the Excalibur to guard the Duke from seizure by German or Italian war craft. U. S. Under...
To celebrate the end of his first year in Hollywood (during which he did not get around to making a single picture), impish young Actor Orson Welles gave a cocktail party for the press, announced that he was actually beginning production on a picture, Citizen Kane, of which he will...