Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Secretary Wallace did it again. In Berkeley, Calif., preparing to dedicate a new Department of Agriculture laboratory, to attend the Western Conference on Governmental Problems and other Bay district events, he broke the truce on partisan politics for which President Roosevelt asked when war broke out in Europe (TIME, Sept. 11). It was eight in the morning, and the reporters were sleepy. Whether or not they exercised their fatal fascination, the Secretary soon found himself saying: "The war situation obviously makes it clear that the President's talents and training are necessary to steer the country, domestically...
...ships may carry any goods but arms to any port in the Western Hemisphere south and west of an imaginary fence set around the North Atlantic Ocean; and anywhere in the other world waters. The President may declare any region a combat area-which would automatically ban U. S. citizens, ships, planes from trespassing in that area. Minor provisions bar alien seamen from U. S. entry, mounted arms on U. S. merchant vessels, use of the U. S. flag by foreign ships. Penalties for major infractions: $50,000 fine, five years in jail or both; for minor $10,000 fine...
Bill Kendall, the Australian boy who was well on his way toward making swimming history at Harvard until he decided to leave college in the spring of 1938, is now in his native Australia waiting to join a contingent of airmen bound for the Western front...
Rains continued, the rivers rose and though evidence of continued German concentration was reported by reconnaissance, the Western Front appeared due for another long lull while the war of blockades was intensified over the North...
...Western Union (Harper...