Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Preoccupation with war, and "doing something about it," has given rise to pressure groups whose target is the White House. Dorothy Thompson heads one of these...
...Fish Armstrong (Foreign Affairs) in composing a "Re-Declaration of American Faith" to which, on Benjamin Franklin's birthday (January 17), the National Student Federation set out to obtain "several million'' signatures. First they signed up 63 Big Names, including such diverse characters as William Allen White, William Green, Marshall Field III, Al Smith. Central proposition of their manifesto is an inverted declaration of war: "Today our people are the objects of undeclared, but not unavowed, wars. . . . The challenge has not come from us. But since it has come, we accept...
Morris Sheppard of Texas, the gentle, whitehaired father of the late Prohibition experiment and diligent overseer of Senatorial campaign morality, last week went to the White House in his capacity as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs. News that President Roosevelt had secretly aided France in purchasing U. S. airplanes, revealed accidentally by the crash of a new Douglas bomber in California (TIME, Feb. 6), had upset and excited Military Affairs.* In the White House, President Roosevelt began to lecture Chairman Sheppard on his reasons for helping France, using background facts and confidential reports so arresting that Chairman...
Dick Sullivan, Chet Legg, Sam White, Lee Bird, and Doug MacLeod will be the substitutes...
...Greenhood will have Chet Sagenkahn as his running mate in the dive, which will be a high-board event for the first time this year. Ned Goldwasser, Harley and Lonnie Stowell, Fred Griffin, and Johnny Quinlan will do all the free-style sprinting while Eric Cutler, Frannie Powers, Bob White, and Ed Hewitt will do the distance work. Art Bosworth and Craig Moore will swim the backstroke events...