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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maryland's debonair Democrat Tydings helped out Ohio's Taft by picturing the Gilbertsville dam as a flood-control project superimposed upon a power project, but Tennessee's McKellar, TVA's Nebraska father, Senator Norris, and Majority Leader Barkley were too much for them. By wide margins the Senate voted the money for Watts Bar and Gilbertsville...
...members of the University are invited to compete, and the wide range of weight classes, from 115 pounds to unlimited, offers a fair opportunity to everyone. The preliminaries will be held at 3 o'clock, Monday, March 6, and the finals at 7:30 o'clock, Tuesday...
...radio broadcast from Washington Sir Willmott ("Bill") Harsant Lewis, the London Times correspondent, quoted "two Englishmen who have had wide experience in European capitals" as warning: "It is on March 6 that Germany's warlike preparations will reach the full limit Chancellor Hitler thinks necessary for frightening Britain and France into giving away firstly to Italian demands, and secondly to wider colonial concessions." Sir Willmott himself was skeptical, did not himself believe Fuhrer Hitler wanted...
Slickly engineered, with a minimum of turns and steep grades, the twin three-lane strips of the Autobahnen are separated by a hedged and grassed parkway 16 feet wide, which keeps traffic separated and cuts down headlight glare. Service stations, hotels, repair shops and rest stations are spaced along the highway with Teutonic regularity (26 miles between filling stations) and at even intervals there is a blackboard to call motorists to the phone for messages from home or summonses to emergency military duty...
Nothing in her book quite lives up to her wide-eyed statement on p. 14 that "our family ties were abnormally close" - unless it is her name for the family's official residence in Berlin - "The Chancery." Before she would admit that she was really in chancery, Germany had other, very different holds on her. When she landed there in 1933, she was practically a predigested Nazi. She liked everything she saw, discounted rumors of things unseen...