Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune's make-up editor obeyed the President's injunction, but to most of the U. S. press, Franklin Roosevelt's remarks about the U. S. seemed considerably more pertinent than David's about a citizen of Zion. They were a review of his first five years in office, a highly metaphorical explanation of administrative policies in terms of "the old ship of State." Since March 4, 1933, the President said, enormous gains had been made toward some of his goals, more gradual gains toward others. The goals in any case...
...when at his coming of age his father, who hated his job so much that he stayed in Muscat only one month a year, abdicated, retired to Japan. Having amazed Washington for three days last week, Sultan Saiyid Said removed his robes, put on street clothes, departed for New York...
...rabidly pro-Roosevelt New York Post this voice was the "voice of liberalism; the platform is that of Coolidge." Actually it was the typical voice of the old-line Democrat, the Democrat who would like, but does not dare, to say the same things on the Senate floor. For the Baruch testimony was by no means a one-way damnation. Asked if he thought business had done its share, the white-haired old financier replied: "Business has not cleaned up its own stable, it has not met the Government people in the fullest spirit of co-operation." Eloquently he urged...
...source. In Washington German Ambassador Dr. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff called on Secretary Hull to announce that the German Government had again warned its 350,000 nationals residing in the U. S. that they "must not belong to" the Bund or any "possible substitute organizations of that kind." In New York Bund leaders promptly announced that since their membership for two years past has been restricted to U. S. citizens, the requests of the German Government did not affect them at all. Nonetheless, Ambassador Dieckhoff's statement, for which he got the State Department's hearty thanks, aroused again...
...dozen or so similar groups whose members gave aid to the National Socialist Party in Germany throughout the late 20's. In 1933 these groups were merged as "Friends of New Germany," run by Heinz Spanknobel, a Nazi party member. Herr Spanknobel, indicted by a New York Federal Grand Jury for failing to register as the agent of a foreign nation, speedily fled to Nazi Germany. In 1934 a Congressional Committee investigated the Friends of New Germany, found it "for ail practical purposes the American section of the Nazi party." The Friends changed this name to Amerikadeutscher Volksbund...