Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That day Franklin Roosevelt's press conference was a grave business. One question was uppermost in all minds. Correspondent Phelps Adams of the New York Sun uttered it: "Mr. President . . . can we stay out of it?" Franklin Roosevelt sat in silent concentration, eyes down, for many long seconds. Then, with utmost solemnity, he replied: "I not only sincerely hope so, but I believe we can, and every effort will be made by this Administration...
Earlier in the week, acting under orders specifically approved by the President, 37 U. S. Customs and Marine Bureau inspectors prevented the German liner Bremen from clearing out of New York City hastily, to get home before war began. Explaining that they must be sure the Bremen carried no war contraband, no arms with which she might prey on other ships on the way home, the inspectors poked and peered everywhere through the ship and took their sweet time, two days. One of them, amid much merriment, even managed to fall overboard (see cut p. 14). They even made...
...great metropolis, New York City, the war cast even longer shadows...
...dread of war jabbed deep into U. S. citizens when New York City's Transportation Board observed that rock-cut subways would make perfect bombproof shelters, when policemen were assigned to power stations, docks and vital factories to guard against sabotage...
...Connor saw Mrs. Ray Brodsky sitting on a piece of paper. When he warned her this counted as littering the beach, she called him a "Hitler." Brooklyn Magistrate D. Joseph de Andrea dismissed the charge but warned Mrs. Brodsky against calling anyone "Hitler." Prison wardens in New York, who feed inmates 51 ounces of meat a week, observed that German citizens, rationed 25 ounces weekly, are worse...