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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington's Munitions Building is the office of Secretary of War Harry Hines Woodring. A few paces down the hall is the office of Assistant Secretary of War Louis Arthur Johnson. Their lairs might as well be in separate buildings. For Messrs. Woodring and Johnson never visit each other. Only when absolutely necessary do they speak to each other. When official business requires them to communicate, they do so in writing or through harried subordinates. Mr. Johnson despises Mr. Woodring. Mr. Woodring distrusts and despises Mr. Johnson, who for 27 months has gunned for Mr. Woodring...
Eight weeks ago Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano spent three days with Führer Hitler and Herr von Ribbentrop, returned with news that plunged Mussolini into profound silence. Last week Count Ciano saw them both again. He also was going to talk "peace." But of this visit little notice was taken; Count Ciano stayed less than 24 hours, returned to Rome having discussed, according to authoritative sources...
Thomas W. Lamont '92, a partner of J. P. Morgan in New York City, has presented to the Library a valuable collection of books and manuscripts relating to the Spanish Armada of 1588, library officials announced today. Lamont personally negotiated the purchase of this collection during his recent visit to England...
Following a visit to the President (see p. 11), San Antonio's Mayor Maury Maverick announced that he favored a third term for Roosevelt "1,000%." Mayor Maverick declared that Fellow Texan Garner's "future is behind him," said: "In a time of emergency like this we cannot afford to have a man as President as old as Mr. Garner is. He is a fine Christian, water-drinking gentleman. . . . No man has ever been elected in his seventies except Harrison* and I think he caught a cold and died in office...
Last week, its Abingdon season over, the Barter Theatre paid its third annual visit to Manhattan. In chain-store-fed Manhattan there were nine cash customers to one barterer. But the box office accepted a gallon of wine, tubes of toothpaste, some rayon underwear, size 36 and from Drama Critic John Anderson "a jugful of the milk of human kindness neatly skimmed." All these swelled a trifle the season's profits: $95, five barrels of jelly...