Word: bern
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week the R. A. F. made good a British promise to exhibit at Leipzig's big 1940 industrial fair, by unloading bombs on the Leipzig railroad station. Junkers aircraft are made at Leipzig, also at Bern-burg and Dessau, which the R. A. F. duly visited. At Berlin, the first important industrial target hit was the Siemens-Schuckert electrical works...
...eyed Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Camilla, Ga., Tory hatchetman who dominates the House Rules Committee. Mr. Cox felt the fury that comes only to those who outsmart themselves. Intent on sabotaging the act, he rammed to the floor three sets of amendments sponsored by Graham Barden of New Bern, N. C., which would have exempted from the law practically all workers engaged in handling agricultural products-a prospect greatly pleasing to the strawberry producers and other farmers in Mr. Barden's district...
...field, regularly droning overhead, with the Federal Council of seven Swiss elder statesmen quietly upping the army from 150,000 to 500,000 in preparation for good weather. Hearty and well-publicized was Sumner Welles's luncheon with his old diplomatic crony, Leland Harrison, the Minister to Bern. But unpublicized and mysterious was another U. S. Ambassador's visit. Squarejawed, grey-haired John Cudahy, newly appointed U. S. Minister to Belgium, left his embassy, entered Zürich undetected, got past the reception desk at the hotel without leaving his name, late at night departed as secretly...