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The President was working hard-incredibly hard-at the job which has broken so many men. Daily he averaged 15 callers (on Thursday he saw 40 men, besides a special press conference); as always, he did most of the talking. To handsome Marguerite (Missy) LeHand, his private secretary, he dictated...
His day begins around 8:30 a.m., with a leisurely breakfast in bed, a review of news and the day's work with Secretary Stephen T. Early, a careful check through New York, Washington, Philadelphia and Baltimore newspapers; a look at overnight cables. Often, these days, there are also...
> Into the U. S. poured a stream of letters and cables from U. S. ambulance drivers and nurses in France. Example: Ambulance Driver Elizabeth Adams wrote to her Providence, R. I. parents: "Dearest Family ... I have been bombed-oh God -if you knew how it felt to have a plane...
These cables, two from Geneva, the last from Paris, arrived last week in the Manhattan office of the World Council of Churches. They had been sent by a Dutch, a Swiss, a French leader of the Council, to which belong 63 churches of every variety except the Roman Catholic. Replied...
"Totalitarian." News cables from London soon gave the world an impression that Britain was on a totalitarian par with the Nazis. The Emergency Powers Defense Act simply authorized the Government, which remains in power only at the will of Parliament, to take almost any desired action by Orders in Council...