Word: frank
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...White House. Each night from the tower of Epiphany Church, the bells rang out: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing. At a reception for the members of the Supreme Court the President, cheered after his cruise, cheerfully greeted the Justices. It was quiet compared with the gathering last year, when Frank Murphy, just appointed to the Court, was the lion of the week, and the talk buzzed of the new appointments that had put James Cromwell in Canada and Robert Jackson in the Department of Justice...
...answer was a super-defense board, on which he had hung a cumbersome jawbreaker-Office for Production Management for Defense. (Later he referred to it as the "Big Four.") Its director: Big Bill Knudsen. Other members: Laborman Sidney Hillman (with the title of associate director), Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Secretary of War Henry Stimson...
...destroyermen did not grieve long for the lost 50; they went discreetly, quietly after more. Last week-as Washington's bars began to buzz with the rumor that Britain might get more old destroyers -Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced that contracts had been let for 40 more "tin cans," to cost an average of $6,300,000 each. They will be paid for out of authorizations already made for the two-ocean programs. After previous contracts were awarded, there was still some tonnage left over. Navy men passed the word that the new building would slow...
...Washington whereby 60 freighters will be built to British order with all speed in new U. S. yards. Nineteen German freighters seized by the Dutch in Netherlands Indies ports were reported turned over to Britain. And at a press conference in London, Minister of Shipping Ronald Cross dropped a frank hint that contained dynamite...
Created Lieut. Commander in the Navy and saluted by Secretary Frank Knox as "an old, old friend and one who carries with him a punch in the minds and heads of young men," Gene Tunney, onetime Marine and heavyweight champion of the A. E. F., took charge of physical education at the Pensacola, Jacksonville and Corpus Christi stations...