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...more ballast to prevent her from "bobbing like a cork to the surface." These extra tons now carried her down steeply. She could not be checked. The needle would never stop. She was well down in the danger zone when she pulled up. "The pressure squeezed down on the hull, feeling cunningly for some weakness. . . . Loud noises issued from the metal. . . . The startled eyes of the men watched a four-inch solid pillar start to bend as the weight of the sea pressed down on the hull. One of the motors began to whine eerily. . . . For ten minutes the hydrophone...
...Baruch's blue-&-gold sitting room stand autographed photographs of Orlando, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Wilson at Versailles; another Versailles picture of Louis Loucheur, Lloyd George and Baruch, with Winston Churchill standing behind, like the freshman he was; of Clemenceau in 1922; of William Gibbs McAdoo; Cordell Hull; Lord Cecil; the War Industries Board...
...Cordell Hull, slightly stooped at 71, war has brought no athletic privation. He still plays a waspish game of croquet, still addresses his opponent's ball as Hitler or Mussolini before walloping...
...year-old, he carries out a daily program that would tax a man of 50. At "Woodley," his baronial estate in Washington, he tramps for an hour before breakfast, plays deck tennis for an hour before dinner, plays croquet with obvious condescension when oldsters like Secretary Hull are his guests. For pre-lunch exercise he keeps Indian clubs in his office. Twice a week he rides hired horses at Maryland's Meadowbrook Club, rides his own hunters weekends on his Long Island farm...
...Cordell Hull: "Welcome news...