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...were contrary to the spirit of the Neutrality Resolution, he had succeeded in giving the Press the clear-cut impression that as Oil Administrator he was opposed to shipments of oil to Italy (TIME, Dec. 2). This angered Italy, embarrassed the State Department, left the Administration out on a limb when the League of Nations postponed Oil Sanctions. Last week Secretary Ickes called in newshawks, pulled out the stenographic report of his previous press conference, tried to pin the blame for headline troubles on the reporters. He was, he said, opposed to shipments of '"munitions," not "materials...
...herself, but other European nations not in the slightest involved, into war. 4) That her interest in Italy's Ethiopian occupation is entirely selfish, else why did she so cavalierly shrug her shoulders at Japan's machinations in Manchuria, meanwhile leaving the U.S. "out on the limb" in precarious single protest. 5) That not content with getting the nod from the League, she is attempting to lead this country step by step into a morass of commitments and implied "community of interest" to a point where a last desperate jump backward will only find us stuck...
...Kenerson grew old. Even after his job as park superintendent was abolished in 1925, the man took stale meat to the eagle twice every day. Kenerson could put his arm around the bird but whenever anyone else approached, Uncle Sam grew truculent, refused to eat, hopped to a higher limb. Once Kenerson turned down two strangers' offer of $200 for the bird. Next day he found the cage spattered with blood and fragments of men's clothing. He said the thieves were lucky to have escaped alive. Last fortnight a New London councilwoman proposed that the eagle...
...jail began when the woman, her features twitching, yelped and fell into an eclamptic fit. Her whole body became rigid. She clenched her teeth, stopped breathing. Her face turned dusky red. For more than a minute she lay like that. Then, after a few minutes of spasmodic limb-yanking and body-jerking, she relaxed into a deathly coma...
...with truly pivotal necks may feel at ease when cars whisk by from all directions. It may even be asserted that Harvard Square training will make this college preeminent in the hundred-yard dash. But the great majority would be content to cross streets without risk to life and limb, and keep before them that great American possibility of becoming president...