Word: note
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Regarding the letter from Martin Keaveny on p. 6 of TIME, July 1, and the editorial note appended thereto, it may interest you to hear that my wife and I landed at Trinidad, Bolivia on July 15, 1939 in an amphibian plane of the Lloyd Boliviano air line...
...very partial. Last month she invited Mrs. Ericksen to the White House. There the astounded Mrs. Ericksen was met by the President's wife and members of the A. Y.C., who straightway whelmed her with arguments. Mrs. Ericksen spent the night, went home, wrote a "thank you" note to her hostess, added: "But my opinion of the American Youth Congress has not changed." Retorted Mrs. Roosevelt, who is not easily downed: "May I come and speak to your community?" and set a date...
...week Secretary of State Cordell Hull, before setting out for Havana with eight trade, monetary, agricultural and political experts, slapped back at another attempt to make trouble. From Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua came reports that Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German Minister to the Central American Republics, had circulated a note of warning among the small but touchy nations that lie near the Panama Canal...
...Happiest note of the week came from Detroit-automobile sales had broken through "normal seasonal slack" to total 405,000 units for June, up 33% from hopeful 1939. One good reason for this month-end spurt (which made up for early-June slowness) was public suspicion that the 1941 new models might be the last for some time-at any rate they are expected to cost more than the 1940 models. Chrysler Corp., which sold more cars in the last week of June (31,982) than in any week in its history, and Chevrolet, with June sales setting...
Over a fort in Italian Libya a British plane circled, dropped, not a bomb, but a note to the commanding officer, from Sir Arthur Longmore, Commander of the R. A. F. in the Middle East. The note expressed regret at the death of his onetime friend, Air Marshal Italo Balbo (TIME, July...