Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...State Department reviewing the Ried record. Three days later a "thank you" letter came back explaining that no information had yet been received as to Ried's U. S. duties. There the matter lay until last week when the Ried cries grew louder as the New York Post's Daniel Lang tracked him down, wrote an interview in which talkative Dr. Ried gladly discussed his South American success. As other papers picked up the story the nervous Anti-Nazi League, remembering that a pro-Nazi magazine (Die Neue Woche, edited by Propagandist Dr. Manfred Zapp, in format somewhat...
...ships as well as bases for aircraft. Its big establishment will be at Kodiak which Alaskans hope will eventually be made as strong as Hawaii, 2,600 miles directly south. Far west of Kodiak (and about 900 miles farther west than Hawaii) lies the Navy's outmost listening post, Kiska Island, which can be used as an advance base for air and submarine operations. Closer in toward Kodiak is a bigger station, Dutch Harbor, famed as landing place for naval patrol boat flights on Arctic training...
Sweet revenge to onetime Dentist Marquet, described as a combination of Huey Long, Don Juan and Hitler, was the purging of Daladier. In 1934 the ex-Premier suggested the possibility of a Cabinet post to Marquet. "I'll take the Interior or nothing," the latter declared and confided to a colleague, "Now that there are a couple of two-fisted men at the helm like Daladier and myself, there is nothing to fear." He did not get the post, and became anti-Daladier...
Other decrees provided for the removal of any civil servant deemed unworthy of his post, and stipulated that Government jobs or commissions in the Army and Navy could be held henceforth only by persons whose fathers were French citizens. The word "Jew" was not mentioned in a single decree, but "Jews not wanted" signs began to appear in shop windows...
...against all U. S. railroads A. & R., with an et al. after its name, represents the entire list. But A. & R. has another distinction, which was gaining importance last week: it is the principal rail route to Fort Bragg, the U. S. Army's 125,000-acre artillery post. Since defense preparations began the little line has hauled some 200 cars of soldiers and equipment to the Fort, which is undergoing a $2,000,000 overhauling to prepare for a tripled personnel. Last week A. & R. was busy preparing for further traffic increases...