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...angle, any strong new drive in Mr. Roosevelt's messages reflected the fact that he and his Cabinet (only Messrs. Hull. Murphy, Woodring, Edison and Ickes were at hand) had been caught off-base with the rest of the world by the Hitler-Stalin deal, the sudden push for Poland. When President Moscicki replied to Mr. Roosevelt that Poland was willing to negotiate, Mr. Roosevelt forwarded that word to Herr Hitler, but without much hope of getting action. Berlin's unofficial comment was that Mr. Roosevelt's words had, as usual, arrived when Der Führer...
Last Christmas Day General Evangeline reached retirement age of 73. Fortnight ago the High Council to choose her successor convened near London. Sessions were secret as the Army's progressive wing launched a full-dress attack to turn it democratic. Snail-like was the push, for the High Council can only elect or oust a General and has no other power to control him. Finally this obstacle was breached by quizzing the candidates, engineering a gentleman's agreement with each of them that "no changes . . . should be promoted by the General elected . . . without the fullest possible consideration...
...Lorraine, which kept the French from pouring through the Lorraine Gateway and the Belfort gap. In 1870, when the French owned the border provinces, the stupidity of Marshal Bazaine, who shut himself up in the fortress of Metz and refused to stir, deprived France of the opportunity to push into the South German Basin...
...much); 3) New York City itself is too much competition for any world's fair; 4) antagonism of country's press toward New York; 5) absence of community pride among New Yorkers; 6) hard times. Whatever the reasons, the Fair failed to get its expected Big Push in July. (For that month its average daily attendance was 137,456, only 6% better than Chicago's record...
...leading the American League by eight. To most baseball fans this was not surprising. The majority of pre-season prognosticates had picked the Reds and Yankees as favorites in the 1939 pennant race. What was surprising were the names of the two pitchers who had so far been the push that put them in front: Bucky Walters and Atley Donald...