Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Embassy in Paris received this affidavit: "I, Lloyd R. Stark, a native-born American citizen of Mystic, Conn., certify that Germans bombarded Malo-les-Bains, near Dunkirk. This is an open town, actually a seaside resort similar to Narragansett Pier, Watch Hill, Palm Beach and Malibu. I am seriously wounded in a hospital. Have lost all my property, as have many others. Request aid in food and clothing...
...Attack-bombers swooping low (to 300 feet) in endless triads blasted forts and weaker defense positions. They sprayed the defenders and their gun crews with machine-gun fire, turned and dumped their bomb loads. Other planes laid smoke screens for tanks to charge under. Allied gun crews had to resort to plotted area fire...
Mayor Walter Tripp's brother has succeeded him in office. Present Mayor Hugh ("Hercules") Tripp runs the Corner Drug Store, suggests that Rochester would make a fine mountain resort if Ickes will build a mountain. Mayor Hercules wrote President Roosevelt, asking a PWA grant to rebuild Rochester's abandoned depot. Last week he nursed a skinned elbow from reaching deep into his mailbox each morning for Roosevelt's answer. "So far I've found nothing in the box but a new bird's nest," said Tripp. "I say . . . it's an honor...
...when the time comes, Germany or other opposing powers refuse to accept U. S. mediation, Buell would have the U. S. resort to "limited intervention": i.e., grants-in-aid to the Allies, naval and air force action...
Modernist. Raymond Leslie Buell, onetime head of the Foreign Policy Association, does not oversimplify or resort to rhetoric. A seasoned student of World affairs, he has lately acquired, as editor of FORTUNE'S Round Tables, a firm grasp of domestic, economic and social problems. His book is a methodical 457-page study of the U. S. and the whole modern world. Finally he arrives at a detailed program. If Charles Beard's merit is irony, Buell's is intellectual thoroughness...