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...once a matter for the rejoicing of foreign opponents of appeasement like Sagittarius and for the dismay of French ones like radical Author Louis Aragon (Bells of Basel, Residential Quarter). Red Author Aragon was among the first to be called up, sent to the Front. The French are civilized. Search France in vain for concentration camps full of opposition leaders. These worthies were last week given every consideration, including the privilege of fighting-and dying-for France in front-line trenches...
...Business and Finance, I find as a part of your highly incandescent report on the affairs of the Chrysler Corp. the following statement: "Meanwhile, Chrysler common (currently selling under $80, paying at the rate of $8 a share), yields 10%." How nice. But in the course of my usual search in the back pages of the magazine for reading material among the advertisements, I come across the following notice: "The directors of Chrysler Corporation have declared a dividend of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per share on the outstanding common stock, payable September 13, 1939. . . ." I am a novice...
...Four million dollars ($250,000 per day) was a conservative estimate of U. S. Government expense for the Earhart search (one aircraft carrier, one battleship, one mine sweeper, three destroyers, one Coast Guard cutter). But President Roosevelt explained that the money was well-spent, for experience...
...Campbell to St. John's, Newfoundland, whence Coast Guard planes relayed him to Washington. Postmaster General Farley, after visiting Poland and France and kissing the "Blarney Stone" in Eire, was homebound aboard the S. S. Manhattan. *Attorney General Murphy announced there was "no spy angle" to the Bremen search. He also said last week: "There will be no repetition of the situation in 1917 when a democracy was unprepared to meet the espionage problem...
What would have happened if the Athenia had gone down with losses like those of the Lusitania? How would U. S. neutrality be affected by such incidents? What was the meaning of the search of the Bremen...