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...press conference the President repeated that the neutrality patrol could go anywhere on the seven seas, that speculation about its extent was futile. (An hour earlier, Admiral Stark had told reporters that U.S. patrols were operating 2,000 miles at sea. Fortnight ago Mayor LaGuardia, as U.S.-Canadian Joint Defense Commissioner, said they were operating 1,000 miles off the coast.) The President said estimates were meaningless, as they depended on where you were measuring from; he would extend the patrol to whatever limits he felt necessary for defense of the Western Hemisphere. He added significantly that, although the Neutrality...
...Navy who had said he had been on convoy duty, another a man who said he knew of a young girl whose fiance had told her he was leaving on convoy duty. Senator Barkley said with measured deliberation that Navy Secretary Frank Knox and Admiral Harold R. Stark had authorized him to say that "not a single ship, American or foreign, carrying any war materials from any place to any other place, had been convoyed or was being convoyed from any place to any other place and that no orders had been received from anybody in authority to give such...
...Democrats tried to prevent Governor Donnell from taking office had been worked out at the secret meeting in the De Soto Hotel. At any rate, the legislature refused to seat Donnell. The State's political life was thrown into unholy tumult for six weeks as Governor Stark's term expired and Democratic politicos refused to let Donnell's begin. Democratic Governor Stark demanded that Donnell be seated, the election contested afterwards. What part did Mayor Dickmann play? He stoutly denied any part in the plot to keep Governor Donnell out, but he did not protest...
Through one long day the President held council with Secretaries Cordell Hull and Henry Stimson, Under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, General Marshall. Admiral Stark. The conference began in the morning, broke off for lunch and new business, began again, with Secretary Morgenthau and Harry Hopkins added, in the late afternoon. It went over, point by point, the final inventories of British war needs and available U. S. supplies-the long-range bombers, ships, field guns, machine guns, ammunition (estimated total cost: $500,000,000) that could be shipped as soon as the Lend-Lease Bill was signed. Beyond...
...became opposing Gubernatorial candidates last fall; McDaniel, backed by unsavory machine politicos, was expected to win handily. He lost by 3,613 votes, and the raging machine contested the election. Inauguration Day (Jan. 13) came & went; still the Democratic machine tools refused to seat Donnell. Democratic Governor Lloyd Crow Stark, furious at his party, stayed on overtime while the case went to the Supreme Court. Citizens everywhere spat disgust at the Democratic legislature; some of it spattered on uncomfortable, friendly Lawrence McDaniel. At an advertising club's satirical dinner (Jan. 31) the chums were asked to pose together. Genial...