Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...accept the post was hard. It was a wrench to be sent out of the thick of things, to be made responsible to some young fellow like Tony Eden. But the U. S. post might be one to change the whole future of Britain's history. And he thought back to the day in 1926 when Stanley Baldwin offered him the Viceroyalty of India. At that time he went at once to ask the advice of his aged father, the late 2nd Viscount Halifax. His father took him straightway to church. Together the two prayed. When they came...
...address was the statement that he believed the U. S. knew how to cooperate with Panama on a basis of good will, but that Panama, although too small to defend herself, could always make concessions to foreign countries who would defend her against demonstrations of ill will. Dr. Arias thought twice and skipped this sentence when he delivered the address...
Being bombed or being invaded does not frighten the British half so much as the thought of being blockaded. Rising fears of this eventuality were made plain last week when the Admiralty admitted the loss of 182,848 tons in the fortnight ended Dec. 8, and Britain continued to cast about anxiously for additional tonnage, present and future...
...Hjalmar Schacht of the U. S. Revolution was brought to Washington by Herbert Hoover. He was a Texas businessman who had almost gone broke in Depression. By 1940 he was rich again, and the Revolution had made him Secretary of Commerce and Federal Loan Administrator. Business thought of Jesse Jones as its friend at court, the Old Deal's borer from within the New. Tactful and unobtrusive, Jesse Jones did not act like a revolutionary. He did not set up any industrial TVAs; he merely "took what the banks left over." By Dec. 1, 1940 he had made commitments...
...time he attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the vague idea of becoming an engineer. The Boltz family business was fine Havana cigars, and in 1914 they sent Robert to work in the family plants in Cuba and Tampa. He was 27, headstrong and stubborn, and he thought he had a new system of cigar making. Two years later the business was busted...