Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...heavy cruiser Tuscaloosa steamed out of Norfolk under sealed orders. It carried special equipment for the President's use. Off Culebra Island, between the Virgins and Puerto Rico, naval maneuvers were scheduled for early December-and there the Tuscaloosa had been originally assigned. In Washington, in a week of rumors and counter-rumors, President Roosevelt told his press conference that he was leaving for a long defense inspection trip, and though it might take him more than twelve hours from Washington by rail, he would fly back if an emergency called him to the White House. Early this week...
...despite an estimated 100% subscription). Proclaimed the Brothers Gross (Robert E., president of Lockheed, and Courtland S., president of Vega) after querying the State Department on procedure:*"We will be very glad to transfer the funds so raised ... to Lord Lothian with the employes' instructions that the Ambassador use this money toward the purchase of a Lockheed Hudson for the people of England...
...position in the modern world contrasted with a vague program of action. It began with foreign delegates reporting on the status of women and of the women's movement under totalitarianism. It ended, after about 20 hours of speechmaking and report-reading, with a Declaration of Purpose: ". . . to use our freedom to support, defend and preserve the Constitution, and to work for the progressive securing of freedom, social justice and peace for all people...
President Roosevelt had the power (by Act of Congress) to enforce Henry Stimson's dictum. Last week the President put on his velvet gloves, said he did not expect to have to use the power. This week the airline operators fell into line, agreed to turn over to the military services all the recently delivered engines that they could spare, further promised to relinquish $7,500,000 worth of equipment on order...
Last week Governor General Pierre Ryckmans of the Belgian Congo announced that "unoccupied Belgium" was at war with Italy. Casus belli: Italy had committed hostile acts against Belgium, including the use of Belgian airdromes by Italian planes bombing Great Britain. The Governor General neglected to declare war against Germany, whose planes have also used Belgian airdromes to bomb Great Britain. Reason: Leopold, King of the Belgians, is a German prisoner of war. Nevertheless, the Governor General made it clear that the Congo would "continue the closest collaboration with Great Britain and her allies...