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February 17, 1940

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Army Man At Work-II

Dwight Macdonald

PROFILE of Colonel Brehon B. Somerwell, W.P.A. Administrator. Mr. Ridder, philanthropist, and publisher of the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung went into office …

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REPORTER AT LARGE. Visit to the Normandie, anchored off Hoboken for the duration of the war. The first task of putting up the ship had been to pack away …

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