The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1940-01-01

of other states, must rank first i
tialities; and the adjustments of
peace are going to be as excru-
Iciating as the throes of conflict.
This new strange war, how
ever, is only an extension of
bloody strife that has been rag
ing the world round for years.
The Japanese effort to establish
a new order in the Far East,
which touched the United States
Through the "Panay" bombing, is
in its third year and apparently
as far from conclusion as ever.
Three years of sanguinary
Spanish civil war ended this
year. There was war in Ethiopia,
+ in Albania, in Palestine, in Man
churia-and elsewhere, as nation
after nation disappeared from the
map.
The 10-year grind finds a con-
siderable part of the world al
Iready war weary, with neutrals
backing away and saying this is
not down our alley. Whether
they can maintain their aloofness
remains to be seen; war gives lit
tie consideration to those on the
Isidelines-as Finland found out.
The New Deal Arrives (l933)
On March 6, 1888, all American
banks were closed by proclama-
ton of the new President
Franklin D. Roosevelt Thus
started the New Deal" as hys-
terra gripped the nation.
One hundred days of emergen-
cy legislation followed; then vast
programs for the nation. Some OF
1.-THE legislation stuck; some was
Ithrown out, but every individual
was affected through the social
and economic changes involved
in the Wagner labor act, old age
pensions, social security, the Sc
curities act, reciprocal trade
treaties, devaluation of the dol
lar; increase in national defense
and a spate of other measures
land actions, accompanied by q
huge increase in the national
debt
The period saw a tremendous
lupsurge in labor, the rise of the
CIO. strikes and internecine
, strife.
This year comes another presi-
Dental election, with much spec
, ulation as to third term for the
, man who brought the New Deal
: into being.
A Baby Is Kidnapped 1882
The Lindbergh kidnapping un-
: doubtedly will go down as the
most amazing crime in American
. annals. There is nothing to match
this tragedy of fantastic figures
, and incredible events that opened
in the dour Sourland mountain
region of New Jersey on March
1. 1882. and closed with the exc.
icution of Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann on April 3, 1886. In those
-four years the Lindbergh case
was seldom off the front page.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh
Jr.. firSt-born of the famous avia-
Itor, was 10 months old when he
was Snatched from his crib neal
Hopewell. His body was found
weeks later, within five miles Of
the home. Carpenter Hauptmann
35, married. a father and pa
rolled German convict who had
entered the United States illegal
ly, was arrested Sept 10. 1884
: after passing a ransom note. He
was convicted early in 1885 and
died in the chair year later.
Edward Abdicates 1885,
y A love story for the ages was
; written when Edward VIII. by
the grace of God, of Great Brit
ain, Ireland and the British do
minions beyond the seas, king
defender of the faith. Emperor oil
! India, abdicated to marry the
woman / love-.
She was Wallis Warfield Oh
Baltimore. The royal romance
which had England in a dither
eliminated at the altar in June
!. of 1887 at Monts, France. The
! imam who became the Duke OF
Windsor after being king, was &
royal exile until the war called
: him home and then put him
back in France in the uniform OF
his country.
Germany Rises 1889
On January 80, 1888, Adolf Hit
Ter was called to the office OF
. chancellor of Germany by aging
: President Hindenburg.
From that very day, the man
who was to become Der FuehreI
: began discarding provisions o1