Greenlands Crisis and Monroe Doctrine Echo in Western Hemisphere
The Globe News urges the United States to act decisively to keep European or Asian powers from establishing bases in Greenland, arguing that Western Hemisphere security requires early intervention. It recalls Monroe and Roosevelt, warns Germany’s aims, and contrasts past miscalculations with current war-time planning, while noting post-war economic forecasts and public works as a cautionary backdrop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. D. Roosevelt
Greenland
James Monroe
Western Hemisphere
Monroe
Canada
United States
North American
Belgium
Holland
Scandinavia
Roosevelt
Germany
Denmark
Europe
Greece
National Resources Planning Board
Old Amarillo letters and a courthouse mix up
A jumble of reader ideas and local vignettes covers traffic safety hopes for school zones, sidewalk protection, and a recreation center, plus a courthouse post office confusion and a serialized store drama reminding of past humane leadership in contrast to present pressure.
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Fillmore Street
Fifth Avenue
Amarillo
Ben Phillips
Defense spending swells into a vast wartime total
AP excerpt notes defense outlays accelerating to about 24 million daily and peaking near 80 million a day in 1942. March outlay tops 745 million, nine months total at 3.64 billion. Fiscal year 1942 may reach 40 billion with 29.9 billion already appropriated and 9.27 billion proposed, including 7 billion for aid to Britain.
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Alexander R. George
Defense
United States Treasury
Treasury
Congress
Office of Production Management
Britain
Army
Navy
Defense Expenditures in Nine Months through March 1941
The Army and Navy defense outlays for the nine months ending March 31 1941 total about 11.88 billion dollars, with the Army at 5.9 billion and the Navy at 5.98 billion. Army spending leads by a wide margin at 2.16 billion versus the Navy's 1.41 billion, in the period.
The President's Friend and the Sucker Formula
A literary sketch traces Harry Hopkins from social work to diplomacy, noting his link to Franklin D Roosevelt and Churchill. It contrasts Hopkins’s rise with Barnum’s enduring “sucker” psychology, illustrating showmanship’s grip on public curiosity through examples of stunts, crowds, and marketing.
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Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Washington Monument
Mr. Hopkins
Franklin Roosevelt
No. 10
Downing Street
Winston Churchill
British Empire
England
Harry
White House
Harry Hopkins
Stephen Early
Early
Phineas Taylor Barnum
Barnum
Webster's
Maitland
Grampa
New York Museum
Broadway
Ned Alvord
Vance
Mahattan
New York
Mr. Alvord
Cagliostro
Paris
Times Square
Forty Fourth Street
Mercy Lavinis Warren Bumpus
Ringling Brothers
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Madison Square Garde
Gargantua
Gorilla
Billy Rose
Ros
Bantam Barnum
Front Seat Helper and the Driver’s Right in Home Autos
An essay argues that the front seat helper should share driving authority with the person at the wheel. It rejects a double standard and praises professional instruction for driving skills. A husband recounts teaching patience failed until his wife learned from a professional in three lessons.
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America
Mr. America
Notable draftees await induction from famous youths
Draft boards ignore wealth or fame when selecting inductees. The expected list includes: 1 grandson of a famed oil magnate, 2 leading golfers with one also a New York socialite, 3 a New York playwright, 4 son of a former Ohio senator who opposed the draft bill, 5 a moving picture star who gained ten pounds to qualify.
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Selective Service
New York
Ohio
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Texas
Candor
Anthony
Bee
Beatrice
Huntington's
Toby Masters
Miss Dane
Dane
Toby
Jenkins
Chapter
South America
Mrs. Jenkins
Junior
Miss Getz
Getzie
Queens
Skylark
Globe-News
C. R. Compton
West 29Th Avenue
E. A. Armstrong
Lincoln Street
Lotta Bard
Taylor Street
Mary Helen Heath
East Sixth Avenue
WRAY
Cleveland
Cleveland Street
Jenkinses
Anthony Bradley
Bruce Sheldrake
Bee Davis
Mr. Huntington
Thermopylae
Hastings
The
Alamo
Munich
J. Borden Harriman
Norway
President's Fund
CSC
Merr Niki
Lisip A Evening Post
Marquis W. Childs
Meyer Berger
New York Times Magazine
Norman G. Shidle
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