Government urges business to conserve metals and seek defense contracts
A 1924 editorial urges American business to conserve scarce metals, use substitutes, and aggressively pursue government contracts to keep plants open. It highlights a new University of Illinois mining scholarship for young miners or their sons and praises self-reliance in national defense efforts.
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Donald Nelson
Washington
University of Illinois
Illinois Mining Institute
Woodrow Wilson
Freedom
America
Paraguay's Morinigo Leads With Army as Budget Shrinks
United Press profile details Higinio Morinigo, Paraguay's president and army man, drawing 50 dollars weekly salary while guiding a $4,481,139 1941 budget. He navigates Chaco War strains, cabinet crises, and repeated uprisings as he cements military influence through 1943.
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United Press
Higinio Morinigo
Paraguay
United States
Chaco
Budet
Morinizo
Jose Felix Estigarribia
Estigarribia
Morinigo
War Propaganda Lies and the Call for Trained Liars
Henry McLemore argues modern warfare hinges on professional liars and suggests America should recruit and train a division of adept prevaricators. He praises Nazi and Soviet propaganda masters, mocks civilian politicians, and calls for a formal school of liars to sustain morale and deceive in crisis.
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United States
Parke Gerritt tangled in Barriston bank drama and love
Parke Gerritt clings to his Barriston holdings at Founders Bank while courting Katherine Mowrer, who vows not to marry him if he exposes Solon Culhane's threat. A web of jealous cousins, a secret shooting, and a crippled Sue Lawson tests loyalties as Culhane pressures Gerritt.
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Harry Hopkins
Joe Stalin
Washington
Parke Gerritt
Barriston
Founders Bank
Katherine Mowrer
Katherine
Parke
Sole Culhane
Sue Lawson
Sue
del Bracket
Orangeburg
Xathie
Lawson
Solon Culhane
Kathie
Gerritt
Solon
Jay
Lawson Kid
Intercity
Culhane
Kathie Mowrer
Congress
Allen
A. Bergonis
A. Bergenis
T. Gerritt
Hitler
Europe
Great Britain
Navy
RAF
Luftwaffe
Britain
Germany
Naval Air Arm
England
Parke Gerritt holds Intercity during deadly siege
Christmas blizzard traps Parke Gerritt in his city with Intercity tensions rising. A. Bergenis and Peter Romley press for information and action while Gerritt directs field operations and Kathie Mowrer watches from the wings as rival schemes converge.
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Bergonis
Intercity
Bergenis
Bosty
Peter Romley
City Square
Gerritt
Barrison
A. Bergonis
Romsey
Romley
Sue Lawson
Lattimer Place
Parke Garritt
Gayda the cynical face of fascist Italy in war drift
Theodore M. O’Leary profiles Virginio Gayda as Mussolini’s chief spokesman. a talented yet dubious figure who shaped Italian war messaging, warned the U.S. against aggression, and influenced public opinion through his editorials at Il Giornale d’Italia.
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Virginio Gayda
Theodore M. O'Leary
Kansas City Star
Italy
Charley McCarthy
Bergen
Gayda
United States
Associated
Thomas B. Morgan
Rome
Associated Press
Mediterranean
England
Britain
Africa
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Morgan
Duce
Russia
University of
Turin
Petrograd
Leningrad
London
Il Giornale d'Italia
The
Gauda
Count Ciano
Gino Buti
Foreign Ministry
Germany
France
Ideas for Amarillo residents across civic life and safety
A set of reader submissions to the Globe-News editor proposes practical ideas. Topics include pruning overhanging tree limbs with recycled inner tubes, delaying weed burning until September, publishing rental listings for newcomers, road repairs near Canyon Highway, extending ambulance traffic signals, hauling away hospital weeds, building a city pool or bus access to Gem Lake, repairing the City Lake sign, fundraising for defense activity, street weed removal by property owners, hospital disease quarantines, a weekly health editorial, printing popular song lyrics, and repurposing old silk hose for defense material.
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City Lake
Canyon Highway
Amarillo
R. A. Montague
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Detroit Council of Churches
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Henry McLemore
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Atlantic
Goebbels’ School
Ribbentrop’s University
Keats
Samuel Hopkins Adams
8. S. Allen
Busty van Atta
Intercity Utilities
Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox
Collier's
Saroyan and
Defense
New York Times
William Saroyan
Variety
Globe-News
K. G. Turner
Jackson Street
R. W. Norman
North Arthur Street
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Mertis Schmer
West
Ninth Avenue
Patty Ann Dehner
J. B Patman
East Sixth Avenue
ROY Gould Northwest Texas Hospital
Gem Lake
Uni
Wilda Williams
East Twelfth Street
Panhandle
Panhandele
Lubbock
Braniff
G. E. Kelly
Hughes
Betty June Campbell
Madison Street
C. A. Nussbaum
West Twelfth Avenue
H. S. Benton
Hughes Street
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