Airpower and the call to mobilize American youth
Major AS Williams argues that seapower rests on skilled seafarers and that airpower will govern the future. He urges long-term national planning, civilian aviation expansion, and early involvement of youths in flying activities to build a ready airman pool. He cites German training and practical expedients in Illinois as examples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Major AS Williams
British Empire
Drake
Germany
America
Air Force
Army
Navy
Lockport
Ill
OPM
Amarillo page highlights social events and film listings
Readable items include engagements and weddings such as Carl ie Barnes and Jim McKnight marriage news, and Dor thy Coan and Horace Kendrick. Also listed are theater showings at the Paramount State and Nat dances, plus Fourth of July festivities and local social club notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Loring
Amarillo Country Club
Bergen
McCarthy
Alpha Delta
Jackie Bragg
Jack McDade
Frances Lee Kennedy
Carl Hill
Dorthy Coan
Horace Kendrick
Mazy Emma Finley
Archer
Noodlief
Helen Hamilton
Harlan Willis
Charles Fisk, Jr
Lex Elizabeth Eddons
Mu Chi
Gerald East
Eldon Jones
Amarillo
Eldon Maharon
Texas A
Jack Motch
Tibby Ludes
Billy Hardman
Ginger Rogers
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Jane Parris
Cato Merchant
Jimmie Sullivan
Pat
Mike Sweeney
Penny Pendergrast
British public favors Russo British friendship despite war
A public opinion survey shows that even as Russia allied with Germany, a large majority of Britons favored closer relations with the Soviet Union. The March 1939 and April 1941 polls indicate sustained pro Russo-British sentiment, with 84 percent in 1939 desiring friendlier ties and 82 percent opposing peace talks with Nazi Germany in 1941.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
N. J
Russia
Germany
American Institute
Britain
Great Britain
Soviet
Voss Les Pests
British Institute
Europe
Stafford Cripps
Moscow
U. S
U S. R
American Institute of Public Opinion
Defense Board Blueprint Seeks National Production Control
Washington hears a push to create a top defense strategy board chaired by William O. Douglas or Wallace to set overall policy and oversee military and civilian procurement. The plan targets a $50 billion defense program with a two-tier structure and active civilian supply control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William O. Douglas
Roosevelt
Wallace Douglas
Wallace
Mr. Douglas
Mr. Wallace
Army
Navy
Division of Supply
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Maritime Commission
Douglas
Treasury
Agriculture
OPM
General Policy Board
Learn to dramatize your sales like Louis K. Liggett
A Detroit lemonade stand story shows how Louis K. Liggett learned to dramatize products to attract customers. By using a bold banner and shouting, he drew crowds and built selling skill that later fueled his chain of drugstores. The tale emphasizes creative display and persuasive selling as keys to success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Michigan
Louis K. Liggett
New England
Mr. Ligg
Mr. Liggett
But Liggett
Generals on the Spot by John Grover
General McNair orders new war games to test officers under field conditions. Realism replaces old chalk-and-pin drills as $24,000,000 funds simulate 75,000 men meals and supplies daily. Bad leaders fail. true tacticians rise through stress and hard choices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Army
Lesley J. McNair
GHQ
Congress
General McNair
McNair
Marmaduke Puffer
J. S. Blank
Jughead Puffer
Leatherpuss Blank
Jughead
National Guard
Napoleons
Grants
Forrests
Grant
France
Stamps Honor National Poet Potgieter on Free Holland Issue
A semi postal Netherlands stamp features Everhard Potgieter, famed poet and prose writer, founder of The Guide. Born 1808, he left business for letters, helped start The Muses in 1834, then The Guide, shaping Dutch literary style though often criticized as pedantic.
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Holland
Netherlands
Everhardes Johannes Potgieter
Guide
Potgieter
Antwerp
Sweden
Amsterdam
The
Muses
Supreme brotherly unit the team echoes in education
The passage argues for collective progress beyond individual interests, envisioning a larger, more united human enterprise. It suggests education as a common goal embraced by about 130 million people who now strongly desire it.
Ideas for Amarillo improvements in 150 words or less
A collection of reader ideas to Globe-News editor proposing civic measures in Amarillo. Suggestions include curbside can rinsing to reduce flies, extending Amarillo College by two years, enforcing weed control on vacant lots, staging a city blackout, installing parking meters, marking street block numbers, and using reflective street and highway signs to aid visibility at night and during blackouts. Each submission includes the contributor’s name and address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Globe-News
Amarillo College
Mollie Belle Landrum
Taylor Street
Amarillo
R. P. Barton
Buchanan Street
Dorothy Jean Gunter
South Mirror Street
Texas
The Merry Macs Bring Bounce Rhythm To Hollywood Sets
Harmony in Hollywood centers on the Merry Macs trio and their fourth member Mary Lou Cook. They star in Universal's Moonlight in Hawaii and are signed for a second film San Antonio Rose. The group blends bounce rhythm with old songs and may feature a Hawaiin inspired hula scene.
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Charles R. Moore
Hollywood
Merry Macs
Bing Crosby
Macs
Judd
Ted
Joe McMichael
Minneapolis
Minn
Mary Lou Cook
Los Angeles
Universal
Hawaii
Milton Schwarzwald
Ken Goldsmith
San Antonio
McMichael
Middle West
Cheri McKay
Profile of Robert H. Jackson A Jamestown Native Rise
This profile recalls Robert H. Jackson's rise from Jamestown attorney and local official to associate justice of the Supreme Court. It notes his work as director of the Jamestown Telephone Company and Bank of Jamestown, his early public roles, and his life in Jamestown with friends and family. Jackson was born in Spring Creek Pennsylvania, educated in Frewsburg and Albany Law School, married Irene Gerhardt, and shares a hobby of riding horses with his family.
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Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Robert H. Jackson
New York City
Jamestown
Jackson
City Telephone Company
Bank of
Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Justice Department
Bob” Jackson
John Wright
Jamestown Telephone Corporation
Leon F. Roberts
Bob Jackson
Spring Creek
Warren County
Frewsburg
Lena Jackson Stickle
Jamesown
Albany
N. Y
Irene Gerhardt
William
Yale University
Mary
Smith College
Chautauqua County
Camp Croft chuckles and cautions from home and field
A selectee at Camp Croft in South Carolina complains about heat and work in a phone call to his Illinois mother who mails lace-trimmed shorts with a jokey note. At Randolph Field Texas a teen, after an Air Corps exam, tries to steal a first ride and is halted when mechanics stop him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Croft
S. C
Ilinois
Sam
Randolph Field
Tex
Air Corps
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Bill
Balkans
Wolflin
Ben Turpin
Carlie Barnes
Jim McKnight
Kathryn Bartlett
Presbyterian College of Religious Education
Chicago
Dawn Adkins
Ralph Carroll
Rachel Kidd
James B. Wa. Joes
Louise Gober
Inez Holman
Ellis Donaldson
Jeanette MacDonald
Nelson Eddy
Paramount
Panhellenic Council
Nat
Dorothy Hoppin
Claude Blackwell
COA
Theta Chi
News Up
Claude Gray
Darrell Grundy
Imagination
the Breeze and I
Thompson
McCraw
Helen
Hilda King
Sherrill Edwards
Isabell Boxwell
Harold Patton
Paralee Armstrong
Claude Rains
Fay Bainter
Jackie Cooper
Pines
Love
Grimm
J. W
Myrna Loy
Arthur Hornblow
Otis Williams
Rosemary Selover
Rainbow Girls
Miriam Hopkins
Merle Oberon
Joel McCrea
Great Lake
Gallup
Frubbi
Brothor Ric Os
United States
Finland
Ussr
British Institute of Public Opinion
London “News Chronicle
By Paul Malison
King Features Syndicate, Inc
al. J. Browning
Harry Hopkins
Mr Browning
Dale Carnegie
John Grover
UP Service
H. E. Hibdon
East
Seventeenth Avenue
Seventeenth Ave
Rillo
Bud Stanley
Polk Street
Knox
Col
Wiliam J. Donovan
Vichy
Cordell Hull
National Defense Industries
Edwin A. Lee
School of Education
U. of C
A. T. and
U. 8S
England
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