Capital Hill column from Amarillo Globe-News
Amarillo based Globe-News column on federal affairs and politics appears in the morning edition. By Gene Howe as publisher and John McCarty as editor, the paper is registered as second class matter under postal act.
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Globe-News Publishing Company
Fillmore Street
Gene Howe
John McCarty
Eee eSars
Amarillo
Texas
Roosevelt
Paul V. McNutt
Burton K. Wheeler
F.D.R
Byrnes
South Carolina
Fdr
Jimmie
Capitol Hill
Defense Tax Ideas Stir Debate for Next Session
Bruce Catton reports from Washington on a proposed defense tax starter bill and looming measures. Senator Josh Lee advocates excess profits tax and tax-exempt bond limits to curb war financing, proposing bonded loans with property-based citizen classifications and Treasury-set purchase quotas.
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Washington
Congress
Josh Lee
Oklahoma
Lee
Jerome Frank
Leon Henderson
Senator Lee
Treasury
Unts
National Whirligig: Canada, U S War Outlooks and Empire Reform
Canadians and Americans visiting Britain discuss a cheerful mood amid heavy war costs. Belief in U S war entry, possible population growth in Canada, and a restructured empire with Ottawa as capital are explored. Analysts note democracy's strain on empire and war demoralization among New Dealers, plus political snippets about a Colorado GOP stance and spring optimism.
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United States
Canada
North American
Ottawa
British Isles
Great Britain
India
Alaska
Commonwealth
Stanley Bruce
Australia
England
Demand for Guardsmen Offers Repercussions
A June 4 report notes President Roosevelt seeks authority to call out the National Guard for a broad mobilization possibly totaling 400,000, with the First Army maneuvers planned in Plattsburgh on August 4. The piece discusses political effects, aviation licensing shifts with Britain's Rolls Royce engine offer, and U.S. public opinion on intervention versus non intervention during the early World War II period.
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Washington
National Guard
Burg
der Fuehrer
Britain
United States
Morgenthau
National Defense
Rolls-Royce
Henry Ford
General Motors
Hitler
Capitol Hill
Flanders
Great Britain
France
George Tucker on Manhattan's Yorkville and Walter Huston
In Yorkville New York Walter HustonReadies for Broadway by shaving on stage and in private view. The piece recalls Huston in Dodsworth and his onstage ritual while describing Yorkville’s evolution from German taverns to Spanish dancing amid lingering Bund memories.
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Walter Huston
Huston
William Saroyan
Broadway
Yorkville
Manhattan
Bund
Fritz Kuhn
America
East
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Hitler
U S Fleet Jobe in the Pacific Moves Toward Mainland
San Francisco June 4 The U S Navy plans and maneuvers in Lahaina Roads indicate a choice between keeping most of the Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor for further exercises or returning to the mainland to ease pressure on Japan. Mobilization and base readiness show rapid war preparation as the navy contemplates future operations in the Pacific and the evolving balance with Britain and Japan.
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Lahaina Roads
Lanai
Maui
Hawaiian
U. S
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Japan
Hawaii
Peay Harbor
Pacific Islands
Hawaiian Islands
Bremerton
Mare Island
San Diego
Hunters Point
San Francisco Bay
Far East
Pacific Ocean
Asia
Belgium
France
Tokyo
Germany
Mexico
Mazatlan
Mexican
United States
Atlantic
Boy Oh Boy in Lincoln College Drama
Rossy McAfee arrives at Lincoln College to pursue baseball and seek his father’s killer. He meets Judy Tollivar and settles into Dr Tollivar’s home as Coach Hurd guides him through campus life. He wrestles withmolded expectations, college civility, and his own hard past in Hell’n Damnation.
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Rossy McAfee
Lincoln College
Hurd
Judy Tollivar
President Tollivar
Rossy
Tolliver
Tollivars
Dace Tollivar
Tollivers
Hell
Shore
Dr. Tollivar
Hell'n Damnation
Hannah Shrider
McAfee
Hell’n Damnation Hall
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Colorado
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First Army of
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New England
Middle Atlantic
Platts
Poland
Norway
Holland
Dunkerque
George Tucker
New York
Dodsworth
Jobe
Raymond Lawrence
U. S. Atlantic
Harry Harrison Kroll
NEA Service, Inc
Judy
Hannah
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