Lessons on perseverance from Walter Scott to James Barrie
Dale Carnegie cites historical figures who faced hardship and kept creating. Walter Scott endured fever and financial ruin yet finished a Napoleon biography and two novels. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote amid blindness and weakness, producing The Requiem and other works. Sir James Barrie left Elizabeth Bergner $10,000 after backing The Boy David, reflecting loyalty and resilience.
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Sir Walter Scott
Walter Scott
Napoleon
Robert Louis Stevenson
James Barrie
Elizabeth Bergner
Barrie
Bergner
David
Elizabeth
Miss Bergner
McNaught Syndicate
German protest over Czech border incidents widens crisis
Berlin vows sharp official protest to Prague over Czech border violations and troops in Sudeten areas. Eisenlohr reports to Hitler and Ribbentrop. Berlin warns no pacification while Czech forces remain. Headlines bulk across papers in wake of killings of Sudeten Germans and alleged Czech air patrols.
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Webb Miller
Berlin
Germany
Prague
Czechoslovakia
DNB
Ernest Eisenlohr
Sudeten
Eisenlohr
Munich
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Eder
Dostech Mastny
Foreign Office
Great Britain
Gross-Schoenau
Hermsdorf
Klingenthal
Eger
Czechoslovak
Britain
Voelkischer Beobachter
Ellbogen
Zweelfurdblatt
Reich
Warsaw
Hitler
Milan Hodza
Hodza
Voelkischer Deobachter
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Konrad Henlein
Chamberlain
London
Paris
France
Rush for Follies Tickets Prompts Sellout Hopes
Five hundred people queued as the Junior Welfare League Follies ticket board opened at 8 am in Fox Drug Store. By noon over 1,500 seats were reserved for the Municipal Auditorium Saturday night with a 2,500 capacity, signaling a likely sell-out before Friday.
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Junior Welfare League
Phyllis Stanfield
Follies
B. M. Britain
Cranium Crackers Quiz Answers
The statements reveal: 1 beware of the purchaser. 2 baccate means pulpy. 3 Gertrude Ederle was a swimmer. 4 Savoyard lives in Savoie, France. 5 Joseph Jefferson was an American actor.
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Gertrude Ederle
Savoie
Joseph Jefferson
Cuba
Italy Is Left Holding Sack
The May 25 state of Europe notes tension on the Czechoslovak border with no war declared yet. The Anglo Italian accord, once seen as stabilizing, now fails to calm fears as Mussolini and Hitler are portrayed as duplicitous players and Spain remains unsettled, delaying peace prospects.
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Washington
State Department
Europe
Neville Chamberlain
Italy
Austria
Mussolini
Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Spain
Britain Sees Czech Crisis as Useful for Europe
London regards the Czech German crisis as a useful but tense moment. British and French firmness so far restrain Germany’s aims while Daladier and Chamberlain coordinate to deter aggression. Britain prepares credits and trade plans with Turkey to counter German economic pressure and bolster regional influence.
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Sir Arthur Willert
North American
London
Europe
Prague
Germany
France
Britain
Central
Spain
Franco
Paris
Chamberlain
Czechoslovakia
Daladier
Berlin
Turkey
Washington
Weather forecast for Amarillo and nearby regions
The Amarillo area forecast calls for partly cloudy conditions tonight and Thursday with slightly warmer readings in the extreme southeast. West Texas sees similar partly cloudy skies with little temperature change. New Mexico expects fair weather tonight and Thursday with a high around 80 and a low near 58, no precipitation in the last 24 hours. Amarillo Shade and Equipment Co.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
WPA Funds for Grasshopper Fight Nears Approval
Congressman Marvin Jones wired that Works Progress Authority funds for labor are practically assured to combat a grasshopper plague across 26 counties. The plan calls for 247 laborers at mixing plants and 26 junior and 13 senior field workers plus clerks and a supervisor. Officials say funds for labor and poison supplies total 137,048 dollars with work starting as soon as San Antonio confirms orders.
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Marvin Jones
Amarillo
Congressman Jones
Jay Taylor
Plains
Texas
H. P. Drought
Bureau of
Department of Agriculture
Jones
Central Committee
Meredith
San Antonio
Two Get Stiff Dope Terms In Amarillo Case
Mary O'Dare and Ray Tilghman tied to a dope racket after Raymond Hamilton's execution. Judge James C. Wilson gave harsh federal terms. Tilghman to 10 years in Leavenworth plus 10 years suspended for five. Mary four to five years with five years suspended. Probation follows release if suspension holds. See NARCOTICS Page 3
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Mary O’dare
Ray Tilghman
Raymond Hamilton
Amarillo
James C. Wilson
Tilghman
Leavenworth
Mary
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O'Malley
Morazan
England
Davies
Insurance! Neely-Greenhill Agency
Joseph Alsop and
Robert Kintner
North American Newspaper Alliance
British Foreign Office
London Times
Amarillo Shade & Equip. Co
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Teger
Vienna
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Poland
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