Ability and Futility in Washington Debate on Arms Law
A Journal excerpt notes Senate session gridlock as Taft faces a quorum shortage while debating abrogating neutrality laws. It argues such debates rarely convert votes and serve as record for constituents, then shifts to military mobilization coverage with a Fort Dix doughboy supply report and Shirer’s war diary entries from Berlin on the 1940 invasion of the Low Countries and the Maginot Line breakthrough.
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United States
Seven Seas
Hitler
Slidler
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Washington
Senate
Low Countries
Berlin
Norway
Europe
Secandinavia
Germany
Holland
Ralph Barnes
Amsterdam
Belgium
Luxemburg
Britain
France
Reich
High Command
Lyon
Netherlands
Rotterdam
Holeland
Liege
Eben-Emael
Meuse ‘Maas
Alebert
Navi Dutch
Rundfunk
Zuider Zee
Albert Canal
Oberkommando
Utrecht
Imlaginot
Maubeuge
Carignan
Sedan
BBC
Rethel
Reims
Ruhr
Rhine
Brussels
Colossus
Aachen
William L. Shirer
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Front
Doorbell racketeers and San Quentin warden under fire
Digest spans two features about door to door frauds using charity fronts and fake "Oriental" goods, plus a profile of San Quentin warden Clinton Duffy pushing humane, trust-based reforms. The piece notes ruses, deceptive pricing, and Better Business Bureau cautions, with Duffy defending nontraditional methods like radios and movies to deter violence.
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New York
Satve
Boston
Better Business Bureaus
Coronet
Better Business Bureau
Profile of Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham
Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, 63, directs British defenses in the Far East and is a pioneer of military aviation. Born 1878 in Mendlesham Suffolk, he joined the Oxford Light Infantry, helped found an irregular air unit that led to the RAF, served on the Western Front, and held key commands including RAF Staff College and Kenya governor-general before returning as air chief marshal.
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United Press
Far East
Robert Brooke-Popham
Brookham
Popham
Brooke
Mendelsham
Suffolk
Haileybury
Royal Military Academy
Sandhurst
Oxford Light Infantry
Brooke-Popham
Royal Engineers
Royal Air Force
Brooke-Poplian
France
Vanbuard
Brooke- Popham
Imperial Defense College
Kenya
R.A. F
Canada
South Africa
Murder at Paradise Lake Mystery Unfolds
In a quiet Paradise Lake village Maudie O Connor and her daughter uncover the corpse of Herbert Cord near their cottage after a night stroll with Maudie s dog Finn McCool The discovery triggers fear and urgency as they realize a murder has occurred and must alert authorities amid local gossip and romance entanglements.
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Maudie O'Connor
Maudie
Paradise Lake
Chris Gordon
Millie Morris
Jeanie
Herbert Cord
Millie
Cord
Margie Dixon
Mary
McCool
Manidie
Beecause
Mattie
Murder at Paradise Lake Inevitable Vigil
A narrator and a clever Scottie dog guard the body of Herbert Cord at Paradise Lake after a murder. Maudie urges staying for police, while the narrator suspects jealousy and a crime of passion involving Margie Dixon or Jeanie Morris. The tension centers on who killed Cord and why as the night wears on.
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Gordon
Herbert Cord
Finn McCool
Scottie
Cord
Maudie
Margie Dixon
Jeanie Morris
Paradise Lake
Jeanie
Stamps Recall French Tennis Court Oath and Estates-General
Stamp depicts the 1789 Tennis Court Oath when the Third Estate refused to disband until a constitution was formed. The scene includes a clerical figure, likely Abbe Steves, urging clergy to join the commoners. The Estates-General framed a US-like constitution as a middle class challenge to the king.
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Legislative Assembly
States-General
Lois XVI
Versailles
France
Steves
Estates-General
United States
Year Agh Greek Drive Reaches Koritza and War Developments
Greek forces pushed 18 miles into Albania reaching Koritza near the Italian base as German raids on London mark the 300th since the war began. Britain seizes 24 Baltic ships amid war talks. Italy moves 20,000 workers to Germany after negotiations between fascist Italy and German labor groups. General Milan Nedic resigns as Yugoslav minister of war.
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United Press
Albania
Koritza
London
Britain
Germany
Confederation of Labor
German Labor Front
Milan Nedic
V Names Across History From The Letter V
A compact puzzle lists names starting with V across categories. It asks to identify a US president, an English queen, an Italian king, a US state, a US island possession, a South American country, a French author, an Italian composer, a 16th century explorer, a crooner and a film idol, a US family connected to railroads, and the Roman goddess of beauty along with a Scandinavian heaven.
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U. S
la Screen
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Great Prison Mess Hall
Clinton T. Duffy
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Machine Corps
James Holohan
Sir Robert Brooke-Popham
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Cay
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Brooks
Brandenburg Gate
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