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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1940
Page
5
A composite page item notes February 1924 post office status for Amarillo and Globe-News publishing details. It surveys consumer prices, autumn foods, and beef trends, alongside Uncle Sam’s wildlife sales and a library censorship stance urging scientific neutrality.
A southwestern Ohio housewife's egg trading leads Waldo H Dunn to study Washington. After decades, Dunn completes a biography that critics hail as lifelike. Carnegie urges persistence as the key to becoming an authority on any figure.
A columnist reflects on the 1940 campaign criticizing parts of the New Deal while affirming support for Franklin Roosevelt. The author credits Roosevelt’s long experience and knowledge of world affairs, praises Willkie, and argues unity over partisan division amid looming hard times.
Dorothy Thompson argues that the President, despite critics, is a peacemaker and wartime leader. He unified defense, reshaped the cabinet, and pursued conscription while seeking unity. He earned labor and industrial support and enjoys broad credibility abroad, making a third term a minor concern.
Janet Dwight resists wedding pressure from Lance Barstow and-time worn Barney McKnight at Breckenridge—house hunting leads to a modest flat. Barney shows fatigue and concern as Janet questions their future while financing tiny luxuries at a ten cent store and facing possible danger to their work. Aunt Mary’s monogrammed linens arrive, stirring reflection on loyalties and choices.
Janet decorates the upstairs sitting room of the White House with heirloom pieces and purchased rugs. She sews slip covers for chairs and arranges lamps and flowers to create intimate coziness, as Barney returns from the wars and reacts with affectionate surprise.
A word puzzle with horizontal and vertical clues listing various definitions. The puzzle asks for fitting terms like pictured bird largest bird egret jar blood insect and clues across many common vocabulary words with multiple entries to solve.
Quentin Reynolds recalls a hair raising night in a London shelter with 60 sleepers, a brown spaniel, and a rooftop vigil amid continuous anti aircraft fire. The roof escape, fires, and officers on scene lead to a weary dawn as London rises undaunted with tea ready and resolve intact.
Dr. Lewis Madison Terman studied California children with IQs above 140 and tracked them into adulthood. The group, dubbed Terman’s Kids, shows high earnings for many, diverse careers, and relatively stable marriages, with lower divorce and mortality rates than average.
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