Globe News excerpt shows Mussolini and war talk
A long narrative collage from The Globe News features international tension with Mussolini, Chamberlain and Hitler, reporting on Sudetenland, Munich talks, and looming war. It also includes notices from Prague Berlin and a fiction ad about Bride From The Sky. The piece reflects era politics and cultural ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prague
Sudetenland
Germany
Hitler
Ed Murrow
London
Czechoslovakia
Chamberlain
Owe
Petershof
Rhine
Horace Wilson
Nevile Henderson
Ribbentrop
Dreesen
Goebbels
Goering
Keitel
Berlin
Mussolini
Daladier
Munich
Debutante Arrest Sparks Airport Prank Night Crowd
Judy, a debutante with bronze curls and a fragile white dress, tries to swear out a warrant but is arrested after endangering air travel with a phony landing. A crowd disrupts the scene as she is taken to Headquarters, then jailed for the morning court appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Milady
Hollywood
Judy Allen
Sandy Ammerman
Philip Rogers
Judy
Sandy
Peg Gordon
Phil
Judy Alien
Under
Afrpat
Jacy
Hope and Parsons lead Dixon visit in fond celebration
Alva Johnston reports on Bob Hope performing for veterans in Philadelphia and greeting Hollywood columnist Louelle Parsons in Dixon Ill. Miss Parsons recalls schooling here as Hope jokes about white writers. The piece blends humor, satire and Hope's showmaking methods with detours to Ronald Reagan and Bing Crosby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope
Veterans’ Hospital
Philadelphia
Angel Gabriel
Dixon
Ill
Louelle O. Parsons
Hollywood
Freeper
Ronald Reagan
al Boasberg
Boasberg
al Capone
Chicago
Bob
Washington
Ary
Cleveland
Roberta
Dolores Reade
Toluca Lake
Lena
Tony
Nightingale
Bing Crosby
Crosby
America
Cavalry
Colonna
Aoe
Readers Propose License Plate Reuse and City Upgrades
Letters to Your Ideas Editor offer ideas from Pat Bourassa on reusing old license plates to save metal and costs for defense, plus parking meters in Amarillo and emergency phone at busy intersections. Other readers suggest a curb chute for mail boxes and urge cooperation between drivers and pedestrians with editor notes critiquing the pan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat Bourassa
West Sixth Avenue
Amarillo
Amarila
Taylor Street
Betsy Gammill
Sunset Terrace
Sam Houston Junior High School
Stamps Gibraltar Guards Vital Gate to Mediterranean
Gibraltar, a British crown colony since 1713 and known as The Rock, guards the western gateway to the Mediterranean with guns and tunnels. The 1938 Coronation stamp honors King George VI and depicts the Rock from the north. Breakwaters, jetties, and naval facilities make the harbor a strategic base near Morocco and Algeciras.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Britain
George VI
George Rooke
Morocco
Algeciras
Spain
Bay of Gibraltar
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Amarillo Daily News
Glnbe-News Publishing Co
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Fillmore
Gene Howe
John McCarty
News and Business Department
Ek Kec
the Globe
George
Woodcock
Tom J. Davis
Rotary International
Baron Edmund von Thermann
Argentina
Paul V. McNutt
Federal Security Administrator
Clarence M. Hincks
Toronto
Parchiatrist
Wendell Willkie
Charles A. Lindbergh
America First Committee
William P. Merrill
Presbytery of
McConnell
OPM
Godesberg
S. S
Berlain
Sportpalast
Benes
William L. Shirer
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Bride
THE
Judy Alles
By Helen Welshimer
Esterd
Alva Johnston
Life
Robert Hugh Rose
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Louis Cornaro
Cornaro
Tissue Building
Fountain of Youth
Ponce de Leon
Globe-News
M. FE
Hughey
Hayden Street
Sam Black Groom
L. M. Johnson
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