Willkie visit spotlights Willkie and press fairness
A Colorado Springs visit with Willkie frames a columnist’s duties in interviewing a presidential candidate. The piece contrasts Willkie’s appeal with Roosevelt and Landon, notes radio and speech content as decisive factors, and cites training pilots and Civil Aeronautics efforts as broader wartime concerns.
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Willkie
Colorado Springs
Rockies
Pike's Peak
Mary Pickford
Mary
Mr. Willkie
Jie
Remais
Mr. Landon
Mr. Roosevelt
Wilkie
Roosevelt
Tie
Tus
Landon
Col. Frank Knox
Ogden Mills
Hoover
Mr. Hoover
Knox and Mills
Alfred Landon
Weekly News Review recounts largest Nazi air raid and global war alerts
The piece describes a claimed history’s greatest mass air raid with 1,000 Nazi planes over England from Scotland to Wales, including rail and Croydon airport hits, plus Mussolini’s Somaliland assault to control Suez and India lifelines. It notes aliens in the U S to register with fingerprinting and 15 questions in six languages.
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U. S
Wales
Scotland
Great Britain
Berlin
London
England
Midlands
Thames
Croydon
Europe
Germany
Thames Valley
Mussolinii
Africa
British Somaliland
Suez Canal
India
Gambie
Somaliland
Dismissal Report On 429 Refusing Nazi Bund Oath
A WPA commissioner announced that 429 work relief workers who refused to sign affidavits denying Nazi Bund or Communist membership have been discharged. The item also notes shifting headlines on naval ship naming, postmaster Farley’s new post, and evolving political debate with Wheeler and Willkie amid public policy talk.
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WPA
F. C. Harrington
Nazi Bund
Communist Party
Roosevelt
Bon Homme Richard
John Paul Jones
United States Navy
James A. Farley
Coca Cola Export Company
New York Yankees
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
Washington
Francis Biddle
Bund
Earl G. Harrison
Bermuda Protocol Etiquette Noted on Island Arrival
The duke and duchess of Windsor arrived in Bermuda while en route to the former king’s new post as governor of the Bahamas. Social precedent was shown by the wives of top matrons, Mrs Hastings Brooke and Lady Kennedy Purvis, who curtsied to the duke, while the duchess received a friendly nod.
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Duke
Duchess of Windsor
Bermuda
Bahamas
Hastings Brooke
Denis Kirwan Brooke
Kennedy Purvis
British will trade island for destroyers in wartime plan
Washington insiders report that Britain would exchange island possessions for U S destroyers and small craft, plus allow use of bases, under a deal discussed with Roosevelt aides. The plan, welcomed by many in government, awaits the President’s move amid war uncertainty. Also noted are polling cautions from Psychological Corporation and a grand jury probe into I G Farben and American magnesium production. Albert Bosche, a 14 year old senator in waiting, publishes Washington Memoirs.
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Washington
D.C
Great Britain
United States
Britain
Roosevelt
Stimson
Navy
Knox
Psychological Corporation
Henry C. Link
U.S. Rubber
Lord & Taylor
Gimbels Department Store
Fortune
P. C
Arthur V. Davis
Aluminum Corporation of America
Justice Department
Davis
Department
Germany
Grand Jury
New York
Capitol
Jim Farrey
Carter Glass
Albert H. Bosche
Senate
Special stamp requested for Mary Ball by Daughters of the American Colonists
The National Society of Daughters of the American Colonists asks the post office department to issue a Mary Ball commemorative stamp. A 1939 Japanese rayon yarn weighs 228,740,800 pounds and a $40 million fund supports army and navy veterans in China, Shina, and India. Japan ranks third among world rice producers, supplemented by imports.
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National Society of Daughters of the American Colonists
Post Office Department
Mary Ball
George Washington
Japan
China
Shina
India
Den mark withdraws autos amid severe gasoline rationing
Private automobiles and buses were withdrawn from use in Denmark due to severe gasoline rationing. About 60,000 vehicles were affected. Since 1917 the American public has increased consumption of salads malted milk whole milk fresh fruit canned fruit and fresh vegetables.
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Denmark
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France
Sence
General de Gaulle
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
National Association of Broadcasters
ASCAP
Broadcast Music, Inc
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Irving Berlin
George Gershwin
Jerome Kern
Victor Herbert
Cole Porter
Wendell L. Willkie
Des Moines
Iowa
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Wallace
White House
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Whee
Renn
Nevada
Golden
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U.S
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Coast Artillery
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Signal Corps
Medical Corps
Quartermaster Corps
U.S. Army
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Salt Lake City
KODAK
Ogden
Utah
Appliance Franchise Open
Itroprite Troner
Ironrite
Broadway
Salt Lake
Mayflower Cafe
South Main
Spa
Kraft Economy Film Service
Schramm-Johnson Drugs
KRAFT
Acousticon Institute
Craig
State St
Chevrolet
Dad Cole & Chaasia
Westminster College
Salt Lake City, Utah
Seldelnssen
The
Northwest Association
Mouern
Citalogue
Robert D. Steele
B.D. Prenitend
HOTEL
Ben Lomond
Ogden, Utah
Rotay — Hiwania
Chamber of Commerce and
Ad Cieb
Ben Lomond Ogden
Uta Comer As
Jouree PB. Pitegeraldster
Ketchum Builders
Ketchum’s Coal
Stoker
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