Census Tussle Clouds 1940 U S Decennial Counts
Washington telegrams stir friction over census questions and penalties as Census Director William Austin contends with noncompliant locals in Racine and Kenosha. The piece traces congressional wrangling over personal data, anti personal question debates, and looming April field operations.
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Franklin Roosevelt
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Autherty
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Austin
Vass
Congress
House
Chie
NLRB
Agriculture
Farm Credit Administration
Department of Agriculture
Seabiscuit’s Comeback Triumph At Santa Anita
The Seabiscuit Johnny Pollard duo staged a famed return at Santa Anita, with Seabiscuit winning the $100 handicap in record time. Crowds of 75,000 hailed the victory, boosting Seabiscuit to the era’s top money winner surpassing Sim Beau, as rival claims of rigged results circulated.
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the Biscuit
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Seabiscuit
New England
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Tanforan
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Kayak TI
Hoyward
Kayak Wy
Lexbiscuit
Sim Beau
Equipoise
Phar Lap
Gallant Fox
Zev
Mate
Who's News This Week in Business and Culture
A roundup featuring George W. Hill of American Tobacco defending executive incentive pay amid a stockholder challenge, plus notes on radio innovation advances by Maj. Ed win F. Armstrong, Columbia professor. Adeleine Carroll details from Europe and Hollywood, highlighting her charity work for French civilians and early career.
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George W. Hill
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Maj
Edwin F. Armstrong
Columbia
Jee de Forest
Hayloft
Alpine
N. J
Adeleine Carroll
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Moving Picture
Five to six cities to start cotton clothing relief plan
Patterned after the surplus foods stamp program a cotton stamp plan for distributing clothing to relief families will start this month in five or six cities. The plan follows a wartime relief approach and aims to provide clothing assistance to needy families across communities.
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War Department
Aberdeen
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Brazil
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Palestine
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General George C. Marshall Welcomed by Hawaii Air Review
U S Army Chief General George C. Marshall arrived in Hawaii to a flyover by 60 army planes. An in-flight collision of two ships led to parachute evacuations. The allied delegation including Frank Ashton-Gwatkin and Charles Rist aimed to ease U S anger over German blockade effects. They met Secretary of State Cordell Hull in Washington before a Vatican note announced Samuel A. Stritch as Chicago archbishop.
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Charles Rist
U. S
I. S
Washington
Cordell Hull
Samuel A. Stritch
Chicago
Maiden voyage ends as Mirabeth achieves superlatives
Britain’s Garen Mirabeth completes her maiden voyage in New York amid record praise. A massive testing machine at the Pavy Aluminum Company of America in New Kensington proves its strength by breaking a solid oak log and striking an egg, causing a chick to jump out.
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Garen Mirabeth
New York
New Kensington
Pavy Aluminum Company of America
Strange Facts and Versatile Products From Everyday Life
The article notes continuous growth in many organisms including trees and shellfish. It highlights over 400 nonfood farm uses for products like corn adhesives and egg in leather dressing, then mentions cultural customs in Japan, transatlantic clippers carrying more mail than rated, and a logistics note about clippers complying with post office mail.
Quote of Patrick Henry on liberty and virtue
The excerpt emphasizes that no free government or liberty can endure without justice moderation temperance frugality and virtue and a constant commitment to fundamental principles quoted as from Patrick Henry
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Fatrick Henry
Women Believe "Trying Day" by taking Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
An ad copy touts Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as boosting physical resistance and nutritional assimilation. It claims women can endure a trying day by taking the tonic, which is promoted for health benefits.
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Dr. Pierce
Fortune Shifts With Age Gratian Insight Quote
A Maxim on aging states that power comes with youth at twenty, wit at thirty, and judgment at forty, reflecting a Latin proverb attributed to Gratian.
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Gratian
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