How to Pay for New Conflict Is Europe's Biggest Problem
This column surveys Britain's 1940 wartime finances and debt, the 1939 and 1940 tax increases, and Sir John Simon's budget measures. It notes Allied and Axis moves, U.S. neutrality debates, and the shifting balance of power in Europe with emphasis on Russia's rising influence and German diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Great Britain
Britain
Adolf Hitler
John Simon
House of Commons
John
Commons
Sir John
Russia
Josef Stalin
Notable Names Surface In Separate News Items
Grover Cleveland Berg Doll, a World War draft dodger who fled to Germany, testified in a New York trial that he had returned to the United States twice on false passports in 1920 and 1935. Pierce Butler, a U S Supreme Court justice, suffered a bladder ailment. Francis J Gavin, veteran northwest railroader, was named president of the Great Northern line. Robert E Woodruff was rumored as Erie road's next chief. King Christian X of Denmark, 69, lay ill with a heart attack and Virginia Senator Carter Glass was also reported ill.
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Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Germany
New York
U. S
Pierce Butler
U. S. Supreme Court
Francis J. Gavin
Northwest
Great Northern Line
Robert E. Woodruff
Erie Road
King Christian X
Washington
Virginia
Carter Glass
Rope Save on Deck Ends Shipboard Daring Fall
In a July 1926 tale aboard the S. S. Cornelia between New York and the West Indies, radio operator Herman Wallin slips overboard after stepping into open space near two boat davits. A missing rope and a guest line save him as crew lower a rope ladder to haul him back aboard, with repairs and new lines set afterward.
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Herman R. Wallin
Brooklyn
N. Y
Herman
Herman Wallin
S. S. Birkenhead
S. Cornelia
New York
West Indies
Cornelia
Lot
Western Newspaper Union
Nassau Vacation Spot Through Pirates to Leisure Invaders
Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, evolved from a pirate stronghold into a self governing British colony famed for clean streets and colonial police. The Twentieth century brought leisure invaders, with golf clubs and pools replacing forts as tourism reshaped Nassau’s waters and coral beaches.
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West Indies
New World
England
France
Spain
Nassau
Bahamas
West Indies Sea
Bahamian
Decorative Initials Sew Pattern Transfer 2274
Pattern 2274 features two 1 inch and one 1.5 inch alphabet with satin buttonhole seed stitch and cutwork. Send 15 cents, name, address to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept New York for this transfer pattern.
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Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
N. Y
Living by Sports and Steady Work Ethic
The piece contrasts two life patterns: steady, unquestioned routine versus bursts of zeal and achievement followed by despair. It notes that some persist with ordinary effort, while others burn bright with passion, then suffer downswings, and ends with a promotion of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a long standing tonic for women.
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Joseph IP
Labine
North Sea
Norway
Denmaark
Berl
Reich
London
Admiralty
Winston Churchill
Mr. Churchill
Warsaw
Poland
Western
Fronz
Aller
Siegfried
Maginot
Zweibruecken
Saar
Merzig
Saarbruecken
French War Office
Maginot Line
Edouard Daladier
Council of Ministers
Los Angeles
Josephine Mair
U.S
Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt
Texas
Martin Dies
American Legion In Convention
Federal
Interallies Des Ancien Combattants
Congress
Franklin Roosevelt
Key Pittman
Cordell Hull
White House
Arthur Vandenberg
Legislative Branch
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Department of Agriculture
Burlington
America
Moscow
Joachim von Ribbentrop
von Ribbentrop
Kremlin
Balkan
Baltic
Austria
Czecho-Slovakia
Herr Hitler
Balkans
Esthenia
Karl Selter
Esthenian
Latvia
Lithuania
Turkey
Sukru Saracoglu
Black Sea
Rumania
Hhs
Herr von Ribbentrop
Berlin
Viacheslav M. Molotov
Baltic States
Hitler
Stalin
der Fuehrer
Benito Mussolini
Dawitt
Viacheslav Molotov
Herr Fitler
Hoyd Gibbons
Adventurers’ Club
Propertius
Adele
Bishop Hall
Sydney
Doan
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