New York Night Life in Electric Glow and Quiet Corners
A vivid panorama of New York's streets and scenes from bustling Broadway to dim waterfronts. It notes shoe shiners, ice cream parlors, barber lamp light, night club chairs, and lonely Yankee Stadium, pairing city vitality with urban solitude. The piece includes a wry take on journalism and a vignette about Chinese and Japanese wartime theater, finishing with a quip about musicians and Monday closings.
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New York
Bith St
Clinique Des Pieds
Broadway
Radio City
47Th
Yankee Stadium
U S Japan tensions rise as citizens sent home and mobilization grows
The weekly analysis notes strained U S Japan relations after Axis ties and threats of war. It cites the state department order for Americans in the Near East to return, Japan press hostility, and proposals to curb U S aid to Britain. It lists conscription prep, nurse activations, and naval reserves called into service as U S mobilization steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S.-Japan
Far East
Japan
America
Americans
Tokyo
Italy
Berlin
Washington
United States
Britain
Prince Fumiomaro Konoye
England
Burma
China
State Department
Near East
Burma Road
U.S
Japanese Press Association
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Guam
Midway Islands
Mussolini
Canada
U. S
Campaign drama and policy stances roil election week
In the month before Election Day candidates campaign across states with Roosevelt touring steel towns in Pennsylvania and Ohio while Wille criticizes New Deal defense policy. A Columbia University president advocates restricting academic freedom, while other contemporaries debate wartime policy and draft issues. Wilhelm Muhlenbroks, a California kidnapper, receives a life sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendell L. Wille
East
New England
Midwest
New York State
Ohio
Illinois
Missouri
America
Hitler
Europe
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Terrace Village
U. S. Housing Authority
White House
Rame Dispatch i
Hat Day
United States
Minnesota
Henry A. Wallace
Charles A. McNary
Washington
Federal Works Administration
Navy
Congress
King of England
District of Columbia
Steve Vasilakos
Red Cross
Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbroks
California
Count
Countess de Tristan
Conscription Leaves Army Short on Medical Delivers and Uniforms
The draft army plans to build a medical and dental corps of 12 000 doctors and 2 287 dentists by July 1 1941 with recruits from the Medical and Dental Reserve National Guard and volunteers. Nurses will come mainly from Red Cross registers and wear warrant officer status. The piece also notes Balkan diplomacy under pressure from Axis forces and the high cost of officer uniforms, plus war effects on rat poison supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Army
Red Cross
John McCormack
Massachusetts
U. S
Middlesex College
Middlesex
Mass
Chicago
Illinois
Georgia Woman Joins Congress as Ninth Female Delegate
Mrs. Florence Reville Gibbs, a 100 pound grandmother with a southern accent, was elected to Georgia’s seat to fill her late husband’s unexpired term. She becomes the ninth woman in Congress.
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Congress
House of Representatives
Florence Reville Gibbs
Georgia
Gibbs
Household Questions and Small Kitchen Tips
Practical advice covers baking timing for medium apples and keeping plants safe from drafts. Homemade storage for a handsaw via heating and fat rubbing, plus glycerine to remove tea and coffee stains from linen. Clever fillings for graham bread sandwiches and enhancing meringues with shredded meats and nuts.
Bayer Aspirin for fast relief of neuralgia and rheumatic pains
The notice extols Bayer Aspirin as one of the fastest and most effective pain relievers for neuralgia head aches and rheumatic neuritis. It claims quick relief at low cost and urges buyers to insist on the full name Bayer Aspirin rather than substitutes or generic aspirin.
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Alexander Woollcott
Lawrence Barrett
Brander Matthews
Jimmy Young
Young
Shanghai
Asia
Maine Stein
Oscar Levant
Jimmy Petrillo
Musicians’ Union
Edward C. Wayne
Western Newspaper Union
Fu Siao-en
Zung Tsu-en
National Guard
Naval Reserve
Agnes €. Rasele
Wrstington
D. C
Army Nurse Corps
Knox
Unte
Horee
Capp Borden
U. S -Canadian Defense Board
Stimson
Bolivia
Columbia
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Guatemala
Honduras
Panama
Peru
Uruguay
Panama Canal
Brenner Pass
Brennero
Pass
Alps
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Romania
French
London
House of Lords
Neville Chamberlain
Ernest Begin
Krupp
Essen
Cologne
Hamm
Hamburg
Wilhelmshaven
Stettin
Politics
Freedom
Columbia U
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Rush Holt
W. Va
Bennett Clark
Balkan
Balkans
Russia
Axis
Mussolim
Moscow
Rumania
Ialian
Turkey
Istanbul
Straits
Stalin
Bessarabia
Bukovina
Quartermaster Corps of the Army
Mediterranean
Department of Agriculture
Eagle Squadron
New York Society
William E.G. Taylor
Taylor
U. S. Marine Corps Reserve
Burke
W. N.jowa
Chile
Salt Lake’s
Temple Square
Mormon Temple
Ernest C. Rossiter
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