Reversal of Foreign Policy Seen in U S and Britain
The piece notes a shift in policy as the Export-Import Bank extends a 25 million dollar loan to China financed by the Bank of China with five year maturity. Britain plans a 10 million pound export credit and a 450 thousand pound initial Chinese government loan for roads and trucks amid tensions with Nazi Germany. It also discusses Romania facing German economic pressure and Francoist Spain’s royalist moves, plus Washington’s 1940 political jockeying involving Hopkins and Garner.
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China
Japan
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Cordell Hull
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Canton
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Nanking
Orient
Tokyo
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U.S
Burma
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Great Britain
Chinese Exchange Equalization Fund
Germany
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Diplomatische Korrespondenz
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Romania
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Carol
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Austria
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Sudetenland
Reich
Commerce
Daniel Cooper
Homer Cummings
John Nance Garner
Garner
Roosevelt
Roper
WPA
Harry Hopkins
Congress
Mr. Hopkins
Western Newspaper Union
Patman Chain Store Tax Debated as 1939 Restart Looms
Congress eyed Rep Wright Patman proposal to tax chain stores by size and per state presence. Despite 73 sponsors, support waned and allies and foes prepared for a January 1939 House confrontation as public opinion split over chain influence on prices and employment.
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Texas
Wright Patman
Congress
District of Columbia
Patman
New York State
Uary
Colorado
U. S
Federal Trade Commission
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
American Federation of Labor
National Association of Retail Boards
New York
Caroline O’day
Forecasts of 1930s World Shifts and U S Policy Moves
The report outlines a predicted cancellation of the 1933 concordat with the Vatican to precede Nazi church laws, Japan’s push north and west of Canton to boost its war readiness, a rise in Export-Import Bank lending to boost Latin American trade, Roosevelt’s 1944 presidential bid, and a push by small business to create credit banks for tiny enterprises.
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Germany
Vatican
Japan
Canton
Tokyo
U. S. Export-Import Bank
Latin America
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Two Capitol Shows and a Railroads Money Debate
A skeptical column compares Congress to a two-ring circus with Trump cards and rubber stamps under attack from critics of the New Deal. It argues for a concrete national defense program and possible railroad subsidies to avert collapse, stressing jobs and lasting value over empty promises.
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Congress
White House
Capitol Hill
Senate
Real Stuff Actor I Must Have Real Food in Banquet Scene
Dialogue fragments show a manager insisting on real food for a banquet scene and a death scene with real poison. The boss warns Miss Jones to write carefully to Messrs Griffons and keep temper in check.
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Miss Jones
Messrs. Griffons
Hat humor in theater near comedy crowd
A woman in a fashionable hat sits in front of Jim during a show. She apologizes if her hat blocks his view and offers to remove it, but he replies the hat is funnier than the act. The exchange ends with a light hearted moment.
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Roosevelt
Jim
Ball Tonight Sparks Hedgehog Self-Doubt
Mr Rabbit asks Miss Hedgehog about going to the ball. She laments that none of the boys will dance with her.
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Mr. Rabbit
Miss Hedgehog
Stars of the Undie world headline on women's page
Conversation reports a quirky exchange about relationships and a humorous remark on appearance. A playful tease mentions a cousin, with a pun about hair being uncut for ten years and a bald joke.
Dancing the modern fast dances and weight jokes
In a witty exchange Ishka explains a fat person could slim by dancing the modern fast dances while Yagke counters that a thin person may gain weight by laughing at fat people attempting them. The brief exchange highlights humor on body size and fitness.
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