Television and security feats mark a changing world
A New York World's Fair debut centers on television with Allen B. Du Mont leading the charge from his Montclair lab after quitting in 1931 to pursue the cathode ray idea. The piece profiles Du Mont, his climb from tube engineer to chief, and parallels with British TV development. Also highlighted is DL Edward Starling, an American guard linked to royal protection, and John R. Steelman, a former migrant labor mediator who rose to head the government conciliation service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
John Logie Baird
Allen B. du Mont
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Westinghouse Company
Bloomfield
N. J
Antil
de Forest Radio Company
Baird
Mr. du Mont
Montclair
Paramount Pictures
England
du Mont
Edward Starling
Albert Canning
Scotland Yard
White House
Clemenceau
Paris
Woodrow Wilson
Hopkinsville
California
Theodore Rooseveltt
Secret Service
Congress
McKinley
John R. Steelman
Arkansas
Henderson College
Vanderbilt
University of North Carolina
Consolidated News Features
WNU Service
U. S
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
A. F. of L. Union
Mr. Steelman
John Lewis
Huch
Dog House
Diplomacy and Axis Links Tilt Europe Toward War
In a tense panorama, Poland resists Danzig demands as Britain France drift toward appeasement. Germany Italy forge a military pact aiming to pressure Poland while Moscow offer shows of force or isolation. China endures Japanese bombing as Chiang Kai-shek shifts capital to Chengtu amid refugee influx and Soviet-British friction.
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Poland
Germany
Danzig
East Prussia
Britain
France
Josef Beck
Ignace Moscicki
Europe
Moscicki
Mediterranean
Russia
Maxim Litvinov
Moscow
Rome
Berlin
Milan
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Galeazzo Ciano
Axis
London
Italy
Adolf Hitler
Mussolini
Munich
Chiang
Chungking
China
Chengtu
Tokyo
Early Political Activity Signals Bitter 1949 Campaign
Western Newspaper Union summary notes rising Democratic and Republican tensions as 1940 race looms. It highlights New Deal doubts, internal party schisms led by Garner and Byrd camps, and Old Liner attacks on Roosevelt policies. Voter discontent grows over government growth, taxation fears, and persistent unemployment as candidates mull strategy.
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House
Senate
Roosevelt
Garner
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Byrd
Virginia
Gibbs McAdoo
al Smith
Mr. Roosevelt
Western Newspaper Union
NBC Foresees Ultra High Frequency TV Link
NBC president Len R Lohr envisions boosters every 15 miles from New York to Chicago to transmit television programs despite distance limits. Bishop Frederick D Leete of Deland urges a world wide three-branch Methodist union. Mexican officials discuss oil land controversy after talks between Donald Richberg and Lazaro Cardenas. British PM Chamberlain anticipates barter trade with the United States trading tin and rubber for wheat and cotton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NBC
Lenox R. Lohr
New York
Chicago
Frederick D. Leete
Deland, Fla
Methodist Church
America
Donald Richberg
Mexico
Lazaro Cardenas
Chamberlain
U. S
Britain
Household Questions and Simple Home Remedies
Mice avoidance with camphor near books, refrigerator deodorizing with charcoal, sealing salt shaker tops with melted paraffin, onion odor removal with mustard on hands, and wasting tea cleaning windows by pouring into a bottle with glycerine.
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York
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Suez Canal
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Tunisia
Asia
Nanking
Yangtze
Hankow
Szechwan Province
Chiang Karshek
Japan
Brackart
Washington Digest
William Brackart
National Press Bidg
Washington, D. C
New Deal
Photography
Reese
Suppery Heck
Metro Welody
Willals Publishers
Geary
San Francisco
Nancy
Porto Hicas
Piaint
Ferry
Sexson
Detroit
Fae
Ferey
Fungry Defenders
William Penn
Doans
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