Russian Drive Into Romania Alters European War Picture
Weekly analysis by Roger Shaw notes Russia’s oscillating Balkan actions as Poland and Finland gains blur the continental war. The piece cites Romania regaining Bessarabia and Danube mouths, with King Carol’s flirtation with Germany and Italy amid regional shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rumania
G.O.P
Willkie
McNary
Russia
Polonia Restituta
Finland
Viborg
Viipuri
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Czar
Bessarabia
Danube
Black Sea
King Carol
Germany
Italy
Hungary
Bulgaria
Reflections on World Leaders and 1940 Campaign Turn
The piece cites George Bernard Shaw on military communism and France. It then recalls Balbo and Mussolini, Libyan policy, Balbo's death, and Italy's impact on England. It covers the 1940 Republican convention with Willkie, Dewey, Taft, and McNary, plus Roosevelt and Willkie exchanges signaling an early campaign mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bernard Shaw
England
France
Germany
G.B.S
Hitler
Churchill
Petain
Russia
Lenin
Philadelphia
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Dewey
Taft
Willkings
Dewbirds
Roosevelt
Charles McNary
Oregon
Rumors and fears swirl around Neville Chamberlain return as peace hopeful
Rumors in conservative Britain praise Chamberlain while denials persist. In New York, some expect peace by September. Global tensions rise as Germany threats, French Indo China, Italy, and Japan loom. Domestic unrest includes a Wyoming pacifist attacked as fifth column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neville Chamberlain
Churchill
Chamberlain
Neville
Old England
Seven Seas
British Isles
England
New York
Germany
Rumania
Russia
Bulgaria
Hungary
Japan
Morocco
Malta
Italy
Marshal Petain
Winston Churchill
Uruguay
London
America
U.S. Industry Faces Dictators Slave Labor Challenge
William Bruckart warns that Hitler Mussolini wreck France trade by destroying Hull treaties and forcing a global labor race to the bottom. He argues American mills and farms cannot compete with dictator labor and urges focusing defense at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
NAMES in the news from the Advertising Federation meeting
At the thirty sixth annual convention in Chicago the Advertising Federation of America chose Elon G Barton advertising director of La Salle Extension University as president. Other notes mention Mrs Wendell Willkie and Mrs Franklin Roosevelt. Dr Wilhelm Stekel, once Freud’s top analyst, died in London at 74.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Advertising Federation of America
Elon G. Barton
la Salle Extension University
Wendell Willkie
Wilk
Indiana
Franklin Roosevelt
Roosevelt
American Panama Canal Zone
Panama Canal Department
Jacob Devers
U. S.A
Wilhelm Stekel
Wilhelm Stekel, Once Dr. Freud
London
Freud
England
Stekel
Final liquidation of the League of Nations ends era
The ailing League of Nations liquidated itself with 89 employees given notice in Geneva. Woodrow Wilson, Sir Robert Cecil, and General Jan Smuts had built the league in 1919. Many hoped it would rise again from its 1940 ashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League of Nations
Geneva
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Robert Cecil
Jan Smuts
South Africa
Germany
League
Japan marks 2600th founding birthday with cake in New York
Kensuke Horinouchi Japan's ambassador to the United States cuts an ornate birthday cake during ceremonies in New York celebrating the 2600th anniversary of the founding of the Japanese empire. Sideline chatter wondered if Japan could cut its cake in China and still have it too.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kensuke Horinouchi
Japan
U. S
New York
China
US industry warns on world market postwar disruption
Washington correspondent William Bruckart foresees a closing world market for American products due to the European war. He predicts farmers and manufacturers will struggle to compete with materials from dictator countries using forced labor and urges that charity begins at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Russia
United States
Europe
America
William Bruckart
Washington
U. S
Bruckart
Brightest Lights, Silent Myths and Surprising Facts
The article claims the US Army owns carbon arc searchlights of 800 million candlepower visible up to 200 miles. It asserts myths about double joints and racial testing, notes crested wheatgrass roots totaling 319 miles, and states Americans pay more federal income tax than residents of about a dozen states collect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Army
Brahman Fear of Meat Pollution Sparks Purifying Bath
Collier's notes that many orthodox Brahmans in India fear pollution by animal flesh and perform a purifying bath even after receiving a letter from a meat-eating country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Collier’s
Industrial Diamonds Applications Across Industries
Industrial diamonds or defective diamonds are widely used in industrial establishments. Large quantities are consumed for grinding wheels tracing, mineral boring, wire drawing dies, and sawing hard stone. They are also employed in glass beveling works, optical and horological uses, and machinery for cutting fiber metals and hard compounds.
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Roger Shaw
Western Newspaper Union
Carol of
Berlin
Rome
Mr. Shaw
U. K
Mr. Balbo
Hudson River
Italo Balbo
Balbo
Mussolini
Benito
Libya
Egypt
F.D.R
Mars
Federal Reserve Banks
Wyoming
Boston
Joe Lee
George Washington
Henry Ford
Morgenthau
Washington Digest
Hull
National Press Bldg
Washington, D. C
Cordell Hull
Department of State
Hall
Mr. Hall
Mr. Hull
Asia
Cordell Hall
Jayne
Dept. M-4
Dr. D. Jayne & Son
Vine St
Morg World
Larg
John Willis Ring
Harold Somera, Inc
de Kalb Ave
B'kiyn
N.Y
Ovid
Owder
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