Diplomatic Tactics Shape Munich Crisis Analysis
Joseph W. LaBine critiques Rome Berlin and London strategies as they pursue rapid moves on Munich. The piece notes inconsistent guidance from Britain France and Italy and assesses potential diplomatic gains or missteps shaping the European crisis.
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Rome
Berlin
Munich
France
Britain
European turmoil widens as Poland fights for Danzig
The article traces Polish resistance to ceding Danzig and a corridor to East Prussia amid a shifting alliance map. It notes Britain France and Russia hedging positions, Italy and Germany forging a military pact, and the threat to Polish sovereignty amid Axis diplomacy and Soviet leeway.
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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
Czech
Munich
Atom Power May Now Be Readied For Practical Use
Dr A H Compton of Chicago told the southwest section of the AAAS that a pinhead of atomic power could someday drive an ocean liner from the United States to Europe. He called atomic power potentially revolutionary for heat and transport, warning it could be both a blessing and a curse.
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University of Chicago
A. H. Compton
Ing
Southwest
American Association For Advancement of Science
Compton
U. S
Europe
Earth
Roanoke Island ship hulk linked to Raleigh expedition
In the Roanoke Island area, a 1903 storm and a spring reshaped sand revealing a boat believed connected to Sir Walter Raleigh's cramster. A 100 CCC youths excavated the hulk and researchers link it to the lost 1584 colony, stirring questions about a wartime vessel’s origin and fate.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
Henry Culver-Gordon Grant
A. W. Drinkwater
North Carolina
Roanoke Island
Roanoke Island Historical Association
Sir Walter
Raleigh Cramster
Early Political Activity Sets Stage For 1940 Campaign
Washington notes that the 1940 campaign is already forming as Democrats debate leadership and policy direction while Republicans assess prospects. Roosevelt’s ongoing push for the New Deal, tax and debt worries, and unemployment shape cross‑partisan tactics and delegate battles ahead of the nominating conventions.
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Senate
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Garner
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Byrd
Virginia
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Hoover
Alf Landon
Landon
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al Smith
Western Newspaper Union
Television Pioneers and Royal Guard Tales From The Fair
A profile of Allen B Du Mont and his early television work at the New York World’s Fair, linking his basement experiments to a later Montclair lab and Paramount tie. Also a vivid portrait of Edward Starling, a Kentucky-born American who guards British royalty, aided by a career spanning White House secrecy and major assassinations, blending myth and service.
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Chicago
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Bloomfield
N. J
de Forest Radio Company
Baird
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Montclair
Paramount Pictures
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Albert Canning
Scotland Yard
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Paris
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Hopkinsville
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Forecasts of Wide Radio Reach and Global Church Unity
NBC President Len Lohr envisions ultra high frequency transmitters delivering TV from New York to Chicago via booster stations at 15 mile intervals. Bishop Frederick D Leete discusses a world wide union of three Methodist church branches. Mexican officials outline an oil land dispute settlement after talks between Donald Richberg and Lazaro Cardenas. British Prime Minister Chamberlain proposes a barter trade deal with the United States trading tin and rubber for wheat and cotton.
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Lenox R. Lohr
New York
Chicago
Frederick D. Leete
Deland, Fla
Methodist Church
America
Donald Richberg
Mexico
Lazaro Cardenas
Chamberlain
U. S
Britain
Ex Blanket Stiff Boils Down Our Labor Disputes
John R. Steelman, longtime government mediator in the Appalachian soft coal dispute, rose from Arkansas hoboes to head the conciliation service smoothing 4,231 labor disputes affecting 1,618,409 workers in 1938. He earned $9 a day in postwar days and holds a A B from Henderson College, an M A from Vanderbilt, and a Ph D from UNC.
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Arkansas
Henderson College
Vanderbilt
University of North Carolina
Conia Gates
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