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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1940
Page
2
World War II Update Pressing Advances Across Europe
Germany expands control from Poland to Norway and Belgium as Dutch and Belgian resistance stiffens. Britain consolidates refugees while Churchill vows resolve. Petain moves in France with Reynaud. Sweden shifts to neutrality as German iron and Swedish matches face export woes. United States and 20 Latin American states condemn Germany.
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Germany
Austria
Czecho Slovakia
Poland
Norway
Denmark
Holland
Belgium
Luxembourg
Memel
Saar
Russia
Italy
Japan
Spain
Hungary
Switzerland
Jugoslavia
Rumania
Sweden
England
France
Paris
Winston Churchill
Brussels
Namur
Liege
Louvain
Antwerp
Hitler
Ostend
Robert Ley
Churchill
Red Beast
Finland
United States
Verdun
Henri Philippe Petain
Paul Reynaud
Swedish
Lappland
POTOMAC POWER FOR Wants Money
The President urged Congress in a joint session to approve a billion dollars plus 50,000 warplanes for national defense. He sought 100 million in cash for emergencies while debates over debt limits and defense plans stirred Congress amid party and factional clashes. Roosevelt claimed delegates and growing support for a Third Term, with Pershing and Woodring commenting on peace and defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
U. S. Army
Roosevelt
Willkie
Indianapolis
Johnson
Norris
Wheeler
Old Pershing
Woodring
Garner
Chicago
Texas Jack
V. P
Looseana Civil War Retold With Fifth Column Cows
A humorous spoof recounts a mock Civil War in Looseana with 30 000 blue troops defending against 25 000 red Texans. It mentions a bizarre fifth column of cows sabotaging lines and a barbecue announcement by Governor Sam Houston Jones.
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Creole
Looseana
Uncle Sam
Texas
Russia
Dixie
Sam Houston Jones
Huey Longs
Anti Parachute Fervor Surges in Jeannette Group
In Western Pennsylvania Jeannette forms the first civilian anti parachute region with sharpies feared to target Pittsburgh industrial belt. Local editor Brust and marksman Landis lead the Jeannette parachute poppers as England’s war minister Sir Tony Eden organizes sharpshooters to combat cross-channel parachutists.
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England
Tony Eden
Willy Nilly
Jeannette
Pennsylvania
United States
Pittsburgh
Jeannette Is A Part. “‘Gauleiters’’ Brust and
Landis
The
Jeannette Parachute-Poppers
In Memoriam S. S. Harding
The former United States liner President Harding was sunk by bombs off the Belgian coast after being sold to a Belgian firm and renamed Ville de Bruges. Her loss recalls the Ohio Gang namesake as two new American destroyers Hughes and Monssen were launched in Puget Sound christened by their widows.
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United States
President Harding
Belgium
U. S
Harding
Ville de Bruges
Washington
Puget Sound
Hughes
Monssen
Yankee Jaw Power Weighs In On Biting Strength
The article notes that Americans are short on jawpower, with the 1940 average biting 125 pounds versus 171 pounds in the past. It contrasts Eskimo bite strength at about 300 pounds and attributes the decline to soft food.
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America
Dr. Gide
NAMES in the news and notable figures
The ex Kaiser, sheltered in Holland, reportedly loyal to his refuge while Junkers seek monarchist favor. Gen Maxime Weygand named Allied commander, replacing Gamelin, with roots in Belgium and French citizenship. Dorothy Thompson urges Roosevelt third term. George Sokolsky opposes. Long Island cat Tessie nurses a baby hyena from Frank Buck's jungle camp.
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Doorn
Holland
Wilhelm
England
Wilhelmina
Ferdinand Foch
Maxime Weygand
Allies
Germany
Near East
General Gamelin
Belgium
Dorothy Thompson
Republican Party
Roosevelt
George Sokolsky
Miss Thompson
United States
New York Herald Tribune
Long Island
Tessie
Frank Buck
Handy end tables of spools for the living room
Ruth Wyeth Spears explains a method to build rigid end tables using curtain rods and spool legs. She advises carrying a spool to shop for compatible rods, gluing spools to shelves and to each other, and references her Book No. 3 with 32 home projects available for 10 cents.
Ocean treasure rights disputed by insurance payments
Collier's argues that despite beliefs, sunken ship treasure becomes the property of underwriters once insurance is paid and wreck contents pass to them, denying universal hunter rights to immense sunken wealth.
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Collier’s
Idleness a Tomb: A Reflection on Living and Time
A compact aphorism likens idleness to a tomb that seals the living. The meditation underscores activity as essential to purpose, warning that wasted time becomes a final quiet for the soul.
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U.S
John Bull
State Department
Britain
Henri Petain
Potomac Power
Garer
Wendel Willkie
U.S. Civil War
Down In
Dutch East Indies
New York
White House
Odessa
Black Sea
Macy
Penn Patriots
S. S. Harding
George H. Chisholm
Yonkers
N. Y
Samuel Untermyer
Chisholm
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
Vist Iis
ST. Joseph
Nat Og Aie
Tandard
Firestone
Firestone Auto Supply and Service
Voice of Firestone
N. B. C. Red Network
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