Stassen Emerges as Lone Wolf in 1940 GOP Race
Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, 39, described as a lone wolf candidate, faces opposition from professional politicians for his early announcement and anti-establishment stance. The piece notes his rise from a soil-farmer family, college work, and a military record under Admiral Halsey, framing him as a dynamic but controversial potential president.
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Harold Stassen
Stassen
Minnesota
Farmer-Labor Party
Roscoe Drummond
The
Christian Science Monitor
Admiral Halsey
Dewey
Taft
Vandenberg Won't Fight for Presidency This Year
The article notes Sen. Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg of Michigan led a secret Republican poll on presidential preference and states he is not a candidate. It highlights his nonpartisan foreign policy stance, Marshall Plan support, and skepticism about the Truman Doctrine while acknowledging his rising stature in international affairs.
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Republican Party
Stassen
Credible
Repub
Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg
Michigan
Roy Roberts
The
Kansas City Star
Gen
Eisenhower
Vandenberg
Willkie
Greece
Turkey
Truman
Congress Set for Special Session to Address Prices and European Relief
President Truman calls Congress to convene on November 17 in a special session to tackle rising domestic prices and urgent foreign relief in Western Europe. James Byrnes rebuts critics of force against the USSR while urging a German peace conference. In a prison case, Kansas inmate James S. Payne is found to have ingested three and a half pounds of metal during surgery.
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Man
Truman
U. S
Cument
Europe
France
Italy
James F. Byrnes
Germany
U.S
Great Britain
Soviet Union
Security Council of the
U. N
Byrnes
James S. Payne
Kansas State Prison
Payne
South American Powers Break Diplomatic Ties with Russia
Brazil and Chile sever relations with Russia amid protests over alleged hostile press articles and Soviet support of communist influence. Chile also cuts ties with Czechoslovakia as part of a broader anti Communist stance affecting Copper and strategic materials. The moves raise questions about stopping Communist penetration through diplomacy.
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Brazil
Chile
Russia
Pres
Enrico Gaspar Dutra
Dutra
Truman
Hitler
U. S
Gabriel Gonzalez Videla
Farm disaster looms as rain is needed for wheat survival
Crop experts warn drought risks threaten wheat fields across the plains. In the Texas Panhandle and neighboring states farmers face low topsoil and subsoil moisture, reducing pasturage and forcing livestock liquidation as winter kill looms and wheat prices rise above three dollars a bushel. The drought endangers grain and cattle pasture, with dire implications for 1930s style dust bowl conditions.
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Texas Panhandle
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
Erosion Prevention Rules from Michigan State Experts
W. J. DRYDEN reports on late spring floods and soil losses, with four MSU guidelines to curb water erosion. Maintain vegetation over winter, diversify crops on steeper slopes, employ strip cropping cross slope seeding sod waterways terraces, and keep soil fertile with lime fertilizers and organic amendments.
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W. J. Dryden
Michigan State
Soil Building Versus Mining Boosts Illinois Yields
At the Ewing soil experiment field in Illinois two plots compare soil building with no treatment. Fertilized soil with lime phosphate and potash, plus corn stalk return, yields four times more corn and oats and about eight times more wheat. Clover grows only on the fertilized plot, and organic matter plus nitrogen rise by 4.6 tons and 460 pounds respectively.
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Ewing Soil Experiment Field
Illinois
Farm Hints That Pay In Better Products
The Cornell results align with earlier calf scours vitamin tests in Michigan and Ohio. Sulfa drugs show promise with sulfaguanidine and the faster acting sulfathiazole, especially when combined with kaolin and pectin, outperforming single agents. Also advised is using paper twine instead of binder twine to avoid wool contamination and dye failure.
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Cornell
Michigan
Ohio
Scientists Develop New Slow Fertilizer
Asail scientists have created a slow acting nitrogen fertilizer named uniform. It combines urea and formaldehyde to feed crops over a long growing period. Production will be limited due to shortages of the main components, but early field and greenhouse tests are very satisfactory.
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Asail
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