European War Gathers Steam Through Preliminary Skirmishes
War analysis notes growing global involvement as Britain, Canada, and South Africa mobilize while Germany and Slovakia face opposing blocs. It cites shifting alliances, propaganda battles, and leadership figures Goebbels and Goering shaping perception amid early hostilities.
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Britain
Union of South Africa
Germany
Canada
Mackenzie King
Slovakia
Ccu
Great Britain
United Kingdom
Australia
New Zealand
DBR Oge
Seneca da
Allied fronts shift as war spreads across Europe
The report traces early WW II moves from Poland to France and Germany. It notes Italian attitudes toward France, battles near Saarbrucken, pressure on the Maginot line, and French plans via Italy. It covers eastern front oscillations, Polish mobilization, and growing naval threats as Britain and France face submarine warfare and mine hazards near Irish waters.
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Adolf Hitler
Poland
Saarbrucken
France
Maginot Line
Switzerland
Black Forest
Austria
Rome
Italy
Hitler
Austria-Hungary
Edward Smigly-Rydz
Bugg
Vistula
London
Berlin
Russia
Moscow
West
Red Bear
Pravda
Germany
Bremen
New York
Iceland
Mexico
South America
Manhattan
Ile de France
Europe
Kosti
Baltic
Backfire of War Forces U S to Manage Neutrality and Readiness
Roosevelt faced two conflicting aims to stay out of war and ready for it while markets, inflation, and neutrality laws tugged at normalcy. The White House paused Congress as Borah warned against hasty changes, while a national emergency expanded armed forces and FBI. Draft potential looms with about 1,000,000 men possible within 90 days of a war declaration.
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Europe
Franklin Roosevelt
U. S
Wiseacres
Wall Street
Congress
White House
Washington
Idaho
William E. Borah
FBI
Woodring
Joint
Army and Navy Selective Service Committee
News Quiz on War News and Current Affairs
A light feature presents five questions about war coverage and public affairs with a scoring note. It mentions a Baltimore lady and her husband, Father Divine’s rumored new five story heaven site, a U S navy air force disaster, an antitrust suit status, and a controversial remark triggering a rumpus, with answers supposedly at the bottom of the column.
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Baltimore
Father Divine
Heaven
Walla Walla
Philadelphia
Chicago
Newport
Bombay
Europe
U. S. Navy
U. S. Justice Department
American Medical Association
News Quiz Answers Summary Report
The document lists five quiz items: 1. The duchess of Windsor and her exiled husband repatriated by England. 2. Philadelphia as a location. 3. Six fliers killed in a patrol bomber crash near San Diego. 4. False claim that the U S Supreme Court was asked to review a district court’s dismissal of indictments. 5. Alleged remark by J Warren Madden of the National Labor Relations Board revealed during senate committee hearing.
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Duchess of Windsor
England
Philadelphia
San Diego
U. S. Supreme Court
District of Columbia
J. Warren Madden
National Labor Relations Board
Senate Labor Committee
NLRB
Crooks Take Advantage of War to Bleed Consumers
Washington Digest reports wartime profiteering and price gouging by racketeers. Public sentiment and force are urged to curb abuses as prices rise and shortages worsen for citizens.
Profit System Under Attack from War Time Prices
The author defends the profit system while blasting a minority of business interests for price gouging during wartime. He cites retailers and wholesalers raising prices without cost increases, warns of racketeering and hoarding by consumers, and argues public sentiment is the key check on profiteering. He dismisses likely legislation and urges honest businessmen to pressure internal reform.
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Washington
Europe
United States
Baltimore
Department of Commerce
Department of Labor
Roosevelt
North
South America
Simple Scrap Quilt Colorful and Gay Pattern
From a scrap bag pleasant colorful patches form a gay quilt with options for a pillow or scarf. Pattern 2216 provides pieces, diagrams, cutting and sewing steps, yardage chart, and finishing guidance. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave New York with name address and pattern number.
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Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
Let him who regrets a loss of time reflect on future use
A quoted aphorism from O'Connell stresses making the best of upcoming opportunities rather than dwelling on past time lost. It urges proactive planning and purposeful action.
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O'Connell
Dr Caldwell's Laxative Senna with Syrup Pepsin Ad
A vintage medical note promotes Dr Caldwell's Laxative-Senna with Syrup Pepsin. It claims relief for constipation and stomach distress from undigested food, touting pepsin to dissolve protein lumps and senna to stimulate bowel movement.
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Dr. Caldwell
Treachery Turns Against Itself, Cited By Livy
A terse Livy observation notes how evil schemes begin cautiously and unravel into betrayal, revealing the self-defeating nature of treachery as it exposes its own malevolence.
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Joseph W. Labine
Western Newspaper Union
the War
Egypt
Turkey
Maxime Weygand
Ankara
Ganda
Goebbels
Paul Jostechnique
Goering
Ministries of Information
London Daily Mirror
Air Ministry
Warsaw
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Switz
Paris
der Fuehrer
Lithuania
Prussia
Austria Hungary
Bruckart
Washington Digest
William Bruckart
WIN Service
National Press Bldg
Washington, D. C
Metznerer Stove Repair CO
Kansas City
Livy
Prue
Jean Paul
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