22 Feb 1940
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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1940
Page
1
The Weekly NEIFS by Joseph W F Labine outlines rising British Soviet strain after the Nazi Soviet pact. It notes Baltic, Near East troop movements, Finnish relief efforts, and debates in Congress over embargoes and loans as Britain and Germany align. The piece highlights Rome, London, and Washington diplomacy and the Vatican’s ambassadorial status move.
U S insurance firms faced scrutiny as the temporary national economy committee examined their role. SEC witness Leon Henderson argued life insurers hold a first mortgage on business, noting heavy asset concentration and large nondisbursed sums. Penn Mutual urged mortality stat modernization, while Supreme Court rulings touched on confession methods, NLRB decisions, and interstate gasoline tax limits.
The farm bloc battles for 200 million parity aid while the agriculture department taps 225 million authorized last year. 1940 parity payments of 1.55 cents per pound for cotton and 10 cents per bushel for wheat are set, with 5 cents for corn and 1.7 cents for rice, based on 1939 prices. aviation orders surge as war drives mass production and foreign sales, with millions in orders and thousands of ships planned.
Washington report notes 300 British supplied fighters to Finland in last month, shipped clandestinely via Sweden at about 100 weekly, signaling British prioritization of Finnish war effort. The piece also tainted by broader gossip on U S diplomacy, LaGuardia prospects, and other domestic notes.
In Washington John D. M. Hamilton, G. O. P. national chairman, calls his committee to name a date and place for the 1940 convention. Herbert Hoover Jr. helps discover a surface oil detection method. Hoover Sr. predicts European war impact on U S surplus food. Bulgarian premier Kiosseivanofy resigns amid cabinet split over Soviet ties. Joseph Davies named America’s best dressed man. King Christian of Denmark and family abandon hot baths over coal shortage. Exiled German magnate Thyssen loses citizenship. AETLE SHAW and Lana Turner marry in Las Vegas.
At Berlin Field Marshal Hermann Goering announced 1,000,000 Poles will be imported to work on German farms to bolster the larder without drawing men from the front. In Albany New York 8,000 taxpayers protested a proposed 15,000,000 personal income tax hike and demanded cuts in the pending 336,760,000 budget.
A New York City education push introduces homework by radio with teachers discussing topics over the air for 15 minutes nightly and students reporting in the morning. The piece mixes humorous exchanges about radio learning and notes on era topics like stamps and fur auctions, reflecting a era of media and culture.
A compilation of practical home hacks covers piano keys fading via light exposure, ironing before roasting, quick spoons cleaning, crisp French fries after cold-water rest, bread to refresh felt hats, threading curtains with a thimble, and clock cleaning with kerosene oil to gently quiet the mechanism.
A garbled collection of witticisms comments on marriage widowhood and logic. It contrasts misused phrases and misheard sayings with satire about success and failure and jokes about revue production and costumes. The piece reads as a curio of clipped humor and misstatements.
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