Foreign Army Invasion Threat To United States
In a dramatic crisis, Van Hassel’s forces are described amassing in Mexico and pressing north from Guaymas as Major Benning suffers a wounded arm but reports strong enemy advances. President Tannard and General Hague weigh Pacific defense limits, with Pearl Harbor considered as a fallback and strategic split of naval forces debated amid warnings of a potential coast invasion.
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Mexico
van Hassek
United States
Vanassek
U. S
Flagwill
Fourth Army
San Diego
Benning
el Paso
van Hassel
Guaymas
General Hague
Boggio
Major Benning
United States Army
White House
Boggie
Hague
Suide-De-Camp
Walter Reed
Tannard
Admiral Hunt
Naval Operations
Pacific
Senate
Pearl Harbor
Atlantic
Tankard
Decision to Withdraw Pacific Fleet and Evacuate California
In the face of a looming invasion, Admiral Brunn orders the fleet to withdraw to the Atlantic while General Brunn conducts a delaying retreat along the Pacific coast. President Tannard confirms no public announcement as American forces prepare to abandon the San Diego base and conduct a northern withdrawal toward Sacramento. Benning observes the grim briefing as air and sea movements signal a continental defense in retreat.
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Tannard
Atlantic
Pacific
Pacific Coast
Fourth Army
Brunn
van Hasselt
Sacramento
Benning
San Diego
Fog and invasion grimly grip Puget Sound frontier
In a fog shrouded coast, U S forces panic in San Francisco and retreat north toward Sacramento. At Fort Lewis, Benning directs a doomed defense as 10 000 invaders land unseen on the Puget Sound beach, the Fourth Army withdraws to the Cascades, and the Northwest falls to an unseen enemy.
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Puget Sound
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Pasadena
Seattle
Fourth Army
San Diego
Bruwn
Sacramento
Hawtry
Medford
Fort Lewis
Brunn
National Guard
Benning
Marsh
Gray's Harbor
Oregon
Cascades
Aberdeen
John Rand
161St Infantry
Rand
Cascade Passes
Northwest
Benning Witnesses Looming Atlantic Shelling
In a World War II scene Captain Hawtry reports on radio traffic about heavy enemy shelling off the Jersey coast. Major Benning arrives from Washington aboard a plane of the 21st Reconnaissance Squadron with Flagwill as observer, eyes hollow as he contemplates the imminent invasion and danger to Atlantic City.
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Benning
Washington
Hawtry
Jersey
Atlantic
Atlantic City
Relevase Direct Tax View From Economic Critique
A direct critique argues that taxation on business burdens production and distribution, raising consumer costs and risking jobs. It warns of a looming federal debt of 150 billion and urges Congress to economize and tax honestly. It also highlights Orange California’s Pioneer Spirit and memorializes the lasting American pioneer ethos. It ends by questioning national debt awareness and the Russia Nazi dynamic.
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Congress
England
Dole
Orange
Calif
Golden State
America
West
Private Papers of a Cub Reporter in Nazi Era Jest
A collage of satirical anecdotes about Goering and Hitler, journalism ethics, and Pulitzer trivia. Gene Fowler mocks muscle journalism while Goebbels-childish banter with Hitler and a German press scene reveal media bravado and danger.
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Cub
I Am an American Day in Central Park and City Scene
A vivid chronicle of New York during I Am an American Day with crowds embracing citizenship, carloads leaving for peaceful weekends, sidewalk chalk questions, midtown goodbyes, Union Square boxers, idle intellectuals in Fifth Avenue, waitresses masking discontent, and celebrities facing public attention amid private whispers.
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Central Park
Oceans of Humanity
America
45Th Street
Std
Midtown
Union Square
Piano Accomplishment You Can Teach Yourself
A self guided piano instruction piece promises a quick read with a life size keyboard chart and elements of music theory. It highlights a 24 page guide with three favorite pieces for practice and invites readers to request a copy.
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Panama Canal
U.S. Feot
Mexico City
Washengton
U. S. Intelligence Department
Chapter
Ain
A. Patter
Relev
Goering
Hitler
Hermann
Gene Fowler
School of Journalism
Univ. of Missouri
Fowler
Lissen
Genevieve Rowe
Adolf
Goebbels
Joe
Erskine Caldwell
Clarke Robinson
Polo Grounds
Stadium
Radio City Music Hall
Jamaica Racetrack
New York City
Robinson
Wilfrid Fleisher
Herald Trib
Tokyo
New York
Rockefeller Center
Japan
Wilfrid
Roland Brown
Hollywood
Sixth Ave
Vth Ave
Sixth Avenue
J. Fuller
Jerry Link
Doc Wiggins
Hellogg
Helggs
Francis de Sales
Tacitus
Hotel Clark
Radio City
Clark
Fifth and
Hill Streets
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