Weekly News Analysis: Nazi Attack Pushes Allies From Belgium
In Flanders Flight the Belgian army collapses after Leopold II orders capitulation. Nazi forces trap retreating Allied troops, bombers disrupt supply lines, and control gains surge as Britain and France abandon hopes of holding Belgium. Hitler weighs whether to strike Paris or Britain as Berlin hails a victory.
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Belgium
U. S. Defense Board
Flanders
Leopold II
Adolf Hitler
France
English Channel
Strait of Dover
England
Somme
Aisne
Berlin
Channel
British Isles
Paris
Names in the news and defense moves across America
Eleven months after resigning as governor of Louisiana Richard W Lewhe faces trial on mail fraud tied to a truck deal that allegedly netted him 113370. Walter Connolly, noted actor, dies at his Hollywood home. The 1940 41 Who s Who features 31762 sketches led by Brig Gen William Henry Bisbee aged 100, with Shirley Temple as the youngest. Roosevelt delivers the fourteenth fireside chat amid a drive for Western Hemisphere defenses and possible tax funding. A presidential commission oversees mobilization of resources, with industry leaders and labor figures directing production and finance. Morgenthau hints car model pauses while Ford pledges capacity for planes.
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Louisiana
Richard W. Lewhe
Huey P. Long
Walter Connolly
Hollywood
America
William Henry Bisbee
Shirley Temple
Columbia University
Nicholas Murray Butler
Roosevelt
Uncle Sam
Paris
London
Washington
Asa “General Staff
Edward R. Stettinius Jr
U. S. Steel Company
William 8. Knudsen
General Motors
Sidney Hillman
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union
Chester C. Davis
Federal Reserve Board
AAA
Ralph Budd
C. B. & Q. Railroad
Transportation
Leon Henderson
The
Securities Commission
Miss Harriet Elliott
University of North Carolina
Defense
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Henry Ford
Good Neighbors and Global Tensions Across 1940s North America
News roundup notes Trotsky in Mexico facing assassination fears and mixed Mexican views while Panama uncovers alleged revolut ion plots ahead of its presidential vote. Moore McCormack expands pan American shipping amid a 27 million export drop, signaling renewed trade hopes. Canada’s U S ministerial shift. Moffat to replace Cromwell. National Conference of Social Workers addresses unemployment and youth issues at Grand Rapids meeting. Mojave bomber crash claims six lives. Civil Aviation Authority says 50 000 civilian pilots can be trained safely. Chicago milk strike ends in a wage dispute truce. Bank assets reach record highs at 35.74 billion with higher deposits. Civil service excludes Communist or Nazi-affiliated applicants.
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Leon Trotsky
Mexico
Trotsky
Joseph Stalin
Panama
U. S
Moore-McCormack Lines
North
South America
Atlantic
Pacific
Albert W. Moore
Commerce Department
Army
Mojave
Calif
Desert
U.S
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Chicago
Communist Party
German Bund
British Sinking Claims and U S Steel Brazil Venture
Naval observers disagree with German claims on British battleships and note several are in drydock or sunk. The piece links Britain's fleet weakness to aircraft superiority and questions German claims. It also reports US efforts to develop Brazil’s iron ore and a proposed steel plant with US Steel, RF C finance, and Brazil government, opposed by Germany’s Nazi option and Brazilian leaders.
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Washington
D. C
U. S
Britain
Mediterranean
North Sea
Admiralty
Roosevelt
South America
Rio Grande
United States
Brazil
State Department
United States Steel Corporation
U. S. Steel Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
U. S. Steel
Germany
Skoda
Czecho Slovakia
Vargas
Aranha
Lauriston Taylor Leads Assembly of Huge X-Ray Machine
Lauriston Taylor, physicist of the U S Bureau of Standards, directs placing the corona cap on the world s largest X ray machine. Generating rays up to 1 500 000 volts, it was assembled in Washington D C high voltage lab. It will set a standard for hospitals and cancer clinics nationwide.
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Lauriston Taylor
U. S. Bureau of Standards
Bureau
Washington, D.C
Practical Household Tips From The Household Desk
A collection of quick home hacks on preserving olives and feathers, using oil to keep olives fresh, camphor for pillow fillings, and enhancing soups with leftovers. Also includes blanket care after washing and drying and tips for lighting birthday candles from the center outward.
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Farnham F. Dudgeon
Unter
Leopold III
Prise Blitzkrieg
Johnny Bull
Congress
Senate
House
William Sproval
Commission
Chester Davis
Jay P. Moffat
James H. Cromwell
Canada
Moffat
Cromwell
Itler
Social Service
National Conference of Social Workers
Grand Rapids
Mich
Paul de Kruif
Capitol
Vince” Harrington
Harrington
Notre Dame
Four Horsemen
Josephus Daniels
Mexico City
Thomas
Tha
Kool
Cobain Eh
Mnae
Cone
Kellogg’'S
Sattle Creek
Voice of Angels
Carlsie
Norge Rollator
Borg-Warner Corporation
Norge
Borg-Warner Tories
Norges
Norge Eal
UEC
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