Sinking of Robin Moor Submarine Probe by State Dept
Weekly News Analysis reports the State Department probes the sinking of the liner Robin Moor by a submarine. It notes Byrnes and Jackson appointed to high court as Stone becomes Chief Justice, with editor's opinions and Western Newspaper Union release.
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Robin Moor
State Department
Byrnes
Jackson
High Court
Stone
Ugte
Western Newspaper Union
Court Line Up Changes at Supreme Court
President Roosevelt announced Harlan Fiske Stone as chief justice replacing Charles Evans Hughes and named two new associate justices James Byrnes and Robert H. Jackson. Stone, 68, was appointed by Coolidge in 1925. Byrnes will fill McReynolds's seat and Jackson will join as associate justice. Separate item notes Robin Moor sinking, likely by German U boat, prompting protest plans and statements from Sumner Welles, with survivors recounting torpedoing. Mussolini in parliament declares Axis advantage and taunts United States over war involvement, predicting England defeat and urging continued aid without Italy's losses detailed.
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Roosevelt
Harlan Fiske Stone
Charles Evans Hughes
Supreme Court
Senate
Sen
James Byrnes
South Carolina
Robert H. Jackson
New York
Justice Stone
Coolidge
Washington
Jackson
Byrnes
Justice McReynolds
U. S
South Atlantic
United States
Germany
State Department
White House
Sumner Welles
Walter J. Linthicum
Pernambuco
Brazil
Linthicum
DUCE
Italy
Mussolini
Sulla
Rognan
Axis
North
Africa
England
America
Merry-Go
Marshall
War Department
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lady Pollock
Commerce Department
W. Walton Butterworth
London
Allen Gullion
Army
Hap Hopper
Navy
Franklin Roosevelt
Poughkeepsie, N
John ©. Mack
Fdr
Charles Durant Maines
Flint
Mich
Harry Slattery
Alaska
Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
Strikes and unions clash over Inglewood plant standstill
The Roosevelt pledge to curb labor strife framed a tense clash at North American Aviation in Inglewood California. Troops seized the plant and removed leaders as planes rolled after two days, while unions pressed for higher pay. Critics questioned the army method and the influence of the C I L O with Dies Committee hints of communists.
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Roosevelt
North American Aviation
Inglewood
Calif
United States
Dies Committee
Alabama
Starnes
Dies
Frankensteen
Aircraft Division
Tobruk Defenders Hold Against Axis Siege
British anti aircraft positions stand inside the Tobruk perimeter as Axis forces push beyond Tobruk toward Egypt. Tealian ammunition boxes filled with stones shield crews from bomb splinters in a hardened defensive stance.
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Egypt
Libya
Tobruk
Syria Front Advances Seen as Tactical Move in War
British and Free French forces moved into Syria with De Gaulle at the lead, seeking key air bases like Aleppo while facing limited Nazi air defense. Churchill weathered criticism over Crete, defending air strategy and wartime decisions amid defections to De Gaulle’s side. Ireland refused Roosevelt’s request for bases, remaining neutral as German bombs fell on Irish towns.
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Syria
Damascus
Tyre
Vichy
de Gaulle
Aleppo
Britain
Palestine
Iraq
Suez
Alexandria
Churchill
Crete
Commmons
Chamberlain
Leslie Hore-Belisha
War Ministry
Irish Free State
Roosevelt
Germany
Gasless Sundays and Navy Secrecy in Wartime Proposals
National Oil Administrator Ickes may end gasless Sundays by consolidating tanker routes across Charleston Norfolk and Baltimore to speed distribution and reduce fuel types. Secrecy surrounds ships to England with convoys. radio is avoided and sealed orders are sent by small boats.
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Washington, D. C
National Oil
Ickes
Gulf of Mexico
Charleston
Norfolk
Baltimore
United States
LaGuardia
England
Red Sea
Halifax
Atlantic
Unsought Thoughts Amid Mental Reflections
A compact reflection on how often fleeting thoughts that arise unbidden are the most valuable, urging their capture since such ideas rarely return, echoing Locke on the mind’s spontaneous ideas and the need to preserve them.
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Messerschmitt
New York Theater
Rish
Locke
T. Roosevelt
Ben Hogan
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