Anti-Administration Congress Records Paradoxical Year
The magazine style analysis notes the Seventy-sixth Congress left a mixed legacy for Franklin D. Roosevelt with Senate confirmations of most appointees, but key spending and reform bills blocked by the House. It highlights political figures like Paul McNutt and Taft, plus immigrant refugee tragedies and a Louisiana political indictment, framing 1940 campaign dynamics.
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House
FHA
Senate
Hyde Park
Florida
Sen
Claude Pepper
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Devalu
Paul ¥. McNutt
Philippines
McNutt
Garner
Farley
Hull
Hopkins
Paul McNutt
Jack Garner
Ohio
Robert Alphonso Taft
G. O. P. Gallup
Taft
Chess game shaping up as Axis seeks alliance
The article describes a looming global chess game among Japan Italy and Germany with a tentative axis alliance discussed at Lake Como involving Toshio Shiratori and Lieut Gen Matahiko Oshima and a purge drive in Tokyo. It notes anti American demonstrations in China and diplomacy shifts including a proposed joint Anglo American Asiatic fleets under an American admiral and a dubious lard for German machinery barter plan.
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France
Britain
Japan
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
U. S
Far East
Italy
Lake Como
Toshio Shiratori
Rome
Matahiko Oshima
Berlin
Germany
Tokyo
Russia
Moscow
U. S&s
China
Yangtze River
Tientsin
British
International Export Corporation
Europe
Spain
Balkan States
Washington
John Morgan
Orient
State Department
Cordell Hull
Treasury Department
John W. Hanes
Japan Women Enter Workforce Across Sectors In Wartime
The article surveys Japanese women replacing men in industry as the nation mobilizes for war. It notes Tokyo Osaka and Nagoya factories where women perform packing labeling sewing and light assembly while men serve in the military. It profiles silk filatures glassware production and office work with women living in dormitories and taking on roles from stenographers to typists.
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Japan
Tokyo
Osaka
Nagoya
Prietor
Europe
America
Tokyo Glass Factory
China
Care Needed In Exercising Weak Hearts
Dr. James W. Barton argues that after acute heart conditions rest is often overemphasized and that graded exercise can strengthen the heart. He highlights historical methods like Nauheim baths and resistive training, and notes Oertel graded walks and physician guided activity as safer paths to regain heart strength.
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Schott
Louis Faugeres Bishop Jr
New York
Archives of Physical Therapy
Dr. Bishop
Protection To the Body During the flu illness a doctor notes white cells rise
A physician examining a pneumonia patient after flu shows that rising white blood cells indicate the body fighting infection. The expert explains that heart rate, blood pressure, and fever reflect the body's protective effort, not just illness severity.
Russia U S Trade Pact Extends For One Year
Brief note that the Russia United States trade treaty is extended for one year with the Soviet Union agreeing to purchase at least 40 million dollars in American goods. Also mentions tentative settlement of UAW strike against General Motors in Detroit.
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Co. I. D
United Automobile Workers
General Motors
Detroit
Chicago
Pan-American Airways
SEC
Germany
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