Weekly News Review outlines Hollywood communism probe and Roosevelts purge
The Dies committee probes Hollywood influence and labor links with Communism as John L. Lewis faces deportation pressures while Frederick Frey and Peter Gissill sharpen accusations. Internationally Germany's mobilization unnerves Europe amid Japan Russia truce tensions. In U S politics Franklin D Roosevelt pushes his agenda amid South and border state primary battles.
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John Metcalfe
Fritz Kuhn
Bund
House Committee On UN
Peter Gissill
Red Star Lines
American Federation of Labor
John P. Frey
John L. Lewis
U. S. Labor Department
Sullivan
Immigration Service
Harry Bridges
Labor Department
Frey
John Lewis
Dies Committee
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Hollywood
Roosevelt
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Barnesville
Walter F. George
George
Lawrence Oe
Georgia
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Ellison D
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Smith
Olin D. Johnson
Franklin Roosevelt
Multitude of tragedies and feats across continents
The report blends a murder saga of Edna Roosevelt’s sister Sally, financier Carroll’s convicting, and Paul Dwyer’s life sentence with a string of aviation and travel notes. It covers Nazi and Allied air supremacy talks, Berlin as a transatlantic hub, deadly crashes in Mexico England and Germany, a charity golf marathon, and Queen Mary’s record Atlantic crossings, plus Alaskan dog tale.
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Francis Carroll
Barbara
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Great Britain
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Nordwind
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Azores
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Brandenburg
Berlin
Hitler
London
National debate over medical trusts and doctors future
A digested editorial discusses HOLC loans shaping home ownership and a shift toward corporation medicine. It weighs Roosevelt's push versus attorney general Arnold's anti trust stance, praising country doctors while warning against broad attacks on medical practice.
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HOLC
Federal Treasury
Group Health
District of Bio Medical Society
Nox
Thurman Arnold
Yale
National Organization of Doctors
Corporation
Arnold
Department of Justice
Roosevelt
Mr. Arnold
United States
American Medical Association
Is There a Medical Trust in the Roosevelt Era
The author questions whether medical societies are trusts while defending doctors and urging self discipline. He warns against powerful interests, imagines a patient facing government policy in illness, and argues political missteps could harm trust and access to care.
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America
Seie
Medical Society
Medical
Masonic Order
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Woodmen of the World
Knights of Columbus
Board of Strategy
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Western Newspaper Union
Master of Squeeze Play Shapes European Chess Moves
Sir Walter Runciman, now Viscount Runciman, uses empire finance as a diplomatic tool in the Czechoslovak Sudeten negotiations and broader four power strategy. He is linked to Halifax’s bloc and is described as a pivotal mediator and ally in the evolving European balance.
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Walter Runciman
Washington
Germany
Hitler
England
Viscount Runciman
Downing Street
Chamberlain
Viscount Halifax
Russia
London
France
Taly
Daladier
Empire
British Board of Trade
Empire Free Trade
Movie Lure to Spend Million to Bring Audiences Back
The film industry plans a $1,000,000 push to lure audiences back to theaters with a $250,000 prize, a contestant questionnaire on films released through October 31, and rule book distribution at box offices. Fredric March pursues a showbiz comeback, while Ernst Lubitsch Productions forms a new venture with top Hollywood talent to profit from successful films. The Stroud twins rise from circus acrobats to Sunday radio stardom with a long voyage through vaudeville and Broadway to their current air act.
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Stroud Twins
Charlie McCarthy
Australia
New Zealand
South Seas
Broadway
Songwriters Hold Back Hit Song Hail KMH by Crosby
Bing Crosby notes publishers want to release Hail KMH the theme for his broadcasts but demand is blocked by copyright controls. He says the tune was written specifically for the broadcasts and remains restricted despite its popularity.
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Franklin Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Congress
Lloyd Bryant
Dodge
Bryant
KMH
Bing Crosby
Ken Carpenter
Odds and Ends Notes on Joan Crawford and Studio Plans
Joan Crawford denies divorce plans amid speculation of a patch up. Ben Bernie and Roy Kyser to lecture at the New York Radio Workshop. West Dis buys 55 acres near Jollywood to build a studio there.
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Joan
Ben Bernie
Roy Kyser
West Dis
Jollywood
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