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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1940
Page
2
Joseph W. LaBine argues a higher liquor tax would finance the defense program but notes the levy is unpopular in the election year. The analysis is released by the Western Newspaper Union in an editor’s note.
The piece covers Franklin D Roosevelt's budget message urging a deficit of about 1.7 billion with peacetime defense spending up for a record. Congress weighs tax increases and debt, while Republicans critique the plan. Simultaneously in the Balkans Romania’s King Carol and Hungary’s Deaky meet in Italy to push early settlement of Bessarabia amid Soviet pressure.
Dispatch notes Wang Ching-wei as ready to take over a puppet government aligned with Japan in conquered Chinese territories. The piece contrasts British cabinet shakeups and wartime leadership changes with rumors about Winston Churchill and military reorganization as nations face the Western Front and Finnish-Russian fighting.
A mosaic of 20th century labor drama and cultural curiosities unfolds. The piece covers NLRB figures and Supreme Court signals, a Senate inquiry, and new evidence about regional directors, alongside vivid vignettes on Pullman sleeping cars, merchant mercerization, and the origin of Booz bottles.
In Moscow the Commeniu Internationale argues Russia seeks to liberate Finland from oppressors to guard its democratic development. Simultaneous announcements in Washington and Canberra state the U S and Australia will establish diplomatic links. In Hollywood Flora Finch dies, age likely around 80, amid outdated contract notes.
If President Roosevelt's naval appropriation of 1 224 521 833 is adopted the United States would be the leading sea power ahead of Britain and Japan. Daniel Willard urges rail coach fares cut to two cents per mile to meet bus competition. The tariff commission hears that cheap Canadian wheat undercuts domestic prices threatening farm aid. The United States warns Britain it will hold it accountable for injuries to American vessels or crews in belligerent ports.
Adeleine Carroll reads fan letters from French children living in her countryside chateau while resting between scenes of My Son, My Son. A Brighton Belle sequence in a Hollywood replica of Victoria station uses extras to evoke wartime travel atmosphere, staged due to war constraints.
Vietor Jurgens the 26 year old cameraman who filmed the March of Time Japan episode was stricken with appendicitis en route to Guam. He was operated on at sea by Navy surgeons and filmed civil and military life on the island. The piece is part of Crisis in the Pacific and praised as among the best from the series. Four Wives is praised as a worthy sequel to Four Daughters. Kay Francis appears in Its a Date as Deanna Durbin's mother. Norma Shearer may portray a mother in Escape with possible rewrite for Shearer.
The piece notes Patsy Montana of WLS Chicago and her brother at KSOO Sioux Falls broadcast at the same hour each morning. Their mother is proud yet strained by the synchronized schedules. It mentions Dave Elman’s Hobby Lobby show and a costly seal feeding hobby costing about 35 dollars.
News item notes Walt Disney plans another Pinocchio release in February and mentions a new project titled Send Another Coffin followed by Slightly Honorable with reference to London production and film industry activity.
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