Roosevelt Uses War Aid to Shape World War II Narrative
The article contends President Roosevelt evades neutrality laws by selling 65 million dollars in war planes to France before hostilities escalate, framing his actions as strategic leadership. It likens U S policy to a football game with Roosevelt as a pivotal quarterback, while Chamberlain and Daladier are described as welcoming his arrival in France.
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United States
Hitler
Mussolini
Congress
Roosevelt
France
England
Europe
Senate
Army and Navy
Mr. Roosevelt
Chamberlain
Daladier
Roosevelt removes top federal judge amid bribery scandal
The highest federal judge outside the Supreme Court is ousted by President Roosevelt amid revelations that Judge Martin T. Manton of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York took over 400000 in loans from litigants with cases before him. Attorney General Murphy faces a politically charged task as the Justice Department probes possible criminality by lenders while Thomas E. Dewey looms as a potential successor. Wilson bans highway politics as Governor George A. Wilson in Des Moines orders state road officials to end political horse-trading, lays down three guiding principles for road relations, and calls for open bid processes while scrutinizing a costly blacktop bid on route 39 west of Harlan.
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Supreme Court of the United States
Roosevelt
White House
Martin T. Manton
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
New York
Manton
Thomas E. Dewey
Federal Department of Justice
Dewey
Murphy
Des Moines
George A. Wilson
Highway Board
Nelson G. Kraschel
Shelby
Commission
Harlan
Wilson
White
Knudson
C. C. Coykendahl
War prep and democracy in peril how far to arm
The writer questions Roosevelt's open stance against dictators and asks if arming other nations is justified. He urges rapid defense buildup including a superior navy and warplanes to defend coasts and the canal, and wonders if preparations could be a defensive war without yielding democracy to a looming May bill.
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Roosevelt
America
Europe
Controversy Over Mercurio Extradition and Kraschel Duty
Local papers quote critics asking why Kraschel refused to extradite Mercurio the Texas criminal while questioning Governor Wilson on duties. The Cedar Rapids dispute centers on moral concerns and alleged corruption amid reports of a Des Moines man found with 20,000 Iowa liquor seals and an unrevealed seizure method.
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Grand Mound Messerger
Wheatland Gazette
Cascade Pioneer
Mercurio
Texas
Kraschel
Wilson
Marshall
Ikraschel
Messenger
The
Pioneer
Cedar Rapids
Sioux City
Mike
Des Moines
Iowa
Christ Merkuri
Perkins Defends Record on Communism No Place in America
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins rejected impeachment demands over alleged failure to deport communist aliens and said communism has no place in American life in Washington remarks.
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Washington (Up
Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins
Sioux City Provokes Sheriff Over Morals In State House
The speaker accuses Sioux City of moral danger and political tampering as Kraschel nears ouster. Extradition would fall to Governor Wilson who is framed as prioritizing good government over shielding criminals. He challenges Grand Mound Wheatland Cascade with sharp rebuke of their questions.
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Sioux City
Kraschel
Iowa
Wilson
State House
Grand Mound - Wheatland - Cascade
Dopey from Snow White Touches Hearts With Lonely Charm
A reflective piece praises Dopey the dwarf for his loneliness and gentleness. It compares his quiet bravery to everyday loneliness in people, urging kindness and daily acts of sympathy to brighten others lives. Copyright 1939.
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Snow White
Dopey
Tim
Ev’ryone
Daddy
Momma
Emily Jane
Susan
Roosevelt grants civil service exemptions to 5000 workers
President Roosevelt amended last June's executive order to exempt 5000 emergency government workers from civil service on Wednesday. Technical and administrative staff will be selected by the civil service commission. He named a seven member panel led by Justice Reed to study civil service applications for professional and technical work. The panel includes Justices Frankfurter and Reed, Attorney General Murphy, and leaders from Sears Roebuck, J. G. White, and the University of Chicago. The president affirmed support for civil service status for WPA and other outside workers.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Civil Service Commission
Supreme Court
Stanley Reed
Felix Frankfurter
Murphy
William H. McReynolds
Morgenthau
Leonard White
University of Chicago
Robert E. Wood
Sears Roebuck and Company
Gano Dunn
J. G. White Engineering Company
WPA
Two Small Children Die In Fire At East St. Louis Home
Fire in a two room East St Louis residence killed Frederick Goff aged 2 and Frances Jean Goff. Their mother Allenora Goff 23 and siblings Clara 7 Ernest 6 were burned. The blaze occurred Wednesday.
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East ST. Louis, Il
Ins
Frederick Goff
Frances Jean Goff
Allenora Goff
Clara Goff
Ernest C. Goff, Jr
Kraschel Cites Politics Fear in Acerra Commutation
Former Gov. Kraschel testifies before the senate judiciary committee that he cut Joseph Acerra’s 20 year sentence to 10 years to avoid partisan politics affecting Acerra’s case. He cites concerns Acerra could be unfairly treated if the commutation did not go through.
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DES Moines
INS
Joseph Acerra
Nelson G Kraschel
Acerra
Senate Judiciary Committee
L H Doran
Boone Republican
Frank Morehead
Kraschel
Senator Doran
Parole Board
Jefferson
Doran
Czech Alliance Of Cedar Rapids Sends Relief Funds
The Czech Alliance of Cedar Rapids voted to send 2012.29 to aid Czechoslovakian refugees suffering hunger and cold. The donation includes 200 from Iowa City chapter and is mailed to the American Committee for Relief in Czechoslovakia in New York. A March 5 program honoring Masaryk is planned with talks by Jan Masaryk and local organizers.
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Cedar Rapids
Czech Alliance of
Czechoslovak Republic
Iowa City
Czech National Alliance
Vojta Soucek
American Committee For Relief In
Czechoslovakia
New York City
Nicholas Murray Butler
Thomas G Masaryk
Jan Masaryk
Great Britain
Vaclav Krob
F. J. Dvorak
Henry Schor
Joseph Teply
Vaclav Kopecky
Snow And Sleet Blanket Cedar Rapids As Warm Sun Arrives
Cedar Rapids felt a winter mix with over two inches of snow and a crust of ice from sleet and rain. By 2:30 p.m. the temperature reached 41 as crews prep for a sharp freeze with wind forecast. telephone lines were not yet seriously affected.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Piano for Sale Won by One Buyer in Gazette Ad
The Gazette Want Ad published January 28 and 29 drew eleven responses. One purchaser secured a piano while ten others remain watching the Want Ads for a second piano.
Britain Steels Stand After Chamberlain Speech
London reports show the cabinet debating a tougher line with dictators after Neville Chamberlain's parliamentary speech. A special session will address defense rearmament and Mediterranean strategy as Lord Gort inspects British defenses and tensions rise with Germany.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Great Britain
Mediterranean
Lord Gort
Imperial General Staff
Neville Chamberlain
Britain
U S Air Exports Rise on Record Orders in 1938
The Commerce Department forecasts 1939 aerospace exports will smash records, with 1938 aviation shipments valued at 68 million dollars and 50 percent of output shipped abroad. Thirteen countries bought over 1 million dollars in U S aircraft goods, led by the Netherlands and Netherlands Indies, Japan, China, Argentina, and Russia.
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Washington
INS
Department of Commerce
Department
U. S
The
Netherlands
Netherlands Indies
Hong Kong
Sweden
Bodies of three miners recovered in Oklahoma disaster
After a 20 hour rescue effort at the Dines Mine in Picher Oklahoma three bodies were recovered. Named victims were Fred Macomber 28 Galena Kane Jesse Crossland 28 Picher and Orval Campbell 33 Galena. Missing and believed dead were Frank Porter 40 Riverton Kane and Harry Bertram of Galena. Rescue crews and volunteers fought rubble for air and space to reach survivors.
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Picher
Okla
Fred Macomber
Galena
Kane
Jesse Crossland
Orval Campbell
Campbell
Frank Porter
Riverton
Harry Bertram
Dines Mining Company
Louis Hansbregh
Wesley Anderson
Columbus
Kan
Hansbregh
Anderson
Fingerprint gap in Weinberg suicide weapon
Gov. Lehman asked District Attorney Dewey to investigate the death of George Weinberg after a Nassau County lawyer reported Weinberg’s fingerprints were not on the gun used in his death. Dewey said the evidence showed Weinberg died by his own hand, though the trial of Tammany Leader James J. Hines previously stalled on a mistrial.
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Bulletin
NEW York
Herbert H. Lehman
Thomas E. Dewey
George Weinberg
Tammany
James J. Hines
Nassau County
Weinberg
Herman J. McCarthy
Hines
Franks. Hogan
Jews In Reich Require Israel or Sarah Added to Names
Berlin report states that all Jewish men must add Israel and Jewish women must add Sarah to their names by a Tuesday midnight deadline. The decree also requires newly named Jewish babies to bear Israel or Sarah or other approved Jewish names, under city registrar oversight.
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Reich
Israel
Sarah
Berlin
Abe Lincoln and the Trent incident remembered in satire
A Bugs Baer column riffs on Lincoln easing the Trent crisis and warns about foreign critiques. It muses on slogans and suggests world figures should study Lincoln while defending U S expansion, joking about Jonah and the whale and branch offices abroad.
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Abe Lincoln
Jonah
U S Neutrality Debate Draws Fire From Nazi Paper
Berlin paper Nachtausgabe accuses President Roosevelt of abandoning neutrality after his senate testimony on military affairs. It calls Roosevelt a second Wilson and claims U S policy has shifted toward intervention aiding France and allied democracies, while questioning secrecy in government talks with Paris.
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Berlin
America
Rhine
Nachtausgabe
Roosevelt
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Fuehrer
August Halfeld
New York
Dispatch
Wilson
United States
Garner and Garner Ill in Washington Hotel Stay
Vice President John Nance Garner was confined to his hotel room in Washington after taking ill on Monday. Official word said the condition was not alarming and he was expected to resume duties within a day or two.
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Washington
INS
John Nance Garner
Wheeler seeks rail revision standards in reorganizations
Senators urge standards to prevent insolvent rail restructurings citing Missouri Pacific and Wabash cases. Wheeler plans a bill to curb income bonds open end mortgages and overstated earnings in reorganizations to protect bondholders and align capital with earning power.
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Wheeler
Senate
NLRB Officials Urged for Smith Reappointment
President William Green of the American Federation of Labor charged that regional directors of the National Labor Relations Board are soliciting support for the reappointment of Donald Wakefield Smith to the labor board. The AFL opposes Smith and Green questioned the officials’ independent action.
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Miami, Fla
William Green
American Federation of Labor
National Labor Relations Board
Donald Wakefield Smith
A. F. of L
Smith
Gretn
NLRB
Roosevelt secrecy framed talk on air power policy
Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson told the General Federation of Women's Clubs by radio that the United States must have a powerful air force second to none to uphold the Monroe Doctrine obligations in the western hemisphere. The remarks were made amid questions about Roosevelt era secrecy with senate committee members on foreign policy.
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Washington
INS
United States
Louis Johnson
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
French Papers Raise Alarm Over Roosevelt Confab
Paris papers used scare headlines claiming Roosevelt set the United States frontiers in France after reports of his closed session with the senate military committee. Official comment was withheld but markets rose as trading opened on the news.
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Paris
Roosevelt
United States
France
Senate Military Committee
Stock Exchange
Japanese paper urges return of colonies to Germany
The Nichi Nichi newspaper in Tokyo on Wednesday backed Germany's demand for the return of former colonies. It said Britain and France must promptly restore the colonies they allegedly robbed from Germany if peace is to be possible.
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Britain
Germany
Neville Chamberlain
Tanganyika
India
Red Sea
Cape of Good Hope
TOKIO
INS
Nichi Nichi
France
Italian Press Attacks FDR War Mongering Report
Rome reports accuse President Roosevelt of war mongering in relation to his push to rearm. The Italian press claims his testimony before the senate military affairs committee signals aggressive policy.
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Rome
Roosevelt
Senate Military Affairs Committee
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Ander
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Trent
U.S. Neutrality
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Hiram W. Johneson
Calif
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Air
Guy la Chambre
French
Chamber of Deputies
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Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
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Henry Morgenthau
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