Stay out of the war by dampening Anglo French sympathy
A thoughtful reader argues against anglophobia while defending the aim to keep the United States out of the European conflict. The piece notes that American readers should temper sympathy for Britain and France to avoid drawing the country into war and to aid postwar reconstruction.
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Teo
France
England
Europe
United States
America
U. S
Hitler
Stalin
Wind Sand and Stars as 1939 Book of the Year
The nation’s booksellers name Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s Wind Sand and Stars as the favorite non fiction work of 1939. The piece argues the book defends the machine’s value, praises its humane aim to unite people, and laments those who fear technological progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antoine de St. Exupery
M. de St. Exupery
France
America
Yser
The Patina of Progress and the Paper Revolution
The excerpt argues that machines change identity over time as they disseminate desirable tools to more people. It notes temporary dislocations but asserts benefits outweigh harm. It contrasts writing on paper with stone chiseling, praising paper for enabling access to great literature and ideas for countless future minds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shakespeare
Beethoven
Lincoln
Pittsburgh
King Features
Hitler
Beran
Montclair’s Surplus Spurs Talk of Tax Cuts and Debt
The town of Montclair New Jersey reports a half million dollar municipal surplus. Voters are asked how to allocate funds to cut 1940 taxes or reduce town debt while the reforming commission trims waste, restructures services, and funds city needs.
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Montclair
N. J
City Budget Committee
New York City
New Jersey
New York Merchants’ Association
New York
Water Department
Relief Administration
Businessmen Town Commission
Voices on duty and democracy in wartime
A collection of quotes from American Legion commander Raymond J. Kelly B'nai B'rith president Henry Monsky and others praising patriotism religious freedom and democratic ideals while warning against intolerance and economic peril during wartime. Included are remarks by Herbert Hoover Kaiser Wilhelm and Simon Donnelly about unity liberty and end to conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond J. Kelly
American Legion
Henry Monsky
B’nai B’rith
Herbert Hoover
Ireland
Simon Donnelly
Irish Republican Army
Rival for Love Returns to Haunt Grandpa
In a verse about jealousy and aging, a narrator recalls past wooers who failed to win his beloved. He laments a rival with striking eyes and hair who steals her away, leaving him to sit and doze. He concludes every grandfather learns to retreat when love proves undefeatable.
Walter Winchell on Broadway snapshot and notes column
A brisk collage of show business gossip with names like Life magazine Newsweek Darva chairs Martins Ferry Times Ravena Record and Walter Winchell. It mentions Arlie Shaw quitting his band Bill James Margaret Irving Lee Tracy Clare Boothe Otto Preminger and Dorothy Lamour with varied foreshadowed happenings around Broadway vaudeville and Paris Miami Beach and New York press.
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Life
Confucius
Newsweek
Martins Ferry
Ohio
Ravena
Arlie Shaw
Ette Davis
Major Bowes
Helen Kane
McCoy
Western Union
Bill James
Margaret Irving
Billy Branch
Byron
Mos Pinchot, JR
Rosamond
Lee Tracy
W-T
Clare Boothe
Otto Preminger
New York
Spivy
Harvard University
Dorothy Lamour
Broadway
Iincoln
Waldorf
Union Chief
Arturo Godoy
Havana
Madrid
I. Yates
Miami Beach
Mary Burton
Benny Fields
Burton
Cause Of Forest Fires Lies With Smokers Study Finds
ST. PAUL Minnesota UP a University of Minnesota forestry official Dr Raphael Zon concludes that humans mainly cigaret smokers caused 97 percent of forest fires across Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota since 1928. He analyzed about 73740 fires in the Lakes states timber area. It is strange that man who profits most from nature’s wooded non
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul, Minn
Lakes States
Raphael Zon
University of Minnesota
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Zon
Fire causes in lake states region blamed on humans
A forester's report lists chief causes of fires in the lake states region as smokers 34 percent debris and brush burning 20 percent incendiary acts 10 percent campers 7 percent railroads 6 percent and lumbering 1 percent. Lightning accounted for only 3 percent of fires.
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Derland
Lake States
Windmill firm organized in Cedar Rapids with $10,000 capital
Cedar Rapids windmill company organized with capital of 10,000 dollars. Ed M. Scott serves as president with B H Hollingsworth as vice president and George W. Graham as secretary. James W. Good is treasurer. The firm will operate from the former Ogden Plow works building.
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Cedar Rapids Windmill Company
Ed M. Scott
B. H. Hollingsworth
George W. Graham
James W. Good
Hollingsworth and Graham
Ogden Plow Works
Iowa Republicans See Uninstructed Delegation Favored At Convention
A Cedar Rapids delegate, Harrison Spangler, visits Iowa congressmen in Washington and collects varied views from seven Republican House members. They oppose an instructed Dewey slate, favor an uninstructed delegation, and discuss Taft Vandenberg Dewey lines and farm policy. They expect Governor Wilson’s renomination and possible GOP gains in 1948.
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Washington
Harrison Spangler
Cedar Rapids
Republican National Committee
Iowa
Congress
Capitol
House
Republican House
Spangler
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Vandenberg
Taft
Des Moines
Midwest
Vandenberg-Dewey
Clich
Joe Martin
Massachusetts
Wilson
W. S. Jacobsen
Clinton
Vince Harrington
Sioux City
Jacobsen
Harrington
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Illinois
Missouri
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Benet Or Sons
Chicago
Allen-Klapp-Frazier CO
Michigan Ave
Allen-Klapp-Frazier
Fifth Ave
Media Records
A.N.P.A. Bureau of Advertising
Associated Press
International News Service
United Press
de St. Exupery
Eddie Canter
Kaiser Wilhelm
Robert I. Gannon
Fordham University
Hugh A. Drum
U. S. Army
God
Luther A. Weigle
Yale University Divinity School
Edgar A.guest
Edgar A. Guest
Walter Winchell
Daily Mirror, Inc
Hartmans
Grace
Wm. S. Hart
Junior
Papa
Maillard Spencer
Barrymore
Nargie Ellis
Cal Lehr
Russ Morgan
Edwin Emerson
Emerson
Daphne Straight
London
Miami
Jack Whitney
Gazette
James J. Hruska
John H. Taft
Supreme Court
Henry Rickel
Preston
Milo P. Smith
Mary West
W. P. Brady
the Economy Furnace Company
A. T. Averill
George B. Dutton
W. H. Durin
Glenn M. Averill
CHESS
Iowa City
Paul Morton Chess Club
Harry N. Pillsbury
Farmers Elect
Linn County Farmers Institute
Springville
I. P. Bowdish
Frank D. Hall
E. E. Henderson
Judge Remley
J. H. Preston
J. W. Jamison
Frank Smith
Will Harvey
Greene’s Opera House
Lady Ursula
Francis Wilson
ED Hadley
Robert Taft
Arthur Vanderberg
Outlook
F. D. Denlinger
Abbott’s
Parke-Davis
Squibb, Upjohn Or
L«derle’s
Natola
Upjohn
Upjohn’s
Lederle
Paramount Pharmacy
Paramount Theatre
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