Review Notes on Mein Kampf and Contemporary Novels
Francis Hackett reviews Mein Kampf to warn Americans of Hitler’s world threat and the danger posed by a demagogue. He analyzes Hitler’s personality and the appeal of totalitarianism, arguing for hemisphere defense and preparedness.
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Hitler
America
Francis Hackett
Reynal and Hitchcock
Mr. Hackett
Western Hemisphere
United States
Hackett
Hemisphere
Elizabeth N. Hoyt
Hudson Valley books and Lassie Come Home reviews
Croswell Bowen’s Hudson pictorials praised for 300 photographs tracing the river from Newcomb to the Battery. Introduction by Carl Carmer noted. Bowen’s Life Magazine ties cited. Lassie Come Home highlighted as an appealing teen novel by Eric Knight, author linked to Iowa City.
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Croswell Bowen
Hudson River
Newcomb
New York State
Battle Fields
Battery
New York City
Hudson Channel
Ambrose
America
Father Divine
Hudson
Carl Carmer
Mr. Bowen
Yale
Sorbonne
Margaret Bourke-White
Life Magazine
Hudson Valley
E.N.H
Eric Knight
Iowa
Grant Wood
Iowa City
Collie Lassie Heads Home After Long Scotland to York Visit
A narrative mix recalls Joseph and Rosemary Ridder visiting Karl Gerlach as Lassie traverses hundreds of miles from Scotland to her York shire home. The piece weaves fiction with social portraits, noting drawings by Margaret Kirmse and remarks by Elsie Magnusson. It also cites book reviews and social notices, including engagements and local club events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Yorkshire
Lassie
Margaret Kirmse
Elsie Magnusson
Cedar Rapids Country Club
Joseph Ridder
Rosemary Ridder
New York City
A. W. H. Lenders
Grande Avenue SE
Miss Ridder
Karl Gerlach
St. Paul
War in the Desert book review by Aglion and editors
The desert shapes modern combat in Raoul Aglion’s work drawing on his Egypt experience. The author, a former French attaché, writes after leaving Vichy, placing ancient pharaohs alongside contemporary warfare as a crucial factor in the Mediterranean theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munich
Richard Myles
Oxford
France
Germany
Tyrol
England
Desert
Racer Astion
Henry Molt
Mediterranean
Raoul Aglion
M. Aglion
Egypt
United States
Vichy
Legion Auxiliary Group Heads Named in Hanford Unit
Mrs Louis F Schirm was installed as president of Hanford unit No. 5 of the American Legion auxiliary and announced committee chairmen for the year. The membership chairmen reported 109 advance 1942 members enrolled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis F Schirm
Hanford
Harry Gunderson
D M. Robertson
H. ©. Travis
George Rejsa
Ann McCurley
Charles Jasa
George Thompson
Iowa City and Cedar Rapids Event Forecasts and Activities
A dense list of events across Iowa including Raiders versus Clinton in two games at 6 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. in Cedar Rapids, auto races at the Mississippi Valley fairgrounds, golf tournaments in Davenport and Cedar Falls, and a mental health and cultural program in Iowa City. Notable items include the fifth annual peace officers short course in Iowa City, lectures by Ruth Suckow and Sudhindra Bose, a university theater performance, and a summer theater production in Mount Vernon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Clinton
Davenport
Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds
Cedar Falls
Iowa
Des Moines
Hyperion Country Club
Johnny Jacobs
Iowa City
Peace Officers
Ruth Suckow
Senate Chamber
Old Capitol
Linn County
Republican Women's Club
Montrose Hotel
Clear Lake
Lake Shore Hotel
Sudhindra Bose
Ol Capitol
Iowa City—Writers Workshop
Macbride Auditorium
Mount Vernon
Fulton Lewis, Jr
MBC
Washington
Iowa Union
Coe College Children’s Theater
Sinclair Memorial
Gladiolus Society Plans August Show at Memorial Coliseum
The Cedar Rapids Gladiolus Society meets Monday at 8 p.m. at the Montrose Hotel to complete preliminary work for the twelfth annual show set for August 9-10 at the Memorial Coliseum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Gladiolus Society
Montrose Hotel
Memorial Coliseum
Tenneys Visit In Saint Paul Area
Mr and Mrs R W Tenney of Chicago and their daughter Phy lis arrived Friday to visit Mr and Mrs W Tenney at 1732 Blake boulevard SE.
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A. E. Cubbison
Seventh Street
Bernice
Howard W. Bachman
Leslie Bachman
C Avenue
Kahoka
Bachman
McKinley High School
Woolworth Company
Franklin High School
Iowa Manufacturing Company
First Avenue
R. W. Tenney
Chicago
Phylis
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James Hilton
Maritta M. Wolff
Mr. and
Mrs. Cugat
Isabel Rorick
Connecticut
C. S. Forester
Berlin
William Shirer
Fierre van Paassen
Winston Churchill
White Cliffs
Alice Duer Miller
Emily Hahn
Irvin S. Cobb
Helen Macinnes
Little, Brown and Co
Miss MacInnes
Myleses
Dora Jane Hamblin
Kate O’brien
Doubleday, Doran and Co
Ireland
Sainte Famille
Anna
Nadine Subotnik
Hastings House
Eric Koisht
The
John C. Winslow Co
Gazette
Joseph and
John Klempner
Charles Scribner's Sons
Connie Rawlings
Dale Edwin
Connie
Baxter Cunningham
Baxter
Christie Fooler
Agatha Christie
Dodd, Mead and Co
J. W
General Wavell
Bob Estabrook
Margaret Tweech
Ralph Pulitzer
Duell, Sloan and Pearce
Erskine Caldwell
China
U.S. A
Cubbison Bachman
H. E. Haegg
Marshalltown
Floyd Baumgartner
Norman D. Bowers
F. W. Steuber
Charles Wadden
S. W. Klinge
Milo Baldwin
A. J Cassel
A. E. Schoendelen
William Murphy
T. H. Youngton
Jolly Ramblers
Freida Donisthorpe
L Street
Jolly Ramblers Card Club
Elizabeth Robertson
Marguerite Seinbaugh
Mae Phillips
Cere
Cine-Kodak
Sanford
Brabbit-Taylor Music CO
King Band Instruments
1St Ave
Duart Oil
Oux
Martin
Name Legion Auxiliary Group
Floyd Mosburg
Joseph Sponar
A. Dubbert
Glen McCollister
Edwin Wren
Gus Solbrig
Alma Vokolek
Jd. Howard Walsh
Oscar Lundquist
L. P. Lyman
B. D. Silliman
H. Wage
IF. C. Parrish
L. V. Koch
Iuv
Coe College Children’s
Theate
Universit
University of Iowa
Gerontius
Tenneys
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