Churchill Address Grips Capitol in Joint Session
Winston Churchill’s second joint session appearance draws crowded gallery and notable aides including Lord Halifax and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The prime minister’s brisk, humane delivery earns sustained applause as veterans Wood and Churchill share a silent moment after the standing ovation.
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Winston Churchill
Congress
Capitol Hill
Pearl Harbor
Senate Chamber
House
Sam Rayburn
Mackenzie King
Canada
Bernard Baruch
Duke
Duchess of Windsor
Rayburn
Senate
Great Britain
Wood
North Africa
England
British Empire
Churchill
Supreme Court
Lord Halifax
Looking Ahead See Politics in Lewis AFL Homecoming
The looming Lewis AFL Homecoming is seen as a political labor alliance aiming to shape a 1944 front with William L. Hutcheson as a key ally. Lewis, a Republican with 1932-36 New Deal support, reportedly favors Ohio Republican John W. Bricker for 1944.
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John L. Lewis
American Federation of Labor
William L. Hutcheson
AFL
Republican Party
Lewis
Roosevelt
Wendell Willkie
Mr. Roosevelt
CIO
Willkie
United Mine Workers
Ohio
John W. Bricker
Churchill Visit Interpreted Through Roosevelt S O S
The article argues Churchill s Geneva spirit and his congressional speech show how democratic leaders cooperate to make League decisions acceptable at home. It notes past isolationism, Pearl Harbor talks, and the China distress driving support for aiding Britain despite mixed American views.
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Churchill
Statesmens Internationale
Geneva
League Council
League Assembly
Beans and Bugles Rotary Bulletin from Peterboro Ont
Two Negro soldiers joke about buglers in their company. One praises a roll call bugler as sounding like a Boston symphony. The other compares Snowball Jones and his mess call to whipped cream being kicked from a plate.
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Boston Symphony
Snowball Jones
Propaganda Front Traitors in Vichy Urge Tunisian Victory Narrative
The piece critiques Vichy and Paris propagandists who push a line claiming Tunisia’s fall was a French defeat. It cites Philippe Henriot and others, notes widespread French patriotism, and argues most French people reject collaboration while traitors insist Britain and America ruined France.
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Vichy
Tunisian
France
de Gaulle
Paris
State Department
Hitler
Laval
Lyons
New Order
Tunisia
Bizerte
Tunis
Germany
Italy
Philippe Henriot
Henriot
North Africa
Oklahoma
Virginia
Casablanca
Sfax
Agadir
Mediterranean
Britain
Stooges
Robert de Beauplan
Barfly
The Gremlins Are Everywhere in Wartime Shortage Satire
In a satirical piece by Arthur Beer, wartime shortages loom large from oil and gasoline to coal and timber. The author highlights quirky scenes including 17 000 pounds of potatoes found in a Manhattan barber shop and the oddities caused by fuel and supply scarcities.
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O— Mayor LaGuardia
Cedar Rapids Families Affected by Heat Wave and City News
Forty years ago Cedar Rapids reported heat prostration among Paul F Kilburn age six and an eight year old, with several others treated by physicians. The Board of Education closed schools to view the veterans parade. Street conditions on Tenth Street under Seventh Avenue were dangerous after washboard dirt and missing planks. Washington High School graduations planned for fifty one seniors, twenty four boys and twenty seven girls. Rev J Percival Huggett was named pastor of the First Congregational Church.
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Cedar Rapids
Paul F Kilburn
F W. Heaney
Board of Education
Veterans of the Iowa Department of the Grand Army of the Republic
Tenth Street
Seventh Avenue
J Percival Huggett
University of Iowa
Coe
First Congregational Church
Only Men Spiritually Alive Can Carry Freedom to All Peoples
A political and moral reflection argues the current conflict is a clash of principles. It frames the war as a counter revolution led by the United States to advance universal independence and Four Freedoms. Freedom requires self discipline, sacrifice, and belief in a universal God beyond any single creed.
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Jinston Churchill
Congress
Japan
Germany
Nippon
WPB
War Food Administration
Dr Goebbels
United States
Great Britain
North
Africa
Giraud
David G. Bleakley
Cedar Rapids
England
Europe
United States of America
Earth
Buddha
Mohammed
Confucius
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Tne
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Office of War of ‘Information
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AR Manpower Commission
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Manpower
Paul V. McNutt
By Galbraith
NEA Service. Inc
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S.O.S
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
China
Chandler
Peterboro
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