Tugwell Roosevelt talk on promises and policy recalled
A 1933 White House exchange between Rexford Tugwell and Franklin D. Roosevelt is described as highlighting policy aims versus methods. The piece links Wilson's torch metaphor to fears of court packing and reorganization, noting opposition and warnings about repealing arms embargo and aiding submerged groups.
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Roosevelt clamps down on neutrality talk in Washington
The White House ordered all officials to avoid discussing neutrality, while Senate debate looms Monday. Leaders in both parties hint at shifting to a cash and carry approach and repeal of the arms embargo as debate sharpens.
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Foreign Relations Committee
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Idaho
Sen. Johnson
Calif
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Russia Eyes Naval Base Move in the Baltic and Black Sea
Dispatches from Balkan capitals report Moscow pressing for Latvia use of Libau Bay as a Soviet naval base to control the northern Baltic coast. Observers warn of a Black Sea pact with Romania Bulgaria and Turkey under Moscow guidance, expanding Soviet influence in southeastern Europe while Germany loses ground.
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Balkan
Soviet
Russia
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Latvia
Libau Bay
Baltic
Three Danish Freighters Seized by German Warships
Danish report says German destroyers seized the freighters Rota Diana and Lyneas in the Kattegat and towed them to a German port. The vessels carried bacon butter and wood pulp from Sweden bound for England and the Netherlands. Denmark plans to protest in Berlin.
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Kattegat
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Denmark
Sweden
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Skagerrak
Norway
Rota
Diana
Lyneas
England
Netherlands
Foreign Office
Berlin
Ulrich von Hassell
Germany
Polish government set up in exile in France
In Paris a Polish government without a country was established. W ladyslaw Raczkiewicz took the oath as president of the republic now divided between Germany and Russia. Gen. W ladyslaw Sikorski named premier and martial affairs minister, with a new cabinet to be completed from socialist peasant and national labor parties. The U S ambassador to Poland arrived with staff in Paris and was to be accredited to the Polish government in exile.
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Warsaw Senate
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Russia
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Rumania
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Subotica
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Italy
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Mencicki
Slawoj Skladkowski
Whladislaw Sikorski
Sikorski
Stanislaw Stronski
August Zaleski
Adam Koc
Socialist
Peoples Peasant
United Front
Ignace Padeczewski
Poland
United States
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr
Warsaw
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Light Co Plans Second High Pressure Boiler At 900000
Iowa Electric Light and Power plans a second high pressure boiler at its Sutherland Dows plant in Cedar Rapids. The $900000 unit mirrors the first boiler and will require a new building six feet taller. Springfield Boiler Co will erect it with pulverized coal firing from Babcock and Wilcox and burners by Peabody.
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Sutherland Dows
High Twelve Club
Babcock and Wilcox Company
Peabody Company
Bandits Enact Mechanicsville Bank Office Holdup
Two masked assailants armed with a 38 caliber pistol robbed Joe Brummel of 360 dollars at Harry Gibeaut’s office in Mechanicsville. Brummel and Gibeaut were threatened, shots fired, bandits fled in a black Ford V-8 toward Anamosa with the wallet and escaped.
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Mechanicsville
Harry Gibeaut
Joe Brummel
Mechanicsvile
Gibeaut
Anamosa
Fire damages Newman's department store in haberdashery area
A fire at Newman's department store on Second Avenue and Second Street SE caused smoke and water damage to stock in the men’s haberdashery department. Firefighters from multiple companies responded after flames were spotted at 11:45 p.m. No exact loss estimate was released, with officials citing possible ignition from inflammable floor cleaning compound.
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Newman's Department Store
Second Avenue
Second Street
Edwin Holets
B. J. Newburger
E. P. Kohout
Reds Face Yankees in Title Series After Hot Season
The Reds must now play the Yankees after New York won 105 games and resisted rain. Both parks sold out, with peanuts in the stands as Cincinnati chases a closer series than expected.
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French Take Three Towns In Swift Musk Offensive East Of Moselle
French forces backed by tanks and infantry reportedly seized Perl Oberperl and Lehndorf after heavy German artillery as the war widened along the Luxembourg border. Paris says the advance pushed Siegfried Line troops back two miles toward the Thionville Trier railway, amid renewed air activity and a looming German counterattack.
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Siegfried
Thionville
Trier
Luxembourg
Rhine
French War Office
London
Ministry of Information
Berg
Bosch
Borah Rejects Push For Republican Presidential Run
Senator Borah of Idaho rejected attempts from Wisconsin Illinois Georgia and South Carolina for a Borah for president movement. He said age and party structure would prevent consideration and noted he would not seek the nomination despite letters from political leaders.
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Washington
Borah
Ida
Wisconsin
Illinois
Georgia
South Carolina
Bernhard Gettelman
Milwaukee
Hitler moves toward peace bid while plotting major war
Hitler presided over a war council in Berlin and invited Fascist Foreign Minister Ciano to discuss peace terms with Italy. He summoned the Reichstag for next week to announce a government declaration, signaling a Nazi Soviet peace effort amid mounting Allied resistance.
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Galeazzo Ciano
Italy
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Nicht Ausgirbe
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Weather Ticks Down After Autumn High In Cedar Rapids
In Cedar Rapids the day rose to a high of 52 degrees between 3 and 4 p.m. with frost in the morning. By 6.30 p.m. the reading was 43 degrees, under clear skies, and midnight showed 33 as recorded by the Chambers Inskeep device.
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Cedar Ranida
Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Weather outlook for Oct 2–7 Upper Mississippi valley
Chicago broadcast reports weekly forecast for the Upper Mississippi valley from Oct 2 to Oct 7. Temperatures are expected to run mostly above normal with a relatively dry week overall.
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Chicago
Mississippi Valley
Nash strike vote at Kenosha plant by UAW CIO
In Kenosha Wisconsin the United Automobile Workers CIO voted 7 to 1 to strike the Nash Kelvinator plant starting at noon today. About 3000 workers are employed at the Nash Kelvinator facility.
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Britain Declares Reich Threatens To Attack Any Of Her Ships
London AP reports the admiralty warns Germany may attack all British vessels without warning, signaling a possible shift in submarine warfare. Germany says armed merchant ships justify treating ships as warships, while the broadcast cites Churchill remarks and Hamburg Fremdenblatt.
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Reich
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Admiralty
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Hamburg Fremdenblatt
England
United States Congress
Blast Damages Morrell Plant Forcing Ottumwa Shutdown
An explosion at the John Ho Morrell Co packing plant in Ottumwa late Saturday wrecked the power room and collapsed a wall of the three story building. Ammonia fumes hindered entry to the engine room but officials reported no injuries. The plant employs about 2,800 people.
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Ottumwa
John Ho Morrell Co
Nazis Claim Big Victories in Air Fights
Berlin reports nine Allied planes shot down on Saturday raising total Allied losses to at least 65 since the war began. Germany says French and British craft were downed over the North Sea and from Kiel to the western front, with additional ships and planes claimed as destroyed.
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North Sea
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Saarbruecken
Saar
Siegfried Line
Langeroog
RAF incursions over Germany yield reconnaissance and casualties
British war planes patrolled the western front and over Germany at height and low altitude. The air ministry said RAF reconnaissance flights produced clear photographs of Siegfried Line fortifications including gun emplacements and tank traps. Enemy casualties were not known.
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London
Germany
Ministry of Information
Royal Air Force
Western Front
Ministry
RAF
Air Ministry
West Wall
France
Siegfried Line
Slovak Troops Refuse Nazi Order Defy Execution Threat
An exiled Slovak regimental informant recalls a prewar mobilized unit in central Slovakia that refused to march on Poland. General Ferdinand Csatlos protected the regiment from immediate German punishment after a tense standoff at Kremnica. The soldiers sang the national anthem, stood 3000 strong, and faced possible court martial, choosing defiance over war.
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Poland
Kremnica
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