War Scare's Tensity Brought Home As American In England Tries Gas Mask On His Child
A Cedar Rapids resident abroad details Europe during the Munich crisis of 1938. He and family faced mass gas mask drills, shelters, and rushed preparations in London Cambridge and Manchester, noting Britain mobilized spirits and equipment while blaming Hitler and his advisers.
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Tensity
England
Cedar Rapids
Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Chamberlain
Air Raid Precautions Bureau
Derby
Sheffield
Corporation
Manchester
Barrow-in-Furness
Lake District
Penrith
London
BBC
Ssage
Cambridge
Newnham
Girton
Europe
America
Hyde Park
Britain
Mussolini
France
Germany
Godesberg
Cambridge Calm Returns After Tense Weeks Abroad
The speaker notes the pastoral quiet of Cambridge returning after a period of tension. They express confidence in the British to inform Germans of future events and their own good health as they anticipate returning home to America. The mood shifts from anxiety to reassurance and readiness to travel.
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Cambridge
America
Iowa in Washington and Farm Program Talk in Iowa
A reader cites county enthusiasm for the farm program across northeastern Iowa and says Delaware Alla makee Winneshiek and Franklin counties are lively on the Republican side. He notes broader support for Secretary Wallace's plan but questions its reach beyond northeastern counties and recalls Ray Anderson's reaction to listening remarks. A note to the editor asks if quoting Senator Herring constitutes a prediction.
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Hampton
Franklin County
Delaware
Allamakee
Winneshiek
Iowa
Wallace
Herring
Ray Anderson
The
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Two-Price Farm Plan Blasted by GOP Official
Miss Marion E. Martin, assistant chair of the Republican National Committee, charged that the proposed two-price surplus farm crop system would create a two-class nation. Speaking at a Virginia Republican women’s rally, she condemned the New Deal policy of buying surpluses as the old federal farm plan on a more expensive scale.
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Roanoke
Marion E. Martin
Republican National Committee
New Deal
Martin
John D. M. Hamilton
G.O.P. Committee
Republican Women of
Virginia
Felix K. Parker
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Nola
George Washington Union Leader Advertiser
Granger Friends Tobacco
Black Sea
Foley
Absorbine Jr
S.S.S
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Petrolagar
Caldwell
Borcherdt’s
Haley’s M
ARS OS
Erie
Books For
Nurito
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Auick
Vicks Antisewile
Remington
Sale Squibb's Products
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Squibb
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May's
UU Ag
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Luden
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Colgate Products
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