War guilt and Italy’s shifting roles loom in peace hopes
An analysis traces who bears responsibility for war, warning against future punishment of nations. It recalls Chamberlain’s claim that only Hitler is to blame, then surveys Italy’s WWI and prewar moves, noting shifts from alliance to neutrality and ambitions in Europe and Africa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
INS
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Germany
Chamberlain
Versailles
Italy
Austria-Hungary
Rome
Great Britain
Europe
Mediterranean
Trentino
Cisalpine
Tyrol
Dalmatia
Adriatic
Turkey
Smyrna-Adalia
Africa
France
Wilson
Caporetto
Albania
Britain
Yugoslavia
Savoy
Nice
Corsica
Il Duce
Tunisia
Djibuti
Suez Canal
Ethiopia
We Have Wider streets Now Learn to Use Them
Cedar Rapids widens Third avenue heightens traffic duties and urges driver education to reduce accidents. A policy shift to lane discipline and police campaigns aims to maximize new multi lane safety and efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Italy’s wartime posture tests Axis unity and strategy
The article weighs Italy’s reluctance to mobilize or aid Poland, exploring whether Mussolini seeks German support, risks prestige, and may pivot toward the Allies. It analyzes Hitler’s reactions and the potential for a price-driven Italian shift in the Moscow Berlin context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Great Britain
France
Poland
Hitler
Germany
Austria
Mussolini
Duce
Noted quotes shape public figures and thoughts of the era
A compilation of varied remarks from Pope Pius XII, Dewey, Elizabeth Reynard, Henry Ford, La Guardia, Lawrence Tibbett, Avery Coonley, and others. The speakers touch on justice, liberty, politics, education, war, democracy, and culture reflecting early 20th century concerns.
War of names bogs down readers in long spelling
A writer laments the constant barrage of hard to pronounce place names from wars past and present. The piece argues readers deserve war names that can be pronounced with ordinary speech and mocks the heavy spelling of various nations and leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchuria
Addis Ababa
Dijibuti
Gojjam
Kokfara
Haile Selassie
China
Sui
Washington Iowa Folk in National Convention Circles
Elsie Hudson Coleman of Cedar Rapids seen as pre convention aide to Senator H Styles Bridges of New Hampshire with Rep. Charles Hawks Jr. of Wisconsin directing Bridges campaign while Eisers and Eicher plan SEC role, housing, and future reappointment as the commission schedules reforms and corporate reorganizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
Elsie Hudson Coleman
Cedar Rapids
Charles Hawks, Jr
Horicon
Wis
H. Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Hawks
Washington
Bridges
Coleman
Lloyd Thurston
Iowa
Senate
Sen. Bridges
Wisconsin
Business
Professional Women’s Club of
Capitol Hill
Earlene White
The
National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
SEC
Jerome Frank
Eicher
Commission
Munich
Eichers
West Chester
S. W. Livingston
Eschhers
Betty
Parsons College
George Washington University
Escher
American Bar Association
San Francisco
Illinois Bar Association
Rockford
Maloney
House of Representatives
Barkley
Congress
Iowa Democrats Eye Roosevelt Reelection Barrier
Iowa democrats argue a second world war in 1940 would solidify Roosevelt's bid for a third term. They contend voters avoid changing leaders midstream, while Republicans recall 1916 near an electoral switch. The piece notes analysts tracking statehouse issues amid wartime politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moines
Iowa
Roosevelt
Wilson
Charles Evans Hughes
Hughes
Ask at Your Own Risk
A collection of political brief items and remarks touches on the Iowa public safety department driver license issue and a shuffle of state liquor commission personnel. It notes neutrality questions in Congress, a Hartley liquor incident, and local officials moving to other duties while editorials hint at state employment timing. Ed Birmingham and W. L. Curtis appear among references to Democratic and Republican figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golden Dome
Statehouse
Public Safety Department
W. L. Curtis
Dick R. Lane
New Hampshire
National Alcohol Beverage Control Association
Bernard E. Manley
Dean H. H. Kildee
Iowa State College
Eastern Insurance Company
Iowa
Hartley
Ed Birmingham
Sioux City Livestock Commission
State Social Welfare Board
State Tax Commission
Columnist Memos and Broadway Gossip Across 1940s Press
A stream of clipped notes covers Horse racing tips, celebrity encounters, and theater buzz. Mentions Liz Whitney, Henry, Saratoga horse Sneaky Henry, George Browne, Damon Runyon, Sophie Tucker, Harold Ross, Jane McLane, George Raft, Ann Miller, and the Actors’ strike. Includes critique of Pelley and FDR era charity funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MR. W
Liz Whitney
Henry
Saratoga
Thaeen
Rashurith
Roland Young
Deb Jane McLane
Washington Hall
George Raft
Mildred MacCollum
Raft
Barren Kriendler
52Nd Street
Ann Miller
Damon Runyon
Clerks Oppose Sunday Work Meet Elects Officers
Aug 31 clerks organized for mutual protection against long hours and Sunday business. W L Pope elected president Ed Gavin secretary James Snyder treasurer. Bohemian Reading society negotiates sale of its hall at First street and Fourth avenue built in 1869 for 4000 dollars, with proceeds used largely for charity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nea
W. L. Pope
Ed Gavin
James Snyder
The
Bohemian Reading Society
Fay Brothers Lumber Company
First Street
Fourth Avenue
Slough Draining Plan Proposed By Alderman Haskell
Alderman Haskell presented a council plan to drain the north and east slough by a 2000 foot sewer into the river. A physician calls the slough a health menace to the city. A social note records Mrs. H L Marshall hosting Verne Marshall’s tenth birthday party with many local children attending. A judge travels to Bloomfield for prairie chick hunting and Sioux Falls businessmen meet with B C R N officials to discuss extending the Cedar Rapids route from Sioux Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alderman Haskell
H. L. Marshall
Verne
Mary Hageman
Bessie Rudolph
Bessie Holtman
Gladys Young
Marguerite Huston
Alice Howe
Margaret Fitzgerald
Hazel Little
Nellie Fosmire
Mabel Endicott
Mary Montieth
Ada Remington
Maggie Marshall
Paul Huston
John Huston
Freddie Schumacher
Harold Cooper
Hoyt
Sioux Falls
Melvin Grisby
Rough Riders
City
Ives
Cedar Rapids
Kindergarten Reopens At Sinclair School
The Sinclair kindergarten at 813 Third Avenue reopens for a new season with remodeling underway and the same popular staff retained. Mrs. R. H. Kirk serves as principal. The Metropolitan Opera Company opened a week at Greene's Opera House on August 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sinclair
Third Avenue
R. H. Kirk
Metropolitan Opera Company
Greene’s Opera House
Also Mentioned on This Page
Vatican
Pope Pius XII
Dewey
Carrie Hughes
Henry Ford
Raymond H. Gifford
National Association of Meat Cutters
F. H. LaGuardia
New York City
Lawrence Tibbett
Opera
Walther von Brauschitsch
Broadway
I. Arthur Ganger
New York
Central Park Casino
Marjorie Hillis
Eduard Lindemann
New School For Social Research
Victor Nef
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Arctic Explorer
Ohio
Ed Eicher
Securities and Exchange Commission
National Association of State Securities Commissioners
Skytop
J. D. Ross
Bonneville Dam
Pacific Northwest
Ross
John Hanes
Treasury
Hanes
Interstate Commerce Commission
Utility Holding Company
Chandler
ED Hadley
Gazette
Capitol Currents
John H. Chapman
Associated Press
Edgar A. Guest
Guy Gillette
Mvc
Ligis Aic
Winnie Gardiner
Babs
Florida
CBS
Kaltenborn
Yurrop
George Goman
57Th Street
Grace Callender
James Callender
Fredericksburg
Reno
Jack Osterman
Mary Daly
Park East Hospital
Milton Berle
International Casino
Feller
Lice Duer Miller
New Yorker
Harold Ross
Denver
Ted Rio-Rita
George White
White
George Browne
Dalzell
Thomson
Actors’ Unions
Ralph Whitehead
AFA
Sophie Tucker
Sophie
Kuhn
Felley
Earl Browder
Fdr
James 3. Hauska
Bohemian Hall Sale
Judge Hubbard
Bloomfield
Judge Trime
A. R
Walter Winchell
Daily Mirror, Inc
John
Gurner G
Son Pial
Mteece
Fate
Igation
Nera
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