Nazi Swastika over Paris as Allies Hope Fall of France
Newsreel style chronicle traces the European war from Paris conquest to the fall of France. It records Nazi advances, British and French responses, pivotal battles, armistice events, and shifting alliances across Europe from invasion of Denmark to Italy joining the Axis and the fall of Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Eiffel Tower
Norway
Churchah
Chamberlain
Balkan
Weygand
Gamelin
French Channel
Britain
Voteg Cdictat
Rehilian
Dunkirk
Hitler
Srrench
Narvik
Germany
Italy
Seine
Maginot Line
Petain
France
Compiegne
Exenek
Rumania
Bessarabia
Bukovina
Russia
Asia
Africa
Channel
British Somaliland
Zeila
Gulf of Otaden
British Maiilan
Egypt
aCe
United States
Transylvania
Hungary
Krupp
Neville Chamberlain
Duce
Romania
Burma
Greece
Franco
Spain
Carol
Magda
Peacetime draft and early wartime measures sweep Congress
The record lists Stimson introducing the peacetime draft capsule and a long sequence of 1940s actions. It notes budget requests, tax measures, court appointments, and foreign policy moves including Finland loans and defense bills. It mentions cabinet shuffles, naval expansions, and shifting wartime policies while highlighting key figures like Henry L. Stimson and Frank Murphy.
Congress passes excess profits tax bill amid war spending
The report outlines wartime actions including a broad excess profits tax, mobilization of 27 591 fleet and marine reservists, a U S State Department advisory urging Americans to depart the Orient, and Senate moves to release foreign funds. It notes presidential and ambassadorial shifts and the start of draft drawings with other wartime updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Congress
Burton K. Wheeler
James W. Martin
Massachusetts
Reublican National Committee
Senate
Henry L. Stimson
Roseever
House
Hatch
Col
Frank Knox
Navy
Long
Louisiana
National Guard
U. S. Army
Great Britain
Hemsphere
Hull
Japan
Indo-China
Pbanks
Bankhead
de ‘Tristan
Marc de Tristan
Hillsboro
Calif
California Hills
State Department
Orient
Clarence A. Dykstra
University of Wisconsin
Joseph H. Ball
Lundeen
Minnesota
U. S
Sweden
Axis
Local residents visit Midland lights and Christmas gatherings
Mr and Mrs Warren Tice and Mr and Mrs Elmer Lackie Jr drive to Midland to see the court house lights. They spend Christmas morning at Clarence Tice's home and later visit Frank Musser, with others joining in at various homes. The note ends with a classifieds plug for Sentinel Classified Columns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Shull
Daisy Bruckart
William Bruckart
Daisy Sy Bruckart
Anderson
Indiana
William Brukart
Rogs Coe
Bdb Wichert
Gilbert Waddington
Frank Wichert
Ernest Wichert
Holt
Gail Sowle
Clare
Claude Smith
J. W. Teale
Gibsonburg
Ohio
Earl Bergey
Flint
June
Ed Welch
Bobby
Harl Bergey
H. Bergey
Warren Tice
Elmer Lackie, Jr
Midland
Court House
Clarence Tice
Bert Bergey
Ford, Seymour
Frank Musser
Light in the Nations War Time Resolve
A wartime pledge extols dawns of peace for Michigan and America. It notes over a quarter million new electrical horsepower added or under construction, joining more than half a million already on the job, to power industry and daily life. The text affirms shared resolve to defend peace and sustain national strength through faith and defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southampton
Ireland
Greece
Ionian Sea
U. S
Britain
Commons
peRes
Sara
Gremer Insorto
Cuba
Bordeaux
Egyptian
Sidi Barrani
Egypt
Petain
Laval
Flandin
Hitler
Africa
Bardia
Libya
Nane
Ania
Michigan
America
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Sohn Dbd
Grant
Finland
Winston Churchill
Europe
Mannerheim Line
Sumner Welles
Norwegian
Reich
Vipuri
Karelian
Hangoe
Scapa Flow
Denmark
Oslo
Skagerrak
Dombaas
Vichy
Berlin
Alexandria
Mediterranean
England
Churchill
Gibraltar
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Moscow
Theoviet Union
Maeanes
Daladier
Reichstaz
Buckingham Palace
London
Dakar
Haakon
Albania
Taranto
Coventry
Birmingham
Liverpool
Turkey
Koritza
Atantic
Bulgaria
Bristol
Iron Guard
U.S
Samuel A. Stritch
Milwaukee
Chicago
Frank Murphy
Supreme Court
James Cromwell
Canada
Robert H. Jackson
Clarence E. Gauss
Australia
House Committee
Washington
Senator Borah
Earl Browder
Snate Committee
Power of Labor Board
Panama Canal
Robert Donat
Vivien Leigh
New York
Remington Arms Co
John Monk Saunders
Governor Rivers of
Georgia
Hull Oporaias
James H. R. Cromwell
Toronto
Scandinavia
World
Dutch East Indies
U. S. Supreme Court
Con-Gressi
F.A. Cook
Paward R, Stettinius Jr
W. Nudsen
S. Hillman
Chester C. Davis
Ralph Buea
Leon Henderson
Miss Harriet Elliott
Rpalerti
Mussolini
NLRB
Harry Bridges
Treasury
Conference of
War
National Committee
Knox and Stimson
Res Societe Geee Song KekZand Eee Bhiss
Farley
Army
Wendell Willkie
Elwood
Ind
Joint Defense Board
Claude R. Wickard
Wallace
Agriculure
Harry Hopkins
Commerce
Jesse Jones
Frank Walker
Fairey
MecNary
Henry Wallace
Loomis
Archie MacDonald
Saginaw
Archie, Jr
Mt. Pleasant
Harry Perkins
Kenneth Barnes
Haley
Art Damoth Insurance Agency
Clare Cleaners
the Sentinel
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