Priestly critiques and Tojo as wartime figure in 1934-37 style commentary
The piece reviews J B Priestley as Voice of England through radio comments on American critics and belligerence, noting his Cambridge honors and works, then shifts to Japan's wartime cabinet with General Tojo and Yoshuke Matsuoka, highlighting their hard line, isolationist stance, and appeals to war scares amid looming conflicts.
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EW York
J. B. Priestly
The
Mr. Priestly
England
Pardner
Priestly
Cambridge
London
Yorkshire
Desert
Arizona
America
Eiki Tojo
Japan
Tojo
Army
General Tojo
Russia
Pericles
Greece
Adolf Hitler
Mammoth Cave discovers vast new underground network
National Park service researchers report a hidden labyrinth at Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, found by four explorers on October 10 1938 after twenty years of searching near Lee Ridge. The complex features three major avenues over miles of chambers with gypsum gardens and intricate travertine and stalactite formations.
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JO MacDonald
Union
Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
National Park Service
Itelf
Park Service
Purgatory
Paradise
Carl Hanson
Pete
Leo Hunt
Claude Hunt
Roaring River
Lee Ridge
Mammoth Cave Ridge
Martin L. Charlet
Park
R. Taylor Hoskins
Mammoth Cave National Park
Hoskins
Big Avenue
Capitol
Fossil Avenue
Son
Modern Delegates Clash Over Independence Declaration
A staged debate at Independence Hall pits 1776 delegates against modern politicians as they argue wording of the declaration. They fret on necessity, rights, and the risk of war, ending with a poll delay and a curtain thud.
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Independence Hall
Philadelphia
Great Britain
Gallup
Holy Land Revered Across Faiths Quiz Questions
Palestine is reverenced as the Holy Land by Jews Christians and Mohammedans. Water freezes at zero and boils at 100 degrees on the centigrade scale. The maelstrom is off the coast of Norway. Tactile sense is the sense of touch. Hottentots live in South Africa. Aurora Australis is the northern lights of the southern hemisphere. The word aye in voting is pronounced as sey ts.
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Holy Land
Palestine
Norway
South Africa
Single Factor Seldom Causes Auto Accident
Edward Duncan reports on traffic safety expert J. Stannard Baker who argues accidents result from multiple factors not a single cause. He cites darkness rain intoxication and a curve and explains safer curves and road design reduce crashes even with some drunk drivers.
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Rakes
J. Stannard Baker
National Safety Council
Baker
National Institute For
University of Tennessee
Knoxville
Mr. Baker
Centennial of Old Glory voyage marked on August 10
The 150th anniversary of the first circumnavigation of America’s flag will be observed August 10. The ship Columbia sailed from Boston September 30, 1787, and completed the world voyage in 1790. A Pan American friendship event and an International Girl Scout Camp in Camp Andree, New York, August 14–28 will involve Girl Scouts from across the Americas. Seven thousand Southwestern Indians gather at Gallup, New Mexico, for a three day religious and cultural core festival with dances and crafts.
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Columbia
Boston
General Council
Congregational and
Camp Andree
N. Y
North
South America
Southwest
Gallup
N. M
Martindale family renovates dining room into guest sewing space
Ruth Wyeth Spers describes how the Martindales repurpose an old buffet into a combined guest and sewing room with a mirror, spool tables, rug made from scraps, muslin drapery, and other odds and ends. The setup includes lamps and a stool, with directions for the rug and spool tables in Sewing Book 5. An editor notes 150 homemaking ideas are offered in five booklets at 10 cents each.
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Ruth Wyeth Spers
Marty
Martindale
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Lemuel F. Parton
Consolidated Features
WNU
Voice of England
Yosuke
Matsuoka
University of Oregon
Dorothy Lamour
Edward Duncan
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Lydia HE. Pinkham
Lice
Sir Cecil Rhodes
Ial
Doan
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