Purge Failure Shapes Roosevelt Era and Kentucky Vote
The article links Roosevelt purge failures to party dynamics as 1940 third term questions fade. It covers Kentucky Senate race with Lee Combs shooting, Alben Barkley’s renomination, and Chandler’s vote. It recalls Japan Moscow tensions and Sino Soviet war brink, plus Canton bombings and a Bechuanaland elder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Roosevelt
Iowa
Gillette
Nevada
McCarran
Colorado
Adams
Missouri
Clark
United States
Congress
Pacific
Roosevelt
A. S. Lizmore
Kentucky
Versailles
A. B
Happy” Chandler
Alben W. Barkley
Paducah
Alben Barkley
Happy Chandler
Dear Alben
Litvinoff
Tokyo
Japan
Siberian
Moscow
Russia
Yangtze River
Nanking
China
Manchuria
Peking
Canton
Britain
Hongkong
South China
Famous fives’ health worries and world events cross paths
At Callander Ontario Dr Roy Dafoe notes the seven infants’ stomach upsets while Emilie’s nourishment lapse worries Papa Dionne. Pearl White and Warner Oland die. In Hammond Governor Lewie serves pickets as Jesus procession echoes, and Nazi Bible edits stir clergy. TVA probes and union strife fill headlines alongside air traffic policy shifts and labor clashes.
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Callander
Ont
Fa Pear
Roy Dafoe
Pappa Dionne
Emilie
Pearl White
Paris
Warner Oland
Charlie Chan
Sweden
Hammond, Ha
Richard W. Lewhe
Man who risked life with powder shares close call in 1917 plant blast
Herman Beaver of Chicago faced a catastrophic explosion while grinding salvaged powder at a Milwaukee munitions plant in July 1917. He survived as flames engulfed him and co workers aided by a supervisor, recalling two scars as proof of the near catastrophe.
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John L. Lewis
Detroit
Los Angeles
Homer Martin
C. I. O.united Automobile Workers
Martin
Jay Lovestone
Independent Communist Labor League
Lovestone
A. F
Francis Dillon
Labor Federation
Harry Bridges
Industrial Union Council
Ello
France
Herman Beaver
Chicago
Milwaukee
Wis
Milwaukee River
Herman
Learn to Sew with Simple Dress Patterns
The Sewing Circle offers dress patterns and a book titled SUCCESS IN SEWING. Learn step by step with diagrams, cut sizes for women and girls, and materials lists. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept in San Francisco for ready reference.
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Dimity
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
New Montgomery Ave
San Francisco
Calif
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Silkworms Prefer White Mulberry for Silk
Silkworms feed on any mulberry leaves but show best silk quality on white mulberry. The article notes silks appear brighter with white mulberry and contrasts with other varieties.
Bill Curves to the Side The Wry-Billed Plover
A brief note describes a wry-billed plover of New Zealand as a stout, compact shorebird with a distinctive bending bill. The excerpt contrasts it with a more slender sandloving species.
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Bill
New Zealand
Force and Perseverance in Attaining Ends
A quotation contrasts force and perseverance, noting force favors the privileged while austere sustained perseverance can be practiced by the smallest. Its silent power grows irresistible with time according to Madame Swetchine.
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Madame Swetchine
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Weekly News Review
Jackson
Lee Combs
William Combs
Maxim Litvinoff
Asia
Changkufeng
Mamoru Shigemitsu
London
Africa
John Harris
Bechuanaland
New York
Rockaway Beach
England
Mary
Atlantic
The
Jesus
Israel
St. John
Adolph Hitler
Germany
Pennsylvania
James J. Davis
U. S. Moose
Tennessee Valley Authority
Washington
Knoxville
TVA
Arthur Morgan
Davis
M. C. Conick
Labor
U.S
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Elmer J. Noble
Greenwich
Conn
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ree : Tuerk
Adventurers’ Club
Floyd Gibbons
Lydian
Ham
Wren
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