British Soviet Tension Rises as Nazi Pact Tests Europe
In a turbulent European panorama, Britain accelerates aid to Finns while graphs of Moscow Berlin ties emerge. War talk grows in the Balkans and Near East, with Russia massing on multiple frontiers as the U S eyes embargoes, and defense bills surge through Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Russia
Berlin
Europe
der Angrif
Robert Ley
Finland
France
Britain
Scandinavia
Sweden
Norway
Near East
Balkans
Turkey
Iran
Afghanistan
India
Political chatter and hints of 1940 GOP moves
The column surveys quiet deals on taxes and debt limits, noting leaders plan to do nothing before the election. It recalls Mickey Rooney’s Maryland trip and a Georgia governor exchange, then reports NYA youth tours with Stokowski, a farmer hangover warning from Henry Wallace, GOP cross-currents between Landon Knox, and Alaska as a barometer of national sentiment.
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Washington
Morgenthau
NYA
Leopold Stokowski
Latin America
Margaret Valiant
National Youth Administration
Hawaii
Carl Patterson
van Buren Ark
Bob Burns
Mickie Sweeney
Chicago
Middle West
Landon
Knox
Mae
Dewey
Vandenberg
Taft
Nebraska
Apean
T Neil
Borah
Ernest Gruening
Alaska
U. S
Maine
NAMES in the news headlines and shifts abroad
In Washington JOhn D. M. Hamilton as national chairman urged his committee to name a date and place for the 1840 convention. Herbert Hoover Jr. helped develop detection of oil by surface analysis while Herbert Hoover Sr. predicted European war demands would threaten U. S. food. Bulgarian premier George Hiosseivanoff resigned over a cabinet member favoring Soviet ties. Joseph E. Davies was named America’s beet dressed man. Denmark’s royal family halted hot baths due to coal shortage. Artist Artie Shaw and Lana Turner wed in Las Vegas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. M. Hamilton
Washington
Herbert Hoover JR
Herbert Hoover SR
U. S
George Hiosseivanoff
Soviet
Russia
Joseph E. Davies
Belgium
State Department
America
Christian
Denmark
Fritz
Billon-Dellag
Artie Shaw
Lana Turner
Las Vegas
Nev
Insurance Quiz Probes U S Life Firms Wealth Shifts
In Washington the Temporary National Economic Committee spotlighted U S life insurers. SEC witness Leon Henderson charged large firms drifted from writing life insurance to investments, concentrating assets and diverting funds from business enterprise. From 1929 to 1938 the 26 firms took in 42 percent of billions, with 10 percent disbursed to reserves while assets rose 63 percent 1928 to 1935. John A Stevenson urged mortality statistic modernization. excess income back in dividends. Supreme Court rulings included freeing four Florida Negroes from death sentences on secret interrogations, barring NLBR fact changes, and blocking Arkansas fuel tax on interstate buses. three justices dissented on trade barrier issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Economy Committee
Washington
U. S
Leon Henderson
Securities and Exchange
U.S
SEC
John A. Stevenson
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
TNEC
U. S. Supreme Court
Lincoln
Florida
National Labor Relations Board
Alt
Arkansas
Frankfurter
Black
Douglas
Goering Imports Polish Labor to Boost Nazi Larder
In Berlin Field Marshal Hermann Goering imported Polish labor to work on German farms, bolstering the Nazi larder without drawing men from the front. In Albany New York 8,000 taxpayers protested a proposed 16 million dollar personal income tax increase, also pushing for reductions in a nearly 396.7 million dollar budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poland
Berlin
Hermann Goering
Albany
N. Y
Radio homework faces students in education era
A humorous look at radio based homework clippings and classroom via air. Parents debate benefits while teachers discuss lessons over the air for fifteen minutes at night. The piece humorously contrasts modern radio schooling with traditional study and the quirky remarks of parents and observers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City Board of Education
Little Willie
Popper
Bennie Goodman
Household Answers and Tips From Daily Life
Practical household hints cover piano care egg spoons cleaning carrots and potatoes soaking potatoes for crisping, clock maintenance with kerosene oil, curtain hanging tips, boning lamb for easier carving, bread cleaning for felt hats, and curtain threading with a thimble to prevent tearing. The advice aims to simplify chores and extend item longevity.
Wisecracks on marriage and wit from a humor column
A witty barrage on sayings about perfection, marriage, luck, and bargains. It riffs on logic and failure, notes that two are needed for a bargain but often one benefits, and jokes about theater vanity and a producer's appetite for costumes.
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Joseph W. Labine
Western Newspaper Union
Workers of the World
Karelian
United Press
Piikseranta
Congress
Caribbean
Secret Service
American Youth Congress
House
Senate
China
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Japan
Cordell Hull
House Naval Committee
House Agriculture Committee
J. Warren Madden
NLRB
House Labor Board
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
White House
Missy
Roosevelt
Sumner Welles
Chicago Nae
Welles
Marguerite
LeHand
Tribune
Miami
Joe Kennedy
Paris
Bill Bullitt
Steve Early
Hull
London
Rome
Vatican
Myron Taylor
Pius
Agriculture Department
California
U. S. Army
Navy
U. 8
Army
Hitler
DR. Ley
Workers of the World, Unite
Vibsy
Drew Pearson and
Robert Allen
Mickey
Mickey Rooney
Baltimore
Bertha Joseph
Sen
George Radcliffe
Maryland
Joseph
North Carolina
South Carolina
Max Gardner
Georgia
Ed Rivers
Henry Wallace
Henderson
Oyre
Nell
Mommer
Milton
United States Marine Band
Wonder Man
Wesley Stagg
Oscar Pettitt
Jim Farley
Wappingery Falls
Bisekout Kibitzera
W. Pilling
Stalin
Pues
Metropolitan Opera
New York
Elmer ‘Twitchell
Marjorie
Prerea
Natura
Dr. Pierce
Buffalo
Sally Rom
Charles Dickens
Seneca
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