Shortage Of Doctors In Germany Due To Jewish Expulsion
Berlin report says medical training shortened from seven to ten six month terms though two practical terms remain. The note highlights a severe doctor shortage worsened by the removal of Jews from the profession, with 3 000 to 4 000 doctors displaced from Germany’s register and older non Aryan doctors overstretched assisting the poor.
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Berlin
Manchester Guardian
Germany
Austria
Genius Cannot Be Transferred
The New York Herald Tribune argues that Nazi anti-Jewish policies harm Germany’s economy not by capital removal alone but by stripping the country of Jewish commercial genius. It warns that dictatorial transfer of capital cannot replace the loss of skilled middlemen and enterprise, causing foreign exchange shortages and domestic trade stagnation.
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Reich
Germany
New York Herald Tribune
Foreign Office Never Sleeps
The Foreign Office operates nonstop with 50 embassies in daily contact by telephone telegraph and courier. Messages are sent in cipher known only to the permanent under secretary, with the office established in 1782.
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Foreign Office
M. H. Halton
Toronto Star
Britain
Downing Street
London
S.W.I
Secret Service
Small town editors and the talkative public
The piece notes editors in small towns meet many people and gain knowledge through conversations with visitors who can access the editor easily. It contrasts small-town editors with metropolitan ones and mentions a blackmail letter from a mid western town while reflecting on talkers and daily life.
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Falhors
Holy of Holies
Official Handbook of Canada 1939 edition announced
The Dominion Bureau of Statistics releases the 1939 Official Handbook of Canada covering Atlantic to Pacific with eighteen economic chapters and a feature on Unemployed Youth Problem. Priced 25 cents, reduced to 10 cents for teachers students and ministers. ordering through the King's Printer Ottawa.
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Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Official Handbook of Canada
Canada
Dominion
Atlantic
Pacific
King's Printer
Government Printing Bureau
Ottawa
High Mountain Range Claim Near Prince George Boosts Mystery
Pilot Russ Baker reports an unmapped chain of peaks in northern British Columbia between Turnagain and Dease rivers in the Cassiar range. Inspector T Van Dyk confirms the sighting during a long Dease Lake charter flight. Local mountaineers note rumors but no climbs have explored the area.
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Russ Baker
British Columbia
Dease Lake
Prince George
Baker
Turnagain
Dease
Cassiar Range
Inspector T. van Dyk
Provincial Game Department
Vancouver
Shirt Rental Company Heads Manhattan Trend In 1900s New York
A novel business in Manhattan offers men three freshly laundered shirts weekly for fifty cents with tailored fits, lasting a year contract and name stamping to prevent loss. The venture reports about four hundred subscribers as curiosity grows.
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New York
Manhattan
Ocean sunfish grow from tiny fry to giants near a ton
Ocean sunfish start at about one tenth of an inch and grow to about ten feet long and nearly a ton in weight. They are poor swimmers and researchers wonder how they obtain enough food to reach these records of growth.
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Louisiana
Unlikely Hazards in Sharks and Motors
A cautionary note explains sharks are vulnerable to a snout blow due to brain proximity near the head surface. It also warns that car engine sluggishness often stems from worn or dirty distributor points.
Waterside prankster inspired Peck's Bad Boy dies at 77
Edward J. Watson, 77, longtime Milwaukee paving inspector and inspiration for Peck's Bad Boy, died after two months illness. Born in Wisconsin in 1861, he moved to Milwaukee as a boy and created pranks that editor George W. Peck transformed into humorous stories. A letter from Peck to Watson survives, praising the boy who sparked the famous series.
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Peck
Milwaukee
Edward J. Watson
Edward Watson
Wisconsin
George W. Peck
Peck's
Sun
Watson
E. J. Watson
Ancient Egyptian tomb yields 5000 year old meal
Walter Emery discovers the only intact tomb from the second dynasty containing a laid out meal over five millennia old. The cache includes fish, meat and cakes. A separate note weighs a golfer’s 18 hole bet scenario at 10 cents per hole, escalating to a total loss of 26 214 dollars and 30 cents.
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Walter Emery
Memphis Blue Law Bans Sunday Wieners Sales
Memphis enforces a blue law that forbids Sunday sale of wieners while allowing bologna sales. The report notes Memphis has linguistic diversity with many dialects and Chinese cited as the most spoken language worldwide.
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Memphis
Tenn
Critics’ sharp barbs outshine totalitarian rhetoric
The piece argues that liberal and democratic voices in London and America deliver sharper, wittier satire than totalitarian propagandists. It notes Cham berlain, Streicher, and Roosevelt as contrasts, suggesting the latter’s critics speak more effectively while autocrats misfire with hollow invective.
Bell system doubles telephone capacity with 62 wires
A New York announcement by B W Kendall and H A Affel of Bell Laboratories describes a telephone system using 62 bare wires to carry 256 conversations simultaneously. The design expands the frequency range beyond 3600 cycles per second and enables long distance speaking, approaching radio capability. Entomologists note cicada brood emergence times and locations.
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New York
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
B. W. Kendall
H. A. Affel
Bell Telephone Laboratories
RCAF to Play Key Defensive Role Warns Wing Commander
Wing Commander G. W. Walsh told Montreal United Service Institution that the Royal Canadian Air Force is being built to deter aggression and that within 18 months squadrons should be up to date. He outlined a threefold mission with the navy, army, and independent air action, and warned of risks from dirigibles, shipborne aircraft, and overseas bases.
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Royal Canadian Air Force
Montreal
Walsh
Dominion
Coins Turnover at Royal Canadian Mint in 1938
The Royal Canadian Mint produced 28,990,000 coins in 1938 valued at 1,713,800 dollars, with 18,430,000 one cent pieces worth 184,300 dollars. Output rose from 21,576,500 pieces at 1,678,700 dollars in 1937.
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Royal Canadian Mint
National Money
Bank of Canada
RCMP says gun registration aids crime tracing and arrests
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police annual report notes growing value of voluntary revolver and pistol registrations. In the year to March 21 1938 registrations reached 7,214 with forces nationwide and 168,389 at Ottawa headquarters, aiding link to original owners and crimes and enabling recoveries up to 1000 miles from the offence.
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Dominion
R.C.M.P
Ottawa
Tombs of Sak kara Official Unearthed by British Archaeologist
London Times reports archaeologist Wa ter Emery uncovers a tomb from Egypt’s Second Dynasty at Sak kara. Main chamber contains alabaster plates showing a fish and a pigeon for the departed’s soul. adjacent rooms yield alabaster jars with grain and wine offerings.
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Water Emery
Sakkara
London Times
California Rice Crop Planted by Aerial Seed Dump
Sixty percent of California's 1938 rice crop was planted by dropping seed rice from airplanes. Fliera received sixty to seventy five cents per acre for planting rice.
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California
Fliera
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Ofical Handbook of Canada
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Greenland
Antarctica
Kent's Island
Bay of Fundy
Canterbury Cathedral
England
Duke OF Windsor
Prince
Archie Compton
Riviera
Duke
Cap d’Antibes
Compton
Milwaukee Lad
Bad Boy
Premier Chamberlain
Komische Zeitung
Julius Streicher
Roosevelt
Voelkische Reobachter
Shelley
Spahis
Premier Daladier
France
Ala Tounine
Tunisia
Italian
Libya
Egypt
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