Christmas Peace Efforts Amid World War I Echoes
President Roosevelt named Myron C. Taylor as his Vatican representative and invited Dr. George A. Buttrick and Rabbi Cyrus Adler to rally churches for a just peace. Pope Pius XII urged a five point program. In Bethlehem pilgrims marked a peaceful Christmas as fighting raged elsewhere. Berlin warned, Paris repelled raids, and casualties rose over the holiday weekend. Adolf Hitler spent Christmas with troops on the West Wall amid continued global conflict. In Finland, Christmas Eve saw heavy fighting and bombardments near Viipuri, with Russian offensives and Finnish responses continuing through Christmas Day.
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Roosevelt
Myron C. Taylor
Vatican
Pope Pius
George A. Buttrick
Federal Council of Churches
Cyrus Adler
Jewish Theological
Pius
Bethlehem
Holy Land
Earth
Berlin
Paris
U. S
Western Front
Germany
Adolf Hitler
West Wall
France
Reich
Maginot Line
Daladier
Britain
George VI
Royal Navy
Sweden
England
India
Finland
Ohio
Viipuri
Uns
Helsinki
Tempere
Arctic
Moscow
Kremlin
al Jolson
Ruby Keeler
Joseph Stalin
Moscow City
Cohoes
N. Y
Abraham L. Shushan
Louisiana
Huey Long
John W. Hanes
Wall
Belgium
North Star
Byrd
Anthony Fokker
John A. Martin
Colorado
George E. Brewer
Henry L. Doherty
Nazis urge mothers to bear sons for front as war duties expand
The article notes Nazi policy pushing women to bolster the front by bearing sons, while rationing loosens and civilian life adapts with air baths and improvised cleansing. It contrasts wartime duties with home front wage collection and halted female factory recruiting as manpower suffices.
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Berlin
Reich
Himmler
Washington Preview foreshadows defense and policy battles
Washington discussion centers on defense budgets and Navy expansion, with estimates of 1.8 billion for this year and new requests for 270 million plus by July 1941. The piece surveys relief, farm subsidies, tariff renewal, labor law reform, third term politics, Social Security changes, and land conservation efforts led by Secretary Wallace and the Farm Security Administration.
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Congress
U. S
Europe
Roosevelt
Capitol
White House
Washington
WPA
Harrington
Wallace
Supreme Court
AAA
Treasury
Hull
NLRB
CIO
AFL
Senate
Fdr
Calvin Coolidge
Farm Security Administration
January 1 to 6 events listed across cities in year start
A sequence of public events and observances spans January 1 to 6. Highlights include Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, Mummers parade in Philadelphia, Supreme Court and Congress sessions, White House receptions, All-America air maneuvers in Miami, a motorboat show in New York, NLRB hearings in Washington, a conference in Buffalo with Senator Taft in Chicago, and Epiphany observance.
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Miami
New York
Washington
Buffalo
Taft
Chicago
Dublin Armory Raid Overshadowed by IRA Riots
Raiders cut phone wires in Dublin and overpowered guards to steal guns and ammunition. Two days later IRA suspects rioted in Londonderry, smashing furniture and shouting independence slogans until hoses subdued them. Also noted were China’s war outlook, earthquakes, and U S neutrality pressure.
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Dublin
Irish Republican Army
Britain
Ireland
Londonderry
Northern Ireland
Eire
Germany
Eamon de Valera
In Short Divorced Al Jolson and Notable Departures
A compact roundup lists figures and names in political, crime, and industry news. It notes divorces, elections, criminal convictions, resignations, deaths, fines, crime statistics, and notable passings from 1939 era events.
Timely Tips on New Year Resolutions From Dr Blanton and Dr Akin
Dr Smiley Blanton says many resolutions punish the self and are numerous beyond hope of completion. Dr Charles Akin notes no proof coffee stops alcohol effects and cautions that sleep is most recuperative and that stomach emptying helps.
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Smiley Blanton
New York
Charles V. Akin
U. S. Public Health Service
Holiday volume hits record as commerce outlook improves
Postal demand peaks with heavy Christmas mail while shoppers push receipts as Santa dumps dollars. Commerce Secretary Hopkins cites a $68.5 billion national income and an 8 percent retail surge with factory output up 25 percent from 1938 levels yet under 1937.
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U. S
Santa Claus
Midwest
Commerce
Hopkins
Savants Gather For Annual Science Week In Columbus
Scientists from across the United States convene between Christmas and New Year to discuss advances. Highlights include Wanda Farr on cellulose production and B J Luger on freezing water into glassy solids. Extra notes cover Browder’s Madison speech and a naval weather plan amid wariness of radio silence.
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Columbus
American Association For the Advancement of Science
New Haven
Conn
Chicago
Minneapolis
Philadelphia
University of Illinois
America
Karl Marx
Berkeley
Calif
Madison
Wis
American Student Union
Earl Browder
Roosevelt
Wanda K. Farr
Yonkers
N. Y
Nature
St. Louis University
B. J. Luger
New York
G. K. Noble
American Museum of Natural History
Florida
Decade of upheaval and progress ends with Roosevelts rise
A sweeping recap of the 1930s highlights: the Great Depression and war looming, labor clashes and new social laws, Roosevelts New Deal shaping politics, advances in science from milk-cloth chemistry to atomic physics, and culture transforming film radio and music as America ends the decade as a wartime power with a functioning free market system.
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Joe Louis
Yankees
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Deal
U. S
Hollywood
Broadway
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Shannon
Tom Pendergast
Joe Shannon
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Bryce B. Smith
President's Oval Study
Johnny Boettiger
Barrow
Tournament of Roses
Pasadena
Inter-American Economic Committee
Judiciary
Far East
China
Nanning
Tokyo
State Department
Japan
Calcutta
Chile
Turkey
Central America
California
Hitler
Poland
Ignace Moscicki
Romania
Switzerland
Moscicki
Western Hemisphere
AFL Musicians’ Union
John Lewis
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Leningrad
Atlantic
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Mama
Edward H. Kemp
Brown University
Kentucky
Toronto
Wall Street
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