Review of 1938 World News Highlights and Crises
A condensed survey traces 1938 events from U.S. census unemployment estimates to TVA investigations, roving Nazi expansion, Austrian union with Germany, European battles, strikes, and diplomatic moves. It notes key figures like Roosevelt, Schuschnigg, Hitler, Chamberlain, and Blum, with headlines on aviation disasters, naval plans, and refugee affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Austria
Ishbel MacDonald
Handyman
Grayson
Roosevelt
AAA
Fatherland Front
Reich
Czechoslovakia
Anthony Eden
Romania
Vienna
Storm Corps
U. S. Senate
Chamberlain
League of Nations
Teruel
California
Niemoeller
General Pershing
Supreme Court of Canada
Alberta
Social Credit
Barcelona
Shanghai
A. E. Morgan
TVA
Baron von Cramm
Schuschnigg
Richard Whitney
Hitler
Leon Blum
Popular Front
France
Clarence Darrow
Dodd
Whitney
Quezon
May 1 highlights include air crash toll and jewel loss
Nineteen killed and one million dollars in jewels vanish in a crash of an Italian aircraft. Adolf Hitler departs for Rome as Mussolini hosts a Rome pageant. Wilder and Chambrlain awards noted. Senate backs large Naval Expansion Bill. Dr Douglas Hyde sworn as Ireland's first president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Rome
Wilder
Our Town
Marquand
Commons
Chamberlain
Mussolini
Senate
Douglas Hyde
Ireland
Kentucky Derby Headlines and Related 1941 Events
WRIN and Lawrin win the Kentucky Derby. Dauber takes the Preakness by seven lengths. Gale causes heavy damage along the New England coast. Ringed with political actions, Senate passes a civil aeronautics bill while Harlan Mine trial opens. Other notes include electric power survey orders, tax bill debates, and auto death declines in forty cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Mussolini
Lawrin
House
Brazil
Dauber
Preakness
New England
Senate
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Harlan
New Stock Exchange
Czechoslovakia
Henlein
Hodza
Ickes
Jane Dahlman
James J. Hines
Hague
O’connell
Newark
Roosevelt
Levine Boy
Long Island Sound
Turmoil and milestones mark a tense global June
Across the globe events reshaped politics and conflict including Sudeten crisis progress and occupation plans, Berlin reconstruction, a Corsican tone of upheaval in Europe, and notable U S and world actions from Wall Street to Rome. Key figures include Roosevelt, Chamberlain, Hitler, and de Valera amid battles, assassinations, and diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Roosevelt
Britain
Htler
Munich
Dewey
New York
Tammany
Sudetenland
Train hits school bus kill twenty-two in Utah
A Utah crossing collision killed twenty two children and the driver when a train struck a school bus. The tragedy adds to a day of global and domestic political turmoil as leaders confront threats and policy moves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utah Crossing
New York
Harold McCormick
Sixth Avenue
James Roosevelt
Reich
France
Germany
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Iggers
Norris
Harry H. Bentt
Ford
Harwich
Pittsburgh
Stanley Reed
U. Supreme Court
Hoover
Sure Island
Ocy Crucible Steel
Horn
N. J
Sacred Heart Briege
St. Hyacinthe
Que
Burma
Chatta House
Navy
China
Hirota
Ily
Wisconsin
Lewis
A. F. of L
Green
Robert Jackson
Velt
Falls View Bridge
Uto Gorge
Niagara
United Mine Workers Carse
Litler
Supreme Court
Fed
Labor Relations Board
Juliana and
Rihard
Netherlands
Endyminion
Washington
Dixie Davis
Chman
Philadelphia
U.S. Navy
Santo
Calif
Hull
U. S
U. S. Steel
J. O
Fritz Crisler
Princeton
Michigan
Patriarch
Goga
Formosa
Joe Louis
Nathan Mann
Pennsylvania
Democratic State Committee
Earle-Jones
John L. Lewis
Graz
Peter Levine
New Rochelle
N. Y
Gabriele d’Annunzio
Chicago
Ross
Mexico
Ontario
U. S. House
Pope Pius
Franco
Spain
Japan
Goering
Tennessee
House of Representatives
Florida
Hawaii
Pyrenees
Michigan C. I. O. Utilities Union
Saginaw Valley
Madrid
Texas
Cardinal Innitzer
Pope
Vatican
Blum
Daladier
NLRB
Republic Steel Corporation
Queen Mary
England
Sing Sing
Feodor Chaliapin
Paris
Shantung
Townsend
Turkey
Henry Ford
Landon
Russia
Myron C. Taylor
Biggers Jensus
Mneral Wershing
Fwnsend
Pres
Wrin
Floyd Roberts
W. O. Douglas
SEC
Wall Street
Norman Thomas
Canton
Sigmund Freud
London
United States
Ilinois
Vander Meer
Cincinnati Reds
Geneva
Berlin
Johnny Vander Meer
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Inland Steel
Senator Copeland
John A. Roosevelt
Anne Lindsay Clark
Babe Ruth
Dodgers
Montana
Roper
Louis Whips Schmeling
Teachers College
American Legion
de Valera
Martin
Stock Exchange
Moody
Miss Jacobs
Hughes
Dr. Morgan
Palestine
Barkley and
Burkley
Justice Cardozo
Oklahoma
Arkansas
America
Atlantic
Winnipeg
Fairbanks
Alaska
Barbara Hutton
Count Haugwitz-Reventlow
Elmer Andrews
Prague
Bunyan
Snead
Corrigan
Dublin
Marie
Berg
Bolivia
Paraguay
Nordmeer
Tony Galento
O’daniel
Maverick
Bogota
Colombia
Great Britain
Runciman
Fifth Avenue
Warde
Pecora
Hines
Cooper
Frank Hawks
Speed
Hong Kong
Midwest
Indiana
Jaffa
Eyston
Utah
Azores
Tokio
Holmesburg
Italy
Colorado
Carolinal Hayes
Santiago
U. S. State Department
General Motors
Flint
Tydings
Maryland
Justice Pecora
James Hines
Berchtesgaden
R. M. Duncan
Colgate
Eddie Cantor
Pearl White
International Auto Union Board
Detroit
Warner Oland
Charlie Chan
Motion Pictures
Sweden
Father Divine
Krum Elbow
Carroll
Maine
San Diego
Virginia
E. F. Andrews
Cleveland
West Coast
Sudetens
Turnesa
Oakmont
Sudeten
General Syrovy
NEA Service, Inc
Poland
Hungary
Budge
Mako
Alfred Duff Cooper
British Admiralty
Teschen
A. F
Benes
East
Canada
Chicago Cubs
C. IL. O
Lindbergh
South China
Bias Bay
Canal Zone
Ruth Etting
Dr. Benes
University of Chicago
General Motors Corp
Stalin
Dayton
Pat Crowe
Cudahy
Harlem
General Beck
Central
Europe
Clark
C. Ll. O
Czech
Sumner Welles
New World
Solidarity
Ataturk
Cabrini
Lima
Wilson
Cummings
Arturo Toscanini
Changsha
Dionne Quintue
Father Coughlin
Duke
Cocreneau
Rumania
AST
Gome
Congress
Cardinal Mundelein
Lithuania
Memel
Gaston Means
George Burns
Fairefield
Conn
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