Hopkins Letter Forgery Sparks Fire in National Politics
A Washington critique targets President Roosevelt on national service plans while exposing a forgery controversy surrounding a White House letter about Wendell Willkie. The piece questions democratic equality in wartime measures and demands full truth from Hopkins, Briggs, Ickes, and others involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Republican Party
FBI
United States
C. Nelson Sparks
Akron
Wendell Willkie
White House
Harry Hopkins
Umprhey Lee
Southern Methodist University
Hopkins
Willkie
Sparks
Dr. Lee
Secretary of the Interior
Harold Ickes
George N. Briggs
Langer
North Dakota
Sparks and What Did He Know About Its Origin? What's the Case Against Mr. Briggs
Lee and Jackson Honored on Lee-Jackson Day Memo
Lee and Jackson are celebrated with notes on their birthplaces in Virginia and their service in the Mexican and Civil Wars. Biographical sketches praise Lee as a Cavalier and Jackson as a Puritan, while noting their popularity and influence among soldiers and friends. A closing quip contrasts Leap Year bachelorhood and a critic’s view of a Russian anthem and a Red Army football score.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Edward Lee
Thomas Jonathan
Stonewall
United States
Military Academy
West Point
Virginia
Jackson
Richmond
Lee
Gordon McCabe
Frank Hague
Jersey City
Florida
John Montgomery
John
Renick
Roney
FDR
Africa
Sergio de Karlo
Dudy Valentino
Citizens react to war, hometown support and overseas thoughts
Letters from High Point residents express mixed views on local arrest dismissals, praise for war bond support, U S O and Red Cross efforts, and a wish for youth centers to guide rather than coerce. Messages convey pride, thrift lessons from China, and longing for home while serving abroad.
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Marine Pfe
Grady B. Adams
Southwest Pacific
The
Enterprise
High Point
Pretto
U.S.O
Pacific
Red Cross
Roosevelt civilian draft bill sparks fierce critique
The piece argues the proposed civilian draft would empower the president to reassign anyone not exempt to any job, risking martial law and state totalitarian control. It criticizes the plan as an attack on individual liberty and democracy, comparing it to fascism and communism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mallon
Austin
Washington
Roosevelt
Barkley
House
Pacific Coast
Congress
Broadway gossip and society headlines from Palm Beach
A rambunctious column blends Broadway chatter, socialite antics, and war era trivia. It notes ex-Follies star Mary Alice Rice, nuptial rumors involving Babs Beckwith and Lt. Orrin Lehman, Reno travels of John Gunther, plus society scenes at the Everglades and Palm Beach venues.
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John Jacob Astor
Moscow
Willkie
Paul Scheffer
Biggie
Gov't
Columm
B. Hicks
Winged Victory
Lynette Brown
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R. B. Terry
A. Cecil
Tayte
AP Features
al Dispatch
Cal All News Dispatches
Hine Maen
N.C
Mejohn Budd CO
Lexington Ave
N. Y
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Paul Mallon
W.A.B
Berchtesgaden
Red Army
Neves
W.W. D. Barren
USA
J.J. Evton
Nimanon
George Point
America
Windy City
I. Man
O. Blow
Winchell
Broadway
MAN About Town
Beach
Swanky
Everglades
Pain
Reddy
Val Ernie
Palm Beach
Whitehall
Nancy Sullivan
Bertram Taylor, Jr
L. Beard, Jr
Garbo
54Th Street
Daily News
Mexico
Sensayama
Homestead
U.S. Steel
Carnegie-Illinois
U. S. Steel
U. & Steel
Rene
Ford
Lele Daly
H. Content
Wieder
W. K. Vanderbilt
March of Time
Time
RKO
Duchess de Gramont
Anthony Fortune
South
Sinatra
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
C. Chaplin
Phil Baker
Irmgarde
Breakers
Florida East Coast Railway
Private
Breger Abroad
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