Ships And Salaries Ships And Salaries
The new Congress swiftly approved a 264.6 million dollar defense appropriation to fund neutrality defense through June 30. House subcommittees challenged Navy plans for 45 000 ton battleships and considered larger submarines while bids were prepared for two 35 000 ton liners convertible to aircraft carriers.
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War Woodring
West Visits Roosevelt as Limabach Names Donahey Delegates
Charles O West a key New Deal contact man has met with President Roosevelt recently. Ohio Democratic chairman Arthur Limbach says 52 Ohio delegates to the next nominating convention will back the New Deal though technically favoring Senator Vic Donahey. Limbach expects Roosevelt renomination to be declined and Douglas favored as successor. In Louisiana Huey Long’s machine faces a run off after Earl Long’s top showing. Sam Jones will oppose in the February 20 runoff supported by New Orleans papers amid scandal in Huey’s heirs.
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Ohio
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Congress
Roosevelt
Arthur Limbach
Vic Donahey
Limbach
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Huey
Earl
Sam Jones
American
Belligerent rights row strains U S Britain amid neutrality clash
Before joining the Allies in 1917 the United States pressed Britain on blocking German exports to the United States, opening American mail to Germans, and pulling U S ships from neutral ports. Britain protested the cash and carry rule as discriminatory to British ships. Hull defended Congress intent to keep the U S out of trouble. Brazil’s foreign minister urged a balanced peace zone in the Western Hemisphere.
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John Bull
State Department
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London
U. S
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Hull
Congress
Uruguay
Graf Spee
Germany
Panama
Americas
Brazil
Admiral Yo nai Chosen Japan's New Premier Amid Trade Crunch
Last August Japan sidelined Kiichiro Hiranuma for Gen Nobuyuki Abe who resigned after Tokyo failed to secure a new trade treaty with the United States. Emperor Hirohito then picked Admiral Mitsumasa Yo nai to lead, a leader who supports a strong navy and helped block a Rome Berlin axis alliance, with the name pronounced Yo-nigh.
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Germany
Russia
Kiichiro Hiranuma
Nobuyuki Abe
Uncle Sam
Abe
Hirohito
Mitsumasa Yonai
U. S
Pacific
Down South Ecuador Foiled Coup by Velasco Ibarra
In Ecuador soldiers crushed an attempted revolution led by ex president Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra who had been defeated in last week’s election. The event comes amid a string of regional political turmoil and violent incidents tied to post election instability.
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Ecuador
Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
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Leslie Hore- Belisha
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Chamberlain
Hore-Belisha
Germany
Travel America Year Proclaimed by Roosevelt in 1940
President Roosevelt proclaims 1940 Travel America Year citing international conflicts deterring travel by Americans to affected areas. Images and quotes from Hibben Gannett and Hutchins discuss lighting, health, duty, and football’s impact on school spirit.
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Frank Gannett
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N. Y
Robert M. Hutchins
Chicago University
Notable 1940s Headlines Snapshot
In Short Killed twelve Germans in a train derailment. drownings include four boys in Boston harbor on ice. Frank Murphy sworn as Supreme Court justice. Robert H. Jackson sworn as attorney general. Joan Bennett marries Walter Wanger. Senator Borah felled by a fall. a nitroglycerin explosion at Gibbstown, NJ kills two. 91 players freed by MLB commissioner Landis. deaths of Ralph Hitz Charles E Rock William W Major Brig. Gen. Palmer E. Pierce.
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AEF
January Events Spark Weeklong City Celebrations
A sequence of events unfolds across cities from Tampa to Winter Haven and Boston. Highlights include speeches by Senator Wheeler and Thomas E. Dewey, a welterweight title fight in New York, and the U S Japanese treaty expiry. The list also notes a Winter Carnival in St. Paul and international winter sports week in Germany.
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Fla
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United Mine Workers
Columbu
Thomas E. Dewey
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New York
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Minn
Kaiser
la Crosse
Wis
Internationa
Garmish-Partenkirchen
Germany
Quadruple birth teens with one boy yet to name in Nauvoo
Mrs Clyde Short a coal miner's wife in a log cabin Nauvoo Ala beat odds of twins triplets and quadruplets by delivering three daughters Faith Hope and Charity and a son within one hour fifteen minutes this week Scientists debate toads living in cement and Airless Joe reportedly waking after twenty years in a concrete slab as told by a Crowell Tex reporter
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Nauvoo
Ala
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Hope
Charity
Joe
the Crowell
Tex
One War For Two? Europe’s fighting fronts raise fear of widening conflict
The article reports on neutrals fearing a broader war as fights spill across Europe. Norway and Sweden are accused by Russia of aiding Finland, while Moscow counters. Roosevelt proposes financing aid to Finland from the RFC and Treasury funds, amid debate in Congress. Britain and Belgium mobilize, and Dutch and French posts adjust to the tense situation.
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Hitler speech sparks anxiety over Jewish fate in Europe
Andrew P. Lochner cites Nazi advances in Poland with reports of Jews forced from markets and stripped of leases, ration cards reduced, and clothing scarce. British press notes cabinet turmoil around Hore Belisha, while Chamberlain seeks unity against Germany.
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