FDR Pictures a New Wild West Ocean Patrols
President Roosevelt proposed sending scouting naval patrols into all seven seas to defend the hemisphere. Admirals said patrols were active up to 2000 miles from shore as Churchill and Hull urged aid routes. The Senate rejected a convoy ban, Lindbergh resigned his commission after criticizing U S aid, and Johnson was not reappointed despite War Department plans.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Americas
Seven Seas
Hemisphere
FDR
U. S
Atlantic
Harold Stark
Naval Operations
Winston Churchill
Hull
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hugh S. Johnson
Army
Johnson
NRA
War Department
White House
Americas lead to commandeer ships in ports sparks regional plan
The Americas unite to authorize each nation to seize belligerent ships in its harbors. Latin American ports hold at least 96 Axis ships as Britain weighs inter-American transfers. Argentina faces economic strain with Castillo governing by decree after Ortiz illness.
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U. S
Washington
Britain
Americas
Maritime Commission
Argentina
South America
ABC
Europe
Ramon Castillo
Roberto M. Ortiz
Castillo
Congress
Venezuela elects Medina Angarita as next president
The Venezuelan Congress chose General Medina Angarita as the new president. He has backed Pan American cooperation and pledged to continue democratic reforms begun by Lopez Contreras, his predecessor.
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Venezuela
Panama Canal
Medina Angarita
Medina
Lopez Contreras
News Quiz prompts and answer keys
Four trivia questions with mapped answers. 1: paralyzing Nazi blow in the Balkan campaign located in southern Yugoslavia from Bulgaria. 2: Italian East Africa remained largely under British control by April’s end. 3: Turkey’s four Asiatic neighbors are Syria Iraq Iran and Russia. 4: FDR named Leon Henderson as price coordinator.
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Balkan
Turkey
FDR
Leon Henderson
Syria
Iraq
Iran
Russia
Government faces tax boost to fund 19 billion budget
The administration plans a tax increase driving a 600 million dollar rise to meet a 19 billion budget. The Ways and Means Committee debates how to raise revenue with minimal burden on the average taxpayer while Treasury Secretary Morgenthau opposes taxing tea, coffee, and sugar. Bond sales and budget cuts beside taxes are under consideration. Jesse Jones, Secretary of Commerce, plays peacemaker in labor disputes as coal miners strike and steel output slows.
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House
Ways and Means
Treasury
Morgenthau
CCC
National Youth Administration
James S. Kemper
United States Chamber of Commerce
Jesse Jones
Jones
Roosevelt
CIO
United Mine Workers
Shyly Jones
Presidents
Appalachian
How Far Rockefeler Jr Calls for War Support
John D. Rockefeller Jr. declares in anguished conviction that Americans should stand by the British Empire to the limit at all costs. Senator Wheeler tells an audience that war is near, warning that acceptance of convoys in the name of saving peace may be the final step toward declaration.
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John D. Rockefelter, Jr
United States
Americas
Wheeler
Steadfast Doughton backs ability-to-pay taxes in New Deal era
Democratic Rep. Robert Doughton of North Carolina champions income taxes over sales taxes during the early New Deal crisis. A conservative reformist and House Ways and Means chair for a decade, he criticizes sales taxes for burdening the poor while touting enforcement against tax dodgers. Described as farmer Bob, he remains powerful at 77, still active in shaping policy.
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Robert Doughton
Doughton
Bob Coughton
House Ways and Means
Doushton
North Carolina
Bob
In Short Doubled and Other Tidbits from The Times
In Short Doubled covers Canada’s lower bracket income taxes and future rate starts at 15 cents. Fritz Kreisler, 66, the violinist, was struck by a truck near Carnegie Hall and remained unconscious for days before dying. Heckscher, a mining and real estate magnate, left vast philanthropy for orphans and the elderly. Four German aviators removed from the President Garfield by a Canadian warship near Honolulu bound for home via Japan and Russia. Capt James Roosevelt and Maj Gerald Thomas arrive in Chungking to study China’s military if set up and plan to move to Cairo to follow British Axis campaigns.
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Fritz Kreisler
Carnegie Hall
New York
August Heckscher
President Garfield
Honolulu
Japan
Russia
James Roosevelt
Chungking
China
Gerald Thomas
Cairo
Supreme Court Affirms NILRB Authority Over Hiring
The Supreme Court, in a 5 write 2 decision, upholds the labor board may order hiring of workers denied work due to union connections. Justice Frankfurter says such orders must aim to reduce labor strife, criticizes the Phelps Dodge ruling, and directs further board proceedings. Also noted is Rep Arthur Mitchells 1937 unfair ejection from a Rock Island Pullman car and the nations railroad equality ruling.
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Supreme Court
Justice Frankfurter
Frankfurter
Phelps Dodge Corporation
Congress
Arthur Mitchell
D-Nl
Chicago
Hot Springs
Ark
Rock Island
Arkansas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Northern Illinois Federal District Court
Negto
War Front Reports Rise in World War II Strategy
Churchill and DeWitt Mackenzie discuss Egypt Suez and the Near East as crucial to Britain’s war effort. Axis activity in the Balkans, Crete, and Syria alarms London and Washington while Turkey eyes a pro British alignment. Axis raids on Hamburg and Dovers port threaten Britain as Stalin tightens Soviet wartime controls on supply routes.
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Far East
United States
Winston Churchill
DeWitt Mackenzie
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Egypt
Suez Canal
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Berlin
Greek Peloponnesus
Voelkischer Beobachter
Adolf Hitler
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Crete
George
Athens
Suda Bay
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Suez
Gibraltar
Lord Gort
BEF
France
Rock
Germany
Spain
London News Chronicle
Turkey
Syria
London
Mackenzie
Palestine
Jerusalem
Haj Amin Effendi al Husseini
Husseini
Iraq
Balkans
Anzacs hold last stand as Germans seize Athens
German reports claim Britain evacuated 260000 tons of shipping and 60000 troops with 80 percent evacuated. As Athens falls, Australians reportedly make a last-ditch stand west of the capital to gain time for main British forces in Attica to slip away.
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Greece
Britain
Athens
Attica
National Week Openings and Historic Anniversaries
A dated summary lists observances and anniversaries for May including Italy breaking with Germany and Austria 26 years earlier, National Music and Restaurant Weeks, a planned visit to Staunton born President, Italian actions in Addis Ababa five years prior, the Hindenburg explosion anniversary, the Lusitania sinking 26 years prior, Confederate Memorial Day in the Carolinas, National Hobo Week proclaimed by Jeff Davis, and National Golf Week commencing through the week.
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Austria
Woodrow Wilson
Staunton
Addis Ababa
Hindenburg
Lusitania
North
South Carolina
Jeff Davis
Hobo King
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