Monty Montague Eyes New York Address and Atlantic Pact Roles
Field Marshal Montgomery visits the United States and renews wartime contacts with Eisenhower Bradley and Collins as he prepares to address the English Speaking Union in New York. He leads Western Union defense planning with Britain Belgium France Holland and Luxembourg as Atlantic Pact moves to speed weapon flows and standardization. Meanwhile the State Department seeks diplomatic pressure to free consul Angus Ward from a Chinese court ruling and expedited deportation.
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Viscount Montgomery
Millchairman
Western Union Defense Alliance
Union
New York
Monty
Gen
Eisenhower
Omar N. Bradley
Marshal Montgomery
Western Union
Britain
Belgium
France
Holland
Luxembourg
Congress
Washington
Atlantic Pact Council
Europe
Orient
Angus Ward
Acheson
Russia
Ward
Mukden
State Department
Peoples Court
Li Tsung Jen illness stirs power struggle in Nationalists
Acting President Li Tsung Jen of Nationalist China was hospitalized in British Hong Kong with a serious stomach ailment while Chiang Kai-shek stayed in Chungking. Li handed duties to Premier Yen Hsi-shan and may seek US treatment, fueling talk of a power clash over presidency and control.
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Orient
China
Li Tsung-Jen
British
Hong Kong
Chiang Kaishek
Chungking
Chiang
Yen Hsi-shan
United States
Mystery Helmet Hoax At Westminster Spire
A prankster tale claims two medical students placed and removed a helmet atop the 310 foot Westminster spire during Guy Fawkes demonstrations. A steeplejack spent a day laddering up to recover the helmet while police search student lodgings and clubs for the alleged ruse and other damages from the November 5 event.
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London
Westminster
Britain
Guy Fawkes
Noronic Fire Blamed On Ship Owner And Master
A Canadian Supreme Court justice finds both the steamship Noronic owner and master responsible for the fatal blaze that cost 118 lives. The disaster occurred on September 17 as the ship burned, triggering the ruling and judgment against the ship’s management.
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Supreme Court
Noronic
Gerhart Eisler
Judith Coplon
Valentin Gubitchev
New York
Gubitchev
San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Norway
New York Events Highlight Week in 1932
Dates list events in New York including a Monday ASME meeting, a Wednesday birthday for Winston Churchill, a Friday $100-a-plate Democratic dinner, and a 126th anniversary noting the Monroe Doctrine. New Zealand elections also noted.
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Winston Churchill
New Zealand
New York City
Quotations from Iran’s Shah and U S political figures
The Shah of Iran defends private risk taking by pilots saying sometimes one must say hell to advisers. Norman Thomas, six time Socialist Presidential candidate. James F Byrnes notes senators become chairmen at retirement age and warns against fear of life.
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Iran
Norman Thomas
Socialist Party
U.S. Senate
James F. Byrnes
Coffee Prices Seen Riding Higher On World Shortage
The article notes record high coffee prices possibly reaching $1 a pound early next year as U S consumption rises to over 19 pounds per person annually. It explains Brazil's pivotal role in supply, wartime disruptions, and a drought that recently damaged the crop before recovery.
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U.S
U.S. Department of Commerce
Marriage Advice From McAffrey Couple At Heart of Veep Bonmot
Andrew McAffrey and his wife 40 plan humorous marital counsel for Mr and Mrs Veep aged 71 and 38. McAffrey suggests be kind yet discipline with a morning whipping and nightly kiss. Mrs McAffrey adds feed him love him and stay constant companion.
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Andrew McAffrey
Miami
Okla
McAffrey
The
Barkley
Kellems sues over income tax withholding demand
Connecticut manufacturer Vivien Kellems files a federal suit seeking $7,819 she says the government took as withholding tax. She compares Secretary Snyder to Jesse James and has urged indictment to test the tax's constitutionality, noting her workers pay taxes directly. She recently moved her plant from Westport to Saline during a zoning dispute.
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Vivien Kellems
Connecticut
Federal District Court
Miss Kellems
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
John W. Snyder
Snyder
Jesse James
James
Cable Grip
Kellems
Westport
Stonington
Treasury
Flagpole of the Month candidate named by film council
Sidelights Lady Nancy Astor earns the Motion Picture Industry Council’s first Flagpole of the Month nomination for calling actresses wretched glamor girls. The council, representing 35000 film workers, vows to spotlight critics who drag Hollywood into headlines. In Ballston Spa a vet reports a man’s quip about paying $3 a visit vs a $5 taxi. In Wilne a 25-year-old rescuer strips, drags a plane wing, makes splints, runs for an ambulance, then resumes fishing after aiding crash victims.
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Nancy Astor
Motion Picture Industry Council
Hollywood
Wilne
Eng
Samuel W. Rose
Derwent
Congress trips abroad may cost taxpayers over 150000
A check shows 120 House members and 30 senators overseas planning or already abroad this year. The exodus mirrors the 81st Congress activity with 440 public laws enacted amid a mix of permis sive measures and failed bills averaging twelve per law.
Signs of a revived German nationalism across zones
The article notes mounting signs of German nationalism in both east and west Germany. It cites ex Nazis gaining civil rights under east German law, the National Democratic Party opposition to private industry, and purges in the Socialist Unity Party. Western officials warn of a possible return to a German-for-Germans era, with trials and judgments shaping postwar reckoning.
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East
West Germany
National Democratic Party
Socialist Unity (Communist) Party
Yugoslavia
Marshal
Kremlin
Germany
Gertrud Scholz Klink
Hitler League For
Baldur von Schirach
Hitler Jugend
Hitler Youth
International War Tribunal
Munich
Baseball Tribe Sold To Cleveland Syndicate
The Cleveland Indians, 1948 world champions, were sold to a Cleveland syndicate led by Ellis W. Ryan. Bill Veeck exits as president after selling June 22 1946 for about 1.25 million. The sale includes League Park and 13 minor league affiliations for roughly 2.2 million, with Hank Greenberg named general manager.
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Cleveland Indians
Cleveland
Bill Veeck
Ellis W. Ryan
Veeck
Municipal Stadium
Ryan
Hank Greenberg
Detroit
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Louisville Courier-Journal
York
Louisville Times
Lewis
Cormack
Christian Science Monitor
Bishop
St. Louis
Star-Times
Metropolitan Opera
Richard Strauss
der Rosenkavalier
N. Atlantic Council
U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joseph L. Collins
Army Chief of Staff
Atlantic Pact
LI Tsung
Jen
Canton
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Mrs. Veep
Ballston Spa
N. Y
Harry E. Hansen
Bermuda
Tribe
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