Italy reshuffles cabinet amid shift toward neutrality
An Italian cabinet shakeup signals possible reorganization to bolster neutrality. Alfieri and Balbo reassigned, suggesting changes in culture messaging and militia leadership. The move may reflect internal rebalancing or domestic aims with international consequences.
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Hitler
Stalin
Russia
Europe
Alfieri
Donald Duck
Starace
Fascist Party
Mussolin
From Sign Painter to Restaurant Magnate Frank O Sherrill
A North Carolina sign painter turned cafeteria innovator built a restaurant empire by making customers feel at home. He opened the first S and W cafeteria in 1920 with 3400 dollars and later owned a 17000 acre island near Cape Fear. He became president of the National Restaurant Association in 1936 and earned a Los Angeles banquet for his success.
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Hollywood
Frank O. Sherrill
North Carolina
Charlotte
Sherrill
Mr. Sherrill
Cape Fear River
National Restaurant Association
California Ham and Eggs Movement Draws Los Angeles Attention
A Los Angeles centered movement promotes a life of ease and minimal labor branded as the California Ham and Eggs plan. Built on Townsend and Sinclair ideas, it attracts eager hopes from hundreds of thousands.
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Los Angeles
Townsend
Sinclair
California pension warrants spark statewide election debate
California voters close to 700000 sign petitions for a proposal to issue weekly 30 dollar warrants to residents 50 and older who are unemployed or retired. The plan uses stamps to redeem warrants for real money and would fund pensions with a three percent gross income tax and tax payments accepted in warrants. Proponents praise expanded buying power while skeptics warn of inflation and bankruptcy risks under a democratic system.
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California
Jitterbug craze draws sympathy from editor remarks
A Greensboro News note compares jitterbug antics among white and black crowds at leisure events and quotes a local poet expressing curiosity and a preference to observe jitterbugs over becoming one, noting the era's social attitudes.
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Charity and Children
Greensboro News
Vacuum Aims to Charm Rats Into Retreat
A novelty claim suggests the hum of a vacuum cleaner can hypnotize rats. Housewives are advised to sweep rugs calmly when rodents appear instead of jumping onto chairs.
Broadway Gossip From The Roaring Twenties Remembers The Era
A reminiscence of early Broadway and New York culture highlights Frank Tinney alimony slips, Thaw’s Broadway views, rumors of a Tunney Farley punch, and Damon Runyon’s influence. It recalls Texas Guinan, Mark Hellinger, Flo Ziegfeld, Rudy Vallee rivals, and night club curfews, with colorful anecdotes about Speakeasies and era figures.
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Harry Thaw
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Reuben
Gene Tunney
Jim Farley
N. Y
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Tommy Lyman
Baby Face
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Mark
Txas
Texas
Rudy Vallee
Will Osborne
Bert Lown
Rudy
Hoosegow
Radio City
Flo Ziegfeld
Flo
Mark Hellinger
Paying Father Time Radio Station Opening at Sheraton
High Point prepares for a Friday night launch of its first radio broadcasting station on the Sheraton Hotel mezzanine with a banquet for city officials and civic leaders. Hallowe en fever and a Black Bisons versus Lexington game highlight tonight and tomorrow. Mrs. Matt Wall returns from Charlotte. Mrs. Deal Faucett visits. Dewey Garrett hosts a Halloween party.
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Lexington
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Charlotte
Paul Ten Hoopen
Deal Faucett
New York
J. P. Weaver
Dewey Garrett
President Hoover urges immediate tariff legislation
Goldsboro citizens will pay tribute to Charles B Aycock with a memorial tablet dedication at the Goldsboro Community Building auditorium. The event precedes a remembrance ceremony as the nation faces tariff policy decisions urged by the president.
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Hoover
Goldsboro
Charles B. Aycock
Miscellaneous items from Dog Hill and beyond
A Jacksonville Dispatch notes an 80 year old man claiming he never drank or quarreled with his wife while the deputy constable heads to the scene. William White reports a cow that vanished for over two weeks then reappeared inside a straw stack having eaten only straw and losing about 300 pounds.
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Dog Hill
Mr. White
Fallon and bank theft plan foiled by teller’s loss
The tale recounts Fallon seizing a hundred thousand dollars from a bank heist and urging a boy to flee to South America. He then informed bank officials a teller stole 150000, prompting a rescue maneuver where officials accepted 100000 to abandon the case, ending with the boy grateful and Fallon unwinding the affair.
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Fallon
South America
Bill
Campaign to soften anti trust drive against building trades unions
Bruce Catton in Washington reports a fierce push by the American Federation of Labor to have the Justice Department curb its anti trust crackdown on building trades unions. AFL leaders press the White House and Attorney General Murphy while allies in Congress urge restraint and a focus on Washington, amid wider probes and testimony across the country. The CIO supports continuing the drive, highlighting Frank Arnold's enforcement and funding considerations on Capitol Hill.
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Justice Department
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Murphy
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District Columbia
Wington
Department of Justice
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A. of L. Teamsters
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Agenc
Thefox
Capitol Hall
Roosevelt and Hoover Speak on Family and Nation Policy
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt urges focusing on family and work over ideology at the 25th annual Girl Scouts convention while Herbert Hoover comments on democracy and long-range vision. The Democratic Party is offered use of the Parade Rose Bowl for the 1940 national convention with all arrangements provided.
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James Rowland Angell
Yale University
Ntional Council of Girl Scouts
Democratic Party
Archbishop York Advocates Federal Union of Europe
The Archbishop of York urges a peace congress inclusive of neutral nations and Germans Czechs and Poles to pursue ongoing work toward a federal Europe for an indefinite period.
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Union
Europe
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