Senate Standings Involve Roosevelt Backed Races Across States
The piece tracks Democratic senators up for reelection with five renominated and three seeking renomination next week. It notes Pat McCarran winning Nevada, and names Augustine Lonergan, Millard Tidings, Walter George as upcoming contenders while detailing Roosevelt’s public positions in Maryland Georgia and Connecticut. It also covers Maine general and primary races, and quotes Roosevelt on liberalism and party lines.
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IGHT
Pat McCarran
Reno
Nevada
Tasker L. Oddie
Augustine Lonergan
Probes Board Hearing Over Ohio Federal Pension Grants
The social security board held hearings this week to consider suspending federal pension grants to Ohio amid charges that the old age assistance program was permeated with partisan politics. Ohio officials did not attend. A J Altmeyer called their absence an admission. Governor Davey accused the board of dirty politics and called suspension cruel tyranny. A separate Pennsylvania probe into Gov Earle and 13 associates saw the state supreme court allow continued inquiries after prior suspensions. The first grand jury witness described evidence as hearsay.
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Social Security Board
Ohio
A. J. Altmeyer
Martin L. Davey
Pennsylvania
Earle
State Supreme Court
Five US steps toward air wartime preparedness outlined
President Roosevelt named a committee to study wartime emergency power facilities. Agents of foreign governments must register with the State Department. The army revises training to allow younger men into high places. The War Department plans funds for an army of 173000 next year. A five year ten million dollar program trains private manufacturers to produce rifles and munitions.
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Roosevelt
U. S. State Department
Army
War Department
In Short Awarded and Appointments Across 1940 Olympics and Politics
Summary of multiple items: 1940 Winter Olympic delegation to St Moritz and various personnel changes including Robert E. Freer named to the Federal Trade Commission, Maribel Vinson Owen wedding to Guy R Owen, tax case against J J Raskob and Pierre S du Pont, typhoon and warplane tragedy, Boris Stomonyakoff removed as Russia foreign affairs assistant, Donald G Paterson elected president of the American Association of Applied Psychology, DOJ probe into Jersey City Mayor Hague dropped, Davis Cup won by the U S and Italian Count Theo Rossi triumph in speed boating, seven divorces including Mae Bower Ingraham, Margot Grahame, and others, plus deaths of notable figures from diplomacy to industry.
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Maribel Y. Vinson
Guy R. Owen
John J. Raskob
Pierre S. du Pont
Uncle Sam
Japan
London
Boris Spiridonovitch Stomonyakoff
Russia
Donald G. Paterson
University of Minnesota
American Association of Applied Psychology
Department of Justice
Frank Hague
Jersey City
U. S
Theo. Rossi
Italy
Irving J. Ingraham
Jerome J. Hanauer
New York
E. LeRoy Pelletier
Camillo Cardinal Laurenti
Copyright Note Appears on 1838 AP Feature Page
The page bears Copyright 1838 by the AP Feature Service, marking full ownership of the material. The label confirms distribution rights and dates, indicating archival use and reproduction limitations for this historical feature page.
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AP Feature Service
Record Air Race Wins Highlight Labor Day Power
Jacqueline Cochran of New York set a west east transcontinental women’s record at Cleveland. Tony Sevier of Los Angeles posted a 250 mph 200 mile dash record. Roscoe Turner of Chicago claimed 283 mph average. Also noted are Spanish noble Alfonso de Bourbon y Battenberg’s fall and death, Cardinal Hayes’ death and Dewey’s racketeering case against James J. Hines with defense lawyer Lloyd Paul Stryker.
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Jacqueline Cochran
New York
Burbank
Calif
Cleveland
Bendix
N. J
Tony Sevier
Los Angeles
Roscoe Turner
Chicago
Thomas E. Dewey
Tammany
James J. Hines
Hines
Lloyd Paul Stryker
Andrew Johnson
Dewey
National amateur golf tournament opens at Oakmont
The national amateur golf tour starts in Oakmont Pennsylvania on Tuesday September 13. Primary elections occur in Colorado Louisiana Michigan New Hampshire Utah Vermont and Washington with party conventions in Connecticut and Delaware Georgia holds its primary on September 14 and the Connecticut Republican convention occurs on September 14. The third quarterly federal income tax installment is due in Connecticut on September 15 and Constitution Day features a public address by the president in Poughkeepsie.
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Roosevelt
Oakmont
Colorado
Louisiana
Michigan
New Hampshire
Utah
Vermont
Washington
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Psychologists urged to run traveling clinics vision for mobilization
The American Association of Applied Psychology debated expanding psychology and proposed traveling clinics to advise the public and bolster national defense by mobilizing mental resources. Reports highlighted Hubert C Hamilton’s fever-driven rat IQ work at Temple University and Paul D Bartlett’s prize work bridging organic and physical chemistry. Syracuse flyers aimed for a 63 hour 54 minute endurance record in a flivver plane but landed safely in a lake.
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Richard H. Paynter
American Association of Applied Psychology
Columbus
America
Hubert C Hamilton
Temple University
American Chemical Society
Milwaukee
Charles A. Krause
Society
Paul D. Bartlett
Harvard
Bartlett
Syracuse
N. Y
Chilean presidential contenders amid civil strife and Nazi uprising
A Chilean crisis erupts as candidates including Gustavo Ross and Pedro Aguirre vie for the presidency while Gen. Carlos Ibáñez is arrested amid a Nazi-backed revolt at the national university and a 62-death toll rises. International notes cover Italy’s Jewish expulsions, Balkan royalty, and Mussolini’s grain campaign.
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Chile
Gusto Ross
Arve Alessandri
Pedro Aguirre
Popular Front
Carlos Ibanez
National University
Santiago
Ibanez
Alessandri
Sudeten Crisis Deepens European Tensions Across Nations
As Sudeten Germans push for autonomy with Nazi backing, Hitler exhorts strength at Nurnberg rally. European powers respond with military maneuvers and warnings while Prague seeks concessions to avert war. Russia Britain France weigh actions amid growing crisis.
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Sudetens
Hitler
Europe
Konrad Henlein
Fuehrer
Henlein
Geremany
Nurnberg
Reich
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Britain
North Sea
Belgium
France
Maginot Line
Siegfried Line
Germany
Marseille
Climax of China War Seen Over Hankow Stand
Reported changes at Hankow show Chiang Kai-shek pressed to deploy elite troops to end the stalemate, with heavy fighting described as the fiercest of the 14 month undeclared war. Japanese claims said a crack division was whipped, while insurgent pressure grows along the Ebro front near Spain.
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Chiang Kai-shek
Japan
Hankow
Peese
Britain
Gibraltar
Alicante
Ebro
Mediterranean
Barcelona
Valencia
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