MacVeagh Greek Envoy Found Deeply Connected To Greece
Lincoln MacVeagh, United envoy to Greece, is described as a lifelong student of Greek history and culture. A New Englander and Harvard alumnus, he traveled across Crete to Macedonia, speaks fluent modern Greek, and is praised for his deep immersion in Greek life and history.
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Narragansett Pier
Groton
Roosevelt
Sorbonne
Paris
Gridiron Coach and the Open Game
A compact puzzle style entry lists clues for horizontal and vertical items associated with a venerable football coach. It mentions the open game, coaching longevity, and related terms across sports and general vocabulary.
Unhappy Soldier Becomes Advocate For Morale Clubs
Milton Bronner reports from Washington on the War Department Morale Division creating army service clubs at major posts. The clubs aim to curb boredom among draftees by offering reading rooms, libraries, writing spaces, dances, and a cafeteria to host visiting relatives and friends. John Q. Citizen, once a publishing executive, is cited as an example of hardship and wit in official dispatches.
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United States
New York
MacVeagh Publishing Co
MacVeagh
Connecticut
Homer
State Department
Greece
Lincoln MacVeagh
Milton Bronner
NEA
Washington
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War Department
Adjutant General
Army Service Club
Army brings guest houses and libraries to camps
Plans outline guest houses near camps for soldiers relatives with four female hosts and two junior hostesses, educated and experienced, paid by government. Army library service to run 5006 books with traveling libraries. An army motion picture service will show films at camps. Soldiers buy 10 tickets for 146 dollars. Large tents seat up to 2000 for dramatic shows, sports, and song evenings.
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Army Library Service
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Nazi Fifth Column Tactics In United States Exposed In Dies Report
The Dies Committee details Nazi pressure to enforce propaganda in America. It outlines threats to German language presses in Texas, covert funding to American groups, and the roles of figures like Baron von Spiegel, Fritz Wiedemann, Gebart Westrick, Manfred Zapp, and German consular networks. It notes ties to Trans-Ocean News Service and allied Axis activities.
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Edgar von Spiegel
New Orleans
Hitler
Fritz Wiedemann
San Francisco
Pring Kurt Zue Lippe
Gebart Westrick
New York
Frank van Horn Mostey
Dies Committee
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Atlanta
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Fritz Kuhn
Bund
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Christian Front
Christian Mobilizers
Christian Crusaders
Social Justice Society
Silver Shirt Legion
Knights of the White Camelia
Divers Haiisa
Pelley
Father Coughlin
Dies
Manfred Zapp
Trans- Ocean News Service
Trans-Ocean
Zapp
German Library of Information Service
Americary Fellowship Forum
Tean
Italy
Band Concert Thrills Audiences With Patriotism
The concert featured God Bless America and I'm An American Rag Thunder March. the crowd cheered as the Star Spangled Banner played while a large American flag was lowered center stage. The performance inspired pride in a free nation free from air raids and censorship. Marco city manager Remma Young seeks to seize the moment for local interests.
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Remma! Young
Marco
Top Songs In Draftee Song Book Include "America"
The shapers of the draft camp music list announced the ten top votes. America and God Bless America led the selections, followed by Star Spangled Banner and Home on the Range. Other popular choices included I Am an American, My Buddy, The Caissons, The Last Round-Up, You're in the Army Now, and Carry Me Back to Old Virginny.
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Armentiers
America
América
Old Virginny
Revision of Assessments in Street Improvement District No 7
The Board of Assessors of Street Improvement District No 7 in Hope Arkansas will meet at City Hall at 2:00 PM on Monday December 9 1940 to revise and readjust benefits against real property in the district. Any person may appear to request revision or change in value and the board may act on its own motion. Dated November 22 1940. O L Reed Newton Pentecost E S Greening.
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City of Hope
Arkansas
South Elm Street
City Hall
O. L. Reed Newton Pentecost
E. S. Greening Board of Assessors of
Strike Bound Vultee Plant Seeks Restart In Mediation
United Auto Workers strike at the Vultee aircraft plant neared a stalemate after conferees failed to reach a no strike clause in a tentative agreement. War Department labor adviser Major Sidney Simpson said key issues remained, with the company proposing continued talks or arbitration if no deal is reached. The walkout has halted work on 84 million dollars worth of military aircraft and drew comments from UAW international official Wyndham Mortimer. Union and company reps planned further meetings as Simpson stayed to assist mediation. Meanwhile, twenty four prisoners at a Atlanta federal penitentiary enrolled in an Oklahoma University correspondence course.
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Vultee
Sidney Simpson
War Department
Compans
Simpson
Inter Lube Hess
Wyndham Mortimer
United Autosmobile Workers
Colliiy
Cannan Bondy Barnett Honored for Stage Recenery Work
Thomas Cannan and fellow High Selves Band staff Bidant Bondy and Bubl Barnett were acknowledged for outstanding efforts in preparing the stage scenery for the occasion at Maleo's Sienitier and Rialto theater.
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Thomas Cannan
High Selves Band
Bidant Bondy
Bubl Barnett
Maleo
Sienitier and
Rialto Theatres
Rev Hamilton and Arkansas Clergy Featured in Spiritual Diary
More than 350 ministers nationwide contribute to The Spiritual Diary edited by Bonnie Carolin Hall. Arkansas participants include Rev William TR Hamilton of First Baptist Rope and others from Little Rock Fort Smith Mountain Home and Van Buren. Proceeds from the first edition go to the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America to aid gospel radio outreach. Publication date November 2 with a 1.75 price.
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William TR. Hamilton
First Baptist Church
Rope
Department of National Religious Radio
Federal Council of Churches of Christ
America
Arkansas
Atu
Gaston Fonte
Winfield Memorial Church
Calvin B. Waleley
Second Baptist Church
W. P. Witsell
Christ Episcopal Church
Little Rock
B. V. Ferguson
Fort Smith
O. J. Chastain
First Bapist Church
van Buren
Oldest Guard Formed at Henry VII Coronations
The Yoomen of the Guard, established in 1485 under England's King Henry VII, stands as the town's oldest armed body. It serves the sovereign at coronations, Parliament openings, and other state functions.
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Henry VII
England
Yoomen of the Guard
Superstition and Ancient Oxford Pries Highlighted
The text notes that some Africans hold a belief about consuming parts of a shrew leading to vulnerability to wild beast attacks. It also claims Oxford University buildings are claimed to be over 500 years old.
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Oxford University
Unclear terms from early school and shipping notes
Fragmentary OCR notes report on a Fayetteville church dispute and school clover counts among stray phrases about Turkish ships and fog signals. Names, dates, and places are incomplete, yielding a partial, non-coherent item with mixed topics.
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