McNutt as High Commissioner Sparks Philippine Precedence Debate
Washington Daybook notes Paul V. McNutt asserts precedence over the Philippine president and plans to run for president after leaving the Philippines, while contrasting his approach with Frank Murphy’s. The piece views how different leadership styles in 1940 might shape future U.S. politics and the islands’ status.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
Genesia
McNutt
Philippine Commonwealth
State Department
Islands
United Jang
United States
Manuel Quezon
Taft
Manila
Pennsylvania Avenue
Leonard Wood
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Murphy
Indiana
Flashes of Life and Hotel Strike Reports Across States
AP items note R W Miller a Detroit car rep arriving at a Kansas City hotel and being tended by a man posing as assistant manager Al Toren. Colorado Springs covers doodles at a Petroleum Institute meeting. Omaha reports a night watchman seeking jury excusal citing long night shifts. judge jokes about taking a chance.
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Aspctated
Kansas City
R. W. Miller
Detroit
Miller
al Toren
Omaha
J. W. Yeager
Long solar eclipse search hinges on a missing Sarah Ann
The June 8 total solar eclipse could last seven minutes four seconds at sea but the island Sarah Ann vanishes from maps. Key observing aims include Canton Island in the Pacific and Peruvian coastal mountains. Expeditions by National Geographic, U S Navy, Hayden Planetarium, Brown University, and a Japanese party seek corona and atmospheric details to illuminate sun structure and cosmic origins.
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Ieoward W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
New York
Sarah Ann
mid-Pacific Ocean
mid-Pacific
Charles H. Smiley
Coral Island
San Francisco
Peru
Equator
Fiji Islands
Pacific Ocean
John J. Stewart
Princeton
James Stockley
Franklin Institute
Philadelphia
Tvo
Canton Island
South Pacific
National Geographic Society
U. S. Navy
Peruvian
Hayden Planetarium
American Museum of Natural History
Grace Line
Brown University
United States
California
Florida
Eureka
Calif
Reno
Nevada
Amarillo
Texas
Shreveport
Louisiana
Biloxi
Mississippi
Tampa
Palm Beach
Youth and the two headed monster of communism and fascism
A daily cartoon depicting a two headed monster labeled communism and fascism looms over a youth figure wielding the sword of democracy. The piece argues youth faces an impossible burden without guidance from older generations as world threats loom and calls for mature leadership to direct youthful power.
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Lad
Criminal Investigation Bureau
Jefferson City
America
Rent Strike In Pontiac Draws 18000 Involved
In Pontiac Michigan today landlords condemn a rent strike seen by organizers as affecting about 15 060 tenants. UAWA in Detroit directs the movement while eviction cases loom with plans to stall and delay to force rent reductions as talks continue among landlords.
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Pontiac
Mich
O. A. Slater
Samuel P. Backus
Real Estate Board
Uawa Sehma
United Automobile Workers of America
Charles Barker
Pontiac Group
Barker
Coronation King Faces Burdens of a New Era
George VI pledges to pursue ministers deliberations for the happiness of all peoples amid empire challenges. The new king, despite coronation cheer, faces Ireland and India independence tensions, Italy’s stance, a wrecked ship off Spain, and financial strains as he enters a gray period of governance.
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George VI
Ireland
India
Italy
Spain
England
Why alimony for either in future Florida law
A Florida House bill proposing alimony for divorced husbands prompts a broader look at alimony fairness. The argument weighs whether able bodied ex-spouses deserve ongoing support, noting that if a woman wishes support, marriage remains an option, while women without children face questions of justified long payments.
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Florida House of Representatives
How's Your Health Dr Iago Galdston
Dr Iago Galdston discusses two types of allergic reactions prophylactic and anaphylactic using balance and fall analogies. He explains how protective reactions ward off disease yet injurious responses can cause fractures or bruises. Treatments include small increasing injections to condition the body to fall safely and reduce overreaction.
Quotes Reflecting Public Figures and Moments Across Time
A compilation of remarks from diverse figures including Lady Mary Kingsford Smith, A P Chauncey, Roscoe Jackson, and U S Senator James P Pope, touching on survival, residence, execution, gender in leadership, censorship, Hoover thoughts, farming resilience, personal accountability, and Lindbergh on his Paris flight anniversary.
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Mary Kingsford-Smith
England
Melbourne
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Paris
Speed blamed for fatal Belleville crash near West of town
Sheriff Henry L. Siekmann pinned the head-on collision on excessive speed on a curve six miles west of Belleville. Four passengers in the car died, two were injured, one critically. Victims later named include Frank Gross 68 Edward Gross 25 Stanley Gross 29 and Frank Polaskie 47. Others in the truck cab C L Stevenson 71 and Clarence Moody 45 were injured. Stevenson remained critically injured with a skull fracture. Moody treated for cuts and bruises. condition not serious.
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Belleville
Henry L. Siekmann
St. Clair County
Here
Louis Paszkiewicz
St. Louis
Frank Gross
Scheller
Edward Gross
Stanley Gross
Scheiler
Frank Polaskie
Jefferson Memorial Work 10 Start Soon
St Louis officials move quickly to begin Jefferson Memorial construction after the Supreme Court declined to review an appeals court ruling denying an injunction. Mayor Dickmann invited President Roosevelt to dedicate the site while U S Attorney Blanton awaits clearance to start condemnation suits.
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ST. Louis
Jefferson Memorial
Supreme Court
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Bernard F. Dickmann
Roosevelt
United States District
Harry C. Blanton
Washington
Brothers Drowned at Blue Springs Lake Tapawingo Tragedy
In Blue Springs Missouri two brothers from Independence, Paul Smith aged 35 and Robert Smith aged 13, drowned yesterday in Lake Tapawingo. Their brother Myron, 17, attempted a rescue but failed. Nearby readers heard hazy court ideas decried as justice may better reflect public knowledge of judges’ strengths and weaknesses, says former Missouri Bar Association president Jesse Barrett.
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Blue Springs
Paul Smith
Robert Smith
Independence
Lake Tapawingo
Myron
ST. Louis
Jasse W. Barrett
Missouri Bar Association
Intervention in Opain 13 Under No Gussion Now
Rome reports Mussolini plans to discuss direct Italian German intervention in the Spanish Civil War with Von Blomberg. If decided, intervention would be a reprisal for Loyalist aggressions, with massing of forces possible and a naval review near Naples.
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Rome
Benito Mussolini
Werner von Blomberg
Deutschland
Baleric Islands
Mussolini
Blomberg
Gaeta
Naples
Europe
Germany
Italy
Spain
Il Piccolo
Giornale D'italia
Great Britain
Congress in Session Quick Overview of Daily Activities
Senate remains in recess as Wheeler committee resumes railroad financing inquiry and joint labor committee opens wage and hour hearings. House considers minor legislation while Ways and Means weighs extending nuisance taxes. Judiciary holds bankruptcy revisions hearing and Agriculture weighs crop insurance. Yesterday the veto of veterans term insurance was overridden, the rebate bill passed in the House, and the Senate opened a tax evasion inquiry after a presidential message. Senate approved a 48 million dollar naval auxiliary ship construction bill.
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Senate
Wheeler Committee
Joint Labor Committee
House
Ways and Means Committee
Judiciary
Agriculture Committee
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San Antonio
Roscoe Jackson
Galena
U. S
James P. Pope
Idaho
George Washington
Eugene O'Neill
Mr. Hoover
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Joseph Dunninger
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