Brain Trust Still Advising the President Says White House
Bruce Catton reports that despite a staff reorganization the Roosevelt brain trust remains influential. Corcoran and Cohen keep key roles, with unofficial guiding voices intact. the five division reform may shift duties but not close the informal advisory line. The piece notes continued high confidence in Corcoran and Cohen and explains the reorganized executive staff structure.
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Survivors Tells Tales of Athenia Sinking at Halifax
More than 200 survivors from the liner Athenia arrived in Halifax aboard the City of Flint. They described torpedo attacks and submarine periscopes, and recounted scenes of panic, injuries, and near misses as lifeboats capsized and the vessel faced emergency conditions. Coast guard cutters ferried six injured to shore.
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Houston
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Boston
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Sne
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Heggard
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Terpeulin
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Brookville
American Coast Guard
City of
Flint
Polish Lines Hold But Nadig Declares Warsaw Defenses
Continental report notes Polish lines holding amid military tension. Foreign secretary cites British French assent to Roosevelt plea for restraint from civilian bombing. He stresses his government may act if restraint is not observed, to protect population and defense zones.
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Warsaw
Roosevelt
Duke of Windsor to Take War Appointment in England
The Duke of Windsor will assume a war post after returning from exile. A field marshal on the active list and colonel in chief of the Welsh Guards, he avoided specifics about duties while posing with the Duchess at a Sussex estate. They arrived with photographers and greeted Major Edward Dudley Metcalfe, their former aide, after a three year continent spanning exile.
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Job Hunting Now an Art
The University of California opens a new course titled The Art of Getting a Job. It covers occupations and employment and the technique of asking for work, aiming to be up to date with modern job hunting strategies.
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University of California
Dog Fights Forest Fires
QUINCY California September 13 A dog fire control unit found by E E Boehm district ranger locates fires by scent and digs a line around the blaze to combat it. NEW HAVEN Connecticut September 13 Burglars broke into Jacob Winess's store three times in one week taking 5 6 and 7 dollars before police were notified and the robberies stopped.
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Twins born aunt and uncle spell new relation in Pittsfield
In Pittsfield Massachusetts a pair of twins born to Mr and Mrs Anthony Sacchetti automatically became an aunt and uncle at birth. The newborn niece is six month old Sheila Sacchetti. The report notes steamboat lines in 1800 urged considerate service to encourage female travel by excluding men from dining rooms until a threshold of seventy one women were seated.
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Anthony Sacchetti
Sheila Sacchetti
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Robin Answers Whistle in Hartford Home
Mrs. Carl G. Hall nursed an injured robin to health and the bird adopted her, returning home when she whistles. In California Wirt Pierce hunted deer with his saddle horse Dolly, but Dolly damaged after a ditch jump and could not carry back a buck, so the group transported her home.
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Conn
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Ables
Hunter Guinda
Cal
Wirt Pierce
Dolly
Wirt
Guns From Canada Traced to British Order in War Supply
The British government traced a $1,000,000 order for 22-pounder field guns with Marine Industries at Sorel Quebec. The note mentions time differences around February 1 linking events across the globe.
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Montreal
Marine Industries
Sorel
Que
Roosevelt calls extra session on arms embargo debate
President Roosevelt signals quick action on proposed special session to revisit the neutrality act and the arms embargo. He backs a cash and carry approach guarded to aid democracies, while opposing any policy that would involve sending American troops overseas. Debates focus on whether repeal would aid Allies without drawing the U S into war.
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States bar Germany from taking British or French lands
Nations pledged to prevent German seizure of any British or French territory on this side of the Atlantic, signaling a collective resolve to curb expansion and safeguard colonial and regional interests.
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Two Drivers Hit Him And RAN Georgetown KY
Ro bert McGeorge, 26, staggered into a Georgetown lunch room with a head cut after being struck by a truck while walking on 4 highway deer. He then was hit by a second automobile, losing consciousness briefly before regaining it at Georgetown Hospital. Both drivers left the scene.
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