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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1941
Page
1
Weekly News Analysis notes President would gain wide authority under a new lease lend plan. It highlights Congress backing large budgetary outlays, a debt ceiling near 60 billion, and partisan reactions. Britain awaits aid while Greeks resist Italians as British accelerate Libya campaign.
The article reports Senator Nye of North Dakota claiming 30 to 35 votes favor a swift U S declaration of war on Germany, labeling the lend lease measure a de facto war move. Roosevelt accepts the power but refrains from formal declaration while non interventionists push for revisions as support for aid to Britain persists.
In EGNDON the Free French Navy operates 80 merchant ships and 30 warships. VICHY enacts a decree barring Jewish participation in business affecting 11 000 establishments. WASHINGTON plans a new agency to enforce defense industry compliance with government requests. LONDON reports an American made British plane shoots down a German bomber, marking a first victory for this aircraft type.
A collage of gossip from New York society and Hollywood life. Notes on Virginia Bruce and a five and dime stroll, Richard Waring and Thelma Schnee in a champagne moment, Nathan and Kimi Toye at Club Waikiki, Garbo at Panama Hattie with a camera clash, Verne Marshall clashing with the Herald Tribune, Gloria Swanson funding refugee inventors, seven bombers over Croydon and Churchill quips.
Washington hosts a regional restaurant convention urging owners to apply nutrition knowledge to national defense. Elmer Twitchell humorously weighs foods from hamburgers to cheeseburgers for stamina, while noting stew and beans prove strong for troops. The piece pokes at wartime food debates and a light take on defense dieting.
Britain names volunteer roof-top fire watchers to battle fires from German air raids and increases bombing of invasion ports and German cities. Bremen faced three days of bombardment as over 550 British planes attacked with 100 bombers and accompanying fighters pinning down Nazi ground forces.
Leon Henderson addressing scrap metal dealers warned that prices must fall and supply must rise or government action will follow. He framed price stabilization as a war-time necessity while dealers pledged to cooperate. Soviet talks with Germany sparked diplomatic speculation about food and alliance shifts amid unrest in Europe.
Bert, angered by a parrot refusing to say hello to an uncle, throttles the bird after threats and throws it into the pen. Morning reveals three dead hens and a parrot still gripping a hen by the neck while shouting the phrase. The scene underscores a grim sequence as a simple household lesson ends in violence.
A reflective line states true courage means staying calm in danger. It notes that the bravest men exhibit serenity and lack of bullying, remaining composed when peril arises.
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