Great Britain aids Greece as invasion unfolds
Greece faces Italian assault after Rome demands territory, with Britain pledging immediate support and air and naval forces likely to operate from Egyptian bases. The crisis raises questions for Turkey and Russia, while the United States readies a peacetime draft and a first roll call.
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Great Britain
Greece
Hve
Athens
London
England
Rome
Poris
Turkey
Russia
Stretch Drive and War Tides in 1940 Campaign and Europe
In a crowded West novel of the 1940 race, the stretch drive features Dewey Smith and Lewis rallying to back Roosevelt, while Willkie gains support amid a shifting field. far beyond, Vichy Britain and Axis plans unfold with Soviet and Balkan tensions, London raids intensify, and air power shifts mark a troubled period in World War II.
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Dewey
al Smith
John L. Lewis
Dewey Wert
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
New Deal State
Willkie
Literary Digest
Dr. Gallug
U S Stands Firm as Britain Widened Air Bombing Persists
U S observers assess German morale amid heavy RAF bombardment of Berlin Dresden Hamburg and Munich. Britain’s air offensive and new American planes threaten German civilian resolve while Allied policy shows no softening.
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Washington, D. C
U. S
Britain
Germany
Balkans
Egypt
India
Berlin
Dresden
Leipzig
Hamburg
Munich
Spain
West
Mediterranean
France
United States
Churchil
Hull
Europe
Pan-America
Guianna
Guadalupe
Martinique
British Bermuda
Hitler
Names in the news King Carol and Butler death
King Carol pleads to the United States to save Lupescu and his party amid fears of extradition. He received a 90 minute visit from his aunt and a sitter’s dressing down. James Butler, a chain store millionaire and New York racetrack owner, was killed in a fall from a horse.
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King Carol
Spain
Lupescu
United States
James Butler
New York
Dictator at home in a domestic comedy sketch
A stage dialogue mocks a self styled dictator and his wife as he insists on authority and steak while she punctures his ego. The exchange covers his pomp, personal history, and claims to leadership, ending with a light jab about his past and present role. The piece interleaves humorous domestic banter with political overtones and a final aside about war era headlines.
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Washington
Charles R. Morris
Elizabeth
N. J
Baker
Morris
Selective Service Headquarters
Yeff Davis
S. Lincoln
Henry L. Stimson
Jefferson Davis
Confederacy
Robert Todd Lincoln
Lincoln
Davis
Stimson
War Department
Phil Sheridan
Household Tips and Cleaning Tricks From a Past Guide
A compact guide offers kitchen and home care tips such as ammonia in water to clean gas ovens, brushing fur collars with ground cornmeal, using roast bones to make soup, varnished floor cleaning with soap and water, mixing whipped cream with apple butter for cupcakes, and lubricating carpet sweepers with light oil to stop squeaks.
To Know Happiness and Its Quiet Riches
The excerpt contends happiness lies in reciprocal love and inner riches. It links saving and being saved to knowing happiness, and equates happiness with possessing beauty and fullness of life’s meaningful things. It reads as reflective aphorism on fulfillment.
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National Guard
Washington
Bayer
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Reno
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