War echoes and politics collide in 1940 notes
The article surveys the Burke-Wadsworth draft bill signed into law with October 16 registration and 400,000 trainees, plus amendments on industry control. It blends wartime policy with reflections on leadership crises as Speaker Bankhead dies, Dr. Glenn Frank killed in a crash, and Wendell Willkie campaigns in Chicago pledging no American deaths in Europe while criticizing the New Deal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
William B. Bankhead
Glenn Frank
University of Wisconsin
United States Senate
Greenleaf
Wis
Frank
Glenn Jr
William Bankhead
Roosevelt
House
Wendell Willkie
Kelly-Nash
Chicago
Willkie
New Deal
Western Electric
United States
Churchill
Horrors In Jersey Trigger Massive Destruction At Kenvil Plant
The Kenvil New Jersey munitions plant blast left nearly 50 dead and about 200 injured while destroying 30 buildings. The event disrupted $2,000,000 in U.S. government work as the FBI rushed to the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenvil
News Jersey
N. J
FBI
U. S
Hercules Power Company
Dies Committee
Andover
London
Berlin
Westminster
St. Paul's
Fragmented 1930s gossip notes mix quips and music stars
A long collage of witty lines and anecdotes from 1930s media references. It blends jests about Hitler and Mussolini, Hollywood stars like Bob Hope Cary Grant and Dor othy Lamour, radio and newspaper snippets, prison and tax tricks, and staged social scenes from venues like the Rainbow Room and the Barbizon hotel.
Notable Allied Reactions and Vichy Purge Mentioned
The Duke of Windsor, governor of the Bahama Islands, sent congratulations to his brother George for escaping German bombs. Canada’s Premier Mackenzie King echoed the gesture. Goering was reported flying over London in a Nazi raid. In Paris, the Vichy regime began trials of Gamelin Daladier Reynaud Mandel, seen as a conservative liberal purge stemming from the Dreyfus case era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Windsor
Bahama Islands
Florida
Brother George
Mackenzie King
Canada
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
London
Junkers
Vichy
Gamelin
Daladier
Reynaud
School Daze in a Nation of Critics
A lively 1940s column critiques public schooling and moral priorities, arguing American schools should emphasize family, society, and national ideals. It contrasts French reform under Petain with U S notions, jokes about exams and pop culture, and notes social snapshots including theater, fraternity life, and a brief obituary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Marshal Petain
Jacket and Skirt For School Miss Design No 1233-B
Patterns describe a tailored jacket and skirt set for girls ages 8 to 16. It features a nipped waist and flared skirt with pockets, designed for versatile wear as a suit or frock, in various fabrics and pastel or plaid combinations. Barbara Bell Pattern No 1223-3 covers sizes 8 through 16 with yardage guidance.
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By Roger Shaw
Wester
Thor
Hitler
Nortal
England
Germany
Russia
Buckingham Palace
East End
Royal Air Force
Joseph Goebbels
William Knudsen
U. S. Defense Commission
H. H. Arnold
Air Corps
Curtiss-Wright
Buffalo
New York
Knudsen
Horrors
Jersey
Il Reich
Long Island
Bohemia-Moravia
Czechoslovakia
George Janacek
Janacek
Baron von Neurath
F Janacek
Ontario
Toronto
Paolo” Revere
Revere
Il Duce
Paolo
Paul Revere
Paolo Revere
Italia
Paul
Boston
Mass
Apollos de Revoire
Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Winston Churchill
Lenin
Piet
Ely Culbertson
Jan Struther
Mrs. Miniver
R. Roelofs Jr
Good Housekeeping
Dale Kramer
Harper’s
Stooges
Bob Hope
Cholly Chaplin
Dorothy Lamour
Cary Grant
Lissen
Cary
Rudy Vallee
Francisca Sims
Conover
Treasury Dept
Montes
Fernandez
Met Opera House
Andy Anderson
Associated Press
Willson Woodside
Rome
Mussolini
Mediterranean
North Sea
Ashland
Madison
Thirty- -Second Street
WMCA
James Roosevelt
Pastor Hall
Globe
Britain
Veriwell
O’keefe
Harriet G. Walsh
Syracuse
la Walsh
Lown
Barbizon Hotel
Waren
Franchot
Aida Alvarez
M. Rubin
Ethelyne Holt
Nino Martini
Puerto Rico
Ay, Lars Rth Phillips
Uncle Sam
Jimmy Cagney
Mommer
Robinson
Rooney
Romero
Pop
Paul McNutt
Wendell
Biff
Old Beta Theta Pi
Margie White
A. G. Giell
Gus Q. Bray
EL. T
Gatti Casazza
Italy
Metropolitan Opera
la Scala
Gatti
Kathryn Holdsman Frank
New France
Pap Dionne
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Bellans
Ethel
Asa Dean
Dean
Idoans
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