Official war artist Sir Muirhead Bone keeps the tradition alive
The article notes Sir Muirhead Bone as the official World War I and navy artist, famed etcher and painter, shaping graphic records amid modern war's stark scenes. It contrasts past fanfare with today's subdued announcement and recalls his career from Glasgow origins to Oxford honorary D.Litt. and New York exhibitions.
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York
John Masefield
Sir Muirhead Bone
Sir Muirhead
Muirhead
War Museum
Glasgow
England
Oxford
New York
Global War Moves Stir Amid Finnish Turmoil and Axis Ties
The piece notes Rome Berlin Moscow diplomacy tightening a dictator’s peace, Japan nearing a north China stalemate, and Finland evacuations amid Soviet pressure. Daladier falls in France, Reynaud forms new cabinet, and Roosevelt denies retirement talk while Farley asserts his 1940 bid.
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North Sea
France
Paris
Edouard Daladier
Daladier
Albert Lebrun
Paul Reynaud
Morgenthau battles Woodring over Allied plane purchases
Washington rumor column details a feud between Secretary of War Henry Morgenthau and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Woodring over coordinating Allied aircraft buys. It notes planes delivered on time, U S purchases aiding service programs, and mentions Martin and Lockheed developments for French and British orders, plus political color from Capitol Hill.
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Washington
U. S. Army
Navy
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Treasury
Army Air Corps
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Henry Woodring
Capitol Hill
Woodring
Morgenthau
Army
Edison
Johnson
U. S
Henry Gibbins
Ray Spear
Air Corps
Arnold
U.S
Glenn Martin Company
Martin
Lockheed
Supreme Court order blocks Phillips troops at Grand River dam
The United States obtained a preliminary order restraining Governor Leon C. Phillips from deploying troops to halt completion of the $20,000,000 Grand River dam project. Phillips contends the U S should compensate $889,000 for property damage.
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Oklahoma
U. S
Leon C. Phillips
Grand River
Phillips
Washington
U. S. Treasury
American Airlines, Inc
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Chicago
Mexico City
Edwin Armstrong
Federal Communications Commission
Baltimore
Coca Cola
Elderly Women Seek Birth Certificates Ahead of Deadline
In Charleston two 95 year old women queued to obtain birth certificates before a regulation tightening. They aimed to register under the old law requiring sworn statements from physicians or attendants rather than the newer rule referencing baptismal records.
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China
North
Cheng Chien
Nippon
Lingshan
Nanning- Yamchow
Wang Ching-wei
Nanking
Japan
Charleston
W. VA
Luckiest Clover Found by Miss Himmelstein in Willimantic
In Willimantic Connecticut Miss Zelda Himmelstein found on a single clover plant three three leaf clovers fourteen four leaf clovers eight five leaf clovers one six leaf clover and one seven leaf clover displaying an unusual bloom of luck in a single stem observation.
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Willimantic, Conn
Zelda Himmelstein
Tots Help Build School at St. Angela's
First grade pupils at St. Angela's school helped dig the foundation of a new 12 room school in suburban Flanders Village. They used picks shovels and hoes as part of the construction event.
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Cleveland
St. Angela’s School
Flanders Village
Beers Reads Bible Prolifically in Ten-Year Span
Benjamin Beers of Cambridge Massachusetts reports reading the complete Bible 19 times and the New Testament 70 times in the last decade. An ordained minister with the United Pentecostal Council he aims to evangelism. He notes 85 hours as the fastest reading period for the Bible.
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John E. Miller
Arkansas
United States
Soe
Gen E Bailey
Miller
Joe T. Robinson
Cape Girardeau Teachers’ College
Valparaiso
Ind
Searcy
Ark
Stoddard County
Cambridge
Mass
Benjamin Beers
Beers
United Pentacostal Council
The
Assemblies of God
Hunt For Fortune Left By Recluse
A search has begun of a ramshackle shed in St Charles Minnesota after the recluse Fred C. Smith 81 found dead in the shack where he lived for 30 years The report notes about $80 in cash in his pockets and speculation that he hoarded fortune there.
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ST. Charles
Minn
Fred C. Smith
Tracy
Houston Symphony Plans Next Season
The Houston Symphony under Ernst Hoffmann plans ten regular concerts for 1940 41 with four guest artists including Bidu Sayao Harold Bauer Barbara Lull and Drusilla Huff master. The ensemble enjoyed strong attendance this year and boosts its status as a Texas institution with broadcasts and out of town engagements across New Orleans Austin Bryan Galveston and San Angelo.
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Houston Symphony Orchestra
Southwest
Ernst Hoffmann
Texas
New York Philharmonic
Deems Taylor
Houston
Houston Symphony
New Orleans
Austin
University of Texas
Bryan
A. & M. College
Galveston
San Angelo
Harry R. Bourne
Bidu Sayao
Metropolitan Opera
Harold Bauer
Barbara Lull
Princeton
N. J
Drusilla Huffmaster
Juillard School of
New York
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Western Newspaper Union
Europe
Rome-Berlin
London
Mr. Welles
Sumner Welles
Britain
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Brenner Pass
Brenner
Balkans
Alexander Schkwarzev
Berlin
Moscow
Rome
Hitler
Scapa Flow
Neville Chamberlain
Sylt
Heligoland
Finland
Kremlin
Scandinavia
Poland
State Department
Reich
Asia
Farley
Ernest Lindley
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Jim Farley
Franklin Roosevelt
Springfield
Charles Edison
New Jersey
Arthur Vandenberg
Mich
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Isylt
National Women’s Press Club
Alice Longworth
Merry
Dies Committee
Noah Mason
Illinois
Yennings Randolph
District of Columbia
West Virginia
Randolph
U. S. Senate
Henry Wallace
Harding
Louisiana
Eugene Stanley
Huey Long
Stanley
Lord Clive
Nelson
Chamberlain
Beethoven Association
Bauer
Young Hoffmann
Gibraltar Savings
Wentiemen
Gibraltar
Houston, Texas
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