Lord Halifax Hosts Fox Hunt Echoing Leicestershire Charm
Lord Halifax’s weekend in Unionville, Pennsylvania highlights Chester County’s famed Green Spring Valley hunt. W Plunket Stewart preserves British fox-hunting traditions with Scarlet attire and English hounds. Admiral Emory S. Land, Navy veteran and maritime commissioner, recognized for wartime submarines work and later shipbuilding funding, shares a storied career highlighted by a Navy Cross and leadership roles.
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York
Lord Halifax
England
Unionville
Chester County
Old England
W. Plunket Stewart
Mr. Stewart
Leicestershire
America
Melton
Mowbray
Quoin
Plunket
Redmond
Green Spring Valley
Glyndon
Gilbert E. Mather
Stewart
Emory S. Land
Maritime Commission
Army
Navy
Jerry
Land
Frank Merriwell
Navy Bureau of Construction and Repair
Roosevelt
Joseph P. Kennedy
Great Britain
Canon City
Colo
Charles Lindbergh
Annapolis
Academy
Hitler's spring drive into Balkans follows familiar blitz pattern
The column outlines rapid Nazi advances in Greece and Yugoslavia with Belgrade Sarajevo Nis and Skoplje falls and Salonika threatened. It notes uncertain British strength at Salonika and shifting Libyan front moves as Wavell reportedly moves. Eritrea and Ethiopia see continued British gains massing on Massawa.
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Hitler
Balkans
Belgrade
Sarajevo
Nis
Zagreb
Fiume
Sofia
Athens
Salonika
Katerine
Berlin
Truma
Greece
London
Jugoslavia
Africa
Libya
Archibald Wavell
Wavell
Sidi Barrani
Derna
Bengali
Italy
Britain
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Massawa
Mediation Moves Narrow Breaks in Major U S Steel Ford Strikes
Strikes news reports progress as Dykstra mediation settles part of the Allis-Chalmers dispute while U S Steel and Ford confrontations show signs of settlement. CIO leaders faced scrutiny over a potential general strike tied to Bridges defense cases amid White House meetings with Murray.
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Dykstra Mediation Board
Allis-Chalmers
U. S. Steel
Ford
River Rouge
National Defense
C.I.O
United States
Bridges
Washington
Sidney Hillman
OPM
House
National Defense Program
Hillman
Ilip Murray
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Mr. Hillman
Mr. Murray
White House
Roosevelt
Detroit
New York
United Mine Workers
van Wagoner
Michigan
Defense Mediation Board
Philip Murray
James Dewey
Brief New Deal era briefing on labor, rubber, and defense
Washington letters discuss a labor shortage fueling defense needs with 661 listed occupations at risk, plus steps to draft skilled workers. It notes a rubber production program funded by Congress and planned Latin American stations to reduce East Indian rubber reliance, and includes quirky exchanges about public brevity and a Wickard quip.
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Army-Navy Munitions Board
National Youth Administration
Department of Agriculture
Americas
Congress
Central America
South America
Costa Rica
Brazil
Malaya
Latin America
New York
Washington
New York City
Women’s Division
American Jewish Congress
Department of Education
From Mobile to Greensboro with a White House aide
Eleanor Lissac recounts a dawn departure from Mobile Alabama for Fayetteville and Greensboro as Maj. Eugene Harrison joins the party. She notes Fort Bragg’s rapid expansion and 65 000 new soldiers straining Fayetteville while praising local cooperation and camp life. The diary also covers the Woman's National Press Club dinner and a New York trip for dental and educational duties.
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Mobile
Ala
Greensboro
N. C
King Cotton
Secret Service
Fayetteville
Fort Bragg
Maj
Eugene Harrison
White House
General Devers
North Carolina
Broughton
Miss Thompson
Major Harrison
Devers
America
WPA Card Helps Car Thief Exploit Gas Funds
In Jacksonville a Negro thief used a WPA courtesy card found in a stolen car to obtain gas money, eluding police as the vehicle kept moving. In Norfolk the Coast Guard searched Virginia’s Eastern Shore waters for wreckage of a patrol bomber with ten crewmen, with bodies recovered and naval investigators looking into the crash.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Uncle Sam
Norfolk
Virginia
Navy
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Lemuel F. Parton
Consolidated Features
WNN
Halifax
Pack’s
Maryland
Edward C. Wayne
Western Newspaper Union
Jugoslavian
Hungary
Skoplje
Vardar
Poland
Finland
EL Agheila
United States Coast Guard
Washington, D. C
Senate
William L. Nelson
Missouri
Indiana Standard
Republic Steel
Eastman Kodak
General Motors
Anaconda Copper
United States Steel
Claude Wickard
Secretary of Agriculture
Clark Gable
Claude
Indiana
Wickard
Merry
U. S. Navy
George A. Buttrick
Federal Council of Churches
Herbert Hoover
Europe
Hull
Eleanor Lissac
Young America
Woman’s National Press Club
Mr. Hopkins
Jimmy
Oakland
Calif
Otto de Bourbon Hapsburg
Otto Leopold
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