Edward Sheldon Wins Supreme Court Film Profit Case
Edward Sheldon the blind playwright and collaborator Margaret Ayres Barnes win a Supreme Court ruling awarding 20 percent of the 587,605 dollars in profits from the film Letty Lynton, upholding their copyright claim on Dishonored Lady. The long litigation follows Sheldon’s 1924 paralysis and blindness and Barnes’s recovery from a 1925 automobile wreck.
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Consolidated Features
WIN Service
New York
Edward Sheldon
United States Supreme Court
Sheldon
Margaret Ayres Barnes
Letty Lynton
Supreme Court
Kaufman and Connelly
Harvard
Sidney Howard
Miss Barnes
France
America
Nazi Thrust Into Balkans and Threats Across Europe
Analysis notes Germany's quick seizure of Copenhagen and Oslo, with 20,000 Nazis landing in Oslo, while Dutch and Belgian fears rise of a blitzkrieg in the Low Countries. Goebbels accuses Britain. Russia watches, Balkans tensions grow as Danube control demands threaten broader war.
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Skagerrak
Oslo
London
Paul Reynaud
No. 10 Downing Street
Paris
Britain
Neville Chamberlain
Commons
Germany
France
Adolf Hitler
Scandinavia
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Italy
Joseph Goebbels
Danube
Rumania
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Hungary
Jugoslavia
Bulgaria
Romania
Russia
Moscow
Hitler
Norway
Sweden
Fourth Try for Norman Thomas Reignites Socialist Bid
In early April the Socialist party opened its 1940 convention season and nominated Norman Thomas for president for a fourth time with Maynard C Krueger of the University of Chicago as running mate. A $100000 campaign fund remains to be raised.
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Norman Thomas
Thomas
Washington
University of Chicago
Maynard C. Krueger
Kreeger
Bache Scoffs at Isolationists and War Debates
The note recalls Jules Bache’s Toronto speech defending intervention for business, while isolationists draw votes from parents who fear war. The piece covers Sweden’s mobilization, U.S. neutrality moves, and Roosevelts actions to secure assets, plus related congressional items and foreign policy tensions.
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Bache
United Press
Jules Bache
Toronto
United States
Germany
Supreme Court to hear Republic labor ruling on 5 000 strikers back pay
The Republic Steel case involves a 1937 Little Steel strike and an NLRB order to reinstate about 5,000 CIO workers with back pay over $5 million. The Third Circuit upheld the decision, and the Supreme Court has taken up the matter with the NLRB ruling again in force.
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Republic Steel Corporation
Republic
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
NLRB
U. S. Supreme Court
LaGuardia Emerges as Key Figure in 1940 Race
Washington notes Fiorello LaGuardia gains attention as a potential Roosevelt New Deal ally and possible 1940 Democratic ticket candidate. His shifting ties with Tammany and cross party support, plus farm and labor bloc endorsements, shape a pivotal NY influence in national politics.
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Fiorello LaGuardia
New York
Little Flower
Illinois
LaGuardia
Congress
Tammany
Alf Landon
Farm Bureau
National Grange
Farmer's Union
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Wallace
Henry Wallace
John L. Lewis
Joe Salerno
Massachusetts C. I. O
New England
Boston Forum
Roosevelt
Salerno
The
U. S. Envoy Harriman Noted for Norway News Role
Mrs. J Borden Harriman the U S minister to Norway for three years broke through silence by issuing the first official news that war had begun in Norway She is the second woman envoy in U S history The State Department also noted 3300 Americans in Scandinavia were safe The Export Import Bank has disbursed only part of its 35 million credit to Denmark Norway and Sweden with most funds unused by Pier son The Norwegians planned wheat lard cotton thread for nets and Norway Denmark Sweden purchases were mainly machinery and manufactured goods
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U. S
Norway
J. Borden Harriman
Great Britain
Denmark
Department of Agriculture
State Department
Scandinavia
Sweden
Warren Lee Pierson
Trend shows export gains to Latin America in six months
The commerce department reports a 48 percent rise in U S exports to Latin America in the first half of Europe’s war. Mexico and Argentina lead with 55.7 and 54 percent gains respectively.
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U. S
Latin America
Europe
Mexico
Argentina
DuPont
Braniff Airways
Kansas City
Washington
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