Schiaparelli Severs Gold Ties for Art in Couture
Paris fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli denounces money as she plans to return to Paris. she lauds art for art's sake and notes Americans' money-mindset, while her career flourishes with a vast Paris-London influence. Also highlighted are inventor Elman Myers's jet expulsion motor and David Lynn's long Capitol service.
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Consolidated
WNY Service
New York
Hitler
Mme
Elsa Schiaparelli
France
Paris
America
Molyneux
London
Lucien Lelong
Landis
Mme. Schiaparelli
Junior League of
Los Angeles
Lanvin
Marisa
Ninth Street
Greenwich Village
Patchin Place
Jefferson Market Court
Edna le Fevre
Capitol
Washington
George Washington
David Lynn
Hyattsville
Lynn
Weekly News Analysis More Aid to Great Britain Faces Congress
A Washington mood of pessimism as a new Congress convenes. Defense chiefs push immediate arms production and labor sacrifices. Roosevelt creates a strong defense board with Knudsen as chair and Hillman as vice chair to enforce all out military aid to Britain and a harsher stance on Axis powers.
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Great Britain
Congress
Italy
Washington
Britain
Hitler
Defense
William Knudsen
Stimson
Hull
Roosevelt
National Advisory Defense Council
Knudsen
Sidney Hillman
John L. Lewis
War
Navy
Knox
War on Italy Our Tempo Increases
Reports from Greece in Albania and Britain in Egypt describe reverses for Fascist legions. Morale on the home front is sagging as democratic nations watch Italy closely. A crack in Italy would deal a serious Axis blow and shift the war’s balance.
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Italy
Albania
Egypt
Axis
Britain strikes Adriatic and Alps amid Ethiopian embargo clash
In 1936 Eden pressed the League for an embargo on Italy over Ethiopia. Laval opposed, and Eden resigned after Halifax became prime minister. British forces then pressed Italy, with raids on Taranto and Otranto as the Royal Navy challenged Mussolini’s navy.
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Anthony Eden
League of Nations
Italy
Duce
Ethiopia
Pierre Laval
Eden
Geneva
Mussolini
Neville Chamberlain
Lord Halifax
Cliveden
Sup
Axis
Albania
Africa
Rodolfo Graziani
Libya
Royal Navy
Straits of
Otranto
Adriatic
Valona
Mediterranean
Royal Air Force
Taranto
London
North Dakota Governor Moses Meets Roosevelt for Defense Plant Hopes
President Roosevelt pledged immediate inquiry into North Dakota missing defense plants while noting the inland state’s suitability for defense industries. Roosevelt also shared a naval anecdote about a destroyer name coincidence involving Moses and Israel with Governor Moses, a tall Democrat in a GOP state.
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Erin
North Dakota
John Moses
White House
Moses
Roosevelt
Navy
Israel
U. S
Murphy
O'Reilly
Albanian Mountaineers Aid Greeks in War Effort
Washington Merry-Go-Round notes Albanian peasants and mountaineers supplied vital intelligence to Greek forces in Albania aiding victories. Also covers State Department widows of diplomats and U.S. policy shifts, plus former American News editors now in the War Department.
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Washington
Albania
Royal Air Force
Europe
State Department
Blitzkrieg
Warsaw
Berlin
Copenhagen
Oslo
Brussels
Hague
Moscow
Helsinki
Far East
Foreign Service
Americ News
U.S. Army of Occupation
Coblenz
Germany
War Department
Fred J. Mueller
B. B. McMahon
Woman Decies Returns Home After Paris Shopping Interaction
Elizabeth Drexel, former Philadelphia social figure Lady Decies, recalled shopping in occupied Paris with husband Harry Lehr. She described a coat purchase interrupted when a fat uniformed man grabbed the coat and claimed it for his wife. The man was General Goering.
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Lady Decies
Elizabeth Drexel
Philadelphia
Harry Lehr
Paris
General Goering
Witch hunt fears and four man mobilization plan debated
A Washington opinion piece critiques a radio commentator warning of a witch hunt and questions who speaks for America. It argues for an independent mobilization director coordinating industry to avoid shortages, delays, and waste, while warning against four man control by war and navy heads and allies.
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Washington, D. C
Bob Wood
Congress
Panama Canal
France
AEF
Quartermaster General
Pan
Charles Lindbergh
Boadicea
Dorothy Thompson
Uncle Sam
England
America
Will Rogers
Britain
War and Navy
Knudsen
Hillman
War Industries Board
Army
Navy
Quiz Style General Knowledge Questions
A set of trivia prompts including whether birds hold food in claws, what Article I covers, reveille timing in the U S Army, the Bible's longest verse, Panama Canal Zone width, origin of the phrase I am on the side of the angels, meaning of perfidious, and the month Earth is nearest the Sun.
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U. S
Panama Canal Zone
Answers Quiz Pack Key Facts
The set lists seven trivia points: a parrot alone answers, the congress, the time 6 30 a m, Esther 8 9 as the longest verse and John 11 35 as the shortest, a canal route ten miles wide, Benjamin Disraeli, Faithless, and a January timing.
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Congress
Benjamin Disraeli
Faithless
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