Embassy dinner features Lord Halifax and witty exchange
The British ambassador Lord Halifax hosts a formal dinner at the British embassy in Washington with guests including Mrs. Thurman Arnold. The scene turns playful when she suggests a Missouri expression, prompting Halifax to call out Come and get it.
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Washington, D. C
Lord Halifax
Viscount Halifax
Great Britain
Thurman Arnold
Justice Department
Missouri
France Names Juin Leader of African Forces in World War II
Gen. Henri Giraud named Gen. Alphonse Juin commander in chief of French forces in Africa as Allied fortunes improve in North Africa. Giraud's move drew support from de Gaulle and stable Allied leadership. Also notes Rommel's attempts to reinforce Africa, British advances near Sirte, and OPA rationing and draft projections for 1943.
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Milton Eisenhower
Paul McNutt
Eisenhower
War Relocation Authority
Abilene
Kan
Denison
Texas
McNutt
John Steelman
Henri Giraud
Adm
Jean Darlan
North Africa
Alphonse Juin
Africa
Juin
Giraud
Darlan
Charles de Gaulle
Medjez-el-Bab
Erwin Rommel
Africa Corps
Tunisia
Rommel
Libyan
Eighth Army
Wadi Bei el Chebir
Sirte
Tripoli
North and West Africa
Lessons From Russia Deepens Hitler Crisis
Last winter Adolf Hitler learned Russian winters are harsh. Now Soviet advances push on Rostov and Kotelnikovo threatening Hoth's sixth army near Stalingrad as the Caucasus trap tightens and Rostov falls.
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Adolf Hitler
Russia
East Eastern Front
Rostov
Kotelnikovski
Hitler
Stalingrad
Hermann von Hoth
Caucasus
Adolf
Chinese Mission Ordered Home
Gen Hsiung Shih fei head of a Chinese military mission to the United States and most of his staff are ordered home by Chiang Kai shek. The mission arrived ten months ago to liaise with the joint Anglo American staff and US officials. China complained the allied plan limits its role and that no large offensive against Japan is likely soon. The Burma Road closure influenced allied China strategy.
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Chiang Kaishek
China
Washington
White House
FDR
Chiang
Wei
Madame Chiang
Japan
Solomons
East Indies
Pacific
Indo-China
Burma
United Nations High Command
Hitler
Hirohito
Singapore
San Francisco
New York
Madame Chiang Kai-shek
Hsiung Shih-fei
Chiang Kai-shek
U. S
Joint Staff
United Nations
China Front
Chungking
Hsiung
Burma Road
Buna front skirmish yields hard fought gains
Allied forces press advances against stubborn Japanese positions on the Buna front in New Guinea. Ground troops take a coastal bunker triangle of 13 bunkers, then repel a counterattack as tanks break through toward the coast and Buna air strip. Allied bombers strike Lae airfield Kavieng New Ireland and Gasmata air field starting fires.
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Buna
New Guinea
Buna Government Station
Lae
Kavieng
New Ireland
Gasmata
New Britain
Chicago Gangster Round-Up Led by Hoover at Last
FBI chief J Edgar Hoover described the Touhy gang as the nation s toughest mob. Five of seven escapees were captured alive, two were shot dead trying to flee a trap. Hoover led about 50 agents in the final roundup.
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Chicago
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Roger Touhy
Illinois Stateville
Hoover
Soviet Offensive Stretches Westward and Allied Campaigns
Western Newspaper Union analysis notes a Soviet push toward the west, French cooperation in North Africa aiding a unified Allied campaign, and a fierce Buna battle marking the Pacific Front. The editor's note flags columnist opinions as not the paper's.
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North Africa
Western Newspaper Union
Taxes Record Year Ahead in New Congress
Early in the new congress the pay as you go tax plan draws focus with Beardsley Ruml leading the discussion. Increased income tax rates and larger levies amid war costs prompt citizens to accept greater sacrifices as necessary to win the modern war.
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Congress
Beardsley Ruml
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Treasury Department
U. S
Northwestern Receives 20 Million Gift For Institute
Walter P. Murphy head of Standard Railway Equipment left Northwestern University a bequest exceeding 20 million dollars to develop, maintain, and operate a technological institute on the Evanston campus. The will, announced after his death December 16, 1942, propelled Northwestern to fifth in U.S. university endowments behind Harvard Yale Chicago and Rochester.
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Walter P. Murphy
Standard Railway Equipment Company
Northwestern University
Technological Institute
Evanston, Ill
Walter Murphy
Northwestern
Harvard
Yale
University of Chicago
University of Rochester
Record 1942 Shipbuilders Hit New High for Vessels
American shipyards produced a record 750 merchant ships totaling about 8 million tons in 1942, per the National Council of Shipbuilders. War production strikes fell to 91,925 man-days lost in November, the lowest since Pearl Harbor. A report claims engineers refloated and repaired an 11,000 ton U S floating dry dock scuttled at Port Marivales, Bataan. French radio says Hitler nears completion of a new Siegfried line along France’s Atlantic coast. The Finnish Information Center in New York faces a suppression order with U S officials citing a toast to Japan.
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National Council of Shipbuilders
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Port Marivales
Bataan
Adolf Hitler
Atlantic Seaboard
France
Finnish Information Center
New York
State Department
Legation
Melsingfors
Paratroop Letter Echoes Courage and Lend Lease Realities
A friend recounts a young paratroop letter describing a parachute jump from packing sheds to ground. The vivid, honest account captures fear, tension, and technique in the moment of takeoff and landing. The writer also notes Lend Lease is reciprocal, detailing British-made anti-aircraft guns barrage balloons and detector devices now aiding the U S war effort.
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Great Britain
Pattern 7397: Slip Covers for Chairs and Sofas
Pattern 7397 offers step by step directions for making slip covers for varied chairs and sofas. Send your order to a mail order department or catalog address provided in the publication.
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Truman
Jesse Jones
WPB
Donald Nelson
Scott Lucas
Illinois
Senate Audit and Control Committee
Harry S. Truman
Robert Murphy
Roosevelt
French Africa
Algiers
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Rce
South Pacific
Sir William Beveridge
Savoy Hotel
London
Sir William
United States
Army
Office of War Information
OWI
Eleanor Roosevel
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
Selma Lagerlof
PTT
Tait
el LG
James F. Ballard, Inc
St. Louis
Scott
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