Sir Seymour Hicks Leads British Morale Effort at 78
London reports Sir Seymour Hicks the English stage giant and wartime morale booster turns 78 and marks fifty-two years on stage. He rose from a funeral job to theater icon writing and producing 64 plays and eight books, knighted in 1935, famed for organizing soldier shows during war.
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York
London
Seymour Hicks
Kingdom
Siegfried Wall
Jericho
Seymour
England
Mayfair
Prospect of long Congress Faces FDR Overtures and Tax Fight
Analysis notes a crowded 1940 session with pressure for Wagner act and wage hour amendments. Roosevelt argues for flexibility in trade pacts and calls for army and navy increases. Deficit projections and a new tax plan to fund defense loom as Democrats hold majorities while debates over debt, processing taxes, and un Americanism probes continue.
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Alben
Barkley
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Army
Tom Dewey
New Deal
Treasury
Byal Sen
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Senate
House
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace
Martin
Communications: Wire Merger Ends Monopoly Debate
Western Union runs 20 000 branches with 43 000 employees while Postal Telegraph has 4 400 offices and 14 000 workers. Amid air mail, phone and radio growth both face losses yet the federal communications commission urged Congress to allow a Western Postal consolidation.
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Western Union
Postal Telegraph
Western
Postal
Buster Thurman Arnold
Federal Communications Commission
Congress
International Signals on War Shuffle and Finland’s Stand
A January overview cites Finnish troops halting Russian advances at Salla Suomussalmi and Aittajoki, with Karelia battles and an Estonia air base attack. The Alcazar editorial praises Finland's defense while Europe eyes moves toward peace with Germany. Diplomatic shifts include ambassadors returning to London Moscow and Rome, and a German plan to reorganize politics while wary of Allied troop movements. Britain readies 2,000,000 more conscripts as Scapa Flow tensions rise with scuttled freighters and Graf Spee sailors united for a night of revelry.
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Suomussalmi
Aittajoki
Karelian
Estonia
Madrid
Alcazar
Finland
Germany
Moscow
London
Sir William Leeds
Viacheslav Molotoff
Augusto Rosso
Paul Emile Naggiar
Petit Parisien
Italy
Adolf Hitler
Herman Goering
Heinrich Himmler
Joe Goebbels
Robert Ley
Hans von Mackensen
Russia
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Reich
North Sea
Buenos Aires
Graf Spee
Scapa Flow
Royal Oak
Zhdanoff Seen As Stalin Aide Turned Rival In Russia
The article traces Mikhail Zhdanov’s rise to power as Leningrad party secretary from December 16 1934 and notes his bitter stance toward Britain. It mentions his 43 years, revolutionary start in 1912, early Bolshevik leadership, and alleged ties to Stalin amid Finland debacle fallout. The piece likens Leningrad to the Pittsburgh of Russia.
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Andrei Finns
Stalin
Zhdanoff
M. Zhdanoff
Finland
Leningrad
Communist Party Committee
Pittsburgh
Russia
Britain
Josef Stalin
Notable World Figures At A Glance
Harry Bridges, West coast CIO leader, freed on deportation charges and vows naturalization at the earliest moment. Charles Edison named secretary of the navy and begins studying ways to accelerate naval construction. Lepke Buchalter sentenced to 14 years for narcotics violations as Dewey promises a harsh racketeering sentence. Cromwell, Doris Duke’s husband, named U.S. minister to Canada. Finch urged to resign by Interior Secretary Ickes for stronger leadership. Neville Chamberlain as Midland Salmon and Trout boss features in this international roundup.
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Harry Bridges
Charles Edison
Secretary of the Navy
Louis (Lepke) Buchalter
New York
Thomas Dewey
James H. R. Cromwell
Doris Duke
U. S
Canada
John W. Finch
Bureau of Mines
Harold Ickes
Bureau
Neville Chamberlain
Britain
England’s Hitlerite Duchess Returns on Stretcher
The English peer’s daughter, mounted with a revolver wound, arrived in Britain from Germany where she has resided since before the war. She is described as an ardent Hitlerite.
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Germany
England
Eamon de Valera
Parliament
Martin Dies
Congress
Justice Department
Isms
Robert Fechner
CCC
Guy Ballard
U. S
News Quiz Answers Summary
Freeman-Mitford known as Unity Valkyrie. A false claim about IRA uprising. congress was urged for more acts. Russian division suffered heavy casualties with most killed. Business census began January 1. nose-count starts April 1.
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Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford
Irish Republican Army
Congress
Supreme Court supports NLRB in three labor rulings
The court upheld the NLRB on three counts including blocking a Falk Milwaukee union ballot, naming a CIO waterfront bargaining agent on the Pacific coast, and ordering a Jackson Michigan power company vote on CIO affiliation after a prior CIO AFL ballot failed. Justice Stone notes Congress must review court review gaps, not the courts.
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National Labor Relations Board
Falk Corporation
Milwaukee
Pacific Coast
Jackson, Mich
Cc. I. O
A. F. of L
NLRB
Harlan Stone
Congress
Treasury: Easy Taxes Simplify Income Tax Forms This Year
Commissioner Guy T. Helvering announces that the forms for this year’s income tax return have been simplified. Complex instructions have been pared down and made clearer for taxpayers as tax season nears.
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Guy T. Helvering
Internal Revenue
Roosevelt era reshapes top brass with swift appointments
Attorney General Frank Murphy is named to the Supreme Court as a strategic move to sideline him from the 1940 presidential scene. Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson becomes attorney general in a grooming step for a 1940 ticket role while Judge Francis Biddle rises to solicitor general.
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Roosevelt
Frank Murphy
Supreme Court
Robert H. Jackson
Cordell Hull
Francis Biddle
Circuit Appeals Court
Warren Madden
NLRB
James A. Farley
National Committee
Washington
Chicago
U S Moves to Stop Sabotage
Washington speeds action against foreign saboteurs after arms embargo repeal. Staten Island barge carrying two Lockheed bombers to Britain sinks, investigated by New York anti sabotage squad led by Capt. George P. Mitchell. Nationwide guards tighten at piers, bridges, bases as agencies unite to counter threats.
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Washington
America
Staten Island
N. Y
Great Britain
New York
G-men
George P. Mitchell
Murphy
Department of Justice
Newport Torpedo Station
Narragansett Bay
FBI
Naval Intelligence
Customs
Post Office
Coast Guard
Treasury Department
Police Department
Queen Mary and
Normandie
North River
la Guardia
Insomnia May Signal Creative Insight Says Rochester Expert
Dr. Eliot D. Hutchinson of the University of Rochester says insomnia may reflect an imprisoned idea breaking through. He reports over 80 percent of artists and scientists experience moments of insight after long hard work and emotional tension followed by forgetting the problem.
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Rochester
N. Y
Eliot D. Hutchinson
University of Rochester
Hutchinson
Bees Turn Violent When Raised At Altitude
In Davis California researchers note bees docile at sea level become violent at high elevations. Caucasian bees shipped from Davis to Laramie Wyoming 7200 feet up showed unusual gentleness at first then grew very aggressive within a week, reported by Prof. C H Gilbert.
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Davis
Calif
College of Agriculture
University of California
University of Wyoming At
Laramie
C. H. Gilbert
Wyoming University
Arkansas farm families turn to theater for fun
Rural Ark ans turn to the stage for recreation and income. June Donahue notes more than 1 000 plays and pageants in the past year with 7 000 participants across rural areas. Outdoor roadside theaters and school or community center venues are used.
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Arkansas
Little Rock
Ark
June Donahue
University of Arkansas
Sparrows Suspected in Porch Fire at Wolf Home
Firemen in Ithaca New York blame a sparrow for starting a second floor sleeping porch blaze at W S Wolf home. They say the bird carried a live cigarette butt home to nest building material in a porch partition.
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Ithaca
N. Y
W. S. Wolf
Our Old Time Couch Is Made Streamline
This Homemaker feature describes turning an old iron couch into a streamlined piece with painted frame a cotton batting cover bright upholstery fabric and box end tables with a partition and shelves. It promotes Book 3 by Ruth Wyeth Spears offering step by step designs with ordering details for Bedford Hills New York.
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Ruth Wyeth
Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
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