Man the Unknown and the scientist in a totalitarian age
Dr. Alexis Carrel advocates pooling scientific brains to guide civilization amid Nazi controlled France and global unrest. He notes his decades at Rockefeller Institute and the imagined future of government by a scientific elite. In contrast ARRY WINSTON diverts from real estate to diamond cutting, pursuing a 2 million dollar central core with a giant 425 carat Jonkers and Vargas acquisitions.
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Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Charles A. Lindbergh
America
Arry Winston
Paria
Brazil
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Winston
New York
AEF
Jonkers
Vargas
Roosevelt Fireside Address Moves War Policy Forward
The fireside chat steadies the U S war course by pledging continued aid to Britain and China and signaling broader action if needed. British reaction is enthusiastic. German press warns of a sea-dominance struggle while observers anticipate American combat involvement. Knudsen reports rising mass production with 1300 planes in April and 1600 in May as the president seeks 50 000 planes and 10 000 tanks.
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Roosevelt
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China
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
U. S
America
OPM
Knudsen
Bismarck
Vichy Recedes as German Ties Grow in North Africa
British dispatches report two French flagged ships sunk in the Mediterranean, including a 5,000 ton tanker bound for Tripoli and an 18,000 ton Axis liner with German troops. The notices imply a possible North Africa buildup or Dakar base formation as Vichy aligns with Germany, affecting US diplomacy and the recall of Ambassador Winant. The Bismarck Hood battleship actions and Crete air battles underscore the rising role of air power in naval warfare.
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Winant
Washington
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H. M. S. Hood
Bismarck
Atlantic
Crete
June test for railroads in defense effort
National Defense chiefs note June will reveal if railroads can handle the postwar freight surge. Texas Panhandle wheat harvest tests car supply, with 25 000 cars mobilized and rules against storage or delay. Mechanization advances replace cavalry with tanks, while Colonel Regnier moves to El Paso. Only 201 genuine religious objectors among 6 000 000 draft questionnaires. Prime Minister Menzies warns Britain must defend in 1941 and build a war machine by 1942 with American help for victory in 1943.
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Col
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Gene
First Cavalry Division
Regnier
Washington
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Marietta
Ohio
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Colo
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Mennonites
United Brethren
Menzies
Australia
Britain
America
Plea for resilience and unity amid foreign elements
Eleanor Besanvel recounts Secretary Hull's humanitarian speech urging restraint and cooperation for world betterment. She contrasts Allied and German voices, stresses vigilance against foreign influence, and celebrates civic events and a Maine trip with Governor Sewall, highlighting Democratic party efforts and hopeful national unity.
Kagawa in New York Sees World Church Union Ending War
R TOYOHIKO KAGAWA, frail Japanese evangelist, touring New York to promote the newly organized Church of Japan. He expresses surprise at war talk and envisions a world church union ending wars. A tubercular figure, he has faced jail and poverty and preaches a merger of Christianity with capitalism.
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Japan
Mahatma Gandhi
World Brotherhood
New York
Church of Japan
Dr. Kagawa
Minton Named to U S Court of Appeals in Reward Row
The appointment of ex Senator Sherman Minton of Indiana to the U S court of appeals marks the third judicial reward for a member of the senate lobby investigating committee whose sensational exposes of utility lobbying spurred the holding company law. Hugo Black chairs the Supreme Court and Lewis Schwellenbach serves as a Washington federal district judge.
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Indiana
U. S. Court of Appeals
Senate Lobby Investigating Committee
Hugo Black
Alabama
Supreme Court
Lewis Schwellenbach
Washington
Aisk Me Another General Quiz Four Quick Questions
A quiz asks which poll question labels a pundit as learned or illiterate. Which city outside the U S has the largest population. Tennis court length. Location of the world’s largest church building. Which play features faithless daughters Othello Macbeth or King Lear. Elijah Lovejoy’s historical association. Over which country does the House of Savoy reign. Which organization is the largest user of office space globally.
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Elijah Lovejoy
House of Savoy
Answers to history quiz items
Learned Mexico City Seventy eight feet Rome St Peter's cathedral King Lear Freedom of the press Abolitionist editor killed by a mob at Alton IL in 1837 Italy Our federal government owns or rents 118,225,000 square feet in 19,117 buildings nationwide with 26,000,000 square feet in Washington, doubling since nine years ago
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St. Peter’s Cathedral
King Lear
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Pennsylvania State Industrial Union Council
Harrisburg
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Philadelphia
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General Electric Company
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Brophy
Wilson
U. 8
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National Democratic Club
New York City
Portland
Maine
Augusta
Edward C. Wayne
Hemisphere
Western Newspaper Union
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Gale's
York, Nebr
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Jove
Homer
Thoreau
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APS
de Kalb Ave
B'klyn
N.Y
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Prince Albert
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