James Conant to Head Scientific Mission to Britain
Harvard president James Conant, noted chemist and gas warfare expert, is chosen by President Roosevelt to lead a scientific mission to Britain. The 48 year old Alpine climber and educator rose from Harvard chemistry to wartime defense research and later to university leadership.
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James Bryant Conant
Harvard
Roosevelt
Britain
Bureau of Mines
Chemical Warfare Service
North Palisade Mountain
California Sierra
Dorchester
Mass
Charles W. Eliot
Dr. Conant
Dollar-Year Trouble in Washington Faces Reform Moves
Defense chiefs quietly purge One Dollar men from government service amid concerns of favoritism and graft. Recent shifts include rebranding as advisory consultants, noncommercial appointees, and targeted removals as McKellar plans a banning bill. Also notes Hollywood pressure and a miscue in a newsreel sequence affecting public perception.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
One
Kenneth McKellar
Tennessean
McKellar
Defense
Defense Organization
Office of Production Management
OPM
Ernest M. Hopkins
Dartmouth College
Dexter S. Kimball
Cornell University Engineering School
William E. Wickenden
Case School of Applied Science
W. S. A. Pott
Elmira College
S. S. Stratton
Harvard
Barkley
Mr. Smith
South America
John Hay
Jock
Whitney
Rockefeller
National Defense Commission
Senate
Latin America
U. S
Hollywood
State Department
Norman Armour
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Armour
Great Britain
California
United States
Hitler’s Staff Attack in Sofia Night Club Incident
American minister George H. Earle in Sofia witnessed boot-clad German officers clash with locals at a night club near the Bulgarian embassy. A German major threw a bottle. Earle dodged and recalled his WWI submarine chaser service. The melee drew reinforcements and police struggled for an hour as bottles chairs and tables flew.
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Adolf Hitler
Bulgaria
Rumania
Sofia
George H. Earle
Pennsylvania
Embassy
Tipperary
Earle
Peacemaking moves amid Pacific tensions and aircraft crash news
A U S Japan dispute over mediation ends with No from Churchill after Yosuke Matsuoka proposes peace. Reports detail Japanese influence in Indo China, threats to U S tin and rubber in the Philippines and Dutch East Indies. Air crash near Atlanta kills Rep Byron and Eddie Rickenbacker wounded. Panama bomber crash follows. Spain's ex-king Alfonso XIII dies in Rome. Defense push drives production and speedups under Stettinius with new 8 inch gun arrival and armored car movements in D C.
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Japan
Yosuke Matsuoka
Churchill
U. S
Indo-China
Thailand
Siam
Saignon
Philippines
Dutch East Indies
United States
America
Big Stick
Eastern Airlines
Atlanta
Congress
William D. Byron
Maryland
Eddie Rickenbacker
Balboa
Canal Zone
Panama Bay
Spain
Defense Commission
E. R. Stettinius Jr
Aluminum and Machine Tool Industries
Stettinius
Aberdeen
Washington
Capitol
War possibilities and convoy policy debated in Washington
In a Washington debate with Major George Fielding Eliot, two schools of thought on war prospects are outlined. Agreement on no invasion this year and Britain’s ocean mastery contrasts with opinions on economic blockade and military pressure as keys to victory. The piece discusses lease lend, convoys, and the risks of universal war versus targeted support for Britain.
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Congress
Great Britain
Defense Commission
Washington, D. C
George Fielding Eliot
Germany
England
Major Eliot
Gibraltar
Suez
Aden
Singapore
Corregidor
Capetown
Falkland Islands
Panama
Honduras
Hawaii
Europe
Russia
O.K
Britain
High Seas
Hitler
Liverpool
Nazi Advance Guard Enters Bulgaria Amid East Crisis
Britain's rejection of Japan's arbitration proposal escalates tensions as the Far East crisis widens. The defense board accelerates arms production to meet growing security demands.
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Bulgaria
Japan
Britain
Defense Board
Tips to Gardeners GARDENING as a hobby can be made to pay
A Missouri woman reports earning a net 300 from a two thirds acre garden in one season. Market valued produce shows 230 in fresh use 80 canned and 71 stored. Seed and sets cost 20. The piece urges hard work and quality seed with multi purpose crops like onions beets tomatoes cabbage and greens.
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Missouri
Friendship Slow to Grow Real and reciprocal merit
Quote attributed to Lord Chesterfield on the slow growth of friendship and the need for mutual merit.
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Lord Chesterfield
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Lemuel F. Parton
Consolidated Features
WNU
York
Cleve
Ad. Alias
Eran
British War Office
Robert Brooke-Popham
Far East
Tooka
Sandhurst
Army
France
Royal Air Force College
London
Imperial Defense College
Canada
Robert Moore
Latin-America
William Howard Taft
Bob
Charley
Merry
John R. Steelman
U. S. Conciliation Service
U.S
George C. Marshall
Pacific
House
Guam
Samoa
Alfonso XIII
Rome
Hugh S
Johnson
Jays. United
Edward C. Wayne
Western Newspaper Union
Toledo
Ore
Soothe Minor
Bali Ray
Hite Petroleum Jelly
George Bernard Shaw
Doan
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