Defense Chin Up and Our
Washington moves toward stronger military and economic defense in response to Hitler. Key actions include a bill to block shipments to violators of the nine power treaty, retirement anew of aging officers, possible senior-to-younger command shifts, and secrecy on war plane orders. Navy streamlining may merge departments. Land seeks power to requisition ships. funds requested to recondition battleships and a naval air research station. Roosevelt calls for 26,700 miles of new national highways to support defense and peacetime traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Adolf Hitler
Washington
Nevada
Key Pittman
Japan
Malin Craig
George Catlett Marshall
Navy
Navy Department
Maritime Commission
Emory S. Land
Naval Air Research Station
Marchfield
Calif
Roosevelt
Europe reacts to Hitler speech and shifting alliances
In the week before Hitler's Reichstag address, nations realign as Britain, Russia, and France move toward a Balkan entente while Poland, Romania, and Turkey seek mutual defense against Germany. The piece notes a drift toward encirclement fears and predicts April 28 as a pivotal date in anti-Nazi Europe. It also covers U S relief policy shifts as Congress debates funding for 1939 40 relief programs.
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Britain
Russia
der Fuehrer
Roosevelt
France
Poland
Rumania
Turkey
Bulgaria
Greece
Baltics
Danzig
Finland
Esthenia
Latvia
Lithuania
Europe
Belgium
Switzerland
Holland
Denmark
Germany
Reich
Hitler
WPA Relief and Reform Debated in Congress
The article compares WPA appropriations from 1935 to the current request and notes that $1,477,000,000 would fund WPA for 1939-40. It reports opposition to decentralizing relief and backing for maintaining the present federal state cost formula while warning against cutting relief in an election year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
WPA
U. S
Roosevelt
South Carolina
James J. Byrnes
Virginia
Clifton Woodrum
United States Leads World in High Speed Rail Mileage
The Railway Gazette survey shows America operates 48,247 daily runs at 60 mph plus, the most of any nation, with 12,030 miles at 66 mph or faster and 1,012 miles at 75 mph. Germany has the fastest single run, but the United States dominates diesel, steam, and electric speed totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Railway Gazette
London
America
Germany
Marquess of Lothian to be Britain’s U.S. Ambassador
Philip Kerr born 57 years ago becomes Britain's No 1 diplomat next summer as ambassador to the United States. A charter member of the Cliveden set he urged appeasement in 1934 and served wartime as secretary to Lloyd George. He later advised Chamberlain and McDonald and favors treaty politics over power politics.
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Philip Henry Kerr
Lord Lothian
Britain
U. S
Lady Astor
Cliveden
Hitler
David Lloyd George
House
McDonald
Chamberlain
Bachelor
Argentina
Francisco Franco
Spain
Alexander W. Weddell
Weddell
George Washington University Law School
University of Catania
Italy
Denmark
Zanzibar
Catania
Athens
WNU Service
Anthony Eden, Youngest Captain in War and Rising British Leader
In 1915 Anthony Eden, then 18, became Britain's youngest captain and earned the military cross. Now at 41 he is seen as a future prime ministerial figure, having left Parliament briefly to join the London Rangers for military refreshment. He held the rank of major from the war and declined battalion command.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anthony Eden
Britain
Neville Chamberlain
London Rangers Regiment
Eden
Color Photography Prodigy David Hare Captivates Nation
David Hare, a 22 year old from New York son of a prominent family, mounts a color portrait exhibit using a $2 camera at Fountain Valley Colorado Springs. His three lens setup superimposes color images for mood, drawing praise from artists and society figures as the country’s first color portrait show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EW York
Lincoln School of
New York
Fountain Valley
Progressive School of
Colorado Springs
David Hare
Mr. Hare
President Roosevelt
Arnold Genthe
Leonardo da Vinci
Hare
Lindbergh
Beautiful Bird Baffles Experts At UK Exhibition
A bird displayed at the New Horticultural Hall stunned eight experts at Westminster and defied identification. Allen Silver of Newport, its owner, said he has seen rare birds but never one like this. The canary sized creature features sulphur-yellow plumage, jet-black flight feathers, and a golden crown. Brought by a sailor home from Africa 18 months ago, it resisted all museum references.
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London
Natural History Museum
South Kensington
New Horticultural Hall
Westminster
Allen Silver
Newport
Africa
Silver
Australian Men Go Soft Copy Hollywood Idols
In Darwin Australia beauty parlor operators say many men are adopting Hollywood looks. Once rugged workers who rode long distances and dug posts now visit parlors for permanent waves plucked eyebrows and masques. A hairdresser notes nearly half her clients are men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Darwin
Australia
Clark Gable
Leslie Howard
William Powell
Britain names Australia richest British possession
The London Board of Trade has declared Australia the richest of British possessions, boosting Sydney and New South Wales as premier regions in wealth within the empire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Sydney
London Board of Trade
Australia
$16 Mare Still Worth $16 After 22 Years
Charman Nebraska farmer J A Power bought a gray mare colt for 16 dollars 22 years ago. He tried to sell her at a sale and the auctioneer’s hammer fell as the 22 year old mare brought 16 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charman
J. A. Power
Something Different in a Crocheted Chair Set
Pattern 1957 provides charts and directions for a crocheted chair set with materials, stitch illustrations, and directions. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. in New York for the pattern and include name and address.
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Army
War
United States Supreme
Marquess OF Lothian
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Marius van de Weghe
Chicago
Marius
Morocco
van de Weghe
Aspahi
Prince of
Trinidad
Ole Bill
Bruce Bairnsfather
United Kingdom
Bairnsfather
Flanders
Bill
Bruce
Allo
India
Tames
Trini
Standard Oil Company
James Harden-Hickey
Brazil
South Atlantic
James I
Barracouta
James Hartlett-Hickey
le Triboulet
Paris
el Paso
Texas
James Harden- Hickey
Audacious
Robert Stobo
Oudini
Sergeant York
Maj
Canada
Stobo
Quebec
St. Lawrence
Western Newspaper Union
Mary
Ellen
Colton
Epictetus
Young
Doan
Doans
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