Hart Attacks Democracy and Liberalism in Union League Talk
Merwin K. Hart, NYS Economic Council president, attacks democracy and liberalism as subversive imports. He cites fascist education, labor limits, and expansive public spending, urging national discipline from his Utica area estate. Sir Eric Coates praised for modern syncopation reflecting wartime Britain. A Hungarian-Russian immigrant story notes Joseph A. Rosen building Rosen rye and leading a European refugee colony in the Dominican Republic.
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Hart
New York State Economic Council
Pippin Hill
Utica
Harvard
Union League
Eric Coates
Ricks
Sir Coates
Joseph A. Rosen
Michigan State Agricultural College
Russia
Dr. Rosen
Canada
United States
Final Weeks of Campaign and Draft Plan Details
Washington considers farm deferments until harvest for 21 to 35 year olds with a six month delay plan. October 16 registration rules stress universal compliance and penalties for nonregistration. The army reports peacetime peak strength and rapid enlistments, with mass promotions raising officer ranks to accommodate larger units. Congress funds camp recreation, while beer funding prohibition remains in place.
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Washington
Joseph F. Battley
Joint
Army-Navy
Battley
Knights of Columbus
Red Cross
Congress
House
Willkie Gains East after Six Days of Campaigning
Wendell Willkie rests at his New York home after six days of East Coast campaigning from Indiana to Pennsylvania and New England. He accuses the Roosevelt administration of edging toward war while Roosevelt tours defense sites in Maryland and Wallace emphasizes Latin American policy in the Southwest.
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Wendell L. Willkie
New York
East
Indiana
Pennsylvania
New England
Willkie
Roosevelt
Maryland
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Henry A. Wallace
Southwest
California
Latin America
Albuquerque
N. M
Robert M. LaFollette
Wis
LaFollette
Pontiac
Detroit
Mich
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
England
Brenner Pass
Berlin
Germany
London
Britain
Channel
Hitler
Willkie kits and Dutch East Indies survey spark wartime concerns
Ohio GOP leader George Bender receives 100 Willkie campaign kits after sending a check, while a confidential naval survey assesses Japanese oil dependence on the Dutch East Indies and potential defenses. Durbin’s remarks at the Democratic convention are noted amid political exchanges.
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George Bender
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
Cleveland
Bender
Willkie
McNary
Francis W. Durbin
Bascom Timmons
Washington
Lima
Durbin
Congress
Charles McNary
Dutch East Indies
Roosevelt
Japan
Hitler
Mussolini
U. S
California
Java
Sumatra
United States
Britain
Europe
Pacific
War Profiteering and Inflation Threat to Postwar Economy
Washington warns against price inflation and profiteering as a threat to the postwar economy. Leon Henderson and the Brookings Institution urge ceilings across the price structure, while army land deals shift to a transparent “goldfish bowl” system to curb speculation. Whisky imports and war prep fuel a tough foreign policy debate about defense and bluff vs reality.
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Leon Henderson
Brooking
Napoleon
Our
War Industries Board
ARMY
War
Robert Patterson
Patterson
Union Center
Ind
Loss of Col Harrington and Brig. Gen. Honeycutt News
Loss of Col F C Harrington 53 WPA administrator in New London Conn noted. In 1935 Col Harrington was loaned to the WPA by the army amid criticism. Brig Gen Francis W Honeycutt killed when his arm riding vehicle crashed in a southeast Georgia swamp.
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F. C. Harrington
Works Progress Administrator
New London
Conn
Harrington
WPA
Army
Francis W. Honeycutt
Georgia
Deaths of Julian Besterio and Marguerite Clark
Spain's Julian Besterio 70 last president of the republic dies in Seville prison. U.S. film star Marguerite Clark dies in New York at 54, once sharing top billing with Mary Pickford in early cinema history.
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Spain
Julian Besterio
Spanish Republic
Franco
Seville
Marguerite Clark
Mary Pickford
New York
Abracadabra Charm Sold For Special Occasions
A Melanesian custom assigns each man a personal abracadabra used to cure, scare away evil, or harm foes. The unique word can only be spoken by the buyer on purchase, and the former owner loses the right to utter it ever again.
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Melanesia
America
ALLEN
J. P. Allen Medicine Co
Dept. N. St. Paul, Minn
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Lemuel F. Parton
Consolidated Features
WNU
Merwin K. Hart
William Pitt
Paris
Union League Club
Communist Internationale
Kulturkampf
Sir Eric
Old England
Eric
Queen’s Hall
Royal Academy of Music
Edward C. Wayne
Great Britain
Western Newspaper Union
English Channel
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Roughhouse
Hugh S
Johnson
United Features
Washington, D. C
Navy Yard
Brouth
Jack
Navigation
Dept. T
Houstos
Grand Central P. O
Cicero
ESSO
A.M. Noon
Wijbo
WWL
Byron
Dopples Company
ST. Louis
Missouri
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Dean
Doans
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