Old French Leaders Battle Hitler Links in Wartime View
In New York the scoop highlights Edouard Herriot and Jules Jeanneney as veteran French statesmen opposing Petain and Hitler. The piece reviews Herriot’s 1924 premiership and Jeanneney’s Senate presidency, noting their honesty amid a corrupted era and their provincial, liberal roots. It also mentions Jacob Baker’s election as VP of the Institute of Applied Econometrics, detailing his background and career shift from mining to engineering and finance.
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York
Edouard Herriot
Jules Jeanneney
Petain
Hitler
France
M. Herriot
M. Jeanneney
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Stavisky
la Belle France
Mark Twain
Hadleyburg
Chautemps
Laval
Flandin
Tardieu
Daladier
Radical Socialist Party
Herriot
Tardieu- Laval
Oeas
Jacob Baker
Harry Hopkins
Washington
Institute of Applied Econometrics, Inc
Econometrics
Mr. Baker
Colorado
Colorado Agricultural College
University of California School of Engineering
Chicago
Jake Baker
House, Baker and Associates
Hollywood World Premieres and Radio Gems Skim Across Screen
A survey of upcoming film debuts and radio highlights. Here We Go Again opens October 10 in RKO theaters with Edgar Bergen and the cast, featuring a 35 cent adult admission. The Pride of the Yankees continues to captivate audiences as Gary Cooper stars in Lou Gehrig’s life. Orson Welles declines Rochester in Jane Eyre while Jones and Seversky influence air power themes. Norman Corwin’s An American in England earns praise as a morale builder. The FBI FrontMarch of Time explores espionage, and public fascination with cinema and radio remains strong.
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Hollywood
RKO
Edgar Bergen
Charlie McCarthy
Ginny Simms
Great Gildersleeve
Yankees
Samuel Goldwyn
Lou Gehrig
New York Theater
Gary Cooper
Theresa Wright
Norman Corwin
England
CBS
London
Corwin
Van Heflin Tops Stars For Upcoming Films
Metro reports motion picture exhibitors regard Van Heflin as the top star of tomorrow. His next picture is Seven Sweethearts, and Nothing Ventured features Lana Turner as a soda jerk who poses as a debutante and falls for a five and ten clerk. Signe Hasso, in Journey for Margaret, is praised as a strong new talent, while Clarence Nash of Burns and Allen is described as studying dentistry in his spare time.
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Metro
van Heflin
Lana Turner
Signe Hasso
Margaret
Greta Garbo
Clarence Nash
Herman, the Duck
Burns and Allen
Turning Point at Medicine Lodge 1867 Artist-Correspondent
John D. Howland, Harper’s Weekly artist correspondent, covered the Medicine Lodge peace council of 1867 with a full page illustration. His depiction became the classic image of the frontier high spot, immortalizing the event and its diverse gathering of frontier leaders and journalists.
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Versailles of the Plains
Medicine Lodge
John D. Howland
Harper's Weekly
Howland
John Howland
America
New Bedfsasse
Zanesville
Owen
Kit Carson
Jim Bridger
American Fur Company
Missouri
Fort Pierre
Plains
Old Fort Laramie
North Platte
Pikes Peak
Colorado
Fur Company
Colorado Volunteers
New Mexico
Southwest
Paris
France
Harper’s Weekly
Harper’s
Medicine Lodge Council
Annals of the Frontier
Histories of the West
Bombs Fall on Kobe
In an April 18 mission from Shangri La, pilot Lieut. Donald Smith flies toward Kobe bay with Lieut. Howard Sessler and crew. They bomb Kiwasaki factory and Kobe edge dockyards, with anti aircraft fire and close escort by Japanese planes before heading home.
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Howard Sessler
Arlinngton
Mass
Shangri la
Lieut
Donald Smith
Sergt
Edward Saylor
Griff Williams
Fujiyama
Doc White
Nagoya Bay
Smitty
Kobe
Sessler
Sritty
Kiwasaki
Kobe Bay
Shangri-La
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Consolidated Features
WIN
By Lemuel F. Parton
Virginia Bohneon
Mois
Spaper Union
Hadley
Washington, D. C
Albert Dekker
Wake Island
Dekker
Bowdoin College
Orson Welles
Stage Door Canteen
South America
David Selznick
Alexander P. de Seversky
Seversky
Walt Disney
Alan Reed
Abie
FBI
March of Time
FBI Front
White House
Harold L. Ickes
Secretary of the Interior
Interior Department
U. S
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Coast Guard
U. S. Coast Guard
Winston Churchill
Denver
Charles Evans Hughes
New York
Henry Edsel Ford
Mt. Sterling
C. G. Radio School
Atlantic City
Vichy
Marshal Petain
Pierre Laval
Gergovie
Clermont Ferrand
Legion
French Empire
Vercingetorix
Julius Caesar
B. C
Rubber Czar
William Jeffers
Jeffers
Union Pacific R.R
Masayuki Tani
Board of Information
Shingenori Togo
Tojo
Tani
Togo
John H. Towers
Bureau of Aeronautics
Air Force
Pacific Fleet
Western Newspaper Union
State Historical Society of Colorado
Medicine Lodge Peace Council
Gene Casey
7WNU
WNU Ee
Collier
E Weekly
Dec White
Saylor
Yhpe
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