German Invasion Sparks Global War Coverage and Chamberlain Resigns
Headlines recount Germany’s invasion of Belgium the Netherlands and Luxembourg and Neville Chamberlain stepping down after the Norway campaign. The piece notes Hitler’s war machine, Allied responses, Churchill taking blame, and U S peace time maneuvers in the South with 66 000 troops testing new gear.
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Belgium
Netherlands
Chamberlain
Germany
England
France
Belgian
Adolf Hitler
Low Countries
Luxembourg
Berlin
Norway
Denmark
Paris
London
Exchange Telegraph
Brussels
Washington
United States
State Department
Roosevelt
Hitler
America
Neville Chamberlain
Great Britain
House of Commons
Narvik
Britain
North Sea
Winston Churchill
Admiralty
Trondheim
Churchill
House
David Lloyd George
Advance Men Plan Early Platform Framing in D. C.
John D. Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, says the resolutions committee will meet a week before the national convention to begin drafting the party platform. Senator Wheeler proposes Democrats adopt a similar approach in June.
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Washington
John D. Hamilton
Republican National Committee
Resolutions Committee
Philadelphia
Wheeler
Dem
Mont
Names in the News Across Nations and Senate Actions
In France Joan of Arc is honored on a national holiday drawing tribute from soldiers and civilians. In Russia Stalin tops literary reading lists while the Squalus submarine is recommissioned as Sailfish. U S senators Downey and Schwellenbach advance banking policy and a federal judgeship respectively.
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France
Joan of Arc
Russia
Josef Stalin
Soviet Union
Senate Banking’ and Currency
Sheridan Downey
Dem
Calif
U. S
Lewis O. Schwellenbach
Senate
Roosevelt
Congress
American Letters prize winners list for 1939
The Pulitzer selections include Steinbeck for Grapes of Wrath Saroyan for The Time of Your Life Sandburg for Lincoln the War Years Baker for Woodrow Wilson Life and Letters Van Doren for Collected Poems Each winner receives a $1000 award reflecting the era’s literary honors
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John Steinbeck
William Saroyan
Carl Sandburg
Lincoln
Ray Stannard Baker
Woodrow Wilson
Life and Letters
Mark van Doren
Railroads Offer Credit Plan For Long Distance Travel
U S railroads launch a time payment plan for trips of 50 or more with no down payment and no collateral. Sixty six major carriers participate allowing credit approval after a 24 hour inquiry for travel including transportation and Pullman accommodations. Payments begin after ticket issuance.
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U. S
Red Cross meeting in Washington outlines aid drive
At the national Red Cross convention in Washington Norman H. Davis reports over 2,000,000 garments and surgical dressings made by U S women. One million dollars in Red Cross funds is earmarked for European war relief with $800,000 more in contributions received.
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Red Cross
Washington
International Red Cross
Roosevelt
Norman H. Davis
American Red Cross
U. S
Hitler aims to press summer war across Europe this year
The article notes strong U S observers expect Hitler to unleash a series of blows across Europe from May through fall, with Italy leaning toward war as Mussolini aligns with the Nazis. It also covers Taft Dewey delegate claims and Phillips meeting with Mussolini seeking Italy's war aims.
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Italy
England
Mediterranean
Alexandria
Britain
France
Balkans
Europe
Hitler
U. S
Holland
Romania
Hungary
Greece
United States
Taft
Dewey
New Yorker
California
Delaware
Indiana
Iowa
Hanford McNider
Canada
Hoover
Missouri
New York
New Mexico
Simms
North Carolina
Ohio
South
Gannett
Washington
Philadelphia
General Hugh S Johnson and the Dillinger Tactics Debate
A critical column blasts a proposed nut for a million dollars to kidnap Adolf Hitler and deliver him to the League of Nations. It contrasts 1930s war aims and Napoleon’s actions with President Roosevelt and federal aviation policy shifts, criticizing executive orders and personnel moves.
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Samuel ‘Harden Church
Carnegie Institute
Adolf Hitler
League of Nations
Dillinger
Congress
Department of Commerce
J. Monroe
Joyous Day Quote From H. W. Beecher
A Beecher quotation expresses that a joyous day is like a man without a smile or a garden without flowers, a summer without flow ers, and a Sabbath without the week’s rest, likening happiness to the fullness of daily life.
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H. W. Beecher
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