Baron Oppenheim Seeks U S Return With Visa Trouble
New Yorkers discuss Baron Oppenheim of Germany blocked from reentry to the United States from Mexico due to lacking a visa. The chatter recalls a dancer who died from his apartment window, plus Washington defense talk on Robert Moses, a $25 000 payment to Ben Hecht, and figures like Frances Farmer Ursula Parrott and John Wildberg in media circles.
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Baron Oppenheim
Germany
U. S
Mexico
Defense Post
Washington
Robert Moses
Ben Hecht
Frances Farmer
D. Flamm
Ursula Parrott
John Wildberg
Greeks Take Second Inning of War and Romanian Earthquake Toll
Edward C. Wayne surveys early wartime shifts as Greece engages in renewed fighting in the second phase of the war. A Romanian earthquake kills about 2,000, shaking the region and underscoring a year of natural disaster amidst conflict. Rumors swirl about cabinet reshuffles while British air raids strike the Italian fleet, signaling widening war scope.
Four Horsemen War Across Europe and Battle in London
The article links Greece's border battles with Italy to Mussolini's invasion routes through Albania, noting Greek counterattacks and a reported Italian defeat on the southern front. It also reports RAF bombings on Berlin and London and Molotov's talks with Hitler, plus a Romanian earthquake, Nazi strategic talks, and a broad European famine and rationing crisis affecting millions.
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Greece
Albania
Mussolini
England
Tower of London
London
Rome
George Bernard Shaw
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Munich
R.A.F
Hitler
Molotoff
Berlin
Balkan
War at Sea and Post Election Rumors
Britain reports heavy freighter losses threaten overseas supply while a sea clash sees the Jervis Bay engage a German pocket battleship and go down with Captain Fogarty Fegen. Taranto attack supposedly cripples Italy's naval strength as Roosevelt faces cabinet changes after the election.
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Britain
Churchill
Commons
Ireland
de Valera
Berlin
North Atlantic
London
Jervis Bay
Italy
Mediterranean
Taranto
Spy Kent Convicted Under Officials Secrets Act in London
Spy-Tyler Kent, 29, a clerk at the American embassy in London and Princeton and George Washington alumnus, was found guilty of an Officials Secrets act offense. Trial also featured Anna Wolkoff, daughter of a Russian admiral, testifying as proceedings continue. Neville Chamberlain, appeasement prime minister, died at 71 amid German bombings.
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Tyler Kent
London
Kent
Princeton
George Washington University
U. S
Moscow
Anna Wolkoff
Neville Chamberlain
Great Britain
Hampshire
California
Congress Fails to Act as Session Drifts in Virtual Form
Congress remains largely idle as members leave the city and only sporadic sessions occur. The Ramspeck measure to extend the civil service system faces delay in the House, and Treasury Secretary Morgenthau warns debt limits must rise for defense spending.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Treasury
Morgenthau
Hawaii Statehood Plebiscite Signals Preference for Admission
Hawaii voters backed statehood two to one in a nonbinding plebiscite reflecting long running agitation for admission as the forty-ninth state. The territorial legislature plans to petition Congress again, draft a constitution, and await congressional approval and a final admission resolution.
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Forty-Ninth
United States
Congress
Defense purchases surge as Philadelphia depot bids flood in
The army quartermaster depot in Philadelphia processes vast orders to equip troops with towels gloves hats twine cloth coats leggings socks shoes and bugles in a week. Ford Motor wins its first defense contract valued at 123 million dollars for airplane engines and previously stated willingness to serve the United States but not Britain.
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U. S
Army Quartermaster Depot
Philadelphia
Ford
Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford
United States
Britain
New England Shoe Manufacturers Association
Army
Defense Commission
Clifford Corbin
Quartermaster Corps
Boston
Commission
New England
St. Louis
Donald Nelson
Sears, Roebuck Dynamo
Britain to receive 26375 U.S. planes before June 1942
The plan, approved by President Roosevelt, allows Britain half of U.S. produced air planes by June 1942. The order value totals about 2 billion dollars with a 50 50 sharing of other munitions and staggered deliveries.
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Great Britain
Roosevelt
London
United States
Right Hand Man Wallace Aids Roosevelts Welfare
The piece casts Wallace as a proactive vice president under Roosevelt, outlining three main roles: liaison to Congress, Latin America diplomacy, and planning to shift the economy postwar. It also highlights efficient government procurement by the army, saving millions, and notes Hoover expanding FBI agents to about 1,500 with 1,340 trained.
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United States
Tom Marshall
Woodrow Wilson
Charles G. Dawes
Coolidge
Charley Curtis
Alice Longworth
Jack Garner
Roosevelt
Wallace
White House
Congress
Latin America
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hoover
Inflation fears in wartime urged restraint on prices
The column argues war inflation harms the poor by driving up living costs and eroding wages. It warns high prices threaten insurance policies and pensions, rejects tax hikes as a solution, and endorses deficit financing plus presidential price controls and production priorities.
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Washington, D. C
Germany
England
Europe
France
Finland
Poland
Georgia
Shenandoah
United States
Wall Street
Rumors Wind Through 1940s Hollywood and World Stage
A collage of vintage headlines hints at shifts in film credits and wardrobe links for Norma Shearer, a Canadian court exoneration of W. B. Clelland, fate for Romania under Carol and Lupescu, vanished police files, FDR’s postwar plans, a shift at the Atlanta Journal, and rivalries among light socialites and impresarios.
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United States of
al America
Valentina
Norma Shearer
Adrian
W. B. Clelland
Carol
Lupescu
Romania
Dorothy Arnold
Remark on Digest’s 1936 defeat and censor book tease
Pathfinder magazine notes the Literary Digest did not fold due to its failure in the 1936 election. It compares the cause to a bird dying from a fall rather than the bullet. It also previews Don Quinn’s forthcoming book about radio censors titled Idiot's Delete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pathfinder Mag
Literary Digest
Don Quinn
Heat and pressure bring out the best in steel and men
A wartime style exhortation notes that campaigns differ on policies but share common American ideals. It urges unity under a shared past and future, honoring fallen heroes and the tenets of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, urging a house not divided but devoted.
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Reed
Air Journal
Trenton
Shiloh
Manila
Maine
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Western Newspaper Union
Woodbridge
N. J
United Railway and Signal Co
Navy
Four Horsemen
Rumania
Red Cross
Harold Ickes
Mr. Ickes
Henry L. Stimson
New York
Mme
Annette Clemenceau
Georges Clemenceau
Hawaii
Patriot
Hugh S. Johnson
Willkie
Orson Welles
Sec
Kathryn
Charley
N. Y
Jack Dempsey
Gene Tunney
Dempsey
Wm. Bullitt
Myrna Loy
A. Hornblow Jr
Betty Allen
Goebbels
Peewee
Peeyew
Central America
Dies Committee
Claude Rains
Pennsy Farm
Hollywood
House of Murphy Bar
Charlotte van Duyn
Havana-Madrid
Herald
Tex Rieber
Dr. Westrick
Times
Fdr
Atlanta Journal
James E. Cox
Ohio
Chums
Cox the Silent
Tommy Manville
George Trammer
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