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Newspaper
Panama City Pilot
Location
Panama City, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1941
Page
4
President Roosevelt declares the 1936 election a mandate to push ahead with his Supreme Court plan. The story notes this condensed form of a Collier’s Weekly and Western News publication arrangement and previews continuing articles by the President.
Franklin D Roosevelt recounts the 1936 election and the fight to reform the judiciary. He argues the Supreme Court blocked New Deal progress, details the plan to add justices, and notes the court’s 1937 shift on state wage power and constitutional interpretation.
CHICAGO The second nation wide poll of children ages 8 to 13 by William T Reed candy maker shows varied tastes and views. A boy would defeat Hitler except for his mom dad and dog. Isolationists outnumbered 11 to 1. Favorite candy flavor led by chocolate at 22 percent with butterscotch second at 16 percent followed by caramel cherry peppermint orange and vanilla.
A major lend-lease expansion to boost farm production aims at feeding Britain, exports, and home use. The seven member SPAB board led by Henry Wallace will coordinate supply, priorities, and allocation, with executives Nelson Knudsen Hillman and officials Stimson Knox Hopkins Henderson shaping defense production.
Bankhage briefs discuss War era food satire and a 9000 mile tall metaphor for army can supplies while Secretary Hull receives an apology from Japanese ambassador No mura who took his hat. Institute for World Organizations convenes at American University with League of Nations members seeking reasons for its failure and ideas for a postwar world body.
A batch of nine quiz prompts covering topics from twin birth rates in the United States to the meanings of Quo Vadis and the Plimsoll line. Includes questions on US revenue committees, nonruminating animals, the gammadion symbol, French royal rulers, American women in Britain's House of Commons, artifact interests, and the Borodino battle location.
A quiz with answers on diverse topics lists items such as one in 87 births and references to “Whither Goest Thou” as well as notes on ships load line marks. It includes Ways and Means, a camel kangaroo riddle, and mentions the Nazis. Louis XVI is named along with a seating fact about Lady Astor and Beatrice Rathbone on March 19 1941. An archaeologist clue and a Russia Napoleon battle are noted.
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, formed in 1904, has received 39,500 applications and granted 3,200 awards. Of these, 2,627 were bronze, 554 silver, and 19 gold medals. The only gold in 25 years went to the family of Charles Coe of Burkburnett Texas for saving a child and dying while attempting to save another in 1923.
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