Admiral George Robert Guest in Puerto Rico and Film Notes
The New York And Washington Wire reports Admiral George Robert, former Vichy governor of Martinique, hosted as a U S Navy guest at the Normandy Hotel in San Juan Puerto Rico with a free ride to France on a Spanish ship. The column also surveys cinema and radio items, from heroic World War II films to critiques of Crosby and Hope, and notes Maraudings on Edward Murrow Howard K. Smith and Dunninger.
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New York
Washington Wire
George Robert
Vichy
Martinique
U. S. Navy
Normandy
San Juan
Puerto Rico
France
Berlin
Robert Best
Equator
Father Neptune
Mr. Knox
Edward Murrow
Larry le Sueur
Reich
Howard K. Smith
Switzerland
Himmier
Tojo
Dunninger
America
Oklahoma
Waste Fats Drive War Needs 200 Million Pound Goal
Donald Nelson urges households to salvage all waste fats and used kitchen grease to meet a 200 million pound yearly quota for glycerine and other war needs. The drive targets homes nationwide, noting fat shortages due to wartime losses and the critical role of fats in munitions and medicines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Nelson
War Production Board
Europe
WPB
Braking and Glycerine Use in Wartime Civilian Efforts
Article urges farmers and motorists to adapt winter driving for 20 mph on rural roads and emphasizes braking distances on snow and ice. It links glycerine from used kitchen fats to wartime needs, noting medical and military uses and urging households to collect fats for the war production line.
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America
War cabinet delay over Feis resignation sparks debate
Secretary Stettinius cancel led a planned War Mobilization cabinet meeting after learning Herbert Feis had resigned. Byrnes suggested the session be postponed while Feis is the expert on foreign contracts. The Dies committee prepares a mild interim report on Nazi and Jap influence. Wheat loan parity and farm planting plans are unsettled amid 90 percent parity projections.
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Ed Stettinius
Jimmy Byrnes
War Mobilization Cabinet
Byrnes
Stentinius
Feis
Herbert Feis
Garfield
Stimson
Hoover
Hull
Sumner Welles
Moscow
Dies Committee
Pearl Harbor
Dies
Martin Dies
Detroit
Agriculture Department
Congress
Argentina
Drouth
Rural winter driving hazards rise. 24 percent deadlier than summer
The National Safety Council reports winter driving on rural highways is more dangerous than in cities due to slippery snow and ice, poor visibility from frosted windshields, and longer darkness. It notes manpower shortages and cites a 24 percent higher death toll in winter versus summer, then offers safety rules: adjust speed, slow before intersections, and keep safe distances behind other vehicles.
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Ralph A. Moyer
Iowa State College Engineering Experiment Station
Council
Moyer
National Safety Council
Forts and Orders Amid War Time Demand
A wartime notice notes unusually high demand and longer wait times for popular patterns. It requests patience as orders are filled and mentions a price and lead time for a specific item.
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Peni
Six presidents elected after initial defeats
The article lists six men who won the presidency after losing earlier runs. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, and Grover Cleveland later secured a second term after their initial defeats.
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John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
William H. Harrison
Grover Cleveland
Exiles Contribute Troops and Vessels to Allied War Effort
Nine governments in exile based in London have supplied about 450000 soldiers 27000 aviators 22000 seamen 240 naval vessels and roughly 2300 merchant ships to Allied nations in the current conflict.
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London
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Stalingrad
Hitler
Hollywood
G. Cooper
I. Bergman
Crosby
Hope
England
Donald O’connor
Nina Wilcox Putnam
Thorne Smith
G. Vincent
Margaret Case Harriman
Swift
Sir Robert Walpole
Evelyn M. Campbell
Palm Beach
Fred Allen
Raymond G. Swing
Nelson Pets SS
Office of War Production
Washington, D. C
Wendell Willkie
GOP
Stalin
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Britain
Martha
Westport Rd
Kansas City
Eta
Dr. Wernet
Sam
Colorado Animal By-Products CO
Geren
Saltlanecity
Logan
Spanishfork
Qarlans
Mesercity
Ethel Brett
U. S. Navy Yard
Navy
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