Night City Voices and Vivid Vistas From New York
A sprawling panorama blends nightlife, critics, and cafe chatter across New York. Observations touch on shoe shiners, barber shops, Broadway glare, ice cream parlors, waterfront melancholy, and the lonely Yankee Stadium, interwoven with cultural notes on journalism, theater, and international puppetry in Shanghai.
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New York
Sith
Clinique Des Pleds
Omnia
Uytans Vie
Sudampes
Broadway
Hadia City
Weekly News Analysis on Axis Aims and Draft Mobilization
The piece reviews Axis threats from Japan and Mussolini toward the United States and Britain, noting Tokyo's warnings of war if aid to Britain continues and Mussolini's insinuations about Canada. It covers U.S. draft preparations, naval mobilization, and support for Canada, along with Allied air campaigns over London and German targets.
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Japan
America
Americans
Berlin
Washington
United States
Britain
Prince Fumimaro Konope
England
Durma
China
State Department
Near East
Burma Road
U. S
Japanese Press Association
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Guam
Midway Islands
Rome
Mussolini
Canada
U.S
Brennero
Pass In the Alps
Germany
Anu
Italy
Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Romania
Moye
Balkan
Balkans
Russia
Axis
Hitler
Mossow
Rumania
Turkey
Istanbul
Straits
Stalin
Hesserabia
Bukovina
All Out In Presidential Sweepstakes On the Stump
In the month before the election all presidential hopefuls campaigned vigorously with Willkie touring the East New England Midwest states and Roosevelt visiting western Pennsylvania Ohio and Pittsburgh where the 100000th housing unit opened. The Roosevelt campaign cited a Rome dispatch claiming Axis powers seek his defeat while Wallace and McNary toured Minnesota on a joint train run.
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Wendell I. Willkie
East
New England
Midwest
New York State
Ohio
Illinois
Missouri
America
Hitler
Europe
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Terrace Village
DU. S. Housing Authority
White House
Rome
United States
Minnesota
Henry A. Wallace
Charles A. McNarg
Columbia U President Defends Academic Freedom at Faculty Meeting
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, 73, Columbia University president, urged restricting academic freedom to accomplished scholars during a wartime address on The World Crisis. He said faculty only may speak freely while students were to withdraw if they disagreed, prompting mixed reactions among professors and objections from the student paper. In politics, Bush tick and Bennett Clark denounced the statement as Congress debated wartime speech. A local note recalls various federal actions and oddities, including a longtime White House peanut seller becoming a citizen after failed tests and plans for an ugly temporary Navy building. A California inmate received a life sentence after pleading guilty to snatching a baby from Count and Countess De Tristan.
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Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Columbia
Congress
Bush Tick
Bennett Clark
Washington
Federal Works Administration
Navy
King of England
District of Columbia
Yar
Steve Vasilakos
White House
Red Cross
Wilhelm Jakob Mohlenbrulen
California
Countess de Tristan
UN Uder
Georgia Congress Welcomes 9th Woman Florence Gibbs
In Congress, 100 pound bea wn eyed grandmother Florence Reville Gibbs fills the Georgia seat to complete her late husband’s unexpired term. The longtime Georgia resident becomes the ninth woman in Congress, adding a southern voice and family legacy to the chamber.
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Congress
House of Representatives
Florence Reville Gibbs
Georgia
Gibba Se
Army to mobilize doctors and dentists for new draft force
Washington reports plans to raise 2 corps of 12,000 doctors and 2,287 dentists by July 1, 1941, with 1,196 physicians on active duty and 2,700 more from mobilized National Guard. Nurses, vets, and other medical staff to follow from Reserve, draft, and Red Cross. physician standards favor Class A colleges.
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Agnes C. Roselle
Fashington
D. C
Red Cross
Washington, D. C
Army
Medileal and
Dental Reserve
Reesent
National Guard. the Remaining 8,900 Will Be Secured From the Reserve Corps
John McCormack
Massachusetts
U U. S
Middlesex College
Middlesex
Wass
Chircago Medical School
Illinois
How to Slip Cover Your Old Rocking Chair
Instructions and sketches describe converting an old Victorian rocker into a slip covered piece. The article explains choosing fabrics, padding, and tack fittings, with a diagram showing steps to transform a chair. orders for sewing books and pattern sets are requested by mail.
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Lawrence Bartell
Traian
Brander Matthews
Jimmy Young
Young
Shanghai
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Eppears
Oscar Levert
Jimmy Petrillo
Musicians’ Union
Edward C. Wayne
U. S.japan
Far East
Omcton
E-Wamer Unimat
Fu Siao-en
Zung Tsien
National Guard
Naval Reserve
Conde
Camp Norden
Canade
U. S.canadian Defense Board
Stimson
Knox
Bolivia
Calumbis
Costa Rica
Domminican Republic
Guatemala
Honduras
Panama
Peru
Uruguay
Brenner Pass
London
House of Fords
Neville Chamberlain
Ernest Bevin
British Oiers
Krupp Monitions
Essen
Cologne
Hamm
Hamburg
Wilhelmshaven
Steitin
Politics
Columbia U
Eagle Squadron
Cro, Dusters
Playboys
William E.G. Taylor
Taylor
U. S. Marine Corps Reserve
Sam Browne
Asvererese
Quartermaster Corps of the Army
Mediterranean
Department of Agriculture
Raim Wyeth Spears
Spears
Ruth Wyeth
Bedfort
Kellogg's
Watile Creek
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