Screenradio previews and star changes in 1944 cinema
Michele Morgan will debut in Joan of Paris with a potential South Seas setting for her second film. Madeleine Carroll delays plans due to wartime shifts, likely starring in Her Perfect Mate. Metro shifts Robert Taylor toward tougher roles, while Lana the gorilla in Dumbo is named among top pictures by junior critics in a national poll.
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Michele Morgan
RKO
South Seas
Miss Morgan
Walt Disney
The
National, Oat —Eeuigas
Inside Story on Free French Seizure of St Pierre Miquelon
The piece argues U S British policy must unite to counter Vichy and Berlin. It details British approval for De Gaulle to seize St Pierre Miquelon with Muselier and corvettes, and Secretary Hull’s strong State Department rebuke of the so called Free French.
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Washington, D. C
North Atlantic
St. Pierre-Miquelon
State Department
Winston Churchill
White House
Vichy
Berlin
Newfoundland
Atlantic
U. S
General de Gaulle
Muselier
Canada
Angus MacDonald
Hull
Jugoslavs
Admiral Robert
Martinique
Robert
Tennessee
Winant
London
Malcolm MacDonald
United States
Britain
Lord Beaverbrook
Washington
Churchill
Roosevelt
Sam Reber
R. E. Barclay
de Gaulle
Syria
DeGaulle
Biggest Budget in World's History Expands U S War Program
Weekly News Analysis by Edward C Wayne reports the United States plans the largest peacetime budget ever to expand the war program amid heavy costs and continues to push back Nazi forces as Russians maintain pressure on the Eastern front.
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U. S
Russia
Hitler
Smolensk
Leningrad
Turkey
Crimea
Hogland Island
Crimean
Sevastopol
Donets
Taxes and War Bills Blink Across a Wary Nation
The piece notes a $56 billion federal bill with taxes totaling 27 billion plus 9 billion on top of 18 billion, projecting $204 per person for 130 million citizens as war costs loom. It contrasts public resolve with concerns over nationwide tax burdens amid ongoing global conflict.
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Congress
OPM
Trinidad teaming by Pa O'Brien and Donlevy with Janet Blair debut
Pa O'Brien and Donlevy are teamed in Columbia's Trinidad with Janet Blair making her screen singing debut as the vocalist. Pete Hal Kemp rises to second in national popularity per a trade paper. Tarzan titles move forward with Tarzan Against the World in production and Tarzan's Secret Measure soon to be released. Lew Ayres abandons China picture plans and will instead star in Fingers at the Window after Dr Kildare.
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Pa O’brien
Donlevy
Columbia
Trinidad
Janet Blair
Pete Hal Kemp
Tarzan
Lew Ayres
China
Dr Kildare
Roosevelt’s War Budget and Allied Reactions
The article reviews F D Roosevelt’s budget plan for World War II including a 131 billion expenditure, taxes to cover costs, and a threefold rise in national debt. It notes reactions from Britain and Italy praising a robust program, while Germany and Japan receive cautious, belittling signals about American production and strategy.
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Roosevelt
Germany
Navy
Beaselead
Senator George Examines 1943 War Budget Pages
Senator Walter F. George of Georgia, chairman of the Senate Finance committee, studies the 1,172 pages of the 1943 fiscal year budget. His focus is on planning new tax measures as the war budget totals $56,000,000,000.
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Walter F. George
Georgia
Senate Finance Committee
Farm price control debate pits Wickard Henderson over price czar role
Senate leaders weigh farm bloc demand for a veto on wartime price controls with Secretary Wickard gaining cross party support for a farm price czar. Lenator Brown notes prospects of a single price administrator while trading potential wheat and cotton price impacts against current market levels.
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Roosevelt
Senate
Farm Bloc
Secretary of Agriculture
Lenator Brown
Michigan
Brown
Wickard
Leon Henderson
Taft
Wickard Nor
Henderson
Changsha Victory and Turning Point Claims
Chiang Kai-shek hailed Changsha as a potential turning point after China repelled Japanese forces. Reports claim 30,000 Japanese killed and 7,000 captured or killed as they crossed a river, with 40,000 trapped. total Japanese strength in the drive cited as 100,000.
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Changsha
Chiang Kai-shek
Thailand
Indo-China
Malaya
Changking
Zep pelins Could Hit East Coast in Terror Raids
Army officials in Washington warned that Germany might use two large airships for token raids on the U S east coast. The sister ship of the Von Hindenburg, destroyed in New Jersey, was said to remain with another Zeppelin able to fly the Atlantic and carry bomb loads for a suicide attack on eastern cities.
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Washington
Germany
United States
von Hinderburg
New Jersey
Atlantic
Terrific raids hinted as prelude to Allied invasion plan
London reports say raids on occupied European countries are viewed by informed quarters as the definite forerunner of an Allied invasion. The invasion is said to be set for spring. Ottawa notes Canada will nearly double war production in line with U.S. president plans.
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Europe
Ottawa
Canada
United States
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