Congress Faces Budget Clash and Defense Drive
Congress wrestles with a cut-filled appropriations bill as it pursues an $1.8 billion defense package for 1941. Army and Navy programs win some support while domestic items shrink, amid election-year pressure and debt-limit concerns.
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Senate
Harold D. Smith
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Office of Government Reports
Executive Office
Maritime Commission
Army
Navy
Harold D. Stark
Naval Operations
House Naval Committee
Harry Woodring
House Military Committee
Georgia
Carl Vinson
Idaho
William E. Borah
Rock Creek Park
Jack Garner
Nation backs Wagner act revision study shows broad support
A Gallup poll indicates 53 percent favor revising the Wagner labor act, 18 percent want repeal, and 29 percent seek no change while the House committee seeks more funding. Separate notes cover U S exports rising to 358 million in December, Britain's charter end on cotton, Ontario’s legislative critique, and Japan's silk export controls.
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House Committee
Gallup
U. S
Britain
Canada
Ontario
Japan
Quiz on historic events and figures prompts news-style questions
A reader quiz presents five questions on wartime events diplomacy and politics. It asks about a deadly city fire, a U S ambassador to Belgium, a Great Britain note on a safety zone, a Louisiana gubernatorial jail case, and the New York stock market focusing on stocks and bonds.
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Italy
Shizuoka
Japan
Nairobi
Tanganyika
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
U. S
Belgium
Eire
James H. Morrison
Sam Houston Jones
New York
Quiz Answers From The News Pages Report
True statements and multiple choice answers summarize a set of historical quiz responses. Shizuoka Japan appears as a correct detail alongside John Cudahy and notes on election runoff dynamics. Stock market belief figures are cited with grain live stock and bonds categories.
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Japan
John Cudahy
Brussels
Europe
Jones
Long
Disasters Hit Turkey Amid Quakes Floods and Debt
The report details widespread deaths from earthquakes and floods in north central and western Turkey late last year and January. A second major quake hit the Niğde district, injuring many as Turkey received about 340 million dollars in Allied loans to keep the Dardanelles open. The loans influenced policy including a ban on U.S. tobacco imports, affecting American tobacco growers facing a loss of 60 to 70 million dollars in export markets.
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Ankara
Dardanelles
U.S
Mock Warfare Signals Presidential Nomination Debates
Frank Gannett joins the Republican fray as a presidential bid stirs New York’s 92 convention race. Wilkie tests support among executives while Roosevelt gains strength for a third term and delegates brace for pivotal nominating conventions.
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Rochester
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Deweys
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Indiana
Wilkie
Franklin Roosevelt
Florida
Claude Pepper
Ohio
Roosevelt Camp
Vic Donahey
White House Budget Shows Paint Cost and Staff Wages
Roosevelt budget increases by 6000 dollars for White House upkeep including a 6000 dollar coat of paint for July and August. Travel and entertainment funds stay at 30000 while staff wages total about 100000 with laundry and heat costs listed. Knox declines navy secretary offer after private talks with the president.
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Taft
Hyde Park
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Knox
Navy
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Chicago
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Johnson on New Deal appointments stir political storm
Column blasts Murphy and Jackson as rabble-rousers unfit for office and criticizes Roosevelt for appointing radicals to high posts. It questions Edison as navy secretary, Cromwell in Canada, and War debt policy while denouncing Lord Beaverbrook's war debts claim.
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Pennsylvania
David Reed
Joe Guffey
Gilbert Mason Owlett
Lsyboro
Ickes
Paul McNutt
John
Anna Roosevelt Boettiger
Grover Whalen
State Department
Whalen
New York
Joe Martin
Topeka
Alf Landon
Martin
Murphy
Jackson
Jim Cromwell
Ashington
Supreme Court
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Congress
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Navy
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Louis Johnson
Mr. Cromwell
Doris Duke
Canada
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New Deal
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Lord Beaverbrook
Wilson
Pershing
Britain
I Slippers Bed Socks Quickly Crocheted
Advertising notice for crochet patterns describing slippers and bed socks with angora trim. Pattern 2372 offers size directions, stitches, illustrations, materials, and a photo. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept New York for the pattern.
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Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
Safety Quips for Drivers and Finance
A collection of car wisdom and cautions. It notes blind curves and soft shoulders dangers, urges steady hands on the wheel, and jokes that some drivers handle speed better than payments. It ends by comparing workplace pace to driving speed with a playful question.
Pull the Trigger on Constipation and Pepsin-ize Acid Stomach Too
Health ad promotes Dr Caldwell's Laxative Senna with Syrup Pepsin to relieve constipation and acid stomach. It claims Pepsin dissolves undigested protein in the stomach while Senna laxative stimulates bowel movement. The copy targets families and children, urging purchase today.
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Dr. Caldwell
Buried Resources Reveal Hidden Fortunes at Invasion Hour
A pithy reflection on virtue where resources lie within and awaken only when the invasion hour arrives, suggesting hidden strength emerges under pressure and adversity.
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Bulwer
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