Sinking of Robin Moor probes by State Dept and Byrnes
State Department investigates the sinking of the Robin Moor by a submarine. Edward C. Wayne notes discussion as Byrnes and Jackson are named to high court while Stone is appointed Chief Justice. Editorial note clarifies opinion is the writer’s.
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Robin Moor
State Department
Byrnes
Jackson
High Court
Stone
South Atlantic
United States
Washington
Germany
White House
Sumner Welles
Walter J. Linthicum
U. S
Pernambuco
Brazil
Linthicum
Roosevelt names Stone to chief justice as Byrnes and Jackson named associates
President Roosevelt announced Harlan Fiske Stone as chief justice to replace Hughes and sent to the Senate the names of two new associate justices, Senator James Byrnes and Attorney General Robert H. Jackson. Stone is 68 and was appointed by Coolidge in 1925. Jackson will take Stone's old seat. Byrnes will succeed McReynolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Byrnes
Senate
Justice McReynolds
Justice Stone
Hold-Out Tobruk Stands as Axis Press Ahead
British anti-aircraft crews shelter within the Tobruk perimeter protected by stone-filled Italian boxes. Luftwaffe bombs drop Borate splinters as Nasr drive toward Egypt continues and Axis forces push beyond Tobruk without capturing the city.
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Egypt
Libya
Tobruk
Naz
Syria Invasion Headlines Refer To Oldest Towns And Airfields
British forces and Free French move into Syria as Nazi planes defend northern airbases. Resistance is limited to token clashes with French troops largely surrendering or joining the Allied effort. Britain frames the push as a strategic maneuver to reach key airfields and backdoors to Suez.
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Damascus
Tyre
Syria
Vichy
de Gaulle
Aleppo
Britain
Palestine
Iraq
Suez
Alexandria
Churchill under fire over Crete disaster and air woes
Churchill faces intense criticism in Commons and editorials after the Crete mishap. He defends his war plan, rejects cabinet changes, and blames air control for the disaster that cost 17 000 lives and 180 planes. Ireland debates aiding Britain while remaining officially neutral as German bombs strike Irish cities.
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Britain
Churchill
Crete
Commons
Chamberlain
Leslie Hore-Belisha
War Ministry
Portraits and Puzzles from a Busy Broadway Day
A columnist riffs on wartime censorship and public life, noting reactions to the German American Bund, Broadway trolley observations, and cultural quirks. The piece touches on rationing, sabotage fears, Hoover’s defense claims, media behavior, and Washington’s nightlife, with snatches of commentary on celebrities, music, and news virulence.
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N. J
N. Y. Press
Commodity Research Bureau
Moore's
Notes of an Innocent Bystander on Broadway Allen
A column notes Dionne quintuplets turning seven and comments on a seven year old girl’s manners with men. It also sketches Manhattan murals about subway singers patriotic tunes, a drugstore sign about gray matter, a Greenwich Village gin mill coffee, an 8th Avenue barber sign promising refunds, and 42nd Street hawkers selling glamorous ties.
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Broadway Allen
Orchids
N. Y. Times
Dionne
Manhattan
Subway
Greenwich Village
8Th Avenue
42Nd Street
Gasless Sundays and Navy Secrecy in Wartime Notes
Washington page surveys oil flow reforms under Ickes to end redundant tanker stops and boost single port delivery. It also details Navy secrecy in convoy routes, radio avoidance, and British supply missions, plus light notes on Marshall plan ideas and officials like Butterworth and Slattery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
National Oil
Ickes
Gulf of Mexico
Charleston
Norfolk
Baltimore
United States
U. S
LaGuardia
A Bill of Importance to Farmers Introduced in House
Congressman August H Andersen of Minnesota introduces HR 4591 to discover breed and test crops for industry and surplus replacement. The plan seeks a marketable, farmer independent path through state university research, reducing reliance on government subsidies and building lasting farm prosperity. It ties to broader free competition principles and national wealth creation through farm innovation.
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House of Representatives
August H. Andersen
Minnesota
Congress
Washington
Congressman Andersen
Atlantic
America
Half Way Measures and Inflation Fears in American Speech
A speech argues that partial steps fail to curb inflation and urges comprehensive actions. It condemns half measures on prices, deficits, taxes, and borrowing while highlighting a broader push for decisive national sacrifice and policy shifts. Farm boys increasingly join aviation efforts, with flying schools drawing on rural applicants and pasture land as landing sites.
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Edward C. Wayne
Western Newspaper Union
Messerschmitt
New York
U.35
DUCE
Italy
Mussolini
Roosevelt
Sulla
Axis
North
Africa
England
North American Aviation
Inglewood
Calif
C.I.O
Dies Committee
C.N.0
Alabama
Starnes
Dies
Frankensteen
Aircraft Division
Trish
Irish Free State
Jersey
Yorkville
Camp Nordlad
G.man Hoover
U S
California
UCTS
Red Sea
Halifax
Marshall
War Department
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lady Pollock
Commerce Department
W. Walton Butterworth
London
Allen Gullion
Army
Ap Hopper
Navy
Franklin Roosevelt
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
John E. Mack
Fdr
Charles Durant Maines
Flint
Mich
Harry Slattery
Alaska
Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
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