Census Censure Sparks Washington Wisconsin clash
Congress debates personal income questions in the 1940 census as Census Director William Austin fights to start house to house inquiries on April 2. Senator Tobey pushes to strike personal data from the count while Roosevelt denounces the move and the Hatch Act limits expand debate.
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Washington
Racine, Wis
William Austin
Rosselli
Uncle Sam
James Rosselli
Kenosha, Wis
Sen
Charles Tobey
Rep
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Franklin Roosevelt
Census Bureau
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Senate Commerce Committee
Austin
Congress
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NLRB
Senate
Agriculture
Farm Credit Administration
Department of Agriculture
Plan to distribute clothing for relief families begins this month
Patterned after the successful surplus foods stamp plan, a cotton stamp plan for distributing clothing among relief families will start in five or six cities this month. The War Department announced surplus munition sales to neutral nations, including 90 six inch guns stored at Aberdeen proving ground sold to Brazil as is. Britain restricted Palestine land sales to Jews to prevent Arab uprisings, a wartime proceeding backed by the House of Commons by 292 to 129.
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Chicago
U. S
AEMY
War Department
Aberdeen
Brazil
Britain
Palestine
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
House
Peace talk and war fronts shadow Europe in early March
The Russo Finnish war weighed with talk of peace as Sweden mediated and terms included surrender of the Karelian isthmus. In western fronts 20 Britons were captured, Dutch ships torpedoed, and Italy clashed with Britain over coal imports. Sumner Welles toured Berlin Lausanne Paris Rome London as he pursues talks with Mussolini and Hitler.
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Russia
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General George C. Marshall Returns to Hawaii Amid Flight of Planes
General George C. Marshall, U S Army chief, is welcomed in Hawaii by 60 army aircraft. An inair collision forces pilots to parachute safely. The piece notes allied diplomats Ashton-Gwatkin and Rist smoothing U S anger over German blockade and censorship concerns. Secretary Cor dell Hull meets the delegation in Washington. Most Rev Samuel A Stritch is named Chicago archbishop.
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George C. Marshall
U. S
Hawaii
Frank Ashton-Gwatkin
Charles Rist
Washington
Cordell Hull
Samuel A. Stritch
Chicago
Poland Atrocity News From Three Sources This Month
Reports from Berlin Paris and Chicago Daily News outline Polish civilian killings and deportations under Nazi occupation. Claims include halted Jewish deportations near Lublin, limits on Catholic worship, executions of 136 boys at Bydgoszcz and 350 Poles from Gdynia, and dispossession of landowners.
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Czecho-Slovakia
Berlin
Lublin
Paris
Poland-in-exile
Bydgoczcz
Gdynia
Paul Ghali
Chicago Daily News
Rumanians Weigh Neutrality Amid Balkan Pressure
The article sketches Romania’s precarious position as a neutral bulwark against a Balkan war. It notes moves toward a border fortification, a Molotov visit to Bucharest, and King Carol’s pledge to keep a 1.6 million man army, amid Roosevelt third term rumors and political feints in Washington before the Illinois primary.
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Rumania
Russia
Germany
France
Britain
Pope Pius
Bessarabian
Viacheslav Molotov
Bucharest
Bessarabia
Carol
Franklin Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Thomas Jefferson
Washington
John Nance Garner
Illinois
Wiseacres
Roosevelt
Garner
Queen Elizabeth ends maiden voyage in New York amid superlatives
A headline states Britain’s 28 million dollar Queen Elizabeth finishes its maiden voyage in New York with superlatives. The report mentions a testing machine by Aluminum Company of America in New Kensington, Pennsylvania that first smashed a solid oak log then tapped an egg so softly a chick hatched.
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Britain
New York
New Kensington
Aluminum Company of America
State Department ambivalence on students and ambulance service
The piece notes a paradox where the State Department refuses US medical students passports to study in Britain while allowing about 50 to go to France to drive ambulances at the front. It also mentions officials' explanations and contemporary political jabs at a National Press Club banquet.
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Washington
State Department
France
Burt Wheeler
National Press Club
Montlanan
John L Lewis
Bob’ LaFollette
Norman Thomas
Thomas
SEC
Leon Henderson
Tom Dewey
Henderson
Bob Jackson
Bruce Barton
Why Weir Draws Fire From New Deal Critics
A column defends William Weir of Weirton against attacks for serving on a Republican fund drive. It argues his wealth is not a crime and highlights his labor-relations stance, court win over NRA board actions, and early voluntary election procedures. It notes career defenders and critics, with a brief Senate testimony on anti aircraft gun deliveries.
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Weir
New Deal
National Republican Committee
Johnny Raskob
Johnny
Warm Springs
Mr. Roosevelt
New York
William Green
NRA Labor Relations Board
Ilegal
NRA
Weirton
Stamp pattern offers four designs from NUMO iron transfer
An advertisement notes NUMO hot iron transfer Z8716 yields four designs with one pattern and allows three or four stampings per order. It directs readers to send orders to a listed address.
Full Reason To Abstain Noted By Rousseau
A compact motto reflects Rousseau arguing that the epicurean appeal lies in disciplined restraint rather than indulgence, suggesting that restraint enables genuine enjoyment through reason.
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Rousseau
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