Molotov Speech Stuns Europe as Axis Shifts and Italy Holds Neutrality
Molotov’s address triggers a global read of alliances as Italy signs to stay neutral while Mussolini reshuffles leadership away from pro axis figures. Britain and the United States push neutrality efforts and arm embargo debates as Germany grows aggressor in Western Europe.
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All Hallow
Moscow
Viacheslav Molotov
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Germany
Italy
Hungary
Molotov
N Duce
Benito Mussolini
Dino Alfieri
Nazidom
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Achille Starace
Fuehrer
Rudolf Hess
France
Alberto Pariani
Hitler
Walther von Brauchitsch
Giuseppe Valle
Hermann Goering
Rodolfo Graziani
Galeazzo Ciano
Mussolini
Sian
United States
Philippines
Soviet Union
Finland
Massachusetts
John McCormack
House
Laurence Steinhardt
Michael Kalinin
Kalinin
Roosevelt
U. S
White House
Steve Early
Aviation Quiz Delivers Dares And Deductions
A mixed newspaper quiz asks about Clyde Schlieper and Wes Carroll’s fatigue, a failed nonstop New York flight to an undisclosed destination, the freezing cancer treatment for Mrs. Homer Stout, the Mexican revolutionary party’s demand on oil lands, a James Mead bill for small loans to a chosen group, and Britain's winter food ration outlook.
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Clyde Schlieper
Wes Carroll
New York
Homer Stout
Oklahoma
Mexican Revolutionary Party
Sen
James Mead
The
Treasury
Britain
Roosevelt third-term talk stirs 1940 politics in West
In San Francisco Henry Wallace hurls doubt on Roosevelt re election while Steve Early clarifies no boom. Oregon's Charles McNary considers a run and Montana's Burton Wheeler eyes vice presidency with La Follette. John Lewis objects to progressive Salt Lake City meeting as a potential third term push. Washington monitors warn Lewis support could doom Wheeler.
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Henry Wallace
Oregon
Charles McNary
Montana
Burton K. Wheeler
la Follette
California
Cuthbert Olson
Salt Lake City
John Lewis
Wheeler
Lewis
Washington
A. F. of L
Senate
Communications: Twisted Wires
Following an ultimatum from Chicago District Attorney Thomas J. Courtney and U S District Attorney William J Campbell, the American Telephone and Telegraph company barred Moses Annenberg's race betting information service from using its facilities. The Illinois Bell Telephone company followed suit.
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Chicago
Thomas J. Courtney
U. S
William J. Campbell
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Moses Annenberg
Illinois Bell Telephone Company
Endurance firers face long hours and wrong destination
Schlieper and Carroll endured 30 days awake over Long Beach California. The flight goal was Lima Peru but landed in Ecuador. A death cited as rupture of a bile duct with possible cancer treatment success. A party demands permanent seizure of lands. Ration cards to be distributed December 1 focusing on butter ham and bacon.
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Schlieper
Carroll
Long Beach
Calif
Lima
Peru
Ecuador
Bette Davis Eyes Major Film Powers And Movie News
Bette Davis presses for a stage hit to become a film with Warner Brothers backing a Broadway success in New York. James Stewart may win a best actor statue for Mr Smith Goes to Washington, while Frank Capra adds another laurels. Mutiny in the Big House premieres at a Pennsylvania penitentiary with a wardens approval. Tailspin Tommy planes disrupt Danger Flight filming and Jack Benny troupe stars in Buck Benny Rides Again with Nelson Eddy's salary cited at six thousand five hundred dollars weekly.
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John Trent
Ask Me Another Quiz Pack From 1885 Trade Book
Offering information on various subjects from 1885 includes definitions and explanations. It covers time zones and calendar remarks, language abbreviations, Roman and Italian usage, the Star Sprangled Banner title, Alaska Indian numbers, extemporaneous meaning, and rubber tree tapping intervals of five to ten years.
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George Eliot
Chicago
San Francisco
Rome
Alaska
United States
Francis Scott Key
Fort McHenry
Dinah Shore’s New Sunday Spot Faces Benny Challenge
The note says Dinah Shore starts a Sunday night show opposite Jack Benny and quips that if anyone must outduel Benny, it should be her. A friend in India asked Benny Venuta if she’d attend a muckna social. she learned muckna means a tuskless male elephant. Mervyn LeRoy saw a 16 year old Texas girl, Lydna Yoakley, at a New York rodeo and plans her early production.
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Dinah Shore
Jack Benny
Benny
India
Bennay Venuta
Mervyn Leroy
New York
Contest definitions and time zone note
The text defines a contest as a battle for supremacy and a tournament as a test of athletics or card skill. It states George Eliot was a woman. It notes two to one for mountain time and one for Pacific time. It begins a line about a U S coin not minted since.
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George Eliot
U.S
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