Draft on November draft bill outlines age limit and delays
The House passed a draft bill 185 to 155 with an amendment naming Lieut Col Hershey in charge of draft plans. Differences with the Senate included age limits and plant seizure rules, with conferees settling 21 to 35, plant seizure, and removing the 60 day volunteer plan. Wendell Willkie opposed the 60 day delay.
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House
Senate
London
Western Newspaper Union
Wadsworth
Fish
Wendell Willkie
Roosevelt
Worst disaster in U S munitions history strikes Hercules plant
The Hercules Powder plant in Kenvil New Jersey suffered a series of earth shaking explosions. Thirty two people were dead twenty two missing and about two hundred injured as authorities launched immediate probes into the cause amid wartime defense orders. Italy opened an offensive against British forces in Egypt with artillery duels along the Egypt Libya border as observers see Italy joining the wider war effort and potentially pressuring Britain. Egypt remains allied with Britain but has not yet declared war on the axis.
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Hercules Powder Company
Kenvil, N. J
United States Defense
Italy
Egypt
Egypt-Libya
Britain
Hitler
British Isles
Miss America 1941 and founder Lillian Ward obituary
Lillian D. Ward founder of the Henry Street Settlement and ally of the federal children's bureau died at 73 in Westport Connecticut. Atlantic City selected Frances Marie Burke 19 of Philadelphia as Miss America 1941. she stands five feet nine inches, brown hair, 128 pounds.
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Henry Street
Lillian D. Ward
Westport
Conn
Federal Children's Bureau
Atlantic City
Frances Marie Burke
Philadelphia
London Battered In Fifty-Third Week Of War
In the fifty third week of the war Nazi air power intensified raids on London with hundreds of bombers in waves, strikes on Fleet Street and hospitals, and delayed-action bombs on Buckingham Palace. Berlin answered with nightly raids including a hit on the Reichstag. King George VI visited bombed areas as Britons showed resolve to endure.
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Reichmarshal
Hermann W. Goering
France
Luftwaffe
Channel
London
British Empire
Fleet Street
George VI
England
Britain
Aircraft Factory
Buckingham Palace
Berlin
Churchill
Hamburg
Denmark
Norway
Reichstag
Fahy Promoted to Assistant Solicitor General
Charles Fahy a soft spoken Labor Board member and council is promoted by President Roosevelt to assistant solicitor general. He steered the NLRB through injunctions and Supreme Court tests and now heads the office that prepares the government side in hearings before the Supreme Court.
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Labor Board
Charles Fahy
National Labor Relations Board
Roosevelt
NLRB
Supreme Court
Congress A recess planned before October 1 in Washington
A multi-topic brief notes a forthcoming recess in Washington before October 1. It covers Vatican wartime moves and hopes for peace, advances in plastics eye glass lenses, rayon industry shifts, unemployment trends, and education projections. It also mentions Petain cabinet reshuffles, arrests and asset seizures in France, Henry Haye's U.S. arrival, and a Boston American Legion convention with planned events and leadership bids.
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Congress
Washington
Vatican
Reich
Bausch and Lomb
Japan
U. S
Britain U S and Russia talk as Cripps presses for sway
Behind the scenes talks continue between the state department and the Russian ambassador to smooth relations and perhaps foster Japan teamwork. Cripps in Moscow presses for Russian alignment as Hitler shifts westward, with signs Russia may be the focal point for future moves. Also notes Coughlin plans a October radio push, Canadian pilots training in the U S winter plan, and Annapolis West Point to graduate early in 1941 with a new press chief at the War Department.
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Britain
U. S
Russia
Washington
D. C
State Department
Dumansky
Japan
Stafford Cripps
Moscow
Stalin
Balkans
England
Sir Stafford
Hitler
West
East
Poland
Berlin
Germany
Western
Europe
France
Spain
Italy
Annapolis
West Point
War Department
Army
Bill Green
A. F. of
American Flag Association
Commandeering power debate and draft lottery overview
This column argues that commandeering private property is a longstanding tool of public use and should rest with the President, not the secretaries of war or navy. It notes wartime needs, condemning wealth conscription as electioneering buncombe, and previews the upcoming national draft lottery with Civil War and 1917 reform details.
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Washington
Secretaries of War
Navy
War
Wilson
War Industries Board
Smith
Senate
Buncombe
Rug to Crochet in Simple Crochet Stitch
Easy shell stitch rug crocheted in sections for handling. Uses four strands of string candlewick or rags in three colors or two shades plus white. Pattern 6601 provides directions, illustrations, materials, and color schemes. Send order to.
Real Spirit as Fashionable Word in Chesterfield Quotation
The quote argues that spirit should guide restrained action and speech. It contrasts rash talk with gentle speech and firm conduct, describing a true man as neither hot nor timid, exemplified by Chesterfield.
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Chesterfield
Simplicity in Character and Style
A reflective note on virtue, praising restraint in conduct and dress. The author emphasizes that true excellence lies in simple living, plain speech, and unpretentious manners, urging readers to value clarity over flourish in daily behavior.
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Longfellow
To Check Constipation Get at Its Cause
Advice on treating constipation by addressing diet and bulk in the bowel. Recommends Kellogg's All-Bran cereal with ample water, notes it is not medicine, and advises medical consultation if the condition is chronic.
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Kellogg's
Battle Creek
Our Patience How patiently you hear him groan
A reflective verse line notes the endurance of listening to another’s distress and the relief when one’s own troubles are not the burden. It contrasts patience with relief, implying empathy amid shared suffering without explicit events or identities.
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Petain
Maxime Weygand
Edouard Daladier
Paul Reynaud
Maurice Gamelin Ali
Riom
Air
Pierre Cot
Guy la Chambre
United States
House of Rothschild
New York
M. Henry Haye
Boston
Mass
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Sboston
Symphony
Braves Field
Schenley Post
Paris
Jose Estigarrilia
Paraguay
Chaco
Higinio Morinigo
Coughlin
Father Coughlin
National Association of Broadcasters
Network
U. S.canadian Defense Board
Ottawa
Canada
Dominion
U. S. Army
Hugh S. Johnson
Jays
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
Epanebaey
Lydia E. Janna
Pinkham
Milton
Dean
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