05 Sep 1940
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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1940
Page
1
Analysis by Roger Shaw offers insights into this newspaper's weekly coverage, outlining editorial perspectives and the writer's stance on current events. The columns reflect the paper's voice, tone, and approach to presenting news to readers.
The piece surveys long range German guns near France and air raids on England, noting the limits of the Big Bertha weapons and British countermeasures. It chronicles Italian moves toward Greece, Somaliland, and the broader strategic stalemate, with shifts in British political leadership and looming elections.
The piece maps Wilkie supporters into factions, from ardent backers in Independent Wilkie clubs and dissident Democrats to wary regulars in the old guard. It contrasts Wilkie’s stance with Roosevelt reforms, notes isolationist versus interventionist leanings, and links public sentiment to fears about a potential Bourbons-like rollback. It also recalls Napoleon and lists notable deaths including Lodge Trotsky Steuer and Senator Wagner.
An analysis of possible alignments in World War II era, weighing Russia, England, and America amid a Franco-German axis. It contemplates Soviet and American reactions, religious and business objections to communism, and the impact on U S foreign policy and isolationism. Also notes German oppression in Poland and the unprecedented aircraft project followed by Franco's shoes nationalization in France.
Seven year old twin refugees Johannes and Franciscus De Beat Doleman from Brussels sit aboard in Jersey City after disembarking from the S. S. Exeter. They plan to continue to Java in the Dutch East Indies. Many refugee children from Europe finding homes in the United States.
National Affairs discusses early state polls showing Willkie leading Roosevelt 52 to 48 in New York and Pennsylvania, 53 to 47 in Illinois, and notes the limits of polls in measuring political machines. Wheeler and isolationism debates split supporters, with Willkie needing the farm belt coalition to win.
A noisy, mixed bag of items quotes prison life without factory labor and a nameless cowboy film, then rail travel fees as 10 cents per article draw ire. Mentions Mile. Eve Curie on the Atlantic and a quip about Mussolini, Petain, and the new French constitution. Ends with light verse and assorted notices from readers.
The National Restaurant Association’s palate poll prompts celebrities to share their ideal meals, while John C. Holmes, Chicago Waiters chief, laments modern diners. He compares late 19th century feasts with today, recalling nine courses from cocktails to desserts and claiming today’s eaters lack true nourishment and sociability.
At the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago a display shows how mineral alcohol became stibnite. L Bryant Mather Jr. explains that the term alcohol originated as a mineral name in Europe in the seventeenth century and only later came to denote the liquid. The mineral, long used as a cosmetic, was known to Greeks as a word meaning wide eye and to Arabs as koh l, meaning to color or stain, with the theatrical use for blackening eyelids.
Beardless monks at St Bernard's monastery in Charnwood Forest Leicester now wear clean faces after discovering that facial hair and gas masks do not mix. The shift marks a dramatic change from their prior bearded tradition during the crisis.
A National Consumers Tax commission report states that more than 56 percent of all taxes fall on consumers, embedded in the price of every purchase. The finding highlights the unseen cost borne by shoppers across goods and services.
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