Wearin Loses Iowa Senate Primary Amid Labor Split
In Iowa Union candidate Otha Wearin falls to Senator Guy Gillette in the Democratic primary as labor factions split. Gillette touted loyalty to Roosevelt while Wearin drew supports from Harry Hopkins and James Roosevelt. The Republican side sees L. J. Dixon defeating Lloyd Thurston.
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Wearin
Iowa
Otha Wearin
Roosevelt
Guy M. Gillette
Gillette
Harry Hopkins
WPA
James Roosevelt
Thomas G. Corcoran
Senate
Green
A. F. of L
Mississippi River
L. J. Dickinson
Lloyd Thurston
House
Carl M. Hatch
New Mexico
Harry L. Hopkins
Otha D. Wearin
Canton Bombings Charcoal Canton and Spain Face Air Attacks
News notes Canton suffer daily WWII air raids with up to 5000 killed as civilians targeted. UK and US condemn bombings and seek neutral commissions. Hull calls for disarmament. Spanish air raids on Loyalist cities prompt European protests as planes cross into France creating panic.
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Canton
United States
Great Britain
China
Spain
Franco
America
Sumner Welles
Roosevelt
Britain
Hull
Nashville, Tenn
Europe
Bloody riot near Stalin automobile works in Moscow
Report from Riga cites a bloody clash at the Josef Stalin automobile plant in Moscow. Workers barricaded streets, damaged machinery, and set fires before troops, secret police, and fire units intervened with firearms. Officials hid casualties as police arrested over 3,000.
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Moscow
Riga
Russia
Josef Stalin Automobile Works
Hull Plan Sparks Senate Opposition Over St Lawrence Seaway
The Hull plan proposes a U S led St Lawrence deep waterway with Canada for a broader treaty and power development at Niagara Falls. Critics in Congress call it an all British canal and warn of river diversions and cost estimates around 400 million dollars. New pure food and drug act passes the House with differences to be reconciled.
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Hull
St. Lawrence
Canada
St. Lawrence Seaway
Senate
St. Lawrence Deep Waterway
United States
Niagara Falls
Lake Michigan
Congress
Dominion
New York
Wagner
Copeland
Sen
Key Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Middle West
Clark
Missouri
Chicago Drainage Canal
Mississippi River
House
Department of Agriculture
Reform Bill Shelved Amid 1939 Session Plan
President Roosevelt agreed to shelve his bill for executive government reorganization after consulting congressional leaders. Senator Barkley announced the move with the President’s approval. The administration plans to try again in the 1939 session, while Sen. Hiram Johnson of California warned opponents to prepare for renewed battle next year.
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Roosevelt
Senator Barkley
Congress
Hiram Johnson
California
Big Fund for Highways and New Federal Judges Approved
Congress gave final approval to a highway bill authorizing 357.4 million dollars for 1940 1941 and 150 million from old appropriations. President Roosevelt signed a separate act creating 20 additional federal judges including five circuit court positions at 12500 dollars yearly and fifteen district judges at 10000 dollars yearly.
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Senate
House
Roosevelt
Circuit Court of Appeals
Madness and Marriage Quips From a Wedding Report
A collection of wedding anecdotes and jokes including a suitor declaring love, playful quips about suit speech, gifts described as a dressing down, and humorous exchanges about ropes and sand. Also notes on dreaming of a future wife and a boy eating wedding cake for a surprise wife.
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Bobbie
Mummie
Lunch Table Tax Grievances Among Two Cronies
Two men meet for lunch and discuss their finances with bleak humor. One notes their income tax situation worsening, joking that his next return may be his last, reflecting collective concerns about taxes and money.
Oceanic term for equatorial land
The land astride the equator refers to Africa, crossing the equator. The questions appear as a quiz style set with varied historical and factual prompts.
Lace Bolero Crochet Pattern and Quiz Notes
A crochet pattern for a lace bolero with two strands is offered by The Sewing Circle at 82 Eighth Ave New York. The page also includes a trivia quiz asking ten questions about history geography and Roosevelt family anecdotes with partial answers.
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Eighth Ave
New York
Tragedy of Ambition and Family Size Explored
The passage examines how people chase desires they believe will satisfy them, only to learn they do not want them. It notes the danger of public ambition and how some erase family ties in pursuit of personal goals.
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Tate
Tallest Smokestack Shines For Anaconda Copper Co
The Anaconda Copper Co of Anaconda Montana boasts the world’s tallest smokestack at 585 feet with a 60 foot base diameter. It can generate 225000 horsepower and burn 1125790 pounds of coal per hour.
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France
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French
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York
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Organ
Voelkischer Beobachter
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Newark
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Socialist Party
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Jersey City
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Hubby
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Rough Riders
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Louisiana Purchase
Cy Young
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United States Navy
Virginia
King Ranch
Texas
Scribner's ‘Magazine
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Chicago, Ill
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Old Mexico
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