Swastika Over Paris Marks Nazi Conquest
A wartime overview recounts the Nazi invasion crushing Paris with the swastika visible over the city while Paris landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower, appear in the background. It traces Finland Russia battles and spiraling Allied responses from Britain and Churchill warnings to the fall of Norway Denmark and the rapid German advances through Holland Belgium and France culminating in the armistice and occupation.
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Paris
Eiffel Tower
Britain
France
Germany
Finland
Winston Churchill
Europe
Mannerheim
Sumner Welles
Italy
Suez
Sweden
Norwegian
Koivisto
Chamberlain
Vipuri
Russia
Karelian
Hangoe
Aces Flow
Sylt
Scandinavia
Norway
Denmark
Oslo
Skagerrak
Dombaas
Low Countries
Flanders
Narvik
Holland
Belgium
Luxemburg
Iceland
Churcha
Rotterdam
Netherlands
Meuse
Balkan
Weygand
Gamelin
French
Churchill
Calais
Leopold
England
Dunkirk
Hitler
Somme
Aisne
Seine
Marne
Marcy
Minot
Petain
Ceres
Mpiegne
Rumania
Bessarabia
Bukovina
Asia
Africa
Gotecene
Britain, Axis clash mark deepening World War struggle
A sweeping chronicle shows July to August 1940 battles across Europe and North Africa with Britain resisting German and Italian offensives, seizing French vessels, bombing Berlin, and expanding naval conflict while Greece, Romania, and other nations move through shifting pacts and occupations.
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England
Renney
Britain
Germany
Channel
Romania
Vichy
Berlin
Alexandria
Richelieu
Mediterranean
France
Churchill
Gibraltar
Hitler
Lithuania
Latvia
Estonia
Moscow
Theoviet Union
Daladier
Haifa
Palestine
English Channel
Royal Air Force
Africa
British Somaliland
Zeila
Gulf of Aden
United States
Hemisphere
Dobruja
Bulgaria
Balkans
Italy
Transylvania
Hungary
Greece
Krupp
Neville Chamberlain
Duce
London
Burma
Sorge
Franco
Spain
Carol
Mazda
National election third term tradition broken headlines
June events outline Republican convention in Philadelphia naming Wendell Willkie for president and Charles L. McNary for vice president. Democratic convention in Chicago nominates Franklin D Roosevelt for a third term with Henry Wallace as vice president. Election results show Roosevelt and Wallace winning 38 states and 449 electoral votes, Willkie and McNary 10 states and 82 votes.
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U. S
Fdr
Roosevelt
Henry Wallace
Washington
Philadelphia
Wendell Willkie
New York
Charles L. McNary
Chicago
A. Wallace
Wallace
Willkie
McNary
Disasters strike munition plants and more across U S events
A digest lists multiple disasters including a Hercules Powder plant blast in Kenvil New Jersey that killed 41, a Minneapolis hotel fire claiming 18 lives, a West Virginia coal mine explosion with 71 fatalities, a bomber crash in rain, a winter blizzard causing widespread deaths, a Rochester Indiana circus fire killing 100 animals, a South tornado killing 13, a mine trapping at St Clairsville with 71 trapped, and other calamities including a train wreck, head-on car crash, a Natchez dance hall fire killing 247, and Peru earthquakes.
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U. S
Kenvil, N. J
Hercules Powder Co
Minneapolis
West Virginia
South
St. Clairsville
Year of Disasters and Deaths Across 1930s News Clippings
A consolidated OCR note lists numerous historic calamities: aircraft crashes in New York and Denver, a Chicago auto collision, Sonman mine explosion, Akron freight wreck, monster hurricanes battering Georgia and South Carolina, a major munition plant blast in New Jersey, a Virginia plane crash in a storm that kills Senator Lundeen and 24 others, Tom Mix killed in a 1930 auto crash, Utah mountain airliner crash, Tacoma bridge collapse, Romanian earthquake, Dakotas to Ohio windstorms, Lake Michigan sailors' deaths, Haifa refugee ship explosion, Cadiz Ohio trapping disaster, a Chicago airport crash, and a U S army power plant crash. Each item notes fatalities and impacts.
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Georgia
South Carolina
Kenvil
N. J
Denver
Lundeen
Minnesota
Virginia
Utah
Tacoma
Romania
Dakotas
Ohio
Lake Michigan
Haifa
Cadiz
Peacetime conscription caps first draft number
A historical note shows Secretary Stimson drawing the capsule with number 158, marking the nation’s first peacetime conscription as Congress debates defense funding. The period includes cabinet appointments, defense bills, and shifts in military and foreign policy amid looming global tensions.
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U. S
Henry L. Stimson
Congress
Navy
State Department
Senate
Clarence A. Dykstra
University of Wisconsin
Joseph H. Ball
Adeen
Minnesota
Sweden
Hull
Axis
Joseph B. Kennedy
Great Britain
Idahos Borah Dies in Capitol Sendoff Dies at Boise
A list of notable figures and leaders from politics, arts, and industry is presented in memory of William E. Borah of Idaho, with pallbearers in uniform carrying his body from the Idaho state capitol in Boise to his burial site. The compilation includes impressions of prominent figures such as Rufus Dawes Samuel Untermyer and Kyosti Kallio, among others, released by Western Newspaper Union.
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Idaho
Borah
William E. Borah
Idaho State Capitol
Boise
Pan American Conference Opens In Havana With Delegates
The general scene shows delegates from 21 American Republics at the Pan American Conference in Havana Cuba as the meeting opens. January 22 Japan warns America against exerting pressure. A peace agreement ends two cells. Japan tightens blockade at Tientsin concessions. On January 31 a six year old boy is named Tibet. January 7 Japan reports difficulties in relations with the United States. January 11 Belfast police clash with 2000 I R A rioters for two hours.
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Roosevelt
U. S. Army
Great Britain
Hull
Japan
Indo-China
Congress
Navy
War Department
Sam Rayburn
House
Bankhead
Ate
Mare de Tristan
Hillsboro
Calif
Census Bureau
U. S
Mare de Stan
California Hills
Havana
Cuba
America
Tientsin
China
Tibet
United States
Belfast
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Reichstag
Buckingham Palace
Egypt
Dakar
Haakon
Ania
Tvwre Connents
Taranto
Coventry
Koritza
Birmingham
Albania
Liverpool
Turkey
Atantic
Bristol
Iron Guard
Southampton
Ireland
Ionian Sea
Porto Edda
Bordeaux
Egyptian
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Laval
Flandin
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Libya
Rochester
Ind
Mac J
Little Falls
Jim
Sthosees
Natchez, Miss
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Sonman
Akron
Tom Mix
Samuel A. Stritch
Milwaukee
Frank Murphy
Supreme Court
James Cromwell
Canada
Robert H. Jackson
Clarence E. Gauss
Australia
House Committee
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Bette Davis
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Enate
Hook
Warner
Senate Committee
TVA
Power of Labor Board
Panama Canal
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Remington Arms Co
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Toronto
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Overs R. Stettinius Jr
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Chester C. Davis
Ralph Budd
Leon Henders
Miss Harriet Elliott
Naval
U. S. Supreme Court of Law
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NLRB
Treasury
Frank Knox
War Cabinet
Knox and Stimson
Burton K. Wheeler
James W. Martin
Massachusetts
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Lee
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Long
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Farley
Joint Defense Board
Claude R. Wickard
Succa Wallace
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Lewis
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Holt
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e—Getenenne
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al McCoy
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Michael O’ Dwyer
India
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Fulgencio Batista
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Eere
Axman
Leytes
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Avila Camacho
Shanghai
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Manuel Avila Camacho
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Rufus C. Dawes
Century of Progress
Samuel H. Vauclain
Lord Tweedsmuir
John Buchan
M. Reynolds
Karl Muck
Hamlin Garland
Edwin Markham
Man With the Hoe
Samuel Untermyer
William Horlick Jr
W. K. Vanderbilt Sr
Walter Kohler
Wisconsin
Mme
Tetrazzini
George Craig Stewart
Emma Goldman
Smedhey Butler
John E. Andrew
Ben Turpin
Robert Wadlow
Aiten
Til) Giant
Frederick A
Walter P. Chrys
Leon Trotsky
Sir Oliver Lodge
William B. Bankhead
House of Representatives
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Henry Horner
Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Good Samaritan
Labrador
Key Pittman
Nevada
Viscount Craigavon
Northern Ireland
Prince Salonji
Lord Rothersmere
Jan Kubelik
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