Italian Army Chief Resigns as Greeks Drive in Albania
In a chaotic wartime dispatch, Marshal Badoglio resigns as chief of Italian staff, Gen. Cavalero takes over, while Mussolini's Balkan offensive stalls amid Greek tenacity and British aid. Axis pressure intensifies with German moves into Romania and rail for oil and grain.
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Romania
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Athens
Legation
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Berlin
Germany
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Hitler
Balkan
Pietro Badoglio
Rome
Greece
Badoglio
Ugo Cavalero
East
Africa
Iron Guard
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Girl Is Winner at the 41st International Livestock Exposition
Evelyn Asay of Mt. Carroll Illinois won the junior steer competition at Chicago's International Livestock Exposition with her Hereford steer Sargo who was later named Grand Champion. Sargo sold to Firestone for 3.30 a pound to fund a family farm. Iowa State won the collegiate judging with 4430 points, Texas A and M followed second, Ohio State third.
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Chicago
Evelyn Asay
Mt. Carroll
Ill
Asay
Sargo
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Iowa State University
Texas A. & M. College
Ohio State University
Siamic Invasion Shocks Far East War Scene
Siam forces strike into Indo China amid Japan Siam alliance amid local garrison splits and fear of Singapore fall. Washington links aid to Chinese Nationalists and selective service rejections rise as U S moves to shore up Asia front. A Chicago United Airlines crash adds to wartime miscellany with probable icing on wings as cause.
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Siam
Thailand
France
Paris
Indo-China
Vichy
de Gaulle
Japan
Laung Bipul Songgram
Singapore
Far East
Indo- China
Washington
Nomura Named U S Ambassador as Harmon Reveals Career Ambition
Ad i Kichisaburo Nomura, 62, named ambassador to the United States after graduating from Annapolis. The piece notes his naval career and mentions Tom Harmon, the 1940s football star, who disclosed a surprising secret career ambition during a radio program.
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Bavey
Japan
United States
Adi Kichisaburo Nomura
Naval Ay At
Annapolis
Tom Harmon
Possum Hunting Becomes College Curriculum
Lees-McRae College in North Carolina adds possum hunting to physical education credits. Students participate in hiking at night, with possum hunting framed as part of the hiking activity required for graduation.
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Lees-McRae College
North Carolina
Who's News This Week Profiles Murray Borglum and Strong
A portrait of Philip Murray as C I O president in wartime labor leadership, his Scottish miner beginnings and later rise as a negotiator. Also features Utzon Borglum the sculptor noted for poster awards and his political ironies. Ends with Gen George W Strong, diplomat of the army, guiding hemisphere defense ideas.
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York
John L. Lewis
Philip Mur- Murray
CIO Ray
Lewis
Wilson
War Labor Board
Harding
West Virginia
Roosevelt
Eugene G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Lanarkshire
Scotland
America
Keystone Coal and Coke Company
Westmoreland County
United Mine Workers of America
George W. Strong
Great Britain
Army
Navy
Hemisphere
War Department
General Staff
General Strong
Ask Me Another General Quiz
Questions cover a range of topics from history geography language and culture. Includes who delivered the Cooper Union address which river is controlled by the Assam dam the year Hitler became dictator the official language of Liberia what an anodyne does who bore the Old Man of the Sea in fiction the spread of the Appalachian Mountains the meaning of a yashmak and how many South American landlocked countries exist.
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Utzon Borglum
William Allen White Guatzon Borglum
Amer
Ica
Adolf Hitler
Mr. Borglum
Woodrow Wilson
Posen
Poland
Fitzsimmons
Black Hills
Abraham Lincoln
Stone Mountain
Idaho
Fremont
Omaha
Neb
San Francisco
Paris
Cooper Union
Assam
Hitler
Germany
Liberia
Answers Quiz: Quick Facts Round One
Abe Lincoln, Nile river, March 1933 Reichstag act granting power, English, Relieves pain, Sinbad, From Quebec to Alabama, A double veil worn by Mohammadan women, Two, Bolivia and Paraguay.
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Abe Lincoln
Nile River
Reichstag
Quebec
Alabama
Bolivia
Paraguay
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