Weekly News Analysis by Farnham F. Dudgeon
An editorial outlines Nazi Belgium advances and Allied retreat, with Hitler pressing toward Paris and London. It notes Roosevelt's fireside chats pushing national defense, a proposed 10 percent tax rise for armament funding, and a presidential commission to marshal resources. Industry leaders from U S Steel to General Motors join the defense effort as Morgenthau considers car model cuts.
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Defense
Army
Mojave
Calif
Desert
U. S
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Chicago
U. S. Comptroller of the Currency
United States
Alaska
Hawaii
Virgin Islands
U. S. Civil Service Commission
Communist Party
F Bund
Commu
Neighbors in Mexico Pan out on Trotsky and Other News
In Mexico Trotsky fears exile safety as guards watch his home while Panamanian authorities foil a supposed plot to disrupt their 1940 presidential election. Moore McCormack launches new North South America shipping routes as trade report shows export decline, signaling renewed business life.
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Leon Trotsky
Mexico
Trotsky
Joseph Stalin
Panama
U. S
Moore-McCormack Lines
North
South America
Atlantic
Pacific
Albert W. Moore
Commerce Department
Washington defense drive reshapes New Deal politics
Washington observes a shift as defense planning draws in industry leaders and sidelights New Deal reformers. Roosevelt’s defense program links with business, while reformers resist changes risking their social agenda. Cabinet reshuffles and stronger wartime powers loom as Europe’s war intensifies.
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Europe
New Deal
Roosevelt
Washington
White House
Leche Goes On Trial for Mail Fraud Linked to Truck Deal
Seven months after resigning as Louisiana governor, Richard W. Leche faces mail fraud charges tied to a truck deal that allegedly netted him and two others a total of 113,370 dollars. The report notes the involvement of actor Walter Conn.
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Louisiana
Richard W. Leche
Huey P. Me
Walter Con
Lauriston Taylor Directs Corona Cap Mounting at X-ray Facility
Lauriston Taylor, physicist with the U S Bureau of Standards, oversees placing the corona cap on the world’s largest X-ray machine in Washington DC. The device, capable of 1 500 000 volts, was built in the bureau’s high voltage lab and aims to set a standard for hospital and cancer clinic use nationwide.
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Lauriston Taylor
U. S. Bureau of Standards
Bureau
Washington, D. C
Household Tips From AROUND The House
Items of Interest give practical advice on home care. Tips cover ironing fatigue reduction with a heavy rug, baking honey sweetened cakes at moderate oven heat, salting eggs after rinsing plates, storing polishing cloths to avoid spontaneous combustion, speeding ice and dessert freezing with water in a freezer, and rotating large rugs every six weeks to reduce wear on high traffic areas.
War Talk and Politics Behind War Hysteria in Washington
William Bruckart argues that social reforms from the New Deal are pushed aside in official Washington as war hysteria grows. Politicians fear practical businessmen may replace reformers to speed up the President’s plan to build up America’s home defense program.
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Senate
House
U. S
Washington
Europe
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Federal Contracts Board
Department of Labor
William Bruckart
America
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