Dewey Gains Steam With New York Wisconsin Victories
In early April the campaign gains momentum as Dewey outpoints Vandenberg for GOP delegates in Wisconsin and leads in New York. Roosevelt faces questions on a third term while politics buzzes over a new government reorganization plan and fiscal moves.
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N. Y
Wisconsin
Congress
Senate
Alben Barkley
New York
Tom Dewey
Cactus Jack Garner
Empire State
G. O. P. Hope
Frank Gannett
America
Michigan
Arthur Vandenberg
Franklin Roosevelt
Jack Garner
Los Angeles
Eleanor Roosevelt
Europe
Sumner Welles
White House
Germany
Monongah
W. Va
John Lewis
Montana
Burton K. Wheeler
San Francisco
Pelley Faces Un-Americanism Hearings Seek Dictator Claim
Dies committee sessions reveal William Dudley Pelley head of the pro fascist Silver Legion confronted by Dorothy Waring who says he sought financial backing and a march on Washington. Agents also raid Philadelphia Communist party HQ seizing membership lists and financial records.
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King Pelley
William Dudley Pelley
Washington
Dies un-Americanism Committee
Pelley
Dorothy Waring
McCormack Committee
Miss Waring
Dies
New York
Legion
The
Coun
Try
Philadelphia
Trend Chain Stores Debate Reaches Congress and Courts
Secretary Henry Wallace opposes Texas Rep. Patman’s chain store tax bill saying it would hamper efficient marketing and drive large interstate chains out of business. Supreme Court agrees to review AFL labor protest against anti-picketing in Chicago milk wagon dispute. Winter wheat outlook rises to 450 million bushels. New Orleans wage hour ruling upholds minimum wage for cotton mills. March income tax receipts reach 665.486 million, up 31 percent from 1939. AT&T April gain adds 82 thousand telephones in the U S.
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Henry Wallace
Texas
Wright Patman
Wallace
U. S
Supreme Court
A. F. of L
Chicago
New Orleans
Fifth
U. S. Circuit
Cleveland talk links belts to thrombosis risk
During the American College of Physicians meeting in Cleveland a former president discussed how diaphragm-raising elastic belts used by businessmen may increase cancer risk of coronary thrombosis by reducing heart oxygen intake. Dr William J Kerr of San Francisco highlighted the idea that these belts lift the diaphragm and can impair oxygen delivery to the heart.
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Cleveland
American College of Physicians
William J. Kerr
San Franciisco
News Quiz: Questions on governance, China, fashions, and repairs
The quiz covers a controversy over a signature and asks if the Earl of Athlone was made governor general of Australia, whether the U S recognized Wang Ching Wei's regime, if spring fashions emphasize hips, and a multiple choice timing question about chair repair by WPA workers in San Francisco.
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Earl of
Potocki Signature Questioned in Diplomatic Probe
German sources claim Potocki, Polish ambassador, signed a document about talks with William Bullitt promising aid to the Allies, though experts call the signature a forgery. The quiz notes facts about governance and editors while confirming option (C) as correct and a job cost of $190.
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Potocki
U. S
William Bullitt
France
Bullitt
Canada
Australia
Wang
Carmen Snow
Harper's Bazaar
Government Ownership Taxing Problem Stirs Hearings
William Brackart reports six southern states face lost tax revenue as TVA and other public power projects reduce taxable property. Taxed properties vanish, forcing higher local rates while lawmakers weigh bills to reimburse regions. The piece cites 1939 tax payments by 441 private power and light firms across many states and warns of broader public ownership expansion.
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William Brackart
National Press Bldg
Washington, D. C
Washington
House Committee On Military Affairs
Alabama
Tennessee
Kentucky
North Carolina
Mississippi
Georgia
Sen
George Norris
Nebraska
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Southland
Roosevelt
Tennessee Electric Power Company
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Inter-Mountain
Norris
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Congress
Maine
New Hampshire
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Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
North Dakota
South Dakota
Kansas
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Virginia
West Virginia
North and
South Carolina
Florida
Arkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Texas
Montana
Idaho
Utah
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico
Arizona
Nevada
Oregon
California
Gallipoli defeat fuels Churchill blame and wartime shifts
In a World War II era reflection the article frames Gallipoli as a bloodied failure with Winston Churchill bearing blame as then first lord of the admiralty. It notes Churchill’s defense of the plan and links to broader Allied moves as Hitler’s spring offensive looms and Chamberlain reshapes leadership. Paul Reynaud promises France will resist a phony peace.
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Gallipoli
Winston Churchill
Admiralty
Churchill
Adolf Hitler
Hermann Goering
West
Scapa Flow
Germany
Chamberlain
Kingsley Wood
John Simon
Czar
Paris
Paul Reynaud
America
France
Italian exile son returns home to visit mother
In Rome Gen Giuseppe Garibaldi Baldi, son of the patriot and long time exile, ends a 16 year stay to visit his ill mother and declares submission to Fascism by writing Diector Mussolini. In Helsinki Finns surrender jewelry to raise 6 million dollars for pursuit planes.
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Rome
Giuseppe Garibaldi
U. S
Mussolini
Helsinki
Lost tax dollars hit southern states tax bodies
Lost tax dollars in six southern states from properties once privately owned but now federally owned deprive state, county, and local taxing bodies of revenue. Congress is considering remedial legislation to restore funds.
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William Bruckart
Washington
Congress
Novel Cutout Patterns Offer Duck and Sunbonnet Girl
The ad promotes two new decorative cutouts for wall board or thin lumber: a 19 inch duck with a Keep Off Grass sign and a Use Walk sign on pattern Z9086, 15 cents, plus a 24 inch sunbonnet girl with a sprinkling can on pattern 79088, 15 cents. Each pattern includes general cutout directions and painting tips.
Making Amends With Paperhanger Mix Up
Whitley had his dining room and bathroom redecorated. The workers finished to find the dining room wallpaper in the bathroom and the bathroom tiled with water lilies, while the dining room showed only green tiles. The paperhanger offered to move the bath but blamed the plumber.
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Whitley
Actions and Friends The True Test of Affection
A concise reflection on how deeds reveal friendship beyond spoken promises. Washington argues that actions, not words, prove attachment, and that generous professions of goodwill are not reliable indicators of true friendship.
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George Washington
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