Danzig Peace Rumors Clash With Polish British Talks
Reports tie Danzig crisis to Warsaw London consultations as Maj. Gen. Ironside arrives to bolster Poland's defenses. Britain denies appeasement while Chamberlain backs guarantees, and rumors of a large German loan surface amid mounting WPA wage-strike turmoil and Louisiana corruption probes.
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East Prussia
Danzig
Albert Forster
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Warsaw
Germany
London
Berlin
Poland
Britain
Edmund Ironside
General Ironside
Neville Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Nevile Henderson
Hitler
Fleet Street
Congress and Britain Face War Debates and Emergency Spending
Congress grapples with delaying neutrality legislation as the Senate considers embargoes on Japan and canceling the 1911 trade treaty. Bond exchanges and RFC lending plans surface while Treasury and lending officials tout jobs and economic relief. In Britain, wavering wheat prices spark Keynesian talk of a 100 million pound stockpile for war reserves, with storage limits shaping the plan.
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Congress
Europe
White House
Stephen
Franklin Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U. S
Japan
Selves
Jesse Jones
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr
New York
James Mead
Senate
Charles McNary
House
New Jersey
Mary Norton
North Carolina
Graham Barden
Logan
Congressional
Labor Board
Circuit Court of Appeals
New Mexico
John J.dempsey
Carl Hatch
John Waynard Keynes
England
British Isles
Tyrol Tensions Over Italianization and Foreign Evictions
The Tyrolean farming region resists Italianization and refuses to be returned to Germany. A tourist trade suffers as Mussolini orders foreigners expelled while Hitler pressures Tyrolians. Italy denies rumors of leasing or ceding the area to Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italian Tyrol
Germany
Mussolini
Tyrol
Hitler
Italy
Broadening the 1940 Farm Program Meets AAA Goals
Washington announces a broader 1940 Whole Farm Program with stronger soil conservation and wider farmer participation. The plan, framed after a three day AAA conference, also stresses parity payments and tree planting while acknowledging bureaucratic complexity and farmer contract requirements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
Mr. Webster
Pay-Off on the 1940 Farm Program Sparks Critique
The column blasts AAA plans to pay farmers $2 for vegetable gardens under the 1940 program. It warns regulations are not yet issued and denounces state subsidies as wasteful, predicting higher taxes and political manipulation, while urging scrutiny of federal spending.
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Louisiana State University
James Monroe Smith
Canada
Smith
LSU
George Caldwell
E. N. Jackson
Clarence A. Lorie
State Medical Society
Louisiana
U. S
U. S. Treasury
Department
Huey Long
Dr. Smith
Seymour Weiss
J. Emory Adams
AAA
Uncle Sam
Maine
Idaho
South
Treasury
Western Newspaper Union
Roosevelt Mcutt touted as likely ticket in 1940
In New York the gossip column notes a trusted informant claims Roosevelt and Mcutt will headline the 1940 Democratic ticket. Washington reports a daily deficit around 22 million dollars in the new fiscal year’s first two weeks. A rescue operation in the Mid Pacific saves 209 aboard Bokuyo Maru. In Tokyo talks on British rights in China stall and collapse. In Jerusalem Arabs kidnap Dr Jacob Goldner and his son after demanding a $5,000 ransom. Dr Goldner later released.
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Washington
Treasury
U. S
Mid-Pacific
Tokyo
China
Jerusalem
Jacob Goldner
Cleveland
Gerould
Goldner
Hooked Rug Pattern With Gay Flower Motif
Advertisement details a hooked scatter rug pattern featuring a bright gay flower motif. Pattern 2207 includes transfer motif 15 by 20 inches, hooking directions, color chart, and key. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave New York for pattern and include name and address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
N. Y
Flying Is Risky Business As Viewed by Pedestrian
A pedestrian crosses a busy street while watching an overhead airplane. Three buses narrowly miss him and seven other cars struggle to avoid contact. Wind and traffic wear at his suit and shoe as he mutters about airmen leading dangerous lives.
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Willo Sheridan
Miss Mchigan Aviation
Willo
Manhattan
Dickinson
New York
Lansing
John B. Corliss Jr
Corliss
Well Mannered To Have Faithfully Studied The Arts
A reflective note on how careful study of honorable arts shapes character, tempering behavior and reducing harshness as proposed by the quoted source.
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Ovid
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