Global Crisis Deepens As Axis Odds Grow
Edward C Wayne surveys rising tensions with Japan and Germany as the United States weighs precautions. He notes Japan may strike if Britain falters, the Burma road opening, and Tokyo pressing for U.S. concessions. militaries mobilize, draft plans proceed, and Allied air raids intensify on German targets.
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Americans
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Italy
Berlin
Washington
United States
Britain
Prince Fumimaro Konoye
England
Burma
China
State Department
Near East
Burma Road
U. S
Japanese Press Association
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Guam
Midway Islands
Rome
Mussolini
Canada
All Out in Final Presidential Campaign Swing
In the month before election day Willy Willkie campaigned through the East Midwest region focusing on defense and labor while Roosevelt toured steel plants in Pennsylvania and Ohio. The campaign featured a Rome dispatch cited by Roosevelt and Columbia University debated academic freedom amid wartime tension. Steve Vasilakos received citizenship papers after failed tests and pledged Red Cross aid. A California kidnapper, Wilhelm Muhlenbreich, began a life sentence after pleading guilty.
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Wendell L. Willkie
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New England
Midwest
New York State
Ohio
Illinois
Missouri
America
Hitler
Europe
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Terrace Village
U. S. Housing Authority
White House
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Minnesota
Henry A. Wallace
Charles A. McNary
Washington
Federal Works Administration
King of England
District of Columbia
Steve Vasilakos
Red Cross
Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbreich
California
Count
Countess de Tristan
Washington Digest Armament Boom Forecast by McDonald Letter
Washington readers are shown a memo from Zenith Radio president Eugene F. McDonald Jr. predicting a massive government armament program spurring labor and profit. The piece notes monthly defense spending, retail chain gains, and related economic effects through 1946, plus political shifts around Hiram Johnson and Roosevelt.
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Carter Field
Western Newspaper Union
Washington
Eugene F. McDonald Jr
Zenith Radio Corporation
Caesar
United States
Congress Welcomes Georgia Woman to House Seat
Florence Reville Gibbs, elected from Georgia to fill her late husband’s term, becomes the ninth woman in Congress. The grandmother with a deep southern accent takes her place in the House of Representatives.
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Congress
House of Representatives
Florence Reville Gibbs
Georgia
Gibbs
Government war contracts seen to spur nationwide boom
The Washington correspondent says large government contracts for war materiel will trigger widespread economic growth across the United States. Field predicts Senator Hiram Johnson’s support could shift the state toward Willkie in next month’s election.
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United States
White House
Edward R. Burke
Nebraska
William H. King
Utah
Johnson
Willkie
Wendell Willkie
Roosevelt
Senate
Carter
Field
Hiram Johnson
Doilies Pattern 2608 Directions and Illustrations
Pattern 2608 provides step by step directions for making crochet or tatting doilies, accompanied by illustrations of the finished pieces and the materials required. Includes yarn types hooks and needle sizes.
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