Early 1940 Outlook Presses GOP Victory in House
In a late term preview Joseph LaBine argues the 1940 political landscape favors Republicans seizing House control and expanding Senate seats. He notes probes of the NLRB, Hatch and Logan bills, and the looming 1940 census shaping labor, migration, and fertility data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G.O.P
Senate
Labor Board
New Jersey
Mary T. Norton
Virginia
Howard W. Smith
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
White House
Hatch
House
New Mexico
Carl M. Hatch
Senate Banking Committee
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Ae Corporation
Smart Re- Schileac
Congress
RFC
St. Joseph
Marshall County
Indiana
U. S
Britain shifts China policy after Tokyo talks
In Tokyo preliminary talks, British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie acknowledged the need for stronger Japanese defensive steps in China and ended Britain's aid program to China. This policy reversal signals a Far East shift with aims to curb British interests in the region and influence over China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Robert Leslie Craigie
China
Britain
Far East
Japan Faces Severe Shortage Crippling War Efforts
Reports indicate Japan endures a deepening economic strain from the China war with a record drought gripping central and southern regions. The drought threatens rice supplies and worsens a hydroelectric power shortage, jeopardizing power for the nation’s industrial acceleration program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
China
Wise and Otherwise Coined Sayings Recalled in Garden Row
A reflective regional note compares sayings about wisdom and truth with a garden scene. It mentions a seaside worker earning 2.50 a day for litter collection and questions whether honesty pays in dealing with bosses.
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Len
Riders through the sea race on Irish Atlantic coast
A new horse race method called Riders through the sea unfolds on the west coast of Ireland. One mile race starts a quarter mile up the sandy shore with riders in bathing suits, advancing into the sea where swimming becomes needed and currachs aid riders and horses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Atlantic Ocean
London
Garbled Cause With Genuine After-Effect
A garbled medical note describes Mrs. Homely preparing for travel and receiving typhoid vaccination. She later suffers a severe headache and illness, while her child delivers a mistaken line to the visiting vicar claiming she was intoxicated yesterday. The fragment hints at unintended, humorous miscommunication.
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Joseph W. Labine
Western Newspaper Union
Franklin Roosevelt
Hyde Park
James Farley
Washington
Census Bureau
Mary Norton
AYES
Anv
Owance
Nias
Ato
Gantic
Homelire
Ane
Firestone Dealer
Firestone Auto Supply and Service Store
Rat Gate International
San Francisco
Firestone
Sestor Co
C. Red
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