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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1941
Page
7
Edward C. Wayne reports from Washington as Congress holds open hearings on lease lend. The piece notes varied opinions on U S aid to Britain and Italy's revolts while FDR meets a British envoy regarding American arrival, reflecting editor’s analysis.
The testimony centers on Charles Lindbergh during a congressional hearing on the administration’s lineup. He urges caution, opposes immediate war entry, and proposes a strong U S fleet while leveraging the Monroe Doctrine. Other figures press him on pro or anti British stances and the path to negotiated peace.
Former ambassador Bullitt testifies before the House Foreign Affairs committee, endorsing Roosevelt's plan for aid to Britain short of war and urging readiness to defend the United States by 1946 if England falls. He warns of a one ocean navy and notes Japanese naval buildup in 1941. Separate dispatches describe Italian military unrest and Nazi control in northern Italy, with Mussolini and Hitler’s conference and rising antiwar resistance among Italian troops. President Roosevelt meets Halifax aboard the King George V in Annapolis, breaking precedent with a water edge greeting.
Mrs Brown greets a wrathful neighbor who shows a brick her boy hurled through a window. She replies with delight and asks for the brick as a memento of the boy’s youthful pranks, noting they will be interesting when Herbert grows up.
A set of seven trivia prompts covering stirrup cups canals canal construction roman emperors consulships animal origins catgut mythological transformations and dining cats on railroads with questions on etymology and introduction dates.
The list includes a farewell drink, the Suez Canal with dates 1859 to 1869, Caligula, the word set with 30000 senses cited by the Oxford English Dictionary, sheep, Circe, and the first railway dining car on the Baltimore and Ohio route in 1863.
The piece describes a guest area with a folding cot stored under a frame and skirted blue denim cover. A makeshift medicine cabinet on feet from spools is painted red inside and out, with a mirrored door lit by wall brackets.
A brief reflection on the idea that the word homie creates a mystic circle around comfort and virtue. The notion celebrates friendship and belonging anchored by a simple term.
The quote reflects Phillips Brooks noting the common man's task is hardest though heroes seek loftier aims. He states great duties pale beside smaller tasks that demand more blood and agony in labor and aspiration.
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