Armament Drive Gaining Momentum Amid Munich Aftermath
The piece surveys a worldwide arms build up sparked by the Munich accord and Churchill urging U S leadership. It notes Britain France and Germany mobilizing and highlights Bernard Baruch's proposed U S defense program including a two ocean navy and new taxes. It also covers Japan's South China action, China’s defenses, and a rising espionage focus with trials in New York and the risk of stronger peacetime anti spy laws.
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Europe
Great Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Alps
U. S
Britain
Winston Churchill
White House
Bernard Baruch
War Industries Board
Mr. Baruch
Hemisphere
South America
Roosevelt
PWA
Japan
Russia
Canal Zone
New York
Johanna Hoffman
Europa
Guenther Gustav Rumrich
U. S. Army
U.S
Rumrich
America
Secret Service
Naval Intelligence
Culture and economy shape ancient civilizations
The passage argues culture depends on economic prosperity, citing Greece’s flourishing culture during its wealth and trade network and Roman literature blooming at the empire’s commercial peak, with culture waning as economies declined.
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Greece
Jiffy Knit Squares Pattern Ad and Cultural Essay
An old advertisement promotes pattern 1820 for a simple knit square with two strands on large needles. It also includes a lengthy essay praising advertising’s role in culture and American production, noting 150 years of productivity and education funding through ads, followed by copyright 1938.
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Needlecraft
Erm
Eighth Ave
New York
America
United States
It's Up to Them and the War Within
A compact reflection on self conflict and stubbornness for a good aim. The piece contrasts a bird in the hand with vulgarity and suggests practical restraint at meals. It laments conversations with uninterested people as the hardest uphill work.
Wise and Otherwise: quotes on charm and human folly
A columnist muses that poor English destroys charm and that water power lies in a woman's tears. He likens jealousy to egotism, notes savers are taxed, and warns that minding others' business is the least rewarding job. He quips about bent pins and catching big fish.
Charter Oak descendants planted in parks and memorials
The Charter Oak fell in Hartford on August 21, 1856. Fragments became gavels frames and chairs. Seedlings grow at Israel Putnam Memorial in Redding and Bushnell Park Hartford, with others across Connecticut and a descendant near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D C.
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Hartford
Conn
Redding
Bushnell Park
Connecticut
Lincoln Memorial
Washington, D. C
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Joseph W. la Bine
South China
Hankow
Canton
Hankow-Canton
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Far East
Philippines
Munich
Pacific
Congress
Mahatma Gandhi
Czechoslovakia
DE Stanley High
Bat Gee
WNU Service
The
Charter Oak
Pells
Prince Albert
W. Harry White
P. A
Mees
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