Wheeler Seeks C I O Backing In Presidential Push
A New Englander from Montana, Sen. Burton Wheeler, travels from Washington to Columbus as he courts CIO and United Mine Workers backing. He outlines a platform emphasizing neutrality, labor support, private jobs, relief, and unemployment solutions, while remaining cautious about Roosevelt’s third term. John Lewis and UMW leadership criticize the administration but signal possible support if Wheeler runs.
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Columbus
Roosevelt
Wheeler
Tne
Montana
Washington
Burton K. Wheeler
I. 0
John Lewis
United Mine Workers In
Lewis
Jack Garner
Paul V. McNutt
Mr. Lewis
Beut
Labor
America
Congress Debates Japan Embargo and Trade Pact Fallout
The piece outlines U S internal debate over ending the 1911 trade pact with Japan and imposing an arms embargo amid Japan's actions in the Orient. It notes divisions in Washington with senators split over how forcefully to respond while Japan retaliates against Britain and China.
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Tokyo
U. S
Japan
Orient
Britain
Tientsin
Britta
Fred
U.S
Wang Ching-wei
China
Washington
State Department
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
NIBLETS UTILITIES AND WAR NEWS SUMMARY
Securities watchers say public utilities face imminent enforcement as is. Britain’s Treasury reports nearly ten percent of its readily marketable American securities sold in early wartime months. Italian press spreads rumors of Ukraine arrests after a plot to kill Stalin Molotov and Voroshilov. Churchill.upheavals claim Britain and France dwarf 1914 German strength.
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Securities and Exchange
Jerome N. Frank
Washington
Treasury
Britain
Russia
Rome
Duce
Girnele d'Italia
Ukraine
Josef Stalin
Viacheslavy Molotov
Klementi Voroshiloff
Winston Churchill
Nazi Germany
Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
Names in the News Highlights Klaus, Borah, Harkness
Barry Hopkins returns to work after months as commerce secretary while John Thomas Gooding Ida Ho banker is named U S senator to replace the late William E Borah. Kaiser Wilhelm II, exiled, turns eighty one in Doorn Netherlands. Edward S Harkness philanthropist who gave away over 100 million died at 68 in New York.
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Barry Hopkins
Commerce
John Thomas
Gooding
Idaho
U. S
Wiliam E. Borah
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Doorn
Netherlands
Edward S. Harkness
Standard Oil
New York
Embargo Debate Shapes U S Rights Amid Parity Talks
The article notes Senator Schwel lenbach urging an embargo to align with nine power treaty terms and satisfy public opinion. It also reports Congress debating budget cuts, expecting to scrap over 200 million for farm parity payments while avoiding new taxes and debt increases.
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U. S
Schwellenbach
Japan
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Neutrals in Headlines and Romania Oil Dilemma
U S urged Americans in Sweden to depart amid reports of German troop concentrations across the Baltic. Washington did not confirm the claim. Romania faced pressure over oil shipments to Germany as Allied interests warned of suspending ties. Meanwhile Soviet forces suffered heavy casualties around the Mannerheim line and Lake Ladoga as the front yielded few clear gains.
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U. S
Sweden
Swedish Foreign Press Department
Baltic
State Department
Washington
Rumania
Germany
Reich
Klog Caral
London
Paris
Romania
Carol
Bessarabia
Finland
Lake Ladoga
Mannerheim
Dressiest Ten Women Named World’s Best Dressed
James Cromwell’s wife Doris Duke Cromwell, famed as the “richest girl,” earned a place among the world’s ten best dressed in a Paris poll. The list spans royalty and heiresses, including Duchess of Kent and Windsor, Queen Elizabeth, and Countess Barbara Hutton-Reventlow, with diverse wardrobes and Paris connections.
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James Cromwell
U. S
Canada
Doris Duke Cromwell
Paris
United Press
Cromwell
Duchess of
Know Your News Question Set From Wartime Quiz
The prompt presents six trivia questions about wartime events and geography. Questions ask for the ship that rescued passengers then held by Russia, the purpose behind Canada's sudden election, a late January weather outlook in the southern U S, a choice about unseasonably warm to cold weather, the noted explorer who discovered new mountains and their location, and a Vatican memorandum accusing Germany of trying to destroy Catholicism in a specific country.
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U. S
Russia
Canada
Vatican
Germany
Dominions War Record Questioned by Flint Citizens
City of Flint debates exposing the dominion government war record to the people amid widespread complaints. The memo cites millions in damage to fruit and vegetable properties in Florida and a 10 inch snowfall in Atlanta. Rear Admiral Richard Byrd reportedly found new mountains near Marie Byrd Land in Antarctica. The memorandum also accuses Poland of mass shootings, manhunts, plundering, and persecutions.
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Flint
Florida
Atlanta
Richard B. Byrd
Marig Byrd Land
Antarctic
Poland
Justice: Christian Front in 1917 Revolution Link
The piece notes 1917 czarist overthrow by 22 men and 17 U S. arrests in New York of so called Christian Fronters. FBI chief Hoover calls the group aimed at revolution and anti Jewish. Rev Charles E Coughlin later calls himself a friend of the accused. DOJ reviewed after a week.
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U.S. Justice Department
New York
Russia
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Detroit
Charles E. Coughlin
Justice Department
Q. John Rogge
Mexico tilts to Japan over oil after war blocks sales
Mexico previously sold expropriated U S and British oil to Germany before Europe’s war disrupted trade. With the United States ending its trade pact with Japan, President Lazaro Cardenas has approached Tokyo as Japan seeks to invest in a Pacific port dredging and petroleum storage expansion in Mexico amid fears of a U S embargo on war materials.
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Europe
Mexico
U.S
Germany
U. S
Japan
Lazaro Cardenas
Tokyo
Congress
Pacific
Public opinion and arms trade in wartime headlines
A Gallup poll shows 60 percent favor public consultation before another war, up from 51 percent. Arms exports rose from 89 million in 1938 to 204,555,780 in 1989, highlighting aircraft and ships as major items.
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Gallup
U. S
Mrs Borah to Write as War Clouds Gather
Mrs Borah may turn her gentle wit to writing while plans for her future remain uncertain. She will decide where to settle after visiting relatives in Moscow and Portland, with an estate and congressional widow’s pension aiding her.
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Washington
Borah
William E. Borah
Idaho
Boise
Congress
Moscow
Portland
Ore
Mast
Arthur Menken Brings War’s Chaos to Life in Viipuri Photo
A profile of Arthur Menken, Harvard 1925, New York socialite turned photographer, detailing his perilous wartime work filming the Finnish city Viipuri after Russian bombers, his foreign exploits, and his role in documenting “the giant agony of the world” for an American film company. Also notes Prof. Joseph C. Green of Princeton, a diction and munition expert, and his Washington connections on national defense issues.
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EW York
News Hawk
Omar
Arthur Menken
New York
Viipuri
Harvard
Mr. Menken
Milton
S. Stanwood Menken
Social
Orinoco
South America
Africa
China
Euripides
Menken
International Dictionary
Joseph ¢. Green
Princeton University
State Department
Washington
Japan
Russia
Mr. Green
Professor Green
Cincinnati
Green
Princeton
Europe
Bordentown Military Institute
Mare Nations Central
Government Census April sparkers a comic clash
A repeated census man confronts skeptical residents in a quizzical exchange about ownership, loans, work, and privacy. The dialog blends humor with political targets as April census plans and related satirical pieces appear alongside winter sports jokes and light gossip from Miami Beach.
Shirred Dress With Corselette Waistline Pattern 8634
The sewing pattern 8634 offers a shirred dress with a corsetike waist, square neckline, full bodice and rippling skirt. Suitable for sizes 12 to 20, it suits both housewear and street wear in bold cottons or printed silk. Send 15 cents, name, address, and size to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., Chicago.
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Riorae
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Happiness Lies In Inner Change Not External
A reflection on human nature quotes Colton, arguing that seeking happiness by altering others or external things fails. True contentment comes only from changing one’s own dispositions and refraining from chasing futile reforms. The idea emphasizes self-mastery over external influence.
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Colton
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