War era Belgian Surrender Shifts Allied Calculations
A sweeping war update details King Leopold ordering Belgian troops to surrender and a German drive along a crescent channel from Cambrai to Boulogne. It notes Paris isolation, air warfare, channel control, and hopes for a separate peace with France, while reporting British security crackdowns and Ireland’s fifth column fears amid Churchill, Mosley, and De Valera dynamics.
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Leopold
Belgium
France
Britain
Cambrai
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Abbeville
Somme
Boulogne
Calais
Dover
Napoleon
England
Erman Vers
Wmore
Channel
Lea
Antwerp
Dunkirk
Ostend
Paris
Anthony Eden
Blimps
Scotland Yard
Oswald Mosley
Lord Curzon
Five Yard
Aleg
Archibald Ramsay
Eton
John Beckett
Irish Republican Army
Ireland
Premiser de Valera
de Valera
Churchill
Mosley
Hitler
Valkyrie
U S Defense Billions and Air Armada Cost Debate
Critics questioned Roosevelts plan for 50000 airplanes and a one billion dollar addition. At six to seven billion dollars, the cost dwarfs expectations, with 30 crew per plane requiring 1.6 million personnel and a total force over two million. Lindbergh Rickenbacker and Butler urged caution amid hysteria on the eastern seaboard.
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Roosevelt
England
France
Ige
Charles A
Lindbergh
America
Rickenbacker
Smedley Butler
Marines
United States
U. S
Roosevelt and Congress clash over war funding and third term
The senate approved large war and navy funding by overwhelming votes while Treasury and aviation talks yielded little. Dies criticized the Afth column and Russia, Roosevelt teased a Rooseveltd Republican coalition, and Landon urged abandoning third-term aims as weather forecasters warned of a dirty 1940 campaign.
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Dies
Dies Committee
Afth
United States
Russia
Germany
Roosevelt
Dies & Co
Congress
Immigration-Neutralization Service
Labor Department
Department of Justce
Landon
Knox
Repubican
Carpers
Religion split among Lutherans under Nazi rule
America's third largest Protestant group the Lutherans claim over four million adherents. More than half of global Lutherans are reported to be under Nazi rule including Germany proper and its territories. Norway Denmark Slovakia and Poland are listed as under Nazi control. Holland remains Calvinist and Belgium Catholic.
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America
Martn Luther
Germany
Norway
Denmark
Slovakia
Poland
Holland
Belgium
Harvard Students Protest War Speech at Harvard
History professor Paul E. Cram urged U S entry to World War II and faced a student protest. The demonstrator, calling himself a Harvard committee member for the Recognition of Classroom Generals, and an unseen companion marched in silence.
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Paul E. Cram
Harvard University
Cambridge
Mass
America
U. S
Harvard Committee
France at War Deepens Rifts and Air Losses
French Premier Reynaud harshly criticized his army while a top general was reportedly captured in action. Reynaud promised solidarity with Britain. Allied aircraft production dropped to 1000 a month as German output rose to 8000. German bombers claimed hits on British transports in the channel, yet three hospital ships carrying wounded reached safety.
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Reynaud
Prove Anything by Statistics Across World War II Claims
A collage of wartime rival claims from Paris London and Berlin asserts German losses of 1000 planes in two weeks and 500000 men in the Dutch Belgian French offensive, countered by Berlin with far smaller figures. It notes Luftwaffe vs Hurricane clashes and disputed civilian casualties at Rotterdam with sensational numbers.
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Paris
London
Berlin
Rotterdam
Holland
NAMES in the news Rev Dr William Lindsay Young Moderates Assembly
Rev Dr William Lindsay Young chosen moderator of the 152nd Presbyterian general assembly in Rochester New York representing Parls College Missouri. Six candidates competed. In New York City Aaron Copland elected president of the American Composers Alliance. Mayor LaGuardia commented on international tensions and joined the Defense committee. A judge weighed a rare case involving Alfonso Jansen who slapped Susie Hall in New York. Alfred Duff Cooper noted Allied gains from propaganda and Sir Samuel Hoare was linked to a Spain mission amid Franco Mussolini dynamics.
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William Lindsay Young
Parls College
Missouri
General Assembly
Presbyterian Church
United States
Presbyterian General Assembly
Rochester
N. Y
Aaron Copland
American Composers Alliance
New York City
LaGuardia
New York
Committee For the Defense of America
Alfonso Jansen
Susie Hall
Susie
Jansen
Atria
Spain
Franco
Mussolini
Plan for British fleet mortgage to finance war debts
The piece outlines a proposal from L. W. Chip Robert to mortgage the British fleet in exchange for immediate war credits and to suspend the Johnson act. It notes fears over losing Britain as a defense bulwark and the U S need to defend both coasts. It also mentions plans to back allied credits with Western hemisphere possessions and potential U S action regarding Greenland if Hitler moves there.
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Washington, D. C
U. S
L. W
Chip
Robert
Democratic National Committee
Hag & Plan
Western Hemisphere
United States
Pacific
Atlantic
Jail term idea stirs debate on punishment and law
In a lively set of quotes and anecdotes, readers debate a new New York law allowing prisoners to serve jail terms in a piecework schedule around work hours. Elmer Twitchell questions whether punishment loses its bite, while examples and historical notes on Western Hemisphere defense and Latin American cooperation mix with satirical riffs and poems.
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New York State
Elmer Twitchell
Hemisphere
United States
Western Hemisphere
Roosevelt
Congress
Panama Canal
Latin America
Brazil
Philadelphia
San Francisco
U. S. Navy
U. S. Army
Miss Fixit Discovers Color Plan From Favorite Picture
Ruth Wyeth Spears presents Miss Fixit who unearths a room color plotting rule from Book No 4. A colorful makeover of an old rocker demonstrates how color power can transform a home on a small budget. Send 10 cents to request Book 4.
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Miss. Fixit
Miss Fixit
Misa Fixit
Tricky Quiz Questions From a Historic Column
A set of riddle style questions asks about differences between a planet and a star, canary and elephant heart rates, methods of preparing jerked venison, the meaning of the fifth estate, a Midwestern city named by Indians after a skunk, how many U.S. vice presidents became presidents, a lamps first light in a dark room, the pirogue meaning, latitude degrees from pole to equator, and the nautical term for a parachute jump action.
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United States
North Pole
Equator
Answers Riddle Style Set Part One
Answers cover planetary light star definitions Canary eats 1000 times per minute Elephant 25 beats per minute Sun dried Four estates named fifth estate Chicago Nine presidents listed Adams Jefferson Van Buren Tyler Fillmore Johnson Arthur Theodore Roosevelt Coolidge The match A dug out canoe Ninety degrees Bailing out
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Chicago
Adams
Jefferson
van Buren
Tyler
Fillmore
Johnson
Arthur
Theodore Roosevelt
Coolidge
Soothing Skin Care Jelly Ad and Proverb Passage
An old advertisement praises white petroleum jelly for soothing chafed skin alongside a curmudgeonly proverb about speaking up. The fragment blends product copy with a moral maxim attributed to Lord Chesterfield, emphasizing restraint in being heard.
Neighborly Courage Verse Reflection by George Eliot
A quoted line praises neighborly bravery amid everyday acts of courage. The saying frames bravery as a public virtue when shown for a neighbor, highlighting communal loyalty and moral imagination. The text uses literary authority to valorize ordinary Neighborly acts.
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George Eliot
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