League of Nations in decline and reform hopes
A sharp critique traces the League of Nations decline to leadership under Joseph Avenol, citing appeasement trends and failed sanctions from Manchuria to Czechoslovakia. It notes a revived possibility via a British French Russian pact, contingent on leadership change and Geneva reforms.
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Avenol
Ebirth
Geneva
League of Nations
Braver
Mien
League
Japan
Italy
Germany
Europe
Great Britain
Joseph A. C. Avenol
Manchuria
Ethiopia
Spain
China
Mr. Avenol
Averol
Russia
Britain
France
Trend update on armament and rubber demand in the 1930s era
Russia raised its 1939 defense budget by about 50 percent to keep pace with Germany and Italy, an estimated extra cost near 8 billion dollars. J M Slattery predicts a 50 percent rise in world rubber consumption over the next decade, driven by items like cushions, flooring, and plastics. U S gasoline use in 1938 grew slightly while car registrations fell modestly, and Berlin tightens restrictions on areas for non Aryans in the new ghetto decree.
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Russia
Germany
Italy
J. M. Slattery
Fisk Tre Executive
U. S
Berlin
Justice Lauer to resign amid smuggling case
A record notes Justice Edgar J. Lauer of the New York Supreme Court plans to resign after his wife was convicted and sentenced for smuggling. The item also lists unrelated schedule notes about debt payments due and future expeditions and political campaigns.
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Edgar J. Lauer
New York Supreme Court
Finland
Hungary
Donald B. MacMillan
Boothbay Harbor
Maine
Arctic
Paul V. McNutt
U. S
Philippines
Indiana
San Francisco
Egyptian Crocodile Chase Nearly Ends Adventure at Sea
George Dorste of Bardonia New York faced a Nile crocodile while swimming off a tramp steamer in Egypt in 1912. A native sailor and crewmen saved him with scrap iron shots that drove the beast under the water as Dorste was pulled to shore and onto a boat.
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Ello
Bailiwick
George C. Dorste
Bardonia
Rockland County
N. Y
Egypt
George
Nile
Medinet el Faiyum
George Dorste
Repthe
Union
Hollywood
Griffith
Wildlife Week Aims for Black Bass Protection
The National Wildlife Federation notes rising laws shielding the black bass. Most states restrict sale and interstate shipment of illegally caught fish. It emphasizes that bass spawn only when waters are right and guarding males should be protected until eggs hatch to preserve bass family members.
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Wildlife Federation
National Wildlife Federation
America
Adventurous Americans and Civil War Raiders in Canada and Jones County
A fragmented account details 18-year-old Georgia cadet David H. Ross joining Confederate agent John Yeates Beall to seize the Philo Parsons and the Michigan, attack Fort Johnson, and free Confederates at Sandusky. After a chaotic raid with 170 Union troops aboard, the raiders fled to the Detroit river. Ross later became a captain in secret service, pardoned by General Grant. The piece also covers Newt Knight’s Jones County rebellion in Mississippi, its myth of the Republic of Jones, and the county’s renaming to Davis after the war, with Knight dying in 1923.
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Great Lakes
Durne
David H. Ross
Georgia Guards
Lake Erie
Canada
John Yeates Beall
Ross
Beall
Philo Parsons
Michigan
Ft. Johnson
Sandusky
S. S. Michigan
Detroit River
Wilmington
N. C
Secret Service
Grant
Jones County
Mississippi
Newt Knight
Leat River
Jones
Knight
Newt Bnight
Davis
20 Thrill-Packed Years: HEN Lewis Littlepage’s Life
Fredericksburg native HEN Lewis Littlepage, a poet by sixteen, served in Spanish and French armies, befriended Lafayette, earned French chevalier status, fought in the American Revolution, and held major-general rank in Russia and Poland. He traveled with Kosciusko, aided Lafayette, was wounded at Kosciusko’s fall, retired to Fredericksburg, and died at thirty-eight in 1801.
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Hen Lewis Littlepage
Fredericksburg
Spain
Lafayette
France
America
Kosciusko
Warsaw
Stanislaua
Catherine
Russia
Turkey
John Paul Jones
Littlepage
Paris
Poland
Ameriica
Unior
McClure's autobiographer and Van Dyke linked to Hollywood
A 1914 profile notes 57-year-old McClure aiming to revive McClure's Magazine with Lincoln Steffens and a roster of icons like Ida Tarbell and Oliver Wendell Holmes. It also profiles W. S. Van Dyke, lauded as a hard-boiled director with velvet touch, and recalls his rise from newsboy to Hollywood, alongside reflections on era figures and the old barbarism debate.
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York
McClure
Obal McClure
Lincoln Steffens
Ida Tarbell
Leas
Indiana
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Duluth
Chicago
Knox College
Pope Manufacturing Company
Hia ‘Syndicate
Arl'van Doren
van Dyke
W. S. van Dyke i
Sinclair Lewis
D. W. Griffith
Messrs. Griffith
Mr. van Dyke
Greta Garbo
Lupe Velox
Hollywood
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Martin
Mr. Dies
George van Horn Moseley
Dudley P. Gilbert
Knights of the White Camellias
George Deatherage
St. Albans
W. Va
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Dies
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Fuehrer
Bund
Kuhn
Hitler
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Thomas B. Dewey
Dewey
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St. Kitts Island
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Rhine
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Reich
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Santiago
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NAVY
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Floyd Gibbons
Adventurers’ Club
Elf
By Lemuel F. Parton
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Rudyard Kipling
Arthur Conan Doyle
James M. Barrie
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