Weekly News Analy sis Economic Crisis in Germany Forces Now or Never Choice
Joseph W. La Bine analyzes Germany's 1939 40 economic crisis. He details high taxes, armament costs, and precarious credit amid Nazi leaders like Rudolf Brinkman and Hjalmar Schacht. He contrasts British and French defenses, New Deal reforms, and Republican responses.
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Germany
Joseph W. la Bine
America
Reich
Austria
Sudetenland
U. S
Hjalmar Schacht
Brinkman
Dr. Schacht
Reichsbank
Adolf Hitler
Reichstag
Treasury
Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
Congress
Mississippi
Pat Harrison
Harrison
Brookings
Gandhi and Pacelli in a World Tangle Preview
The article surveys Gandhi's Indian self rule push and fasting campaigns against British authority in Rajkot, noting a rising native strength. It shifts to Cardinal Pacelli becoming papal camerlengo and potential successor, amid anxieties in Germany and Italy about Vatican politics. It closes with the Spanish Civil War context as Loyalists lose power and Franco nears victory.
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East India
Great Britain
Britain
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gandhi
Party
Congress
Rajkot
Thakore
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli
Pope Pius XII
Vatican
Benedict XV
Italy
Russia
Pietro Gasparri
Pius XI
Count Ciano
Il Telegrafo
Bacelli
Rome
Germany
Das
Pacelli
Rome-Berlin
College of Cardinals
Hitler
Mussolini
Barcelona
Manuel Azana
Juan Negrin
Franco
Negrin
Television Sprouts Commercial Wings Backed by 10 Years' Experimentation
In April 1939 America begins to wake to television as radio makers plan to market commercial receivers. The New York World's Fair opens April 30 with telecasting in Manhattan and wider use may follow in Schenectady and perhaps Los Angeles. The piece explains the technology, range, ghosts, and costs, noting national funding exceeds ten million dollars and forecasts early commercial limits and potential programs.
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Joseph W. Labine
America
David Sarnoff
Radio Corporation of America
American Radio Manufacturers’ Association
New York
Schenectady
Los Angeles
England
John L. Baird
Alexandria Palace
London
Wales
Emitron
Federal Communication Commission
Western Newspaper Union
Marshal Petain Returns to Serve France in Spain
Marshal Henri Petain, the Verdun hero now 62, is named ambassador to reorganized insurgent Spain. The move aims to win Francisco Franco’s friendship by emotional appeal. Petain once instructed Spain’s military leaders and helped coordinate actions against Abd el Krim and other 1920s events.
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Henri Petain
Verdun
France
Marshal Henri Petain
Spain
Francisco Franco
M. Petain
French War College
Morshal Petain
Iron Man
Marshal Petain
Abd el Krim
Riff
Morocco
Petgin
Madrid
Prima de Rivera
Iran Egypt Royalty Wed In Splendor
Cairo hosts a lavish royal wedding uniting 17 year old Princess Fawzia of Egypt and Iran's crown prince in a historic union of the two Muslim nations. The ceremony spans months with a Cairo holiday, a Mahomedan dynasty bond, and a Tehran follow up, including a four day celebration and a permanent residence at the marble palace. Princess Fawzia, educated in Arabic English and French, begins learning Persian as she joins Iran's royal court.
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Cairo
Fawzia
Egypt
Iran
Persia
Teheran
Switzerland
Mohammed Ali
Nazli
Shahpour
Marble Palace
Rida
Slim Waist Fashions for Girls and Slim Silhouette Styles
New patterns highlight slenderizing lines for children and young girls with flare-skirt frocks and princess-skirt designs. Details include darts, gathering, and ribbon trims across sizes 4 to 12, with yardage and material specs for No. 1691 and No. 1686 patterns, issued by The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept, Chicago.
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Ricrac
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Kings and brass plates mark Northern Queensland chiefs
In northern Queensland Australia the aboriginal coast tribes chiefs, or kings, wear engraved brass plates hanging from neck chains. Plates bear the king title and tribe name, the tribe numbering from twenty to a hundred. Pride surrounds these plates though some kingships are dubious.
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Queensland
Australia
Perfected Castor Oil Eas y to Take
This brief mentions a perfected castor oil product touted as easy to take. It includes a quotation by Oliver Wendell Holmes about lies acting as a handle for many tools. The note presents a promotional tone with a literary epigraph.
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Kellogg's
Kellogg’s
Kallogg
Good Housekeeping Bureau
Sin
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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