Balkans War Watch Sparks Global Speculation
The Balkans draw attention as Hitler advances toward Romania to secure oil and train Romanian forces. Soviet forces reportedly move toward the Danube while both German and Russian positions strengthen near the Danube delta. Analysts weigh motives behind Axis moves, including distracting Britain or opening a route to the eastern Mediterranean, while Britain weighs its own Far East commitments and risks.
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Balkan
Adolf Hitler
Rumania
Soviet Russia
Russia
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Berlin
Moscow
Danube
Balkans
British Isles
England
Germany
Mediterranean
Campaign Home Stretch in 1940 Race
During the final 1940 campaign Willkie remained the main Republican speaker while Henry Wallace led Democratic rhetoric. Roosevelt made few political appearances, Gallup favored him whereas the Dunn survey favored Willkie. Talk of a four power alliance including Britain, the United States, Soviet Russia and Chiang Kai-shek emerged to counter Germany Italy and Japan. The State Department pursued Soviet ties to balance Japan’s rising power.
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Henry Wallace
Walkie
Roosevelt
Gallup
United States
Russia
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Axia
Germany
Italy
Japan
State Department
Nippon
Stalin
Axis
Registration drives nationwide for military draft
About 16.5 million men aged 21 to 36 registered at over 120,000 polling places. They provided personal data and await the Washington lottery results to determine their call order into service.
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Washington
Estimates of German losses in war sparked debate
A British estimator claimed Germany lost about 6,500 planes and 13,500 pilots in the second world war, with three to one bomber to fighter losses. He cautioned figures may be exaggerated while noting Mercedes plants and Luftwaffe strength. London evacuations and measures for vulnerable groups followed wartime fears.
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Heinkels
Junkers
Dorniers
Germany
London County Council
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Hamsay
Sticks
NAMES in the News: Clare Booth Luce Speaks On War Lead
Clare Booth Luce, wife of Henry Luce and noted playwright, spoke in the presence of Mrs. Wendell Willkie. The Lyce periodicals back Wendell, while Jan Paderewski, nearly 80, arrived in Lisbon with his sister en route to America. He recalled Poland’s past president and said his hands remain strong though he cannot walk unaided.
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Henry Luce
Time-Fortune
Wendell Willkie
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Lyce
Wendell
Jan Paderewski
Lisbon
Portugal
Switzerland
America
Poland
Italy and Axis tensions prompt expulsion of NYT envoy
In Rome the Italian authorities expelled Herbert Matthews of the New York Times over a claim he stated Italy and the Axis would meddle in the U S presidential election. Journalist Virginio Gayda defended Italian indifference and sensitivity amid war reporting and past Ethiopian and Spanish coverage.
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Stooge
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Gayda
Italy
Herbert Matthews
New York Times
United States
Signor Matthews
Italia
Columbia
Spain
Ethiopia
Pope counsels conscience on dress as world grief weighs
The pope urged Italian youths to consider Jesus Christ before fashionable outfits and cosmetics, denouncing worldly amusements while calling for peace and rebuilding after a year of devastation. He warned of atheistic influences and urged inner reflection over vanity amid global tensions.
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Vatican
England
America
Russia
Stalin
Earl Browder
Conscripts, Doctors, Nurses, and Rats in Wartime
Washington reports plans to mobilize 12,000 doctors and 2,287 dentists by July 1, 1941, with 1,108 on duty now and 2,700 more from National Guard. 7,000 nurses will join via Red Cross, with warrant officer pay. Veterinarians, chiropractors, and other med staff are outlined. Also notes Balkan diplomacy, officer attire costs, and a wartime rat poison shortage due to red squill supply disruptions.
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Red Cross
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U. S
Middlesex College
Middlesex
Mass
Chicago Medical School
Illinois
Admiral Ellis Heads Atlantic Fleet Command
A portrait of Admiral Ellis, 63, detailing a career from the Naval Academy class of 1900 through Boxer and Philippine campaigns, serving as liaison at the Washington arms conference, aide to Secretary Denby, head of naval intelligence, and naval aide to the Prince of Wales. Now commanding the Atlantic squadron under a unified Fleet leadership with the Pacific fleet, Ellis remains popular with sailors and is described as tall, well tailored, and active in church work at The Little Church Around the Corner, a noted marriage center since 1870.
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Gao
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Church of the Transfguration
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New York Gossip Roundup Sparks High Society Ups and Downs
A sprawling snapshot of rumors touches Jolson custody talk, a starlet quip about Unity Mitford and Hitler, alleged romances to mask visits from England, and the Willard Hershberger tragedy. It catalogs society whispers on editors, fashion editors, stage dames, theater patrons, and financier chatter amid looming headlines.
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Jolson
Huby Keeler
J. Cromwell
Doris Duke
Bouilly
Unity Mitford
Hitler
Babs Hutton
Bob Sweeney
Bob
England
Willard Hershberger
Cincy ‘Reds
Paul Harrison
Errol Flynn
Lili Damita
New York Nightscape Echoes Of City Hauntings And Halcyon Decay
Observations sketch a restless metropolis from Broadway to Wall Street with shoppers, revelers, and service workers amid neon glints and late hours. Characters include a shoe shine boy at City Hall, drug store luncheonettes, and a sober subway crew, all framed by a weary, crowded urban mood. The piece laments nightlife excess while noting small town fairs offering the same escapes.
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New York
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City Hall
Wall Street
Flower Basket Quilt One of Rare Beauty
The Flower Basket quilt design is versatile and notably beautiful with options for appliqued or embroidered flowers. Transfer 2762 18c includes cutting patterns for pieced baskets and 20 flower motifs to fit the baskets, plus other linen uses and a quitting design on the same transfer. Send order to.
To Fit the Crime Delighting Magistrate's Odd Punishments
A magistrate in Woburn Massachusetts orders a schoolteacher who sped to write one thousand times Must not break the speed limit while a group of habitual drunks are punished by being displayed in an aluminum lion’s cage trundled through town. In a prison, unruly convicts are clothed in pink rayon panties and paraded before fellow inmates, after which order is restored.
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