U S Defense: Boats for Bases Trade With Britain
President Roosevelt announced a pact with Great Britain to lease naval and air bases in Newfoundland Bermuda Bahamas Jamaica St Lucia Trinidad Antigua and British Guiana for 99 years in exchange for 50 overage U S destroyers transferred to England. The move aims to bolster Western Hemisphere defense and requires no congressional ratification.
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U. S
Lundeen
Minnesota
Western Newspapper Union
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
England
Robert H. Jackson
White House
Newfoundland
Bermuda
Bahamas
Jamaica
St. Lucia
Trinidad
Antigua
Atlantic
British Guiana
South America
Hemisphere
Aviation disaster and prison escape headline mix
The worst commercial aviation tragedy in the nation’s history claims 25 lives when a Pennsylvania Central airliner crashes near Lovettsville Virginia during a violent storm en route from Washington to Pittsburgh. Among the dead is Senator Ernest Lundeen. Separately, 82 Cummins State prison farm inmates escape in a wild break aided by four guards, two of them convicted murderers, with a gun and weapon haul recovered from the escape.
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Lovettsville
Washington, D. C
Pittsburgh
Blue Ridge Mountain
Ernest Lundeen
Farmer- Laborite
Minnesota
Cummins State
Pine Bluff
Ark
German aerial warfare shifts mimic ancient ambushes
In World War I and II memory, German tactics evolved from mass regiments to irregular, individual attacks. Von Hutter and Milch adopted night raids after heavy losses in earlier daylight assaults. The piece notes a sensational claim that German leaders learned ambush methods from 18th century American Indian tactics, linking Bradock’s era to modern aviation strategy.
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Verdun
von Hutier
St. Quentin
Dunkirk
England
Milch
von Hutter
Braddock
Transylvania saga in world war aftermath satire
The piece narrates how after the war Hungary and Romania quarreled over Transylvania then split it between them with Germany and Italy chasing peace in the Balkans. It jokes about Transylvania as Dracula country and reflects on King Carol and Europe power plays provoking anxiety about future trouble in the region.
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Rumania
Transylvania
Germany
Italy
Balkans
Romania
William Penn
Pennsylvania
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Black Sea
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Carol
Russia
Mr. Churchill
War damage list for French sites released
The French ministry of fine arts named Rouen Laon Soissons Compiegne Beauvais Amiens Gien Saumur Auxerre Orleans Calais Dunkirk Sedan Mezieres Arras Vitry le Francois with Vitry described as wiped out The Amiens cathedral suffered a miraculous esnaue.
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Amiens
Gien
Saumur
Auxerre
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Dunkirk
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Mezieres
Arras
Vitry-le-Francois
Vitry
Campaign Not Hot Enough in 1940 Headlines
A retrospective on the 1840 campaign notes a tepid race with genteel candidates and vocal supporters on a back fence. It highlights Willkie Roosevelt tensions over the Russell Overton conscription amendment and attacks by Ickes, with Churchill's Ramsgate air raid interlude and a curious portrait of Churchill in a busy, era-charged Washington diary voice.
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Willkie
Roosevelt
Congressional clash over tin trust probe heats up
Washington reports friction as Sol Bloom pushes a House Foreign Affairs Committee inquiry into U S cooperation with British tin interests. Democratic rivals Cochran and Faddis block the move, tying the fight to Pennsylvania's Standard Tin Plate and Missouri’s National Lead interests. The piece also covers a massive Army recruitment push with $28 per recruit spend, mobile recruiting stations, and projected forces, plus labor unity at Hillman defense talks and political rumors around Henry Wallace’s potential Agriculture poste.
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State Department
British Tin Trust
U. S
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Japan
Dutch East Indies
Sol Bloom
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Representatives Cochran
Missouri
Faddis
Pennsylvania
Standard Tin Plate Company
Continental Can
Cochran
St. Louis
National Lead Company
National Lead
Patino Mines
Eed
War Department
Notable Follies and Affairs Stir Up High Society Rumors
A jumble of society whispers links H Hopkins Betsy Cushing Roosevelt and various celebrities to political and personal intrigues. Betsy Roosevelt may announce in November while a ducal letter from Bermuda surfaces. News spans Farley gossip, tax disputes, and celebrity romantic entanglements with figures like Sinclair Lewis Ernest Hemingway and Capone implicated in finance.
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Betsy Cushing Roosevelt
James
Bahamas
Bermuda
Washington
St. Helena
Frank Murphy
Park Avenue
Sterling Hayden
Madeleine Carroll
Uncle Sam
Bessie Love
London
Helen Deutsch
N. Y
Sinclair Lewis
U. of Town
Hawaii
Ernest Hemingway
Dorothy Bigbee
Mary Dowell
Wall Street
No Third Term Democrats Rally For Willkie Lead
Mike Hogg of Texas organizes a no third term Democratic group in his region pledging allegiance to Willkie as the path out of chaos. Capt George Price earns the Distinguished Flying Cross for a test flight at Buffalo and a bold crash landing. Burma premier Maw jailed for a year amid anti British stance as G Norman Thomas launches a 15000 mile campaign across 26 states.
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Texas
Mexico
Willkie
George Price
U. S. Army Air Corps
Buffalo
B. A. Maw
Burma
China
India
Freedom Bloc
Casual Dress That Flatters the Figure
The summer scene fades as readers face travel woes and noisy hotels. A fashion note promotes a flattering casual dress designed for many figures with simple darts, long seams, and minimal detailing, offered as Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1062-3 for sizes 82 through 46.
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