Roosevelt selects Flynn aide linked to Dutch Schultz
A historical profile notes that Ed J. Flynn the new national Democratic chairman once appointed Arthur Flegenheimer known as Dutch Schultz as a deputy sheriff in The Bronx. The piece discusses the implications of tying Flynn to Schultz and other bosses with Roosevelt’s rise and the broader city machine politics.
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United States
Bronx
New York City
J. Flynn
National Democratic
Arthur Flegenheimer
Dutch Schultz
Schultz
New York
Jimmy Hines
Roosevelt
Democratic National Committee
Democratic
Hague
Kelly
Guffey
Thomas Dewey
Buster
Mr. Roosevelt
Flynn
Flegenheimer
Albany
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
White House
Flegenheimer Association
Big City
Chicago
Glass Ex Ex Parte Glass Senator Carter Glass Stands Firm
Senator Carter Glass declined invitation to testify on a proposed constitutional amendment banning presidential third terms but said he would vote for it if it reaches the senate. The piece praises his independence while noting expediency nudges him toward the convention’s nominee. Glass is hailed as valiant despite qualified independence.
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Carter Glass
Senate
Luther
Glass
Westbrook Pegler's Fair Enough on World War Hesitation
The column argues against Anglo American war talk and praises the German American Bund Alliance and the Communist party as antiwar forces. It questions U.S. leadership, Russia and Hitler relations, predicting that strong allies could shield Americans from militarism and require no armed defense.
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General Pershing
William Allen White
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Joseph Stalin
United States
Bund
German- American National Alliance
Communist Party
Warmongers
Alliance
Hitler
Stalin
Poland
Patriot Rhetoric Against Conscription in Dark Times
The piece denounces conscription and rearmament as warmongering, defending Bund, Alliance, and Communist parties. It predicts repercussions for Hitler and Stalin and pleads for independence under foreign protection, urging Americans to resist militarization and distrust gun-wavers.
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Bund
Alliance
Communist Party
Hitler
Stalin
Europe
A Dead Give Away
New York report on Dr Henry Lee Smith Jr joining Brown University faculty this fall. His skill in speech dialects could aid crime detection by identifying hometowns from reading lines. He notes New England South and Midwestern speech divisions and differences between Bronx and Brooklyn pronunciation.
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New York
Henry Lee Smith, Jr
Brown University
New England
South
Tidewater
General Plantation
Midwestern
Bronx
Brooklyn
Dr. Smith
San Carlos Apaches Returned From Raid Threaten Camp Apache
News reports 300 San Carlos Apaches who raided January 31 moved to Camp Apache as Major Randall plans to send them back. Troops scour the mountains, Generals Crook’s regime once kept Apaches safe off reservations. Despite seven deaths and property loss, residents remain confident in a vigorous pursuit and danger warns prudent travel.
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San Carlos
Camp Apache
Randall
Crook
Arizona
Pinal
Mescal
Tonto
Telegraph Line Break Delays West Dispatches Near Oatman Flat
The telegraph line fell at Oatman Flat on Wednesday evening. several poles washed away and repair work halted as crews needed wire from Stanwix. No late dispatches from the States or west of Maricopa Wells. News from Mari copa via mail arrived too late for publication. A separate break ten miles from Tucson was repaired the same day.
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Oatman Flat
Stanwix
Maricopa Wells
C. W. Gearhart
Maricopa
Draft pressures sway Willkie on the draft
Washington reports intense administration and opposition pressure to bind Wendell Willkie to a firm draft stance. Telegrams from 30 Republicans urged the opposite course, while allies Barton and Halleck pressed him privately.
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Washington
Wendell Willkie
Elwood
Wheeler-Norris
Willkie
Bruce Barton
Halleck
Anne O'Hare McCormick
New York Times
General Johnson
Dieckhoff Advises Hitler To Bide Time In US War Readiness
Washington reports Dr. Hans Dieckhoff former U S ambassador to Berlin and brother in law of Ribbentrop urged Hitler last winter to avoid responding to Roosevelt and U S leaders in an election year. He said restraint would limit U S intervention while Germany pursues postwar business with the United States through Dr. Gerhard Westrick and others.
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Washington
Hans Dieckhoff
United States
Dieckhoff
von Ribbentrop
Wilhelm Keitel
Hitler
Roosevelt
Karl von Wiegand
Germany
Western Hemisphere
Westrick
Gerhard Westrick
New York
Dr. Westrick
Berlin
Norway
Denmark
Holland
Belgium
France
Europe
Wall Street
Torkild Rieber
Texas Oil Company
Goering
Franco
Col
Antonio Sanz Agero
Rieber
Venezuela
Texas Company
Chicago's Warning by Elsie Robinson
Elsie Robinson denounces the Democratic Convention for undemocratic balloting and crowding of delegates. She warns that the process erodes American liberty and urges voters to demand frankness and fair play, even at personal risk.
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Chicago
Elsie Robinson
St. Peter and
St. Paul
Stalin
Wallace
Sally Rand
United States
Hitler
Mr. America Competition Is Keen By Arthur Bugs Baer
The article ranks industrial workers as the toughest tradesmen from Pittsburgh steel puddlers to dock wallopers and locomotive sorters. It notes a Norfolk anchor bender and Kansas City hand worker as examples, praising the rough labor ethos and inviting readers to submit tougher stories with photos.
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Arthur
Bugs" Baer
Kansas City
Bugs Baer for Twenty Years
A compilation of short comic captions dated August 19 from 1935 to 1920. Each line notes a quip or joke by Bugs Baer touching farming, sun and rain, a drugstore context, a painful breakup, and a Ton dance metaphor alongside an elephant memory gag.
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Bugs Baer
Recognition at Aberdeen Firm Leads to Promotion
The Aberdeen firm manager tells the bookkeeper he is taking the accountant's job. The surprised clerk asks about salary, and is told it remains the same, but he will get a hat peg to himself as a mark of reward.
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Congress
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Aberdeen
Shoestring Startups and Cinder Failures Highlight Trade
A fragment notes how rare it is for new ventures to begin on a shoestring amid today’s market, stressing the impact of cinder fallers and related conditions shaping business entry and risk.
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Cinder
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