Six Additional Tucsonians In Who's Who
Six Arizona residents join the 1940 41 Who's Who roster raising the state total to 130. Names include Rear Admiral William A Glassford II Joseph Adams and others from Phoenix and Tucson with varied professions such as arts academia and clergy.
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Who
Phoenix
Arizona
Clarence Budington Kelland
Frank Lloyd Wright
William A. Glassford II
U. 5S. Navy
Charles H. Rutherford
Secretary of War
Jessie Benton Evans
Coronado Pageant Opens With Muy Bien Sign
Spanish Ambassador Juan Francisco de Cardenas praised the Coronado entrada as a beautiful show and an excellent spectacle signaling the start of a $100,000 pageant marking the 400th anniversary. The event follows Don Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's expedition route from Compostela to the Grand Canyon and back, with hundreds in the cast. The pageant runs nightly in Albuquerque through Saturday then tours the Southwest through October 13.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Juan Francisco de Cardenas
Senor Cardenas
Don Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Compostela
Mexico
Grand Canyon
Arizona
New Mexico
West Texas
Southwest
Cameras for air rifles stir Chattanooga school debate
In Chattanooga Tennessee the Humane Educational Society trades cameras for air rifles claiming visual learning is better than shooting animals. The slogan swords into plow shares frames the program as a modern education push.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
The
Chattanooga Humane Educational Society
Memorial Day tribute and a tally of veterans and costs
Washington memorials honor the Unknown Soldier with a Roosevelt wreath as Memorial Day observances unfold. A Veterans Administration chart tallies deaths and veterans across wars, totaling just over 14 billion dollars. World War I deaths reach 39,362 with 234,300 wounded, while millions mobilized span from the Revolution to the World War.
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Washington
Arlington Hills
Potomac
Roosevelt
America
United States
Mexico
France
Flanders
Somme
Ypres
Meuse-Argonne
St. Mihiel
Sensational Trotsky Data Promised by Mexican Communist Party
Mexico City May 30 The Mexican Communist party announced sensational declarations would be made at a special meeting in Mexico City tomorrow about the attempted assassination of Leon Trotsky. Party sources said speakers would argue the party had no role in the assault and would analyze the case.
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Mexico City
Mexican Communist Party
Leon Trotsky
Trotsky
Communist Party
Rivera Rants Against Raid On His Home
Mexico City May 30 muralist Diego Rivera denounced a raid by secret police on his home yesterday. His chauffeur and houseman were detained and his station wagon taken for examination, with police claiming reliable information linking the car to a machinegun band attack on Leon Trotsky. Rivera called the actions illegal and said the arrest of a former wife’s Spaniard and several women acquaintances showed violence rather than order. He filed an injunction to block arrest under alleged orders of President Cardenas.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Diego Rivera
Leandro Sanchez Salzar
Leon Trotsky
Rivera
Frieda Kahlo
el Popular
New York Times
Cardenas
WPA Cuts Hit Arizona Workers On Saturday
WPA officials announce further layoffs in Arizona and nationwide due to limited congressional funding. State director W C Jamieson in Tucson says about 11 000 are eligible in Arizona but only 52 percent can be employed, with a 20 percent cut taking effect Saturday. A continuation notes New Bedford theft incident involving a lunch bag and car license.
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Works Projects Administration
W. C. Jamieson
WPA
Tucson
Arizona
Jamieson
No accident week opens with two crashes in Finney County
Four people were injured in two auto accidents in Finney County Kansas. One victim was given only a fair chance to live.
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Garden City
Kas
Finney County
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Daily Citizen
U. A
Alexander McKay Parker
Tucson Daily Citizen
Maxwell Naylor Short
University of Arizona
Theophil Fredric Buehrer
University of Arizona Experiment Station
Thomas G. Chapman
University of Arizona College of Mines
Robert Edward Dickenson
University Methodist Church
Churches of Christ In America
Francis C. Lockwood
University of Arizona College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Coronado
Muy Bien
Queen Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace Gardens
British War Relief Association of
Southern California
U. S
Veterans Administration
Kansas
Ieee
N. Stone
Tucker
Libby
Maxwell House Coffee
Treasure State
Goblin
Peyton
Hiram Walker
Avonessy
California Club
Kentucky
Igc
Pendergast
E. Sixth St
Beeman
S. Stone
Dicksie
del Monte
Arnold
Baby Foods
Gerber
HEINZ
Prunes
Rinso
Wheaties
Californi
Green Beans
Wonder
Sweet Ariz
Gre
Pipi
Prem Swift
California
Puritan
Old Eng. & Co
S Ja
Pas
LUX
Monarch, Ben Hur Coffee
Secret Police
Congress
New Bedford
Mass
Peter Malm
Malden
William E. Parker
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