Roosevelt Third Term Drive Seen As Highly Organized
Washington reports a coordinated push for a Roosevelt third term by the New Deal strategists. Key figures like Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson advocate reform while attempts to place successors like McNutt, Hopkins, and others fall short. The aim is to keep the nomination open at the 1940 convention, leveraging ongoing demonstrations and petitions to pressure fellow Democrats.
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Washington
Inner New Deal Board of Strategy
Pittsburgh
Interior
Ickes
Bob Jackson
New Deal
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee
Roosevelt
New
100 Negroes to Get College Advantages
Austin announces that about 100 Negro students will be selected for higher education in colleges outside Texas under a Legislature appropriation. The out-of-state scholarships totaling 25,000 and 10,000 for Prairie View State Normal College advanced courses follow a court ruling guaranteeing Negroes access to professional courses offered to whites.
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Austin
Texas
Prairie View State Normal College
Want Ads and Local Sales Notes from Sherman Area
Funeral flowers offered by Haile's Greenhouse with contact 227. Whitewright real estate and farms priced to sell by Stephens Bryant. Used farm equipment including discs sulky plows wagons and eight head of mules priced 50 to 75 dollars. Auto loans available via Auto Finance Co managed by F W Creager at 117% S Travis St Sherman. Card of thanks from Windrow Dugan Adkins and others for kindness after illness and death of their mother and for flowers.
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Whitewright
Stephens & Bryant
Manning & Meador
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
S. Travis Sr
Sherman
J. T. Windrow
G. C. Dugan
T. F. Adkins
J. W. Adkins
W. C. Adkins
W. F. Adkins
Dee Adkins
Texan in New York avoids all pitfalls except one
Henry Fox, 28, of Madisonville Texas, publisher of the Meteor, is in New York as a guest of a magazine chosen as the nation’s best country newspaperman. He avoids the Brooklyn bridge scams and crickets in watches, but reports a $1 collect telegram from home warning him not to buy unseen from city slickers. Forest rangers in Minnesota carry portable pumps for forest fires.
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New York
Henry Fox
Fox
Madisonville
Texas
Brooklyn Bridge
Madisonville Vigilante Committee
Loy Lake Receives 13,000 More Fingerling Fish
Loy Lake was stocked Monday with 12,100 fingerlings from the Lake Dallas state fish hatchery, bringing the two week total to over 33,000. The shipment also included 1,200 large mouth bass, 3,500 bream and goggle-eye perch, 2,400 channel cat, 5,400 crappie and 600 calico bass, marking the first calico bass stocking. Superintendent Bill White and assistant J F Delfs oversaw the operation. two weeks earlier 20,000 fish were released, including channel cat, crappie, bass, bream and goggle-eye perch.
102-Year-Old Woman Dies in Denison Home
Miss Lou Harris aged 102 died Sunday at her Denison home after a fall on Friday that fractured her hip. She had lived there many years and was known in the community. Funeral arrangements were to be announced by the family.
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Denison
Lou Harris
Bad Fellow Sentenced Ninety Days In Jail
In Chicago Judge N J Bonel lists wrong grammar but rules that Yee Yuen Him, a restaurant dishwasher, must serve ninety days in jail. His employer Benjamin Joe had charged Him with wrongful liquor purchase charged to the restaurant.
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Chicago
Ill
N. J. Bonellis
O. K
Yee Yuen
Benjamin Joe
Longtime Harris matriarch celebrated June birthdays in Denison
Harris lived near Denison ninety four years and joined Virginia Point Methodist Church before transferring to Trinity Church. She had long ties to the Harris Watson family who came from Tennessee and she lived with her niece Mrs Clint Pierce.
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Harris
Clint Pierce
Harris- Watson
Harrises
Tennessee
Denison
Methodist Church
Virginia Point
Trinity Church
Family makes living trapping turtles across the U.S.
The Peacock family travels 55,000 miles yearly in a trailer, trapping turtles from Michigan to Florida. Mr and Mrs Ralph A Peacock and their daughter Anne study turtle habits to harvest commercially valuable snapping and edible specimens. The woman Anne is reportedly the only American engaged in commercial turtle trapping.
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Detroit
Middle West
South
Michigan
Illinois
Wisconsin
Indiana
Missouri
Arkansas
Mississippi
Florida
Kentucky
Tennessee
Ralph A. Peacock
Anne
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RAYON
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Forest Rangers
Minnesota
Loy Lake
U. S
Humble Oil & Refining Co
Humble Oil & Refining Company
Humble Company
New Mexico
Louisiana
Humble
Sinclair Prairie Company
Oklahoma
Kansas
Sinclair-Prairie
Sinclair Prairie
Umble Company
H. C. Wiess
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Eimnat
Hiabe
Askinia
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Panhandle
Texas South Louisiana
North Louisiana
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