Willkie Attacked by Democrats Over Utility Record
Democratic leaders charge Wendell Willkie lacks government experience and could spark a third party. They warn a Willkie win would trigger a liberal shift to Roosevelt and push a peace party option if Roosevelt seeks a third term. Norman Thomas praises Willkie as liberal and civil libertarian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wendell L. Willkie
Willkie
Tom Connally
Texas
New Yorker
George Norris
Ind-L
Nebraska
TVA
Edwin Johnson
Colo
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Johnson
Congress
Wheeler
Norris
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
CIO
Platform Committee
Lewis
White House
GOP
Robert H. Jackson
New York State
Senator Connally
Ickes
Connally
Indianapolis
Norman Thomas
Socialist Party
Thomas
Grace at the restaurant becomes a lesson for a boy
A mother insists on giving thanks before meals in a restaurant, but her son questions the practice since they are paying. The exchange highlights a child's and mother's differing views on tradition and money.
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Grace
Johnny
Mummie
Army Forms First Armored Corps In War Effort
Washington reports the War Department creates the nation’s first armored corps. It will include 18,000 personnel and 1,400 armored vehicles with 300 guns and over 13,000 weapons, modeled on German Panzer divisions and built for rapid mechanized power. A July 1 start will launch three month training for enlisted men in a specialized service school.
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Washington
Germany
War Department
Louis Johnson
Poland
Norway
Belgium
Holland
France
Johnson
Army
Farmer Moves Into Dirt Built Home in Iowa
Andrew Anderson, a farmer five miles west of Fertile Iowa, moved into a new five room bungalow built largely from dirt blocks. He formed ten inch dirt sand blocks with a one inch cement sand layer and used walls 26 to 36 feet high. The exterior will be stuccoed after applying linseed oil cement coating.
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Fertile
Iowa
Andrew Anderson
Anderson
South Dakota
Roosevelt seeks sharp tax on war profits to fund defense
President Roosevelt urged Congress to enact a steeply graduated excess profits tax on all individuals and corporations to prevent enrichment from the national rearmament effort. He stressed equitable burden sharing and asked humbler citizens to contribute, sending the proposal to Ways and Means and Senate Finance for rapid action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
House Ways and Means
Senate Finance Committees
Navy to Build Three New Air Bases to Train 16000 Pilots
Rear Admiral J H Towers announced plans to create three naval training bases at Miami Jacksonville and Corpus Christi to train about 16000 pilots and reach 10000 aircraft in the fleet within two years The Texas site will mirror Pensacola facilities and help expand reserve aviation capacity The article notes Icelandic medieval literature as a separate aside.
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Navy
Washington
J. H. Towers
Bureau of Aeronautics
Towers
Miami
Jacksonville
Fla
Corpus Christi
Texas
Naval Training Establishment
Pensacola
Naval Reserve
Texas Plans Fish Rescue Effort for Drought Stricken Lakes
The Texas Game Department to rescue millions of stranded bass crappie bream and catfish as lakes dry in summer. Last year 1 758 247 fish were saved by hatchery workers and wardens. Provisions include air circulated transport tanks washing tanks and special equipment.
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Austin
Texas
State Game Department
Game Department
Texas Game Department
National Editorial Association backs compulsory military training
The National Editorial Association at its 55th annual convention in New York endorsed universal compulsory military training. The resolution urged the President and Congress to enact immediate universal service in time of war as necessary to protect the United States amid global unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Editorial Association
Herman Roe
Resolutions Committee
Europe
United States
Congress of
Congress of the
Aberdonian Father Accepts Daughter's Marriage Plan
A warm dialogue shows a loving father telling his daughter he consents to her marriage after a visit from Tammie. The daughter fears leaving her mother, but the father reassures her that her mother can come along.
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Jeannie
Lassie
Tammie
Sevenyearold angler reels 120pound gar at Mathis Lake
Kenneth Dorman of Alice, seven, weighs 60 pounds and holds a Texas gar record quest. He hauled a 120 pound gar after a forty minute fight witnessed by his father. The pair fish gar with hook and line daily and now try noose fishing promoted by the Game Department. Youngest Texas fishing license holder hailed in Mercedes hospital. Forrest Garner weighs 7 pounds 3 ounces. The folder urges "Take a Boy Fishing."
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Kenneth Dorman
Alice
Lone Star
Kenneth
Mathis Lake
Mr. Dorman
O. K
Texas
Game Department
Austin
F. C
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Rap Willkie
Chicago
Wall Street
Mobilgas
Mobileil
Q. C. Stateville
Glen Earnheart Benefit Association
Whitewright
State Insurance Department
Whitewright Lumber Co
Sami
First Armored Corps
Farmer
F.D.R
Iceland
Charley Hagler
Grayson County
Stephens & Bryant Insurance — Real Estate
Nat'l Bank
N.E. A. Indorses
U.S. A
Barbee & Bassett
Insurance Agency
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