Courage to Follow Bold Democratic Leadership
Robert H. Jackson urged the Democratic party in 1940 to show courage to follow bold leadership already present, warning that failure to do so could doom the party. He contrasted liberal aims with perceived timidity in Buchananite middle-of-the-road politics at a state fair rally in Springfield.
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Springfield
Ill
Robert H. Jackson
United States
Franklin Roosevelt
Jackson
Democratic Party
Jefferson
Buchan
Roosevelt
Winchester and Potomac Railroad stockholders meet
The Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company schedules its annual stockholders meeting in Winchester Virginia for September 1 1938 at 12 15 PM at the office of R Gray Williams Counsel. The election of a President and Board of Directors plus other business will be discussed. G F May Secretary.
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Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company
Winchester
R. Gray Williams
G. F. May
Model Prisoners Escape After Abducting Guard In Joliet Flight
Chicago and northern Illinois hunted today for two convicts described as model prisoners, John McGuire 36 and Charles Emmerson 37, who overpowered a guard at Joliet Prison, abducted him and two Ohio tourists, then fled in a prison truck toward Joliet after escaping yesterday.
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Chicago
Ilinois
Ohio
Joseph E. Ragen
John McGuire
Charles Emmerson
McGuire
Joliet
Hickam Field named for Horace M. Hickman
Hickam Field in Hawaii was named in honor of Lieut. Colonel Horace M. Hickman, Air Corps, who died in an airplane crash at Fort Crockett in Texas on November 5, 1934.
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Hickam Field
Hawaii
B.F.R. A
Horace M. Hickman
Air Corps
Fort Crockett
Texas
Market Quotations Show Light Activity Amid War Anxiety in New York
New York stock activity was weak with small transfers over five hours totaling around 500000 shares. Mixed intraday movement yielded few gains as brokers weighed European tensions and the German Polish rift against Japanese British strains while selecting stocks closed mixed across major issues.
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New York
Far East
Wheat and Grain Quotes Move Down in Chicago Trade
Chicago August 17 wheat fell from early highs to close lower amid Liverpool declines with hedging shift into deferred May 1940. Cash grain quotes list No. 3 red and yellow hard wheats, corn and oats prices, and rye and malting barley bids. Baltimore spot prices show wheat at 67 cents per bushel. A reader asks about White Cane Laws. AFB states three states Connecticut Michigan California plus city ordinances granting blind cane right of way.
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Chicago
Liverpool
Chicago Cash Grain
Lake Billing
Iowa
Baltimore Grain
Baltimore
Winchester
American Foundation For the Blind
Union
Connecticut
Michigan
California
Baltimore market reports show mixed livestock and produce prices
Baltimore Aug 17 market notes list apples and sweet potatoes unchanged, dull poultry with varied chicken and turkey prices, and steady milk and egg values. Cattle and hogs show slow demand, with steers weak and hogs higher in parts, while calves and sheep hold steady or mixed. Chicago prices reflect tighter hog supplies lifting values briefly.
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Baltimore
U. S
New Jersey
Baltimore Livestock
U. S. Dept. Agri
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Local Market Listings and Patents Advertised
Local market notices list patent brands with bag weights and prices per barrel notes. Entries include Brad patent in 12 24 48 98 lb bags and Brana patent in 12 48 98 lb bags, plus items for chicken stock and poultry, such as young stags, mixed young chickens, leghorn fowls and broilers, young guineas, and horse feed trimmings.
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Sree Ead Ae
Seeesees
Sisnyass Lee
Ise Keds Eee Cick Gtower
Ciseceeios
Greco Occas Mutter
Muggiifigs Co. O
Spring Lambs and Butter Fat Market Notes
Market snippet notes lamb prices and butter fat figures with a coded line showing 21 and minus 25 values, reflecting a historical commodity pricing update. No clear event or entity beyond standard market terms appears in readable text.
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EE Mick Rey
Cee Eserves
Coe
Bank Robbers Hit Wyoming Bank in Broad Daylight
Five men robbed the Wyoming Bank and Trust Company in Olney Philadelphia taking between 10 000 and 15 000. The swift gang fled before an alarm could be sounded as two men entered after noon and masked themselves with handkerchiefs, guarding a teller and Mary Bunn 28 a telephone switchboard operator.
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Philadelphia
Wyoming Bank and Trust Company
Olney
Mary Bunn
Homesick 16 Year Old Runs Away To New York World’s Fair
Akron boy Robert Craig 16 left home hitchhiked to the New York World’s Fair and won a free long distance call. He phoned his mother Mrs E R Craig and asked for money to return home as she wired bus fare.
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Robert Craig
Akron
Jugiarg
E. R. Craig
Treasury receipts and debt figures for August 15
The Treasury reports receipts of 8,290,516.92 dollars and expenditures of 135,296,542.43 dollars. Gross debt stands at 40,822,568,328.55 dollars, an increase of 1,080,065.73 dollars over the prior day.
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Vienna
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Virginia
Plato
DAVIS
Ino
Lac
Loudoun
Trudie
Gertrude Ederle
Billy Rose
New York State Amphitheatre
Johnny Weismuller
Eleanor Holm
Omps Funeral-Home
Stock Market Report
al. Chem
Am. Can
Am. Rad
Am. Smel
A. T. and
Anaconda
B. and
Bethlehem
Chrysler
Can. Edison
Corn Prod
Cigar
Elec
Genl. Motors
Goodyear
Int. Har
J. Manville
Kennécott
M. Ward
Natl. Dairy
Packard
Penney (Jc
Penn. R. R
Republic Steel
Southern R
Texas Corp
Union Pac
Steel
Va.Car. Chem
Va.Car. Pfct
Western Union
Woolworth
Winchester Business College
Baker & Anderson
N. Braddock St
Plymouth Rocks
The
Star
Goodrich Safety
Silvertowns
Goodrich
Silvertown
Braddock & Boscawen
Rai At
Washington
Position of the Treasury
Shenandoah Valley Naval Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Bell Clothes
Clowe’s
Thomas
Emerson
Peggy Tudor
Ivory
Eelich
Bulova
N. Loudoun St
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