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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week the tempo of life in the U. S. was stepped up. In all fields except Congress, where the draft was still debated, there was action and lots of it-political, diplomatic, military. There was action in Elwood, Ind., where Wendell Willkie accepted the Republican nomination for President. There was action in Washington. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace resigned to campaign for the Vice-Presidency. There were resignations, new appointments. And there was the action of President Roosevelt, who announced at his press conference that he had sent observers to watch the Nazi attack on Great Britain, and that...
...live and dress like poor whites), partly to save a valuable State resource, the Minnesota Legislature last year passed a rice conservation law. The statute restored to the Chippewas their exclusive harvest rights on some 200,000 acres of Minnesota's rice lakes, outlawed all harvesting methods except the traditional way of the Indians. Chosen to administer the law was a respected Chippewa half-breed named Frank Broker...
...Except for a few Annapolis midshipmen who elect to join the naval air service, the U. S. Navy recruits its pilots through the Naval Reserve. At 13 Reserve air stations-Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Opa Locka (Miami), Kansas City, Glenview (Chicago), Seattle, etc.-an ever-increasing tide of would-be fliers is rolling in. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced that three more Reserve stations would soon be opened (at New Orleans, Dallas, Atlanta), also supplied some details about the Navy's expanding air training program...
...Rochester, in which their fast-climbing, heavily armed bomber, the Dormer 215, played an important part. On Aug. 18 they flew up the Thames Estuary and mass-attacked London again. One vital thing in danger was the city's water supply. Thus, day after day, without intermission, except for an occasional half day of bad weather, the world's No. 1 air force went to the attack...
Jews in Germany were last week forbidden to use telephones except for calls to doctors and hospitals, ordered to remove red crosses painted on their hospital roofs as protection from bombing, forbidden to enter stores and markets except between 4 and 5 p.m. Das Schwarze Korps, mouthpiece of Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo, proclaimed that Hitler's gift to Europe will be a "Jewless peace...