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Drawing heavily on a special Willkie supplement issued by the labor-loving New Republic, Democratic Boss Edward J. Flynn issued a provocative statement on Willkie and Labor. Highlights: that Mr. Willkie's Georgia Power Co. spent $31,000 on labor spies from Pinkerton's; that Mr. Willkie's Central Illinois Light bought tear-gas guns and shells; that no fewer than three of the Willkie companies were clients of the biggest espionage agency devoted solely to industrial work. Mr. Flynn also charged that Consumers Power Co. and Alabama Power Co., both Commonwealth & Southern subsidiaries, were found guilty...
...backed by such New Deal bigwigs as Senator George Norris, father of TVA, and Francis Biddle, Solicitor General of the U. S., was launched with Franklin Roosevelt's blessing on page 1. But to New Dealers, George Fort Milton remained a martyr. Last fortnight, in a special Willkie supplement, The New Republic rehashed its old charge that T. E. P. killed the News, named Candidate Willkie as the martyrer. (The New Republic sold its first printing of 38,000 copies in 24 hours, ordered 35,000 more next day, then another 25,000.) The Democratic National Committee also raked...
...Government prepared to appoint regional commissioners with power to administer their respective areas if the central administration was disorganized. Adjutant General Colonel Liam Hayes issued a call for 10,000 volunteers within a week. Full-page newspaper advertisements blared out the need for 400,000 volunteers to supplement the regular Army's 70,000 and 120,000 volunteers already under arms. "Everyone who can walk should join the Army," urged Dail members...
...Netherlands and France went down before the bombs and tank treads of Adolf Hitler's army, many a U. S. citizen realized for the first time that Dutch and French possessions in the Caribbean were strategic outposts of the U. S. defenses (see map supplement opposite p. 32). This week a Gallup poll showed that the average citizen had not only appraised the importance of the Caribbean, but had made up his mind what to do about...
Throwing "everything" into his effort, by Sunday night Fuhrer Hitler had spent, according to French estimate, 400,000 lives since Tuesday, but still the young German masses surged forward, still their progress was aided by fresh mechanized fleets to supplement human flesh. Then the Germans began their double envelopment of Paris with a break-through from the Amiens region and up the Seine, west of the capital. That was when the Government left...