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December 15, 1940: Front page of The People, London, England. |
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December 15, 1940: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England. |
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December 15, 1940: Front page of the Sunday Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Dry Beats Communist" |
Report states that the Prohibitions candidate received 10,000 more votes than the communist Earl Browder. Vote tally for 1939 Presidential campaign: FDR 27,247,939 Wendell Wilkie 22,327,226 Norman Thomas (socialist) 116,793 Roger W. Babson (Prohibitionist) 58,600 Earl Browder (communist) 48,789 John W. Aiken (socialist, labor) 14,861 |
December 15, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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December 15, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 3: "School Girl Her Role, Then Dies Of Skull Fracture" |
(Tragic story about a 15-year-old girl, Shirley Joan Hall, who fell down a flight of stairs, but went on stage to play her part. She went home, developed a headache and died at a local hospital of a skull fracture.) |
December 15, 1940: Front page of The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Nazi Yoke Put On Norwegians" |
December 15, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Giant Vessel Is Launched" |
(Report of the launch of USS Hornet CV-8.) |
December 15, 1940: Front page of The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Wild Bill Donovan In Lisbon, Portugal" |
December 15, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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December 15, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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December 15, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. In 48 Stunden 87.000 BRT. |
(In 48 hours 87,000 GRT.) |
2. Die Kette schwerster britischer Schiffsverluste reißt nicht ab. |
(The chain of heaviest British ship losses does not end.) |
Page published December 15, 2021 |