DEMOCRATIC SWEEP IN CITY ELECTION (11/8/39)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 11/8/39 | James A. Hagerty, John V. Hinkel, Meyer Berger

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime”.)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile.

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Twelve minutes after Hitler had finished making his annual speech, on the evening of November 8, to the “Old Guard” party cronies at the Buergerbraukeller in Munich in commemoration of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, a shorter speech than usual, a bomb which had been planted in a pillar directly behind the speaker’s platform exploded, killing seven persons and wounding sixty-three others. By that time all the important Nazi leaders, with Hitler at their head, had hurriedly left the premises, though it had been their custom in former years to linger over their beers and reminisce with old party comrades about the early putsch.

The next morning Hitler’s own paper, the Voelkischer Beobachter, alone carried the story of the attempt on the Fuehrer’s life. It blamed the “British Secret Service” and even Chamberlain for the foul deed. “The attempted ‘assassination,’” I wrote that evening in my diary, “undoubtedly will buck up public opinion behind Hitler and stir up hatred of England . . . Most of us think it smells of another Reichstag fire.”

William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

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This is the first non-war related headline since weeks before September 1.

Election Results in City and Nation – 1
The International Situation – 2
Goldstein Winner – 2-3
Tammany Jubilant as Votes Roll Up – 4-5
Vatican Deciding On New Catechism – 6
About New York (Column) – 7
Chinatown Opens ‘Bowl of Rice’ Fete - 8

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