Democrats Renominated Roosevelt for Fourth Term in Chicago
The Democratic convention in Chicago backed a fourth term for President Roosevelt, pledging New Deal policy, farm parity, postwar tax relief, and a world peace organization. Meantime U S forces pushed on Guam after 17 days of bombardment, as Japan reorganized its government under new militarist leaders.
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War and Farm Values Dominate World War II Front News
War era farm values rise with brisk land turnover and modest cash deals as 1943 sales show large down payments while farm land remains 50 to 60 percent below 1917 peaks. Allied and Soviet offensives push in Normandy, East Prussia, Poland, and Italy, with Rommel counterattacks and a failed Hitler assassination plot reshaping German leadership.
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American Dreyfuss dies at 88 in Chicago after court martial fight
Obituary notes the death of Oberlin M. Carter known as the American Dreyfuss. He was an ex army engineer once convicted of defrauding the government of two million dollars in a Savannah project. Also reported are Navajo ban on plural marriages and India cholera outbreak with tens of thousands of deaths.
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World Bank stability aims spark two massive financing plans
Nations agreed on an 8.8 billion fund to stabilize currencies and a 10 billion World Bank, extending 2 billion in long term loans to nations for rebuilding and development while using 8 billion to back private loans, with US share around 2.76 and 3.0 billion respectively. Prime long-fed steers rise in demand at Chicago markets with July prices near record highs, topping 17.65 per cwt and marking peak levels unseen since 1943, with heifers reaching 17.35 and strong industry activity overall.
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GI Reading Politics Permitted Amid Army Expansion
Sen Robert Taft urged relaxing rules on political material for troops while the army broadened the list of magazines allowed to circulate among GIs to 189. The amendment to the Hatch Act would bar government printed material to soldiers but not political literature mailed by individuals, firms, or parties at their own expense. The army defended the expansion by citing soldiers reading habits abroad and purchases at posts at home.
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Tobacco and metal markets show wartime stock and bond shifts
Wartime reports note tobacco shortages due to a War Food administration limit on 1944 flue-cured tobacco, while Great Lakes furnaces consumed over 44 million tons of iron ore in six months. Dock stockpiles rise as oil production hits 4.6 million barrels daily and rail finance contemplates a major Great Northern bond issue to refinance debt. Louisiana’s James Z. Davis signs a bill renaming muskrats to parsh hares to boost musk rat meat sales.
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Louisiana
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