Truman Reconstitutes Administration Changes Roosevelts Ties Persist
A year end inventory shows Truman maintaining most Roosevelt era policies while shuffling key personnel. Byrnes Morgenthau Vinson and others keep prominence, with few fundamental policy shifts. OWI dissolves domestic arm, yet 5,000 payrollers join state department info offices as public relations expand abroad.
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Eye Street
N.W
Washington, D. C
Truman
White House
FDR
James F. Byrnes
Southland
Roosevelt
United States Supreme Court
Edward R. Stettinius Jr
Byrnes
Henry Morgenthau
Treasury
Fred Vinson
Robert Patterson
Henry S. Stimson
Department
Washington
Congress
Office of War Information
Pearl Harbor
OWI
State Department
Bureau of the Budget
United States Government
Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
Rio Grande
Barbs by Bankhage on war era antics and irony
The piece notes British raised rat bounty in Hong Kong. Chinese rats bred for profit. Japanese women urged to strip kimono to fund food. Koreans claim influence on Japanese culture. a rich wife modernizes a German castle. Nürnberg trials observe lavish guest comforts with three bathrooms for 200 attendees.
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Hong Kong
Faver
Nuernberg
Finding Men for Federal Jobs in Truman's Push
President Truman pressures top officials to recruit for federal posts, highlighting Louisville mayor Wilson Wyatt who reluctantly accepts housing coordination, after resisting civil aeronautics and other roles. Eisenhower reports on Senate session, praising cross-party cooperation, optimism for US-Soviet relations, and intent to run the army democratically with Congress.
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Washington
Truman
Wilson Wyatt
Louisville
Wyatt
Hannegan
Civil Aeronautics Board
Jim McGlanery
Justice Department
Civil Aeronautics
White House
Missouri
Jackson County
Kansas City
Xee
Senate
Dwight Eisenhower
Potomac
Eisenhower
Pentagon
Soviet Russia
Congress
U. S
Allied Control Commission
Germany
Russia
Welcome Home Delights Cake Recipe From Wartime Guide
Advice for hosting returning servicemen with cakes cookies and simple foods. Includes a delicate white cake recipe with substitutions using corn syrup for sugar shortages and a furlough frosting option. Provides step by step directions for beating, mixing, and baking plus timing and temperature notes.
Lynn Says To Make Soup
Delivers steps for making soup stock from meat and bones. Recommends cold water start, slow simmer to extract flavor, and a ratio of 1 quart water per pound meat. Storing stock in fresh jars, removing fat after use, and using stock across multiple meals. Adds tips for clarifying stock with egg white or crushed egg shell.
Muff and Hat Crochet Pattern Offer
A crochet pattern for a white, red, navy or wine muff and frilled hat designed for ages six to twelve. It uses 6 ounces of 4 ply wool. To obtain complete instructions and color chart for the Warm Muff and Bonnet set Pattern No. 5817 send 165 cents, name, address, and pattern number.
The Questions Quiz From a Historical Newspaper Brief
A reader asks about constitutional crimes eleemosynary institutions and naval deaths. Questions cover impeachment trial body Decatur death women’s suffrage year in the United States kraal in South Africa and greyhound racing moments and bat lifespan.
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Stephan Decatur
United States
South Africa
Answers to Miscellaneous Historical Riddles
In 1920 a village of natives is described, with answers ranging from treason and an almshouse to a duel and the senate. The note mentions bats with lifespans up to eight years, longer than many songbirds.
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Senate
Home Baking Notes and Two Cookie Recipes for Servicemen
Instructions for making honey frosting and two cookies Mincemeat Refrigerator Cookies and Spicy Pumpkin Cookies. Includes measurements ingredients steps and baking details for a wartime home cooking context released by Western Nawansnae.
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Nawansnae
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Korea
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