Soldiers Vote Sparks Texas Debate in Wartime Letters
Readers respond to a Texas soldiers voting rights issue with strong views on allegiance and citizenship. PVT Nettles F. Nelson asks why Regular Army members cannot vote while Texans on selective service can. The contest also includes Japanese race questions and youth training for democracy.
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Army Weekly
the Yank
Texas
Alamo
San Jacinto
Regular Army of the
United States
Dallas
Houston
Amarillo
Regular Army of
Pvt
Nettles F. Nelson, JR
War time travel misadventures on a Texan bus
A wartime column recalls a crowded bus trip during gas and tire rationing. The narrator endures delays, crowded conditions, heat, and unruly fellow travelers while attempting to visit friends, then laments reentry to rationed travel and the day’s chaos.
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Oscar
Mrs. Dewey Avoids Spotlight Plays Supporting Role
Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey keeps to wife and mother duties at the Albany mansion and Pawling farm while Dewey receives public bows. She takes keen personal interest in his politics, serving as a private audience for rehearsals and guiding his speech delivery. She once pursued a professional singing career with road tours in George White's Scandals.
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Dewey
Pawling
Dutchess County
George White
Dewey’s meteoric rise from lawyer to New York governor
A 1940s profile outlines Thomas E. Dewey advancing from private practice to special rackets prosecutor, then governor, detailing his swift career, leadership in reapportionment, wartime surplus measures, and personal life including his Michigan birth, Columbia Law education, and Pawling farm retreat.
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Chicago
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Herbert H. Lehman
Dewey
University of Michigan
Glee Club
Albany
New York State
Executive Mansion
Pawling
N. Y
Tommy
John
Frances Eileen Hutt
Sherman
Texas
Owoéso
Mich
New York City
Columbia Law
Pursuing Horizons in Erick Oklahoma
A fragment from a June 25 194 era column recalls a tale of Eileen a gifted aspiring model whose artistic drive clashes with barbs from leading stylists. The piece reflects on choosing a demanding path and the persistence required to pursue lofty dreams.
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Erick, Okla
Eileen
Mrs Dewey Remembered As Graceful Hostess In 41 Years
John Murray Anderson produced a description of Mrs Dewey noting her as pretty charming and gracious with brown hair tinged with gray. She is 41 years old born February 7 1903 in Sherman Texas, daughter of Mr and Mrs Orla Thomas Hutt.
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MIT
Eileen
Red Cross
Uawel
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Globe News
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Stephen Crane
E. W. Cain
H. M. Gorrie
the Association of
Norman Harris
John Murray Anderson
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Morrison
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Romantic Heart
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Amarillo, Texas
H. Man
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