Chain letter hoopla and military secrecy in Washington
A local editorial warns the chain letters promise vast Savings Stamp rewards are doomed, then shifts to a Washington column praising government openness about military advances. It mocks secrecy and lauds officials who share nontechnical details while urging citizens to trust public disclosures.
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Amarillo Family
United States Post Office Department
United States
Washington
D. C
Charles Kettering
U. S
Iceland
The President and the Alien Question in Wartime Policy
The piece argues the President bears a heavy burden balancing wartime needs and individual policy decisions. It notes the alien population, unemployment insurance impacts when drafted, and states revising benefits to freeze levels at induction, questioning fairness and practicality.
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American Public Welfare Association
Bankers Daughter Faces Seeming Gossip in Barriston
Katherine Mowrer, secretary to Mr. Allen of Founders Bank, deals with a tarnished reputation as she navigates a risky liaison involving Solon Culhane and Parke Gerritt. Bank examiners loom as tension rises over implications for the Barriston holdings and a tense private conference unfolds.
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Katherine Mowrer
Barriston
Allen
Founders Bank
Azalea
Ronnie Lawson
Katherine
Solon Culhane
Culhane
Kathie
Treva Ganford
Parke Gerritt
S. S. Allen
Mr. Allen
Mrs. Allen
Mr. Gerritt
Parke
Michael Burley
Burdette Thorpe
Barriston Mills
Westfall
Chamber of Commerce
Dr. Bardo
Gilad
Bank Crisis Sparks Collateral Move In Barriston
Parke Gerritt enters a tense bank meeting where creditors push for immediate funds to shore up the bank's precarious position. Parke offers four hundred thousand dollars with stock as collateral, while Solon Culhane blocks wide support and Kathie Mowrer faces gossip tied to the affair.
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Intercity Utilities
Parke
Culhane
Intercity
The
Founders
Kathie
Parke Gerritt
Park Gerritt
Solon Culhane
Barriston
New York
Solon
Sue Lawson
Delaven Brackett
Miss Treva
Kathie Mowrer
Sue
Azalea Mowrer
Poetry in wartime. Soldiers seek verse amid conflict
The War Department found troops in training favor poetry over war books. Poets like Wordsworth, Keats, and Millay are cited as solace and inspiration. The piece traces poetry’s wartime role from World War I to present conflicts, noting editors and scholars’ praise of homefront verse and the enduring pull of poetic expression for soldiers.
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United States War Department
Wordsworth
Keats
Kipling
War Department
Poe
Rupert Brooke
Alan Seeger
Joyce Kilmer
United States
America
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Hitler
France
Roger Burlingame
Meuse-Argonne
Stephen Vincent Benet
Smuggling Shipments Nabbed Across Irish Border
Police intercepted a shipment from Eire to Northern Ireland of cosmetics amid a government shortage. The haul included 1 000 powder puffs 3 234 hair nets and 4 000 bootlaces. Investigators suspect a smuggling ring comprised of girls who now see beauty as above the law.
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Fr Eire
Ireield
Manners Quiz on Social Etiquette for Women and Guests
A historical etiquette quiz asks who should alight first when a man and woman share a ride and whether a hostess should let women guests pass first. It covers table seating by gender, tying a necktie in warm weather, and whether to buy two pool tickets. It also includes serving order for maids and guests.
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Hitler
Mussolini
Herr Goebbels
Count Ciano
Ribbentrop
Grantland Rice
Harvard Square
Beacon Hill
Jesus Christ
Kitty
George Lyman Kittredge
Harvard
Shakespeare
Chang
Fils
Totord
Kittredge
Harevard
Charles Townsend
Copey
Texas Panhandle
Amarillo
Pandan Plains Museum
Southwest
Kansas
West Texas
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Mili
Stock Exchange
Lionel Bardo
Monda
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Bar
Gerritt
Cate
Thorpe
Sole Culhane
Burley
Simeon Sanderson Allen
Chapter
Sloan Culhane
Young Gerritt
Inter
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Miss Lawson
Reno
Christian Science Monitor
Cunningham
Browning
Time
Puck
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Phillips Exeter
Shim
George’ Lyman Kittredges
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Beauty and the Law
News Week
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