Gimme Pigs and War Frontfronts in War News
A Globe News digest covers soldiers coining the term gimme pigs to express anger at profiteering on the home front. It notes a National War Labor Board ruling calling snowstorms a caprice of nature and outlines pay rules for mill workers who shovel snow to reach their machines. It also quotes German reports and Marine Commandant Vandegrift on the path to Tokyo.
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United States
National War Labor Board
Wayne L. Morse
Great Northwest
Roosevelt’s fourth term gambit and a coming world order
The column argues FDR’s dismissal of fourth term talk signals a new candidacy and a shift to a world program aligned with Russia. It predicts liberal and conservative labels fade as events force a revolutionary postwar settlement, with Russia at the helm and debtless growth for Moscow.
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Paul Mallon
Washington
Roosevelt
Picayune
Russia
Stalin
Churchill
Smuts
Britain
Europe
Asia
Perani
Planish and the Adelbert Socialist League Debut
Gideon Planish forms the Adelbert College Socialist League in Hatch Hewitt's stable home on September 20 1910. Five freshmen meet to debate radical ideas while Planish asserts leadership and organizes the group aiming to unsettle college politics and recruit members for a broader movement.
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Hatch
Doc
Gid
Secret Service
Gene Debs
Gideon Pianish
Adelbert College Socialist League
Tatch
Francis Tyne
War weariness to wartime resolve in Attu tale and Norseman planes
In August 1942 a veteran recalls warning about losing the war and credits Attu’s fight with hard lessons that produce a more willing fighting force. The piece then shifts to Canada designed Norseman aircrafts built for the Far North and now ordered by the U S Army Air Forces via Canadian routes for mail and cargo use.
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Australia
Aleutians
Attu
New Georgia
Pacific
Army Air Forces
United States
Canada
R. B. C. Noorduyn
Anthony Fokker
Bob Noorduyn
Hemisphere
U. S. Army
Montreal
Alaska
Norseman
Polk Street Professor and a Second Marriage Folly
A fragmentary anecdote describes a friend’s second marriage and a sharp quip from a mutual acquaintance about favoring a first marriage. The tale hints at family dynamics and a wisecrack about money and lending within a household.
Alive Only by a Seeming Miracle
ERNIE PYLE reports from Italy on Dick Tregaskis, wounded war correspondent. Despite a skull fracture, lost glasses, and brain surgery, he regained speech and use of his right arm through constant therapy. He signs Guadalcanal Diary, is tall, scholarly, married, from Elizabeth New Jersey, and aims to return to combat, planning a parachute jump within six months.
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Italy
Dick Tregaskis
International News Service
Maj
William Pitts
Mejor Pitts
Pacific
Mediterranean
America
Elizabeth
N. J
Mark Clark
Tregaskis
Guadalcanal
New Caledonia
Fierce assault on a straw man in Lipmann piece
Walter Lippmann argues William Hard misreads U S and allies Moscow agreements and the Hull pledge to prevent a German Japanese revival. He says Hard opposes a real policy supported by nations and warns against abandoning the grand alliance of the United Nations. He urges maintaining alliances to avoid dangerous coalitions and to keep peace through collective security.
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Gid
Traub
Klock
Tyne
Hatch
Debating Society
Frank Tyne
Republican Party
League
William Hard
Reader
Moscow
Mr. Hard
Britain
Russia
Mr. Hull
Initely
Germany
Japan
United States
China
America
United Nations
Hard
Religious Quotes and Bible Verses Gathered in a Row
A collection of quotations from Seneca Ecclesiastes Pope Matthew Herbert Psalm 124:8 Lamentations 3:27 and Psalm 100:3 with reflections on God faith and righteousness. The verses urge humility devotion and reliance on the Lord while noting human folly and mortality.
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Lord
Heaven
Puzzle Grid Based on Clues, Horizontal and Vertical
A word puzzle with horizontal and vertical clues, including Mitigate Pictured and various numbered terms. The grid lists many cryptic style definitions such as island French word hence consume reel assistant and other cross referencing items across 54 clues. The challenge asks to fill a crossword style grid with matching words and letter intersections.
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Amarillo
Texas
Amarillo Daily News
Globe News Publishing Co
Sixth
Fillmore
Gene Howf
John McCarty
Wesley Izzard
Telephone
Ae As
Tokyo
Marine
Alexander A. Vandegrift
Mallon
Sinclair Lewis
David Traub
New York
Limbo
Young
Cherubim
Lon Klock
Hatch Hewitt
Gideon Planish
Lou Klock
David Taub
Hewitt
Planish
Frank
Adelbert College
Francis
Robert Sherrod
Time Magazine
Pees Par- Tish
Liberty
Polk Street
Servic
Ernie Pyle
Dick Tregeskis
By Walter Lippmann
Seneca
Pope
Matthew
Herbert
Archbishop Tillotson
Bruce
Ben
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