Amarillo Daily News Snapshot Details Publication History
Record notes the paper founded February 20 1924 and entered as second class matter February 20 1904 at Amarillo Texas post office under an act of 1870. It lists Globe News Publishing Co president Howe and editor in chief Wesley Izzard along with staff roles and a general contact telephone.
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Amarillo
Texas
Amarillo Daily News
Sunda
Globe News Publishing Co
Sixth Howe
N McCarty
Agreement with De Gaulle by Walter Lippmann
Lippmann argues the Allied alliance with France and the French resistance has solidified, enabling a unified command under General Eisenhower. He urges harmony among France Britain and America to secure future cooperation and avert further quarreling while acknowledging the new French leadership as a major power in the war effort.
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Walter Lippmann
Cherbourg
France
Soviet Union
Lippmann
de Gaulle
Washington
Eisenhower
United Nations
de Gaullist
Normandy
Algiers
London
Britain
America
Churchill
Maids Prioritized for War Work Shake Social Standards
War Manpower Commission advisory panel proposes placing maids on a wartime priority list to reduce absenteeism. Employment offices would assess an employer’s war effort rather than wages, potentially revealing a family’s status as riveters or the idle rich. Striking France reports detail civilian suffering, destruction, and morale challenges amid occupation and Allied advances, with De Gaulle representatives aiding civil affairs.
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War Manpower Commission
France
de Gaulle
Foreign plank and Dewey crisis in postwar platform
Dorothy Thompson criticizes the Republican platform for its foreign and domestic planks. She argues the foreign stance is muddled by phrases and a two thirds Senate vote. domestically it favors tariffs, fewer controls, and loans to others without repayment plans. She warns the policy would mirror the 1920s boom and bust, hinder international cooperation, and leave Dewey in a split party dilemma.
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World Organization
Thompson
Latin America
Dewey
United States
Vermont
Wendell Willkie
Letter From Home To Boys in Service
The Globe prints a patriotic weekly feature with letters to service members. July 4, 1944 notes Amarillo celebrations, weather, and local war work, plus labor, poll tax voting for absent servicemen, and a memorial for 82 dead with 68 prisoners and 31 missing. It highlights officer awards, arrivals, commissions, missing in action reports, and marriages of local graduates entering the armed forces.
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Armed Services
The
Globe
Amarillo
Pantex
Buffalo Lake
Polk Street
J. C. Penney Company
Joe Larson
Dick Wiggins
Rufus Graves
Burl Bean
India
Bean
John R. Stanley
Field Artillery
New Guinea
Frank M. Storm, Jr
Army Air Corps
Russia
Boone Baker
Sandie
Navy
University of Oklahoma
Cecil C. Stokes
Marine Corps
Santa Barbara
Calif
Bernard S. Leavitt
France
Harry Johnson
Carl Pankratz
Calvin Daughter
Bob O'Keefe
James Coontz
Buddy Ratcliff
Rex Sanders
Wayne Elliott
Winnette de DeGrassi III
Horace Dwight
Pfc
Everett Jack Witt
U. S. Marines
Pacific
Polk Street Professor on Radishes
A humorous unsigned note questions why anyone would eat radishes noting lack of flavor and long aftertaste. The writer insists they are hot and crisp, comparing the taste to blowing torch heat and suggesting the radish lingers for days with persistent flavor.
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Germany
North Atlantic
By Dorothy Thompson
Bell Syndicate, Inc
H. G. Lewis
Juanita Shelton
Howard M. Rogers
Marguerite Pierce
Thomas A. Bodine, Jr
Elizabeth Ann Jordan
G. LaDon Hobgood
Juanita Ewing
J. Edward Stankey
Eileen Davis
Robert M. Mack, Jr
Mary Alice Branchi
H. D. Gill
Yours
Screen
Upper Haus of Congress
Seth
Tasmania
Australia
Amarillo Ice Company and and Monroe
Dock
Moon Mullins
Sugar
Donald Duck
Superman
Metropolis Hospital
Red Ryder
Phillips “66” Products
Fillmore
R & D Service
Boyce Belew, Mgr
Boxwell Te Hee PU Eee
Lee Perryton
Spearman
Binker
Ney
Mary Montgomery
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