Keep the silly season in its place
A 1940s era editorial notes the approach of heat and silliness, urging restraint while critiquing sensational political stunts. It mentions Texas governors, book bans, and odd public acts as examples, and highlights mirrored fund recalls from Willkie supporters and a New York union.
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O' Daniel
Texas
O'Daniel
Oklahoma
Steinbeck
Toledo
Germany
Russia
Cleveland
World Through McLemore Colored Glasses Pot Roast Essay
Henry McLemore writes a humorous Washington diary style piece about a pot roast experiment to endure the city heat. He jokes that locals embrace heat, mocks humidity, highlights Washington’s climate and the city’s politics, ending with a self-deprecating note about being a leftovers stew.
SUPER-SALESMAN SAM Campaign for defense bonds drives push
A sweeping government campaign promotes defense savings bonds and stamps from schools to Wall Street. Eugene W. Sloan, veteran treasury officer, leads a vast PR effort with radio, print, direct mail, and films aiming to recruit millions of customers. About $700 million in bonds sold in two months, with payroll deduction and forest savings tests in development.
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Jack Stinnett
Little Red School
High Finance
Wall Street
United States Treasury
Oelin
New York City
Eugene W. Sloan
St. Louis
New York
Treasury
Sayings
Sloan
Forest
Puyland
Butter and Bravado on a Night Run to New York
Angus MacPhil, a truck driver, loves Adoreen Mickletwidge who seeks fame in New York. Adoreen bets on a chorus career while Angus fears losing her and takes a wild late-night drive to search for her. A state trooper confrontation ends with butter splattered on the officer, and Angus heads off into dawn hoping to avoid trouble and find Adoreen.
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Angus MacPhillips
Adoreen Mickletwidge
Adoreen
New York
Angus
Millie
Addie
Buttered Highway Chase Through New York City
Angus dumps butter on a highway causing a slick, later robs a city, escapes a pursuing trooper, and drives into Manhattan to find his missing girl Adoreen. Police confront him in New York as he seeks the mayor and a path to Caleb, hoping to explain and continue home.
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Angus
Dunbar's Hill
Herbie
Adoreen
Roy
Cally
New York
State Highway Department
Johnstown
Holland Tunnel
Manhattan
Caleb
Mr. Wittenbaum
City Hall
Buddy
Legionnaires Hold Ground in Syria Stand for Free French
The article honors 60 French Foreign Legion fighters in Lebanon and Syria who stalled a British column for three hours from hidden caves. It highlights their loyalty, unity, and melting pot integration, noting Germans and other nationalities serving under De Gaulle alongside Free French.
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Syria
Foreign Legion
Lebanon
Charles de Galle
France
Legion
Zinogii Pechkoff
Sidi-bel-Abbes
Oray
Algeria
Germany
German Republic
Russia
Legion of the Damned
Fluorescent lighting seen as future home mainstay
Home Beautiful discusses fluorescent lamps overtaking incandescent lighting as the future of home illumination. It notes fluorescent bulbs deliver more light per watt, closely mimic daylight, require no rewiring, and create less radiant heat. Lifespan ranges up to 2500 hours in common home use.
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Washington
St. Louis
Wichita
Toledo
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Teague
Claude
Cayenne
Pepper
Frank
Nellie
Knox
Carter
George Washington
Pierre C. L’'Enfant
Mount Vernon
United States
Young New Yorker Brings Bank Fees to Light
In Talk of the Town a young New Yorker with low draft numbers faces a costly bank habit. Opening an account with optimism, he incurs frequent two dollar penalties for charges without funds, plus monthly balances. After a series of penalties, his balance dwindles to twelve dollars and sixty seven cents.
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East
Polar Bears Outrun Humans In Arctic Life
Nature Notes by John N Meissner describes polar bears as faster swimmers than people, tracing their life in the ice pack. Cubs are born in snow dens late January, weigh ounces at birth, and grow to 3 to 4 feet high and 10 to 11 feet long, weighing 700 to 900 pounds when full grown.
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Amarillo
Gene Howe
Donn McCarty
Oren Root
Local 502
A. F. of L
McLemore-Colored
Henry McLemore
Tropics
White House
Washington Sun
Seersucker
Sam
Caliban
Mooseheart
MacPhillips
Carol Johnson
By Norman Kahl
Hollywood
Legionnatires
The
Kansas City Star
Talk of the Town
New Yorker
Nature
John N. Meissner
Christian Science Monitor
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