Rumor Mill Roils Amarillo OPA Office and Postwar Plans
The piece reports rumors that OPA Administrator Prentiss Brown may be reassigned with Chester Bowles handling rationing while Brown acts as ambassador to Congress. It notes Sanctions on postwar planning, endorses a six year public works program to prevent boondoggling, and recalls the fall of Mussolini as context for anti Fascist feeling.
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Washington
OPA
Prentiss M
Brown
Chester Bowles
Michigan
Bowles
Capitol Hill
Congress
Benjamin Higgins
National Bureau of Economic Research
G-Girl chapter 7 a Washington date and war talk
Sally and Peter share a late evening in a three step below street level restaurant. They swap banter as Sally explains work at the War Commission and Peter recounts his medical career and Iowa roots. The night ends with a promise to meet again and a hint of ongoing tension.
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Peter Craig
River Edge
Sally
Army
Peter
War Commission
Washington
City Hospital
Iowa
Congress
Supreme Court
Capitol Transit Co
Dupont Circle
Vic Niemeyer
Connecticut Avenue
Kentucky Defeat of Donaldson Signals Shifting GOP Tide
Washington columnist Paul Mallon analyzes Kentucky results showing Simeon Willis’s surprising victory in the Democratic stronghold. He notes national fatigue with the New Deal era, campaign dynamics, and the broader GOP gains across states, suggesting implications for Roosevelts political future and possible non reelection plans.
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Paul Mallon Washington
Kentucky
Senate
Jim Farley
New York
Simeon 8
Willis
Barkley
Happy Chandler
Mr. Roosevelt
Chandler
Happy
J. Luter Donaldson
White House
Donaldson
Frank Walker
New Jersey
Philadelphia
Willkie
House
New York City
Detroit
Spangler
Roosevelt
Moscow
Workers Expect Lower Post War Pay in Gallup Poll
George Gallup reports a nationwide survey finding most workers doubt wages in war industries will stay high after moving to peacetime goods. About 75 percent foresee wage declines, with median postwar drops around 33 to 40 percent, and minimum living wages cited at 25 to 35 dollars weekly.
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Princeton
N. J
Institute
The 46 Candles Of Dr Goebbels A Stockholm Dispatch
A Stockholm report from Berlin notes Goebbels’s forty sixth birthday party attended by Himmler Speer and Doenitz. The piece argues the meeting aimed to form a political bloc and to gauge survival amid possible defeat, highlighting the navy’s role in Pan Germanism and Nazi espionage links.
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Stockholm
Berlin
Goebbels
Gestapo
Himmler
Speer
Karl Doenitz
Thompson Doenitz
Ss. S
Imperial Navy
Hitler
Admiral Canaris
Weimar Republic
Admiral Doenitz
Doenitz
Marines Hold Beachhead at Bougainville After Fierce Assault
United Press war correspondent George E. Jones recounts the Bougainville landing near Cape Torokina where Marines faced heavy fire from Japanese coastal batteries and mortars. He notes 60 Japanese deaths along the beach, U.S. losses described as moderate, and the beachhead holding firm as 600 yards inland.
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Bougainville Island
United Press
George E. Jones
Solomons
Jones
Cape Torokina
T. S. Wilkinson
Guadalcanal
Nicaragua
Shanghai
Buretoni
Torokina Point
Harold Gerlach
Los Angeles
Buin
Quotations of Faith and Resolve Across Scriptures and Authors
A collection of religious verses and lines from Bible verses Coleridge Lincoln and Milton. It blends exhortations prayers, praises, and reflections on faith liberty and divine presence across eras. The passage surveys pious thought and moral conviction through a mosaic of quotations.
Puzzler Grid Today From Clues and Figures
A word puzzle with horizontal and vertical clues. Entries include actress Claudette, chemistry terms, city names, measurements, and various common words. Solve to fill cross letters and complete the puzzle grid.
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Amarillo
Texas
Papatews
Gene Howe
John McCarty
Wesley Izzard
Telephone
Mussolini
Pietro Badoglio
Lydia Gray Shaw
Commission
Donald Nelson
Mary McDermott
Crabbe
Sults
America
Henry A. Wallace
Hideki Tojo
UAW
R. J. Thomas
Harry Woodburn Chasé
New York University
Stinky
Mallon
Gallup
George Gallup
American Institute of Public Opinion
DR. Goebbels
By Dorothy Thompson
Europe
Alldeutsche Verband
Balkans
Brazil
Third Reich
Tirpitz
Albert Speer
Germany
Eliropa
The
United Press Radio Wire
Necessity and
Freewill
Carlyle
IL —Omar Khayyam
la Bouchefoucauld
Nehemiah
Coleridge
Christ Jesus
Cancei
Lincoln
John
God
Milton
Claudette
New Mexico
Louisiana
Jane
Addams
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