Celebrity intrigue and political skirmishes across 1940s headlines
A collage reports King George of Greece anger at advisers over London routines, Batista's Brazil plans, FTC probes on celeb endorsements, and New York butcher strikes driven by crackdowns on black market sales. It notes Broadway trends, Hoover smear campaigns, fashion icons, and radio moves, with anecdotes of wartime culture and the press ecosystem.
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George
Greece
London
Athens
Cuba
Batista
Brazil
Federal Trade Commission
New York
Recent Deaths Recall Wild West Names in Two Deaths
Two men connected to frontier history died within weeks, Rev Endicott Peabody in Groton Massachusetts and Albert Bacon Fall in El Paso Texas. Peabody once led Tombstone Arizona church life and sports, while Fall, once interior secretary, defended gunfighters including John Wesley Hardin and Pat Garrett in landmark cases shaping Old West lore.
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Elmo Scott Watson
Western
Union
Roaring Cow
Endicot Peabody
Groton
Mass
Groton School
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Endicott Peabody
Tombstone
Arizona
Boston
William M. Breakenridge
Johnny Behan
Breakenridge
Mr Peabody
Charleston
Billy Claybourn
Frank Leslie
Mr. Peabody
Claybourn
Peabody
Dr. Peabody
Albert Bacon Fall
Paso
Texas
A. B. Fall c
New Mexico
Harding
Teapot Dome
Southwest
Frontier
John Wesley Hardin
Wild West
Charles Webb
Brown County
Hardin
el Paso
Pute
Young John
Old John
Old John Selman
Acme
Selman
Fall
Eugene Cunningham
Fali
Albert B. Fall
Chicago Daily News
Pat Garrett
Billy the Kid
Garrett
Donna Ana
Theodore Roosevelt
Feeding Italy and Congressmen in Treasury of War Notes
Washington reports Roosevelt pushing to feed Italy and involve Italians amid food riots while Britain and the United States clash on policy. The piece contrasts wartime decisions with pleas for public sacrifice, includes historic debt-prisoning anecdotes, and notes pork barrel wealth gaps. It also recounts a psychology stunt that lured Nazi prisoners and quirks like a flagpole gift at Shugborough and a stamps tweak for Helen Gahagan Douglas.
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Washington, D. C
Italy
Roosevelt
Greece
Rome
Athens
F.D.R
Quebec
Churchill
Ime
Maly
Germany
Wilson
United States
Henry Maitland Wilson
Stetlinius
Washington
William Moultrie
U. S. Supreme Court
James Wilson
Pennsylvania
Edenton
N. C
John Rutledge
South Carolina
U.S
U. S
London
A&a
U.S. Supreme Court
New York State
Supreme Court
Shugborough Park
England
Earl of Litchfield
Hollywood
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Gamblers Build Tombstone Churchyard Fence With Charity
In Tombstone Arizona a frontier town famed for lawlessness and saloons, Rev Endicott Peabody sought funds to fence the churchyard. Gamblers at the Crystal Palace contributed a kitty from poker, enabling the church fence to be built as described in Walter Noble Burns’s Tombstone: An Illustrated History of the Southwest.
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Houghton Miffin Company
Billy Breakenridge
Endicott Peabody
Tombstone
Breakenridge
E. B. Gage
Grand Central and
Contention Mines
Prospector Hotel
Gage
Endicott
Cheltenham
Cambridge University
England
Tombstone Episcopal Church
Crystal Palace
Rev. Peabody
Peabody
Walter Noble Burns
Southwest
Doubleday, Page & Co
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Florida
Mexico
Havana
Sidney Kingsley
Zanuck
Congress
Powers That Be
Adana
Angel Street
Indianapolis
Erie
Buffalo
G-man
Hoover
N.Y
Brooks Atkinson
Orient
Libby Holman
John Kirby
Pittsburgh
Canary Bernice Parks
St. Regis
Life
Horace MacMahon
Mhiton Berle
Joe EB. Lewis
Sam
Elisha A. King
Wham Hazhit
Guadalcanal
Father Gehring
CBS
Raymond Scott
Milt Herth
Coparaband
Ted Adams
Wayne Brazel
Brazel
Pat Garrett Brazel
Daily News
Albert Fall
Endicoly Peabody
Episcopal Church
Albert B
France
Signal Corps
U.S. Army
Michigan
Bfgoodrich
Wile
TY Scott
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