Time of Decision praised as key war era diplomacy work
Notes of an Innocent Bystander surveys cultural and political chatter from wartime society. It highlights Time of Decision as a leading book on diplomatic history and future world order, plus mentions optical portraits, studio moves, lectures, editorial quirks, and anecdotes from Hollywood and Washington.
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Saraser Welles
Washington
London
Lookmag
Fdr
Anita Colby
Waterbury
New Yorker
Commando Kelly
Zanuck
Proposed National Agricultural Museum Would Tell Story of Farmers
National Agricultural museum concept envisions a living museum in Washington with outdoors and glass exhibits tracing agriculture from colonial times to modern mechanization. It would include galleries, a theater, dioramas, research facilities, branch museums, and Jefferson connections to showcase evolution and social impact of farming.
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National Agricultural Museum
America
Elmo Scott Watson
Union
United States
National Agricultural Jefferson Bicentenary Committee
Charlottesville
University of Virginia
Monticello
Claude R. Wickard
Thomas Jefferson
Agricultural Museum
Herbert A. Kellar
McCormick Historical Association
Chicago
Washington
Eli Whitney
Colton
Elkanah Watson
Cyrus Hall McCormick
Lincoln
Museum Iis
Dakotas
National Agricultural Jefferson
University
Reconversion snarls loom as Kilgore bill battles Senate
Washington reports a stalled reconversion drive after the Baruch-Hancock plan. Kilgore's comprehensive measure aims at full peacetime production and employment within private enterprise, but faces Senate resistance and strategic reassignments amid pressure from Baruch Hancock and Wall Street interests. also notes on Hitler’s health and Allied monitoring of his speeches, plus local campaign film efforts.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
America
Hartley Kilgore
West Virginia
Kilgore
Progressive Committee On Education and Labor
Sen
Elbert Thomas
Utah
Jimmy Byrnes
Bernie Baruch
Wall Street
John Hancock
Robert R. Reynolds
North Carolina
Lehman Brothers John Hancock
Montana
Murray
George
Hancock
Baruch
Monticello Farm Rotation Praised By Clemson Leader
James E. Ward of Clemson College lauds Thomas Jefferson for advanced agricultural ideas in a talk on Monticello. He notes Jefferson’s early crop rotation practices, detailing his division of cultivated land into four farms of 280 acres each.
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Dalrymples
Michigan
Wisconsin
Middle West
West
Westover
Carles Neck
Claremont
Lower James
Shirley
Carter
James River
Folly
Cochran
Augusta County
Walnut Grove
McCarmick
Rockbridge County
Berry Hil
Bruce
Halifax
Virginia
Middleton
Cooper River
Hampton Tall
Rutledge
Santee River
South Carolina
Louisiana
Rosedown
Bowman
Butlers
Mount Vernon
Washington
Stratford
Monticello
Jefferson
Hermitage
Andrew Jackson
National Park Service
Wakefield
Washington House
Arlington
Lee
United States
Jefferson Agricultural Memorial Association
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Shadwell
Poplar Forest
James E. Ward
Division of Social Sciences
Clemson College
America's First Scientific Farmer Employed Seven Field Rotation
The text describes America's first scientific farmer using a seven field rotation on 401 acre parcels marked by peach tree rows. It reduced corn to one year in seven and largely eliminated tobacco, stressing that bare soil wastes nutrients. He cultivated legumes to fix fertility and avoided fallow, ensuring continuous labor and draft power and steady crop employment.
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Raymond Moley
Ve Kitthen
Savoy
A. Bierce
Toni Eden
Billy Sunday
J. Lorimer
Maude Warrender
Beds on the home front knit rag rug guide
Instructions for turning worn garments into a knitted rag rug with fabric strips. Steps include cutting strips, knotting edges, knitting an oval center, casting on and binding off stitches, and adding color bands. The note cites SEWING Book 4 with further rag rug projects and a 15 cent order request.
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Duke Ellington
Cootie Williams
Duke
Cootie
Ellington
Norfolk
Herb Fidds
Palomar
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Benj. Winchell
Congress
Ben
Ruggles
Corp
Brad Crawford
Hollywoo
Buddy
Movietown
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Butch Morgan
Morgan
Corporal Crawford
Hollywood
Brad
Hugh E. Agnew
France
England
Mityler
Adolf Hitler
Washingston
Hitler
Howard Costigan
Washington Commonwealth Federation
Party of the Pacific
Jennings Randolph
Pane
Ruth Wyeth Spears Bedford Wills
New York R
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Amazon Valley
Bfgoodrich
ULL
Lyman Motor
Mein Salt Lake Cty
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