What Makes Us Great and Civic Call to Open Debate
A fragmented letter from John A. Keefer urging the Citizens Alliance and Taxpayers Protective Association to reveal identities and engage the public. It accompanies an essay arguing nations are defined by people, not just resources, and notes a plan by the American Bible Society to publish Bibles and Testaments in Europe for Christmas 1948.
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Citizens Alliance and Taxpayers Protective Association
John A. Keefz
Billings Commercial Club
Commercial Club Bulletin
Citizens Alliance
Alliaance
P.O. Box
Billings
Montana
Tami Wits
Citizens Alliance & Taxpayers Protective Association
Derr Jehu
J. 4. Keefe
America
France
American Bible Society
Eurepe
Local man seeks bids on dog haul project amid shoreline weather
Amid unsettled shore conditions a local man calls for bids to build a dog haul. The piece references Santa riding a donkey, rumors in Billings, and a GI home program lag, contrasting wartime urgency with present delays and urging timely action.
Christmas Seal drive boosts help for tuberculo sis veterans
A wartime appeal praises the Ma sons Veterans Committee for aiding blinded veterans and job placement. It notes $160,000 already spent on aid and entertainment, with 20 regional groups and a new New York state headquarters to expand support and counseling for blind veterans seeking better employment.
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Magons
Veterasis
Masonic Veterans Committee
Yok
New York
Vows
An American in Paris By JOHN VAN METRE Herald Correspondent
An American in Paris reports on cost of living in postwar France noting food prices in francs and dollars, scarce sugar and fats, plentiful seafood and affordable beef and pork, and the French habit of cooking with local resources. The piece also observes bread quality, wine drinkers, and wary yet friendly French attitudes toward Americans and Marshall Plan aid under De Gaulle.
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Paris
John van Metre
Herald
France
Morning Herald
Montana
United States
Prance
de Gaulle
Germany
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