The Facts The Results The Blame and War Time Rail Disruption
The coal strike ended without a clear victor with miners and workers gaining little while mine owners face property seizure and political blame. Critics blame Congress and the White House for weak labor policy and wartime mismanagement. Public sentiment abroad condemns the stoppage as ill timed and harmful to war aims. Congress is accused of failing to pass essential labor and price control measures after Pearl Harbor.
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WLB
Lewis Chilled
Congress
Lewis
United States
Pearl Harbor
National Congress
Be Not Afraid In Troubled World Sayings
A compact excerpt blending biblical and poetic lines urges courage in hardship. It echoes Ezekiel and Longfellow urging steadfastness and fearless speech amid adversity.
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Longfellow
The OPA and Inflation Fight: A Critical View
The piece argues rolling back food prices via the OPA will waste time and money. It asserts inflation results from early inaction by the administration and Congress, cites a Bureau of Labor Statistics rise in living costs, wages, and pay envelopes, and warns wage hikes and price controls could worsen inflation. It criticizes OPA mismanagement of the food supply and looming congressional budget cuts.
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Congress
Bureau of Labor
OPA
Sta
Opinion on OPA Staffing and Bureaucratic Challenges
The excerpt notes figures for statisticians clerks typists and stenographers and about 60000 outside of Washington. A congressional request for more staff is before Congress. It argues the OPA’s efficacy suffered from orders and vagaries of many high placed dreamers and executive branch politicians.
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Tisticians
Washington
Congress
OPA
Executive Branch
Counter Irritants to the New Deal Policy Debate
The piece critiques the New Deal and calls out a British policy on holding companies as a failed 60 year old idea. It argues the administration uses counter irritants to pacify voters and mocks postwar planning and a proposed global alphabet by former Senator Owens. It highlights Iowa farmers and a costly Toledo Peoria and Western Railway balance sheet finding.
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Britain
Glamor
Washington
Ayame
Toledo, Peoria and Western R. R
Owens
Oklahoma
Knee-Deep In June Editorial Waves of Summer Imagery
A Kansas City Times reflection catalogues June delights with garden flowers and fruit. It weaves quotes from Emerson Procter Wilder and others, praising roses, clover, wild strawberries, birds, and trees as June’s peak beauty.
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Jameson
Louise Beebee Wilder
Garden In Color
Emerson
Bryan Waller Procter
A Creed To Live By Edgar A Guest
A succinct personal creed outlines gentleness, integrity, faith, and honor. It declares living honestly whether seen or unseen, avoiding shame, and leaving a simple mark proving a life of duty and generosity. The verse attributes the philosophy to Edgar A. Guest.
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Edgar A. Guest
Washington’s Civilian War Economy Faces Front Crisis
June 22 a Senate Military Affairs subcommittee warned the civilian war economy is disintegrating and a domestic front crisis has arisen. The piece notes crowded trains with soldiers in aisles, crying babies on suitcases, jammed cars, and service cuts up to 75 percent while prices soared up to 100 percent with no fare reductions.
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Washington
Senate Military Affairs
Kilgore
Econ
Public burden of inflated prices and poor service warns of government policy impact
The public faces higher costs and inferior service in civilian life as government efforts to impose sacrifice are echoed by business. Civilians are urged to endure discomfort as patriotic duty, but commercialization has turned this into a price gouge across multiple sectors.
Patriotism Exposed as Exploitation in War Effort
A Washington committee warns of civilian morale decline due to patriotic exploitation and shortages. It urges Byrnes war mobilization to take full domestic control, form boards for requirements and for management labor and agriculture, and to unify efforts to prevent collapse of the home front.
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Washington
Byrnes War Mobilization Board
Defense Services
Byrnes
Byrnes committee urged to curb interagency power struggles
The remarks stress a strong need for a genuine wartime requirements committee to scrutinize military, lend lease, and civilian needs. They warn reorganization hinges on the committee’s future vigor to eliminate agency contests and prerogatives causing disintegration.
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Byrnes
Kilgore committee signals broader policy push
The Kilgore committee urges a forthright Democratic manpower plan and stronger executive actions. It criticizes slogans over policy, cites shortages and rising prices, and notes parallels with Patterson and Byrnes proposals suggesting imminent government steps.
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Patterson
Kilgore Committee
Byrnes
Roosevelt
Senator Soaper Draws Laughs In Wartime Satire
A satirical column mocks political figures and wartime policies. It references a black collar worker, John L. Lewis, the Duce’s secretary, an AEF veteran, and a schoolboy receiving a weekly allowance, alongside mentions of FDR and Italy.
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AEF
The Once Over Investigating Mayor LaGuardia For Signals
Satirical interview with Mayor LaGuardia touches on alert drill signals and radio scenes. The piece blends quips about leftovers, war themes, bingo, and political notes, ending with a jab about the next air raid drill signals.
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Mayor LaGuardia
Theater and News Snippet Mix Highlights Showbiz and Chaplin
A collage notes mixed press quotes on And So To Bed and Oklahoma as top entertainments, Fritz Kuhn’s Nazi parole, and a News item about Chaplin driving 100 miles to marry. It cites O P A guidance on driving with explosives, closing with a speculative line about Charlie Chaplin.
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Charlie Chaplin
Epworth League Opens 11th Conference In City
Billie Warden of Tazewell injured his hands after striking a match to a dynamite cap he held. J L Howard of Pulaski visited Capt. Hugh Hinde in the city during the Epworth League event.
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Billie Warden
J. E Warden
Tazewell
Epworth League
J. L. Howard
Pulaski
Hugh Hinde
Bluefield Princeton Electric Railway Promoter Predicts Progress
8S. J. Evans of Princeton, promoter of the Bluefield Princeton electric railway, said in a reasonable time the railway would be constructed. Miss Bessie Ellett and J. H Hoge of Bluefield were married at Christiansburg. Board of affairs met in regular session.
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J. Evans
Princeton
Bluefield
Bessie Ellett
J. H Hoge
Christiansburg
Board of Affairs
Automobile Crash Narrowly Misses Family Injury
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Cunningham and their young son escaped serious harm after their car collided with another. A heavy electrical storm and rain fell in Bluefield. Dr. Eugene Blake of the Holston Orphanage in Greeneville Tennessee visited Bluefield.
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Eugene Blake
Holston
Greeneville, Tenn
Bluefield
Tazewell GOP Sets Rally and Delegates to Lynchburg Convention
Tazewell Republicans held a ratification rally naming delegates to the state convention in Lynchburg. J. H. Gadd of Princeton urged voters to oppose ratification of the twenty first amendment. B. J. Worsham, a well known Bluefielder, died suddenly from an attack.
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Tazewell
Lynchourg
B. J. Worsham
J. H. Gadd
Princeton
United Dir Forces
Mercer County
Garner's poker ploy to win a post office bill
Former Vice President Garner outplayed Speaker Cannon in a poker game to block a home state post office bill. Garner calmly raised then trapped Cannon by offering a split pot, winning the hand and prompting Cannon to inquire the bill number.
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Garner
Washington
Warner
Uvalde
Tex
Joe” Cannon
Cannon
Milwaukee Journal
New Detention Camp Features Bath Sun Decks and Parlor
A western detention camp adds tub baths sun decks a recreation room and a beauty parlor. The new fascist salute variant includes a raised cover arm as part of the revised display.
Mission to Moscow style film sparks mixed reaction
A Hollywood critic argues that Mission to Moscow presents a one sided pro Soviet WW II stance. The piece praises Davies and Warner Bros while warning it stokes isolationist and Trotskyite criticism. It notes the film uses a documentary style and may provoke controversy.
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Moscow
Russia
Roosevelt
Davies
Stalin
Warner Bros
Book on Pre-Columbian Art by Pal Kelemen
Hungarian researcher Pal Kelemen has produced a two volume study on Pre-Columbian American art. The first volume surveys the field starting in the Southwestern pueblo region and covers land from Jalisco to the Andean Inca region while omitting most of Mexico.
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Pal Kelemen
Western Hemisphere
Europe
Asia
Kelemen
Pueblo Country
Mexico
Jalisco Dewr
Panama
Andes
Kelemen’s Medieval American Art Explored Through Photographs
A critic notes Kelemen’s South of Lake Titicaca focus with an art historian’s eye. The second volume emphasizes reproductions drawn from 12 000 photographs and 960 selections, covering Chichen Itza pipes scales and mirrors, offering rich popular knowledge from archaeology ethnology and anthropology perspectives.
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Kelemen
Lake
Tiicaca
la Paz
Chichen Itza
Delayed Meeting With Harpy Eagle On Trip
The article recounts Bert Pfeiffer’s life with birds of prey from sparrow hawks near his Hu river home to training a duck hawk and a bald eagle at Cornell. It details travels with Capt Knight to South Africa, a crowned eagle return for the London zoo, and a long hunt for the harpy eagle in British Guiana, interrupted by World War I service with the Canadian army and later the US Marines, ending with a harpy eagle on his wrist.
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North America
Europe
Asia
North Africa
Africa
Mexico
Brazil
Bert Pfeiffer
Hu River
Belgium
Bert
Cornell
Ithaca
Capt. Knight
Colonel Ramshaw
Knight
South Africa
Penn
Franklin Field
London Zoo
Central
South America
British Guinea
France
Newfoundland
United States Marines
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Kansas City Times
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Hollywood
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