Labor and housing drive U S reform measures
Congress debates an anti-violence bill targeting interference with interstate commerce as labor unrest grows. Truman pushes anti strike ideas while urging swift wage talks and fact finding. UAW Ford talks include a new daily fine on unauthorized strikes. Auto output remains well below targets amid shortages. Truman names housing expediter to speed low cost homes and roading materials. Pearl Harbor winds message hearing reveals shifting affidavits and disputed claims. Marshall contradicts prior testimony denying receipt of the December 3 note.
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Congress
AFL International Tearmster Union
ITU
Truman
UAW
CIO United Automobile Workers
Ford
Uaw-Ford
G.M
Chrysler
Packard
Nash
Hudson
Studebaker
Willys-Overland
Snyder
Wilson Wyatt
Louisville
War Department
Japan
U. S
Pearl Harbor
Army
Navy
White House
War and
State Departments
Army Board
Henry C. Clausen
Congressional Committee
George C. Marshall
China
Farm price trends after World War I rise then fall
The farm price index shows a peak postwar rise, slipping after wartime highs. After a brief postwar dip, prices recovered to higher levels by mid 1920, with forecasts suggesting deflation postponement into 1947. The guide cites official indices from the Department of Agriculture and Alexander Hamilton Institute as context.
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Department of Agriculture
Alexander Hamilton Institute
Highest salaries in 1943 44 report and war impact
The treasury’s year end 1943 44 report shows Louis B Mayer as the top earner at 908070 with Charles E Wilson and Thomas J Watson among the top executives. Movie stars Deanna Durbin Barbara Stanwyck Bing Crosby and William Powell also high earners. General Motors officials including Ormond Hunt Albert Bradley and Charles Kettering rank high. The Allied tribunal at Nuernberg faces witness issues as Nazi case tests precedents. European postwar economic plans include German reconstruction food shipment needs and living standard targets. Rail transport faces heavy civilian disruption as troops consume seats beds and trains while railroad profits slip in the first nine months of the year. All amid Moscow talks on Europe Asia and atomic energy.
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Louis B. Mayer
U. S
Treasury
Mayer
Charles E. Wilson
General Motors
Thomas J. Watson
International Business Macnage Corporation
Fred MacMurray
Hollywood
Deanna Durbin
Barbara Stanwyck
Bing Crosby
William Powell
G.M
John Thomas Smith
Donaldson Brown
Charles ¥. Kettering
Veterans Bureau Readers Asked To Limit Mail For Prompt Aid
An editor notes the Veterans Administration faces record mail volume and personnel shortages. Readers are urged to include full names, addresses, and relevant numbers in every letter, and to cite N, V, K, or XC identifiers for pensions, insurance, and related inquiries. Answers to questions cover burial transfers, locating missing soldiers, insurable beneficiaries, GI Bill effects, and pensions for World War I veterans.
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Veterans’ Administration
Washington
John
American Legion
Mothers of
Rock County
Nebraska
Quartermaster Corps
Lansing
Mich
Red Cross
Adjutant General
War Department
Washington, D. C
E. P
Brownsville
Tenn. A
Table Grove
HI. A
Miami
Texas
Manila
T. C
Hurley Profiles and Holiday Carols in Capitol Lore
Washington buzzes as Pat Hurley resigns as ambassador to China and a storied career unfolds from Choctaw politics to Chiang Kai shek circles. The piece recalls his feisty Senate clashes, Wedemeyer tiffs in Chungking, and a life moving from Indian Territory to Washington power amid a Christmas carol broadcast plan by Rep. Arends.
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Pat Hurley
Washington
China
Pat
Oklahoma
Senate Insular Affairs Committee
House Indian Affairs Committee
Webster Ballinger
Hurley
Ballinger
Patrick J. O'Hurley
O'Hurley
George Washington
Henry B. Wilson
Joe Stalin
Near East
Chiang Kaishek
Chungking
al Wedemeyer
Wedemeyer
Robert B. McClure
Marshall
Fdr
Leslie Arends
Sinois
House
Arends
Mutual Network
Arends Sextet
GOP
Harve Tibbett
Pennsylvania
Paul Shafer
Michigan
Harry Towe
New Jersey
Frank Fellows
Maine
William Hill
Colorado
Sweet Adeline
Macon Reed
Mutual News
Reed
California
R. Sen
William
U.S
Germany
America
Truman
Chia
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Wenters
Nuernberg
Reich
Britain
Russia
France
Sec
James F. Byrnes
Moscow
U. S. State Department
Azerbaijan
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Pacific
Mississippi River
Eisenhower
Byrnes
Western Newspaper Union
Eye Street
Sree
RTMEN
Sars
Roy Cas
Tha
Noyes
Simostone
Mal Marve Princeton
Monter Daly
John Deere
McCormick Deer Seat
McCormick Deering
Harken
Tay
Osc
FOX CO
Coabha OS
Iowa
Court Ave
Hee Molonu
Bhatt
wWe
Dept. W
Dea Molney
Bend
Bikco
Marsh Finks
Tito Rio Grande Valley Exchange
Ann
Tom
Kaufman
Leslie Kaufman
Manson
Boy
Louie T
Sega
Xetala Scott
Scott
Alt Bay
Scotts
GETA
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