Press Ban Just A Joke Jones Roosevelt Food Conference
In Washington a PR flap over Roosevelt’s ban on normal newspaper coverage of the international food conference yielded vague assurances that the ban would be altered. Marvin Jones of the American delegation called the move facetious and said the President had not shared publicity views.
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Marvin Jones
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Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
Stephen T. Early
Strike Called at Aluminum Plant in Edgewater New Jersey
CIO workers at the Aluminum Company of America plant were ordered to strike at 11 30 p m Thursday after a 2 to 1 vote in favor by about 2000 employees in protest of 25 unfilled vacancies in the remest department, with the local rescinding wartime pledge.
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Coast Guard Cutter Rescues 235 From Torpedoed Merchantman
A coast guard combat cutter saved 235 passengers and crew from a large American merchant ship torpedoed in the North Atlantic last February. Survivor George K. Cunningham said the ship lurched as the torpedo hit with only four lifeboats free. The cutter, 327 feet, carried the survivors after about five hours adrift. The navy announced the sinking on February 22.
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Civilian Supply Group Approved by Senate Committee
The Senate Banking Committee unanimously approved legislation to create an agency that ensures production and distribution of needed civilian supplies. The plan faces strong opposition from War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson and War Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt, who challenge the bill’s authority and implementation.
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By Rationing Backed by Byrnes Says Economic Stabilization Director
Authoritative figures state that rationing measures have the backing of Economic Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes. The declaration underscores a coordinated effort to curb excess and stabilize prices during wartime or crisis conditions.
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James F. Byrnes
President Roosevelt's Trip Does Not Trigger Acting Presidency
Government experts in Washington state that President Roosevelt's Mexico trip and Vice President Wallace's South American tour do not create an acting presidency. They cited Article 2, Section 6, noting temporary succession only follows removal, death, resignation, or inability, not travel outside the nation.
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Casablanca
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Edgar A. Guest To Poet of the People
A patriotic verse honors Edgar A. Guest as a poet for the people. It lauds soldiers and families, noting letters from battle zones blur the truth to shield from tragedy, while the home front believes in the fighters and vows not to abandon duty or duty to country.
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Edgar A. Guest
Poet of the People
Sunshine Boys
Wiggam Q and A on gender norms and optimism
Albert E. Wiggam answers questions about women in masculine roles and the rise of freedom, notes on a Masculinity-Femininity Test, Columbus finding America, and the tension between cheerful talk and real troubles. He cites examples from nurses to hairdressers and critiques overly sunny personas.
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Stanford University
Woman christens U S navy tug Chickasaw in Alameda
Mrs Rena Fairbanks of Emmett Kansas, mother of five sons serving in the navy, was invited by the navy department to christen the United States tug Chickasaw in Alameda California marking her first glimpse of a sea from that port.
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Rena Fairbanks
Emmett
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United States
Kathryn Cowden Receives Western Reserve University Scholarship
Kathryn Cowden daughter of Myrtle Phillips 1627 Second Avenue SE has earned a social welfare scholarship from Western Reserve University's School of Applied Social Science in Cleveland Ohio. The award covers full tuition for two years and she will graduate in June with a sociology major. She is a member of Pi Gamma Mu and Coedan and Pleiades and has served as a student assistant in the alumni office throughout college.
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