Equal Justice Under Law and Wartime War Powers
David Lawrence questions if wartime expedi ency wrongly overrides constitutional justice. He argues the core issue is whether government power aligns with a written Constitution, not personalities, evaluating Roosevelt’s war labor decisions and the Montgomery Ward injunction case. A Chicago judge’s stance asserts Congress must authorize seizures and enforce laws, not defer to courts for legislative choices.
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Montgomery Ward
Jsbar
Jask
Sewell Avery
Roosevelt
Supreme Court of the United States
Equal Justice
Supreme Court
Congress
Nopogy
To & Isbar Union
Isbar Board
Davis
Petrillo
Ward
Department of Justice
War Labor Board
Philip Sullivan
Chicago
Failure to Solve One Problem Creates a Host of Bigger Ones
Robert Quillen argues that failing to address core wartime problems breeds larger ones. He cites labor waste, wasted labor in war plants, guest drivers, output limits, and race track disruption, urging officials to enforce rationing and curb unnecessary travel to support the war effort. He notes Canada banning air horror and challenges about special privilege.
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Hitler
Washington
Byrnes
Out of the Past: Kites Rise Against the Wind
An attributed aphorism by John Neal reflects on effort and momentum, suggesting progress falters in still conditions. The quote contrasts action with inertia, framing achievement as driven by dynamic forces rather than passive waiting.
Peggy's Cove: A North Atlantic Jewel Deserves Wider Fame
These are happy people who live at Peggy's Cove Nova Scotia described as brave, simple and genuine fisher folk. Livesay's book published by Ryerson Press honours the community and its visitors who have long found welcome there. An American reader hopes thousands will visit after the war.
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Harnett T. Kane
New Orleans
Peggy’s Cove
North America
Canada
Nova Scotia
Halifax
Lloyd Garrison
the Light
Mr. Livesay
Peggy's
Peggy's Cove
Ryerson Press
Toronto
Peggy’s
Faith
That's All It Takes Wallace and the Bacon Gate
Arthur Baer comments on Wallace as a greater man than his critics claim using a Brow to reap crops. He notes Wallace paid farmers for not doing things they wouldn't do anyway and suggests the hogs were better run through a sluice gate than a hamburger machine.
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Peter
Tito
Alsdorf Shows Military Rule Poised to Doom Nazism Pattern
In Alsdorf, a mining town of about 20 000, 6 500 remain as Nazi influence dwindles. Allied occupation plans divide Germany into three zones with a Berlin tripartite commission, and detachments carry detailed orders to arrest Nazi leaders and officials. The local Nazi network is weakened, with only about 40 arrested to date, while a regionalized postwar structure is expected to curb fascism and central control. The town’s mayor, a 25 year civil servant who joined the Nazi party in 1933, remains in office amid ongoing vetting.
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Germany
Sicily
Mary
Alsdorf
Ninth Army
Berlin
Italy
Gestapo
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Bereichsleiter
Waffen
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Hitler Youth
Flying Corps
Reich
Rhine
Nazi Party
Secret wartime briefing on Capitol Hill disappoints lawmakers
Lawmakers packed the Coolidge auditorium for a top secret off the record talk by Admiral Ernest King and Gen. George Marshall. The gathering, seen as theater to boost support for work-or-fight legislation, left many congressmen feeling their time was wasted. Secretary Stimson and Secretary Forrestal opened with brief introductions before Marshall and King spoke.
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Washington
Coolidge
Library of Congress
Ernest King
Naval Operations
Army
George Marshall
Congress
Admiral King
Stimson
Navy
Forrestal
Marshall
King
Peter and Tito in a Balkans crisis over Yugoslavia
Marquis W. Childs surveys the Peter Subasic dispute in Yugoslavia as the British weigh a restored government with Tito. Peter fires ministers, eyes absolute power, while London seeks a regency and free elections. The piece links to Poland and Greece as London threads a consultative system for postwar stability.
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London
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Peter-Subasic
Tito
Lubasic
Subashc
Peter
Moscow
Churchill
Poland
Greece
Juicing versus whole fruit and vitamin C guidance
Dr. Brady debunks the belief that juicing improves health. He argues whole fruit, especially oranges, is preferable to juice, notes vitamin C preservation in canned tomato products, warns that open canning destroys vitamin C, and suggests pureed vegetables for invalids. He stresses daily vitamin C to prevent scurvy.
Should Iowa pay more of public school costs from state funds
By Harry Boyd argues the Iowa School Code commission is likely to push for raising state funding to about 25 percent of school costs, away from property taxes. The piece notes 47 states do so, cites current Iowa at 1.4 percent, and warns that better statewide funding benefits not just distant districts but Cedar Rapids by ensuring future workers educated across the state.
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Iowa School Code Commission
Iowa
Code Commission
United States
Delaware
Whatzit County
Cedar Rapids
School Code Commission
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