OPA’s Monument Will Be a Super Mimeograph Machine
Frederick C. Othman reflects on the dissolution of the Office of Price Administration. He recalls Bowles and the ambitious bureaucracy, shortages from pipe cleaners to diapers, and the sprawling duplicating rooms that overwhelmed reporters. He notes postwar honesty declines and keeps a stamp as a memento of a personal nightmare.
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OPA
Frederick C. Othman
Gary Readingg
R.I.P
Bowles
America
Japan
Gan
Spirit of Mother McAuley murals finished at Sacred Heart
Mount Mercy junior college art student Elaine Curtis completed the Spirit of Mother McAuley murals in the Sacred Heart convent teachers lounge. The panels honor the work of Mother Catherine McAuley with figures representing education religion and care for the sick. Curtis studies under Sister Mary Norbert at Mount Mercy.
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Elaine Curtis
Mount Mercy Junior College
Jesse P. Curtis
Eighteenth Street
Mother McAuley
Sacred Heart Convent
Curtis
Mother Catherine McAuley
Ireland
Sisters of Mercy
Sister of Mercy
Mount Mercy College
Missionaries Seek Red Vitamin Pills for Asia Relief
New York reports requests from Far East missionaries for red vitamin pills to replace black pills. The Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief seeks 1,000,000 from Protestant Episcopal members to ship vitamins and medicines from American churches. Respondents cite a blind kidney patient whose sight improved after treatment, part of 35 million pills distributed in Asia over the past year.
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New York
Far East
Presiding Bishop
Fund For World Relief
Protestant Episcopal Church
Asia
T. S. Eliot Puzzled By Harvard Workers
Poet T. S. Eliot, class of 1910, visits Harvard from England and comments that conditions at the university are not like his day. He notes worry among workers during the visit.
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T. S. Eliot
Harvard
Eliot
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