Gillette Warns Against Usurpation in Government Power
Iowa Senator Guy M. Gillette warned that executive agencies and other branches encroach on legislative and judicial jurisdiction. He cited a 1937 debate over court packing and condemned letters to presiding officers as improper, pledging to oppose any future actions eroding constitutional separation of powers.
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Guy M. Gillette
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Senate
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Wallace
Supreme Court
Ahead of Invasion Schemes and Domestic War Policy Notes
The piece surveys German wartime propaganda predicting Allied invasion timing and location, hints at diversionary convoys, and notes shifting Allied plans. It covers Senate anti strike legislation tied to coal wage disputes, farm product costs, OPA morale and milk rationing, women’s work drives, and potential vice presidential hints for 1944.
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Europe
Hitter
Senate
House
Congress
OPA
J. Kenneth Galbraith
Intelligence optimism signals shorter war and bold plans
Col. Frederick Palmer argues inside Europe reports from allied intelligence show Germany weakening and a summer decisive phase possible. He notes coal strikes, steel needs, and naval efforts to push war strength, with Pantelleria bombardment and Argentina’s Axis influence waning as hopeful signs.
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Washington
Europe
Germany
Awathr
The Underground Press in Europe’s Fight Against Slavery
William L. Shirer describes the underground press in Nazi-occupied Europe, highlighting editors and printers facing Gestapo torture and death while publishing truth to sustain morale. Belgium’s La Libre Belgique is the era’s beacon, with vivid fronts, censored news, and widespread mimeographed sheets across 150 titles in multiple languages.
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Europe
William L. Shirer
Berlin
Hitler
Gestapo
Poland
Warsaw
New Yorker
la Libre Belgique
Belgium
Brussels
Cedar Rapids tops Ottumwa in per capita value of output
Four decades ago Cedar Rapids ranked second to Sioux City in total manufacturing value and second to Ottumwa in per capita output. Commencement at Coe College featured Rev W H W Boyle of St Paul as speaker with class orators Fred Bert Armstrong and Miss Belle JA Rose. Eva Frances Whitwell gave salutatory and J Ralph Jewell the valedictory amid a large audience.
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Cedar Rapids
Sioux City
Ottumwa
Coe
First Presbyterian Church
W. H. W. Boyle
St Paul
Fred Bert Armstrong
Belle J A Rose
Eva Frances Whitwell
J. Ralph Jewell
University of Iowa
George Frisbie Hoar
Massachusetts
Who Wrote That Line About History and History
Column notes a quip on history and politics attributed to an era by Bugs Baer. It mentions the French realizing a binary stance and questions authorship of the line about history teaching no lessons. The brief suggests curiosity over the author of the wry remark.
Whose Stuff The bard argument about originality and authorship
A speaker reflects on writing from ten years ago and notes rival writers like Shakespeare Montaigne Confucius and Emerson may have preceded him. He jokes about discovering his ideas echoed in others records and laments ongoing literary borrowing.
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Shakespeare
Montaigne
Confucius
Emerson
Vanishing Americans Fear Haunts Wealthy Detroit Figure
A multimillionaire warns that he and his class may be the last of the Vanishing Americans. He muses that future exhibitions could showcase old Chief Sitting Pretty as the final representative of a great race.
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Detroit News
Old Chief Sitting Pretty
Social Security Taxes and Wartime Finance
A condensed critique by Dr. C Ward Macy of Coe College assesses expanding payroll tax schemes for wartime revenue. It analyzes incidence across labor and non labor factors, inflation risks, and whether higher taxes would truly curb consumption, urging that social security be prioritized independently of war financing.
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C. Ward Macy
Coe College
Journal of Political Economy
ECENT
University of Chicago Press
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