G O P Adopts Foreign Plank As Presented
The Republican national convention unanimously adopts a 1944 presidential platform calling for peace forces to deter future wars and pledging domestic liberty through private enterprise and limited government. Taft reads the 4,300 word plank. Willkie criticized it as vague. Dewey may amplify it. The platform urges postwar cooperation, constitutional limits, states’ rights, broad employment, and gradual tax relief.
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Chicago Stadium
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Resolutions Committee
Wendell L. Willkie
Walter E. Edge
New Jersey
Dewey
Taft
Joseph W. Martin, Jr
Mass
U. S
Ear Flopper and Postwar Policy Demands Highlight Debate
A discussion of military culture defines ear floppers as anxious to please superiors at any cost. The text lists reform ideas from government farm credit consolidation to two term presidency limits, equal rights, anti-lynching, composed immigration to Palestine, distrust of bureaucracy, and protections for press freedom as part of a broader postwar policy platform.
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Fair Employment Practice Commission
Hawaii
Alaska
Puerto Rico
Palestine
Spangler May Be Made G.O.P. Executive Director
Cedar Rapids' Harrison E. Spangler is seen as a potential executive director for the Republican Party in 1944 though re election is unlikely. HQs will be in Chicago with a new eastern division office in New York. Warren and Dewey politics mix with Iowa delegation dynamics as Hickenlooper helps revise the platform and Johnson lauds the farm plank.
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Hicago
Cedar Rapids
Harrison E. Spangler
Chicago
Spangler
Party
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt Hotel
New York
Iowa
Dewey
Earl Warren
California
Warren
George A. Wilson
Des Moines
Cooperative Real Estate Sales Attract War Time Attention
Cooperative real estate sales draw focus as brokers from different cities refer clients to each other. Chicago’s Stewart B. Matthews says cooperation splits commissions by work done and suggests 10 percent referral fee for initial contact. He also notes equity exchanges and neighborly offers before advertising as timely strategies amid wartime housing shortages. State Printing Board to bid on Iowa directories and contracts. Executors notice for Adeline Monition estate. Dissolution notice for Krebs Monument Company.
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Stewart B. Matthews
Chicago
Chamber of Commerce
Cedar Rapids Real Estate Board
Matthews
Cedar Rapids
Mr. Matthews
Baird and Warner, Inc
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Iowa Educational Directory
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Crissman& Bleakley
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Jack Spratts
B. H. Rice
D.O
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Optician
Tru-Site Optical CO
Third ST. SE
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Zenith
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Reader’s Digest
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