Freedom from Brussels Sprouts in Beveridge debate
Henry McLemore notes the Beveridge Report sparks debate in England while lampooning the absence of a Brussels sprouts freedom. He mocks politicians and public taste, imagines a Brussels sprouts freedom clause, and humorously exaggerates culinary ubiquity across London meals and daily life. The piece blends opinion with comic critique of postwar social reform discourse.
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Ondon
England
Willam Bev- Ledge
Beveridge
Sir Walham
Brussels
Persistency as a tool for influence and mind change
Robert Quillen reflects on stubborn persistence shaping careers and relationships, warning that repeated argument persuades by gradual steps. The note covers sales, legal pressure, and politics, concludes with a quirky aside on intellect and a brief wartime anecdote.
Polish Soviet Frontier Clash Deepens in War Time Note
In New York the Polish government battles the USSR over national frontiers. Stalin and Sikorski previously sought to postpone territorial questions in Moscow. Refugees of Polish citizens in the east faced allegiance to London, while Moscow pressed for the Curzon line as best frontier. The Polish stance insists former inhabitants of eastern Poland remain under its authority despite race.
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York
Ussr
Moncow
Joseph Stalin
Wladstas Skosit
Sikorski
Stalin
Hitelers Armes
Rissa
Poland
Russia
London
Siekorsta
Middle East
England
Partition of
Viacheslav M
Molotoff
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Moscow
Kremlin
Curzon
Lwow
Auntie Fix-It Dictator Dominates Family Tales
Reader laments Madam Fix-It Auntie who butts in every step of family life. The letter uses humor to sketch her endless instructions and the tangled results. It opposes meddling with a call for insight, patience, and kindness as core to living with others.
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Madam Fix
Hitler
Salomon
Eurseline
Wartime quotes warn as leaders urge postwar economic mastery
A collage of wartime statements from Stalin MackDonald Roosevelt Halleck and Landon argues for strong leadership in war and postwar Britain Canada and the United States. It stresses efficient war effort film power propaganda and economic policy to secure victory and decency in living standards.
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Stalin
Malcolm MacDonald
Canada
Sequel Tied to Mrs Roosevelt Brussels Sprout Tale
A follow up to Mrs Roosevelt’s Brussels sprouts remark notes a friend in England informed her the price of Brussels sprouts rose after her statement. The letter, read aloud, mentions an English reaction and a quip about tea.
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London
England
Gemadns
Roosevelt
Omaha World Herald Diet of Butchers Theme
A fragment suggests a discussion of meat trimming practices by butchers, noting criticism of trimming away core parts to please customers or reduce waste. The text implies a traditional approach to butchery and evolving standards in meat preparation.
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Omaha
Social reform urged to lift sting of snobbery in wartime households
Merryle S. Rukeyser argues that wartime finance and high taxes are driving a social revolution in the United States. With a lack of domestic workers and skilled labor, a call is made for a social invention to normalize household service among refined women of modest means. Proposals include working guests dining with families, shared reading, and references to ease class stigma while boosting productivity during total war.
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United States
Roosevelt acts to curb new wartime agency in lumber plan
President Roosevelt, defending the WPB against critics of cost, chose a lean path over a proposed Forest Products Service with a vast revolving fund. Officials Nelson and Wickard had warned 1942 lumber shortfalls demanded boosted output and a new bureau, but Roosevelt ordered the WPB to work directly with the forest service, stressing no duplication and clear authority.
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Roosevelt
National Resources Planning Board
Treasury
White House
WPB Chatman
Donald Nelson
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude Wickard
Messrs Nelson and Wickard
Nelson
Rehabilitation focus in OFRRO postwar effort urged
Peter Edson argues that the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations should prioritize rehabilitation over mere relief. He notes North Africa’s farmers hid wheat, enabling normal trade to restart, and stresses long term goals like jobs, housing, and productive assets. He warns Congress must fund sustained rehabilitation to avoid dependency on handouts.
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Yvten
North Africa
Vichs
State Department
Board of Economic Warfare
US Commercial Company
Lend Lease
Europe
Congress
Lehman
Department of Agriculture
Marketing Administration
OFRRO
WPA
A Geographical Strait Jacket by Bugs Baer
Arthur Baer satirizes Italy and Mussolini with a playful wartime quip about a boot shaped country trapped by geography. He jokes about grabbing Sicily Corsica and Sardinia to topple Mussolini, calling Italy a narrow gauge, strait jacket nation.
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Italy
Somersaults and health notes from a reader column
An Octogenarian somersault safety tale tied to a stage accident is discussed alongside reader questions. Topics include safe exercise routines, softening thick nails with caustic potash, quinine substitutes like atabrine, a printer’s typo on congenital hip disease, and a note on relief injections after hernia surgery. The piece preserves a column’s Q&A and anecdotal tone with multiple readers’ queries and replies.
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Stein
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Susetsia
Josef Beck
Beck
Pertina
Joseph Fort Newton
Our Lady
Madam Fix-It
Dr Newton
Power of the Press
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Alt M. Landon
By Merryle S. Rukeyser
Rukeyse
Red Cross
Jack-of
Armed Services
The
Baltimore Sun
Peter Edson
Edson
Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations
Gev
Herbert H. Lehman
New York
Uncle Sam and
Sweet Charity
By Arthur
Bugs" Baer
Mary
Brenner Pass
Sicily
Corsica
Sardinia
Mussolini
P.S
General Baer
Wm. Brady
Dr Brady
Hippocrates
F W
Webster
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