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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1945
Page
12
The piece critiques Truman Attlee and King on atomic bomb information sharing and notes limited progress on tighter controls. It warns that only enlightened statesmanship can prevent destruction while urging faster action by the attorney general on housing for married veterans in Iowa colleges.
The attorney general has ruled that no dormitories can be legally erected for married veterans who are students at the University of Iowa Iowa State College and Iowa State Teachers College. The ruling hinges on a dictionary definition of dormitory as a sleeping room or series of sleeping rooms, though common practice may differ.
A state liquor store bought red butcher paper to wrap bottles, concealing the package’s contents amid a paper shortage. The switch aims to hide liquor purchases from curious eyes, changing the way carriers appear in public. The piece ends with a quip about sports nostalgia in Iowa as basketball season nears.
Dear Louise recalls postwar shifts in behavior with casual swearing and loosened decorum among soldiers and civilians. The column notes how profanity spread in public life and media, contrasting past prudery with wartime urgency and calls for restraint.
A concise reflection attributes happiness to being satisfied with what we have and what we lack. The author is noted as Spurgeon. The line emphasizes contentment over desire.
The speaker mocks colonization fears by invoking Micronians and Indolentians as a humorous, anarchic society. It contrasts self rule with bosses and external powers, ending with a jab at democracy born from self pity.
Marquis Childs traces a Washington dispute as Gen Eisenhower backs armed services unification while the Navy opposes a civilian board. The joint chiefs favor a board to study unified administration, with Hensel insisting it should cover broader national security questions.
Drew Pearson urges reading soldier and sailor mail to sense disillusionment in peacetime planning. Letters from overseas report slow demobilization, lost records, surplus doctors, rank retention schemes, and problems with redeployment and morale across the Army and Navy.
Raymond Moley argues that business pessimism lectures profit a niche by employing doom economists and writers. He compares the beatings of medieval penitents to modern seminars that spread fear of communism and decline. Yet executives return to work, plan, and invest, sustaining a thriving industry of gloom.
Medical column discusses iatrogenic heart disease from doctor remarks and advice that blinds patients with nerves or murmur worries. It notes Auerbach and Gliebe report and urges clear communication to prevent years of anguish.
Constantine Brown argues that the American government withholds vital foreign affairs information from its people while officials shelter details from readers. He cites dispatches from Belgrade Bucharest and Chungking describing elections under occupation and top secret reports, urging transparency as the nation pursues global policy and investment.
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