Facts and Opinion Politicians Should Follow After Businessmen
Merryle S. Rukeyser argues wartime politics should stress national service over personal gain. He cites candor from candidates, cites Senator Carter Glass, and notes future wartime leaders must be willing to sacrifice political fortune for courageous thinking and plain speaking.
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Carter Glass
Virginia
Washington
Glass
Clare Booth Luce
Connecticut
James C. Auchincloss
Better Business Bureau
New York City
New York Stock Exchange
Water of Bethlehem quoted to shame wasteful Americans
Robert Quillen quotes a country parson criticizing Americans for wasting imported goods and fuel while braving danger abroad. The column likens personal sacrifice to David longing for Bethlehem’s water and notes the broader costs of leisure and luxury during wartime. It laments neglect of duty and mocks public figures while urging sacrifice to support soldiers.
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Ondon Radio
David
Bethlehem
Samuel
England
Seaboard
The Past Laws Bolster Liberty in Democratic View
A quotation marks the law as liberty’s bulwark, defining rights and defending individual freedoms for all people, attributed to J. G. Holland, reflecting a classic liberal perspective on constitutional safeguards.
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J. G Holland
Dust of Saints and a St Francis pageant remembered
Joseph Fort Newton reflects on the birthday of St. Francis of Assisi and recalls a 14th century relic ceremony in Assisi. Five urns containing dust from Francis and companions were paraded on a carved wagon drawn by oxen, with oil lamps, vespers, and medieval costumes, a vivid tribute to enduring faith.
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St. Francis of Assisi
Francis
Basilica of
St. Francis
Poverello
Fra Leo
Fra Masseo
Fra Angelus
Fra Ruffine
Madonna Jacqueline
St. Bernard
Roosevelt urges civilian defense councils to mobilize home front
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt calls for nursery schools community laundries and family restaurants with home price meals and recreational groups to engage American wives in the war effort. Senator Burton favors Alaska as the best route to Tokio highlighting strategic civilian support for wartime mobilization.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Japan
H. H. Burton
Ohio
Tokio
Alaska
Allied Action Threatens German and Japanese Time Tables
Col Frederick Paler notes German and Japanese fronts threaten each other’s schedules as Stalingrad and Leningrad battles rage. He cites German plans to seize oil and Arctic routes, Japanese mobilization after Midway, and calls for a renewed Allied second front to aid Russia and China. Willkie’s Russia trip underscores Allied urgency.
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Leningrad
Stalingrad
Volga
Caspian Sea
Midway
Southwest Pacific
Siberian
Aleutians
China
Russia
Siberia
Madagascar
Asia
Karachi
India
Caspian
Joseph Stalin
Supreme Army Command
Boris M. Shaposhnikoff
Stalin
Wendell Willkie
Chungking
Hitler parole by Munich police altered modern history
John Edgar Hoover recalled that if Austrian paperhanger Adolf Hitler had not been paroled two decades earlier, millions of lives might have been saved. He notes Hitler, then a minor agitator, was convicted of violent demonstrations and jailed in Munich, but paroled despite Bavarian police cautions.
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Southwest Pacific
Solomon Island
Tokio
Midway
Australia
Siberia
Hitler
Burton Neath
NEA
John Edgar Hoover
Munich
Roosevelt critics as pre election tactic in press war
Washington column argues Roosevelt uses criticism of columnists and the press as a familiar pre election tactic. It contends reporters and radio reflect public sentiment, not cause it, and that the President profits by selective censorship while avoiding full disclosure of war production goals and inflation politics.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
White House
Nelson
WPB
Views in Exchange On Wartime Production Shortfalls
Donald M. Nelson reports August war output 8 percent above July but 14 percent below the scheduled level. Absentism in war plants, 8.4 percent nationally and 17 percent in Baltimore shipyards, is blamed for delays and reduced billions in planes tanks and guns.
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Donald M. Nelson
Nelson
Baltimore
Paul V. McNutt
War Manpower Commission
Bow Ties Take Center Stage in War Work Debate
War era column argues against bow ties as a patriotic duty, joking about compulsory wear and the small number who can tie them. Henry McLemore riffs on Frank Crowninshield and the absurdity of fabricating a national pastime from knotting fabric.
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New York
Lawdy
Bott
Frank Crowninshield
New Yorker
Mr. Crowninshield
Vogue Magazine
You
Wright Brother
Lewis
Army Navy Rivalry Sparks Lighthearted Exchange
Arthur Baer jokes about military rivalries and the idea of sharing E grade symbols between services. He suggests cooperative problem solving with the right tools and cautions against public bickering while noting a light, picnic friendly tone.
Debated Child Training Views Stir Community Letters
A reader argues against a column on child training, insisting toddlers can reason and criticizing the notion that early childhood is merely instinct. The letter praises traditional discipline while acknowledging nursery teachers' value, and contrasts modern psychology with elderly educational norms.
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M. H
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Merryle S. Rukeyser
INS
Rome
Congress
Paducah
Thomas Parkinson
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Henry C. Lytton
Chicago Clothier
Robert Quillen
Gerald H. K. Smith
Senate
Joseph Fort Newton
Dr. Newton
George Clark
Col
Frederick Palmer
ASRS
You're
J. E
F.D.R
Paul Mallon
Army
Navy
Mallon
Baltimore Evening Sun
Atlantic
Pacific
Henry McLemore
Arthur “Bugs” Baer
Wm. Brady
Ol’ Dee Brady
M.H
W. F
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