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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1948
Page
5
A 1948 Charleston Gazette piece denounces the Wagner Act as misused to empower political aims and punish rivals. It claims union coordination with government-funded mock work inflated labor disruption, casting the act as provoking riot, anarchy, and mistrust in teachers and unions amid postwar turmoil.
The fragment features a speaker calling themselves bulky misanthropes and ignorant victims, blaming bad teaching and superstition. A violent line about murder from a stationed seat appears, followed by a cryptic invite to meet. The text resembles a dramatic satirical aside in an archival clipping.
Honolulu reports the airlift of Chinese Japanese and Filipino wives of U S service members rushing to the United States ahead of the War Brides Act deadline next Tuesday night. Officials estimate 450 to 500 brides have arrived since December first, with about 125 arriving in the last 24 hours. Honolulu serves as the nearest U.S. entry port for these arrivals.
Betty Grable and Bing Crosby lead film dom’s Merry-Go-Round poll for the second year, with Crosby named top male star and Grable among leading actresses. Green Dolphin Street Easter Parade and Best Years of Our Lives top money pictures. Lana Turner Judy Garland among runners up. War brides and Christmas baskets noted among community items.
A speaker reflects on Christmas shifting from a simple gift giving occasion to a parade of people with outstretched hands. He notes the era of tipping multiple service workers and questions what happened to the old fashioned Christmas when Santa carried a bag.
In Buffalo a department store Santa, Charles W. Howard, collapsed from a nervous breakdown attributed to hearing nearly 2,000 children's Christmas wishes daily. He, who spends much of the year on a farm, told reporters from his hospital bed that he had been pushing himself too hard.
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