Anti-War Candidate Anyi-American Opinion Rights Cited
The piece defends free speech for antiwar views while noting Lindbergh’s claim that voters had no say on foreign policy. It recalls Norman Thomas and his antiwar stance, highlighting that Thomas was on ballots nationwide and that 7,000,000 voters could express views, yielding a total pacifist vote of 10.2 million.
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Free Land
Lindbergh
New York City
Norman Thomas
Thomas
Meet
America First Committee
Name of Former Ambassador Gersard on Kaiser and General Staff
Former ambassador Gerard argues the German general staff held real power behind both Kaiser and Hitler, serving as an efficient military machine that sets blame onto leaders. He notes Hitler may follow the Kaiser in fate, while pondering whether wars will fade into history or linger as a lasting moral conflict shaping humanity.
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Gerard
Statf
Start
Versailles
Munich
Hitler
Kaiser
Holland
Britain Takes Stand Against Vast Enemy Pressure
The piece praises Britain's resilience and strategic withdrawals as necessary delays that preserved Allied strength. It argues Britain bought time for U S war production and defense training, likening the struggle to Thermopylae and timeless battles for freedom.
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Britain
America
Markthon
Salamis
Editor Gazette Voices Support for Roosevelt and Public Health
A letter from Anxious Mother argues for strong public health action on Kanawha River pollution and clean, safe swimming areas. Editor Ben D. Edens cites political stances, defense, and local concerns about sewage and chemicals impacting children.
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Editor Gazette
Kanawha
Fayette County
Rats Of Baltimore A Growing Urban Menace
Baltimore Evening Sun notes a rising rat problem across the city from docks to suburbs. Health concerns center on disease carriers and bites, linked to trash disturbances. Expert advice urges tightly covered garbage to starve the rats and curb reproduction.
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Baltimore
Health Department
Baltimore Evening Sun
Supreme Court ruling extends federal dam authority to all tributaries
The Huntington Advertiser reports that the U S Supreme Court upheld federal power to dam non navigable streams and tributaries as part of a broad flood control program. The decision aligns with prior rulings on the New River and declares congress may regulate waters feeding navigable arteries of commerce.
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United States Supreme Court
Red River
Texas-Oklahoma
Virginia
Congress
Oklahoma
Mississippi River
United States
Huntington Advertiser
Labor Row Divides CIO Leaders in Washington
The dispute centers on Phil Murray of the CIO and his handling of a Puget Sound loggers strike. Orton of the CIO accuses the mediation board of labor bashing, prompting Murray to denounce Orton as a defamer. The clash signals wider tensions as defense industry strikes and pay shocks threaten labor unity and political capitol legislation.
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Washington
Phil Murray
CIO
Phil
J . John L. Lewis
Allen
Murray
M. Orton
Puget Sound
Simed
National Pearson Defense Mediation Board
Mediation Board
Orion
Orton
Gars
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Tom Kennedy
United Mine Workers
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt
APL
San Francisco
AFL
George Norris
Pacific Coast
Clarence Dykstra
Dykstra
L. C. Michener
CIO Auto Workers
North American Aviation Company
Inglewood
Calif
Englewood
Wyndham Mortimer
Barber Prices Spark Safety Sermons in Charleston
A note from Charleston West Virginia quotes George Joe Norton urging restraint as barber price discussions rise. The message suggests safety is a key topic while addressing price changes. Norton is presented as a local barber figure influencing public talk.
Freedom promise is big order and nonsense
Westbrook Pegler argues in a syndicated column that universal freedom proposals are impractical and hazardous. He rejects exporting liberty to all nations, citing shared human fallibility, anti-communist distrust, and past American misdeeds toward the South as cautionary lessons.
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Westbrook
Pegler
Labor strikes tested by national need in wartime
Washington editor Raymond Clapper argues North American Aviation and other defense-related strikes threaten bomber production. He condemns local leaders and urges self restraint from labor while warning of possible drastic measures to protect national defense, including limits on strike rights and free speech.
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Ashington
Pacific Northwest
Tumber
San Francisco
Philip Murray
CIO
William Green
A. F. of L
Richard T Frankensteen
United Automobile Workers
National Defense Mediation Board
Roosevelt
Nless
France
Congress
Jong
Fresh Air Fiends and Window Woes in Runyon’s Tidbit
Damon Runyon lampoons fresh air obsessives and the habit of opening bedroom windows. The piece cites the American Lamyngological association urging closing windows at night and jokes about husbands who monopolize air, including an anecdote about George Preston Marshall and snoring, ending with a quip on wearing pajamas over the head.
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American Lamygological Association
George Preston Marshall
Washington, D. C
Mr. Marshall
Pueblo
the Gazette
Baering Down On The News by Bugs Baer
Cartoonish monologue mocks American arms race and defense industry. Baer jokes that fear won t paralyze the public and cites invention by Yankee forvention while dismissing panic about threats and wartime preparation.
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Baering
Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Gooyrieht
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