Voters Register Tangle Across States in 1944 Campaign
Roosevelt urges party workers to boost voter registration amid a split campaign focus on underground organizing. Maryland shows 10 percent registration growth with Democratic gains. CIO activity appears spotty and labor has little party office presence. Republicans edge toward gains, with Dewey allied to governors and congressmen, while ticket splitting could shift control of Congress.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Baltimore
Mr. R
Maryland
Ohio
Indiana
CIO
Michigan
Midwest
G.O.P
Dewey
Congress
War Lacks Drama on the Front Lines of Africa
Ernie Pyle reflects on the wartime front in Africa writing that the front is brutal and ordinary at once. He notes soldiers’ shift to a professional view of killing and questions whether true drama exists beyond magazine romance. The piece contrasts frontline fighting with noncombatant detachment and discusses mission choices and battlefield impressions.
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Africa
Maj. Quint Quick
Bellingham
Wash
Quick
England
Bizerte
Flak
You
First Infantry Proud in Semi finals Battle
The First Infantry division is praised as brave after a tough semi final. Casualties were light with few prisoners taken. A general notes the unit never gave an inch and died in their foxholes as the battlefield cleared. A British officer observed American dead with rifles in their hands and called them brave men.
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Tunisia
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Japan
Scarperia
Italy
Aachen
William Boehme
New York City
Germany
Boehme
Frederick Snite
Terese Marie
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