Republican Negro Leader Backs Roosevelt in 1944
Dr. Channing Tobias, a long time Republican and national civil rights advocate, endorsed Franklin D. Roosevelt. He sent a letter to Sidney Hillman of the NCPAC declaring support and warning that a Dewey win could threaten education housing employment and social security in southern states.
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Tobias
Sidney Hillman
National Citizens Political Action Committee
NCPAC
Roosevelt- Truman
Progressive Congress
Roosevelt
Gov
Dewey
States
Congress
New York State
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Philadelphia
Classified Ads For Sale Items Include Ironer And Beds
For sale listing offers an electric ironer a 1/2 horsepower motor two baby beds and a high chair contact East 5497 for details and pricing.
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Electric Ironer
H. P
East
Dewey joins Taft Smear of Negro Leaders
New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey aligned with Senator Robert A. Taft in branding Negro leaders as red militants. Dewey questioned Dr. Channing Tobias’s alleged turn to communism and pressed the Harlem riot blame on Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. The exchange touched on civil rights legislation and discrimination policy.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Dewey
Channing Tobias
National Ymca
Adam Clayton Powell Jr
Congress
Richard Thomas
Chicago
Tobias
Baltimore
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Cincinnati
Powell
Harlem
Bestsellers At Union Bookstore Labor List
In Detroit the Union Bookstore top nonfiction seller is Henry A. Wallace's Democracy Reborn. Other strong titles include That Man In The White House Hawes Why Women Cry Carlson Under Cover and Here Is Your War. Fiction leaders include Strange Fruit A Bell For Adano Transis Presidential Agent and The Firing Squad.
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Ers
Union
Uaw-Cio
W. Pres
Henry A. Wallace
How I Am Protected by Mother Nature
The piece explains natural fetal protection with two coverings inside the womb and a fluid cushion for the unborn. It notes moderate exercise for the mother, warns against overexertion, and describes the expanding uterus as a room that can cradle multiple fetuses, citing the Dionne quintuplets and mentions twins or triplets.
War time chores curb absenteeism urged by McNutt
War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt urged employers and civic groups to implement a six point program to reduce absenteeism caused by workers struggling to manage everyday tasks. Proposals include shifted hours, on site pickup delivery services, personal shoppers, scheduled time off, extended evening hours and shopping by mail. The piece also urges youths to return to school and highlights postwar tech gains like automatic washing machines and new housing projects.
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Federated Press
Paul V. McNutt
Chambers of Commerce
Better Business Bureaus
WMC
Wall Street Journal
Mrs. Jones
Mr. Jones
Press satire ponders Roosevelt role and labor foes
A cartoon dialogue mocks FDR as commander in chief and critiques anti union stance, comparing newspaper editors Roy Howard and Westbrook Pegler. It notes Pegler’s exit from Scripps Howard and hints at shifting editorial loyalties amid wartime tax and unemployment debates. A Holmgren Stockholm tip mentions a German white flag weapon joke.
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Mr. Dilworth
Luther
Westbrook Pegler
Roy Howard
Scripps-Howard
Pop
Roy
Westbrook
Heywood Broun
Mrs. Roosevelt
Mr. Hearst
Pegler
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Taft
Labor
Detroit
the Sun
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Community Chest
Betty Goldstein
Armed Forces
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
By John Paine
America
Hitler
Hirohito
Scripps
Hearst
Stockholm
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