War Bond Holders urged to keep faith with bonds
The Birmingham News urges holding War Bonds to aid postwar reconversion. Treasury projections suggest modest cashing in after victory in Europe, with Oct 2 new rules encouraging bank redemptions while preserving thrift. Leaders argue higher national standards and disciplined investment protect the economy and future prosperity.
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Birmingham News
America
Treasury
Morgenthau
Europe
Treasury Department
Alabama counties eye postwar jobs and peacetime shift
The document urges every Alabama county to study the postwar employment outlook and prepare six month plans to avert an economic slowdown. It calls for rapid peacetime conversion of industry to prevent a prolonged downturn and ensure steady production.
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Alabama
Veterans benefits expand for returning service members
Washington reports that veterans of the current war will receive back pay, mustering out pay, rail fare home, education options, loans, home or farm purchases, job guarantees, unemployment assistance, civil service priority, hospitalization, and free legal aid. Survivors may receive pensions for deaths caused by the conflict.
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Washington
Johnny
Poor Showing On Physical Fitness
Dr Logan Clendening cites 13 percent of college age men unable to swim and 64 percent unable to swim 60 yards. He notes 3 to 79 percent unable at basic tests and urges a national physical fitness program integrated into schools and life. A draft board tally from 1944 shows 4 million rejected for defects. Question about myopia and surgery.
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Logan Clendening
Murray-Wagner
Rowntree
When Johnny Comes Watching Home Again
A review of Dixon Wecter's 588 page history on veterans treatment in America. The book argues progress in postwar demobilization planning and reads as a guide to veterans adjusting after wars from the Revolutionary era to World War II.
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United States
Johnny
Dixon Wecer
University of California At Los Angeles
Wecter
Europe
George W. Norris
Nebraska
Margaret Halsey
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Lincoln
Clifford Odets
Broadway
Hollywood
Kerrikter
America
John L. Lewis
Goebbels
Lewis
Hitler
Petain
Edith Gwynn
Red Cross Blood Bank
Office Cat and Good Advice Parody on Government
A column blends Junius with Ella Wheeler Wilcox urging bold protest and reform. A drill sergeant trains recruits with blank cartridges then orders fire at will, prompting a puzzled response from a cadet asking which one is Will.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Will
Hayes era term lengths and party differences noted
The text asserts that since 1877 the average presidency term is four years for Republicans and over nine for Democrats. A humorous exchange between McKenna and McDenna follows about money and an elephant, highlighting a desire for wealth.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
United States
McKenna
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Lost Ticket Woes Highlight Drum Corps Travel Snag
A drum corps en route to a convention struggles to find a conductor's missing ticket. The gag centers on a conductor urging the musician to search everywhere, joking that losing a ticket seems unlikely given their bulky base drum and a history of misplacing equipment.
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Ink
Torch of Freedom chorus and wartime quips mixed in prose
A collage of wartime exhortations and jokes appears, including Elmer Davis urging the Torch of Freedom, a courtroom quip about a pocket watch, a Plymouth Rock drawing prompt, jokes about hair loss and growth, and a note that over 500000 former NYC public school pupils serve in the armed forces.
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New York City
The
Armed Services
Winchell notes mix ups and wartime society buzz
Walter Winchell riffs on mistaken mail among Claire Luce and Clare Luce, celebrities, politics, and theater while reporters, royalty, and war news mingle. The column touches Royalties, Tilden, Ruth Portugal, Dorothy Wheelock, and public figures amid New York cultural life and Allied efforts.
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Windsors
Bill Tilden
Savoy Plaza
Narita
Irving Fields
Vogue
Ruth Portugal
Martha Moley
Dorothy Wheelock
Harper's Bazaar
Surgeon Michael Hoke Dies at 70 in Beaufort
Dr. Michael Hoke former chief surgeon of the Warm Springs infantile paralysis foundation died in a Beaufort hospital aged 70. A Lincolnton North Carolina native, he studied at the University of North Carolina the University of Virginia medical school and Johns Hopkins and did orthopedic post graduate work in Boston.
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S. C
Michael Hoke
Warm Springs
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Lincolnton
N. C
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