Dispelling Fog Over Presidents War Powers Debate
The article argues the President’s war powers stance drew criticism for overstepping Congress. It notes a two minute remark about a Brookyn delegate supporting Mead, then centers on parity prices and inflation risks. Taft warns of dictatorship while others fear election fallout and delayed action on economic relief.
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Brooklyn
Senator Mead
Congress
Jefferson
Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
Taft
United States
Roosevelt
White House
Mae West
Navy
North Pole
America
Franklin Roosevelt
Wilson
Farmers and Congressmen Face Tax Burden and Political Risk
Charles Michelson states that limits on farm profits and high tax rates test political nerves before the election. He argues farmers are patriotic and willing to sacrifice, likely to punish timid candidates who fail to act for the nation’s welfare.
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Charles Michelson
Democratic National Committee
Slats' Diary Highlights A Week Of School Life
Oliver N Warren records a youth diary detailing a week of school mischief chores and emotions. Entries cover charity theft, gum notes, alleged truancy, a baby’s cuff button incident, a 36th birthday claim, singing lessons, a sore throat, and a near fire at the school building with a missing football seat.
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Elsyshare
Joe Hixes
Jake
Ben
Rationing Board Report Details Tires and Tubes Distribution
Rationing board issues weekly report listing tires tubes and resapps allocated for September 14 including numerous individuals and firms across Maryland towns such as Greensboro Preston Denton Ridgely Fedburg Ridgely Hillsboro and Denton with multiple quantities per recipient and obsolescence noted for L T Beauchemp
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Cooklyn Milk Co
Goldsboro
Thomas A. Montague
Hend
Leonard Willey
Choptank
Ada Viola Ross
Fed
Preston
Dr. D. C. George
Denton
Charles L. Perry
Raymond Carroll
C. Brooks Nagel
L. T. Beauchemp
Fed’burg
Franklin Samis
Ridgely
Raymond Voss
Fed'burg
Philip Thomas
Joseph Laramore
Audrey Beevers
New Truck Tires
J. Edwin Rosser
Fed‘burg
Gilbert Banning
Robert D. Patchett
William Hassett
Charles Masten
Wm.e. Elkins
Greensboro
Pet Milk Co
Thomas J. Lord
Alton R. Messer
Clifford Hammond
Frank Kibler
John ‘J. Hammer
Hillsboro
Harry Fearins
Wm. E. Meredith
J. Carlton Mandrell
W. E. Tarburton
Charles Jarrell
Claude Howard
Earl Bradley
Ray Paul
Percy Levisz
Lida Murphy
W. L. Wheatley
Lee Jester
Preston Anthony
W. Howard Pinkett
Oscar Fishell
Burg
Clark Woodward
Ridzely
Ralph C. Rosser
John T. Schmick Jr
J. Lentz Caulk
Signed With Their Honour author James Aldridge profile
A twenty three year old Australian writer James Aldridge, author of Signed With Their Honour, is profiled as a war correspondent who served in Norway, Libya, Egypt, and Greece, was wounded thrice, and later worked in Time Magazine before completing his acclaimed novel about air warfare and the Greece campaign. He also wrote about John Quayle, a British flying officer of the Eighty Squadron.
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James Aldridge
Greece
Young Aldridge
Norway
Libya
Egypt
Australia
United States
Foreign Department
Time Magazine
John Quayle
Eighty Squad
Ron
High Command
Athens
Quayle
War reports praise and peril from Greece to Rangoon
A war correspondent recounts Allied fight against German and Italian air power in Greece and Libya. Quayle’s Gladiators face heavy odds, escape to Egypt, and the piece notes Gallagher’s Far East account aboard the Repulse and the VALIANT defense of Rangoon. Margaret Mitchell explains Japanese publisher missteps over Gone with the Wind royalties.
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Margaret Mitchell
Miss Mitchell
Red Cross
Labor Day Speech Sets Broad Inflation Policy Frame
The President spoke on inflation during Labor Day, laying down principles seen as inevitable once the war began. Details and methods will spark debate, but broad basis for action is widely accepted, with agreement on the need to pass and enforce necessary legislation.
Price controls failed to curb inflation and wage drift
The text argues past price control measures did not set ceilings on essentials and wages rose, creating excess purchasing power. It credits retail stores for fighting inflation but says they could not hold prices in the face of strong inflation. It notes a new effort to stabilize farm prices wages and all price drivers.
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OPA
Leon Henderson
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