Roosevelt Speech Critics and Industrial Output Claims
The article recounts Roosevelt’s 1930s remarks about mood and production. Colonel Leonard Ayres challenges the Federal Reserve index, noting higher recent industrial activity than old figures show. Ayres, recalled as a World War statistician, cites actual counts and warns against relying on the new index.
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Roosevelt
Col
Leonard Ayres
Cleveland Trust Company Bulletin
Federal Reserve Index
Ayres
War Department
Words and Slogans That Won the War
A condensed excerpt from Words That Won the War by James R Mack and Cedric Larson examining how propaganda shaped U S public opinion during World War I The piece notes fears about aliens pacifists and the need for unity under President Wilson and the committee on public information formed April 13 1917
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James R. Mack
Cedric Larson
Ales Hrdlicka
Wilson
Europe
U. S
America
Washington
France
Committee On Public Information
United States
Woodrow Wilson
State Committee
Dellview Dellview Dellview Nation's Smallest Town Story
Dellview in North Carolina claims status as the nation s smallest incorporated town with eight residents and a single family of Dellingers. The 1925 act created the town by seizing the chicken business amid weak dog laws and later a fire ended the farm. Dellview maintained a municipal government with two families, led by civil chairman George Creel, and became a focal point in wartime public information efforts led by the CPI under Woodrow Wilson and later policy shaping news censorship guidelines.
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Dellview
N. C
United States
Dellinger
Dellinger Brothers
George Creel
War
Navy
Creel
America
Committee On Public Information
CPI
White House
Wilson
Departments of State, War and Navy
Refugee voices reveal France’s shortages and war impact
Washington dispatch details French life under blockade with no gasoline and scarce food in occupied France. Refugees in the U S describe disrupted harvests, prisoner soldiers, and Laval’s appeals to Berlin amid Allied war aims.
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Flanders Fields
Germany
France
America
Manufacturers’ Association of France
M. Robert A. Cordet
Baltimore
Vichy
Laval
Paris
England
Draft Lottery Folklore and Allied Asset Moves Span News
A 1917 draft lottery tale of a girl with oversized shoes altering a capsule return to the bowl amid ceremony and secrecy. Separate dispatches note German attempts to leverage French assets against British blockade, and U.S. food programs expanding as farmers store wheat and cotton with loan supports linked to defense.
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America
M. Gaston Henri-Haye
Washington
Persons of Voting Age See Large Increase
The number of persons of voting age in the country has risen by 11 234 376 over the last decade according to census figures. Analysts attribute the growth to a declining birth rate longer life expectancy from medical advances and modern sanitation.
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Census Bureau
Althoit
Cen
Expe
Linen set pitch for bedroom group and spread
Brief ad promoting a single transfer 29105 15c to create a complete bedroom linen group and matching spread. Instructions to send the order follow.
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Texas
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