Spelvin echoes bias as family faces hunger in essays
In a fragmentary account, white George Spelvin and Pegler read a news piece on Mrs Roosevelt opposing employment discrimination. Spelvin dismisses it with a hateful remark while the family suffers hunger and cold, illustrating racial and social prejudice in a 1930s or earlier setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pegler
Elcance Roosevelt
Rooeavelt
Indy
Roosevelt
Wagro
George Spelvin
Peyter
Fragmentary scripture and quote riddle text
A garbled OCR fragment presents biblical style lines and a quoted Benjamin Franklin maxim about forgiveness. The text includes Luke 8 39 styling and ad hoc punctuation, with broken wording and repeated phrases, lacking clear article structure or event.
Inconsistent American Views On Race And Labor
A critique noting Westbrook Pegler and the Roosevelt administration on racial issues. It compares a fictional Negro George Spelvin with a white counterpart, detailing discriminatory hiring, Mrs Roosevelt’s advocacy, and a government response leading to relief for the Black applicant and his family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westbrook Pegler
Hagle
George Spelvin
Treasury
White George
Pipsqueak
Indy
State to use convicts for harvest labor in Alabama
State officials are urged to redirect convict labor from highway work to peanut and other war crop harvesting in the Wiregrass region to relieve severe farm labor shortages. Officials consider legal barriers but stress emergency wartime need and potential statewide benefits from concentrating convicts in harvesting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Alabama
Fragmentary wartime quotes from Allied and Axis leaders
A garbled wartime mix quotes Winston Churchill and George S. Patton urging resolve and duty. It includes a ship crewmember remark about tasting pigs and a call to die for Mussolini or live for civilization, reflecting propaganda and morale language from World War II era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mussolini
Hitler
Italy
Ital
Warhington Merry-Go-Round Excerpt From Pearson Column
Postmaster General Walker and Ambassador Hurban present Roosevelt with stamps for Czechoslovakia. Roosevelt jokes about baldness while printing funds to pay for stamps. Byrnes and WIB discuss halting coal miners dues to curb John L Lewis if he strikes. Daniels advises Roosevelt on Republican war-service use, warning of 1940s politics. Cabot Lodge faces backlash over war inspection trip.
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Wortry
WLS
Lewis
Dees
Byrnes
Josephus Daniels
Roosevelt
GOP
Washington
Frank Walker
Cush
Hurban
FDR
Walker
Festmester
United States
John L. Lewis
Assistat
James Byrnes
War Labor Board
Lex
United Mine
War Tabor Board
William H. Davis
Davie
Dean Wayne Morse
WLE
WIB
Secretary of the Navy
America
Navy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Daniels
White House
Raleigh
N. C
Newa
Obgeiver
Wilson
Teastata
Cabot Lodge
Massachusets
Treas
Lodge
War Department
Gabet Todge
Associated Project
Boston
Stormy Petret Lou Maxon
Fair Enough Legislative Rebukes BY WESTBROOKE PXAGLER
New York dispatch discusses an appropriation act rider targeting three New Deal payroll figures. The piece condemns perceived anti capitalist sentiment, cites Congress and President Roosevelt, and argues the action resembles a bill of attainder. It questions motives and warns of broader political manipulation tied to communism and government overreach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westbrooke
New York
Don Breas
Peta
Roosevelt
Congress
New Deal
Washington
Dies
Bigota
White House
New Deslera
Bund
New Deal Party
Bureau
Fee
United States
New Deal Administration
Bose
Martin
Uncle Sam’s new policy gives war babies V mail portraits
The piece notes a shift in draft policy allowing overseas fathers to receive photographs of their babies under one year old via V mail. It portrays Uncle Sam as understanding and proud of war-born children conceived during or before wartime, despite parental anxieties and the delay in other draft distinctions.
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Diet
Martin Dies
Hugo Bieck
Supreme Court
New Deal
Dies
Uncle Sam
Huuman
America
Sam
Mama
Dad
Uncle
Family Picnic Must Go On In War Game Test
In southern England during mock warfare, unperturbed mothers push baby carriages and toddlers through smoke and past tanks as they calmly proceed to a hillside family outing near the battlefield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
Dicaia
War talks in Italy amid Axis pressure on Orel
Readable excerpts depict a high level, off the record exchange between Mussolini and Hitler about the Sicily invasion, the Russian front, and the push on Orel. The dialogue notes the Red drive from Arctic to Black Sea, fears of mutiny in Italian forces, and the axis concern over a possible Soviet encirclement of Orel plus heavy Soviet gains including villages, tanks, warplanes, and prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Maesera Hitler
E Dnb
Bes
Sicily
Mugsolini
Benito
the Fuehrer
Bolshevists
Orel
Arctic
Black Sea
Adolf
Europe
Germany
the Ace
Kursk
Orel Staly
Fuehrer
Moscow
Museo
Poland
Dlinskoye
Guenther von Kluge
Hitler
Balkans
Ruastang
Fire Department Rescues Horse in Billings
Billings Fire Department rescues its first horse after it becomes wedged between a cottonwood tree trunk. Oacar Bjorgum of Eastern Montana Normal School told the chief the mare Traty tried to leap between the divided trunk and became stuck. A wrecker was called to assist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billings
Mont
Oacar Bjorgum
Eastern Montana Normal School
Fragmentary legal note on courtroom case wording
An unclear court record fragment describes a courtroom scene with half the attendees being women. Gollette Seibels states that the case would not proceed, but the text is garbled and leaves the outcome and parties unidentified.
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Gollette Seibels
Eopy. m
Endorsement Rules Tighten Gas Coupon Use
County War Rationing Board orders motorists to endorse new gas coupes immediately upon renewal to prevent unendorsed coupons in possession. Endorsement includes ink on license maps for the vehicle and renewals. Gasoline rationing year ends at midnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrow
County War Rationing Board
Foley
Roy
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