Interim Committees For Wartime Problems
State legislatures set up interim committees to tackle postwar planning interstate cooperation juvenile delinquency highway aviation and public welfare. The Council of State Governments surveyed 40 legislatures noting 11 with postwar planning groups in states like California Connecticut Iowa Maryland Massachusetts New Jersey New York Ohio Texas and Wisconsin.
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Council of State Governments
Interm
California
Connecticut
Winds
Iowa
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Texas
Wisconsin
Illinois
North Carolina
Arkansas
Colorado
Minnesota
Georgia
Oregon
Dunois
New Hampshire
Small Business
Ares
Rhode Island
Massachuetts
Clapper Calls for Congressional Say in United Nations Work
Washington reports outline revised U N relief plan as a model for future international cooperation. Secretary Hull notes executive signature and joint resolution would fund U N participation, reducing Senate veto power and increasing House role in foreign affairs. The piece argues broader congressional oversight strengthens peacetime diplomacy.
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Raymond Clapper
Washington
Pian
Ford
United ‘Nations’ Relief Administration
Congress
Awas
Tate ‘Department
Tome
House
Senate
CEG
United Nations
Hull
Ito Congress
United States
Ev Veyo
Buti
League of Nations
United Nations Relief
yoVowy
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Chiefs of Star
Great Britain
We the Women and the Stay Home Rule Debate
A brief discussion questions if the stay at home rule applies to all wives. The piece notes social expectations and varying domestic roles amid changing public sentiment.
War wives defy stay at home advice and trade hardship for companionship
Ruth Millett argues some war wives stay near their husbands despite crowded housing and tight budgets. The happier wives travel where men are, making homes in rough conditions, forming new friendships with others in the same boat, and finding their own fun amid insecurity.
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Ruth Millett
Minnie
Edith
Grace
Willkie's 1940 leadership gains at Mackinac noted
The piece praises Wendell Willkie's rising influence in the Republican Party since Mackinac. It credits his world tour and book as broadening his appeal and forcing party adaptation toward progressive, global-minded leadership.
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Wendell Willkie
Mackinac
Look Magazine
Cowles
Willkie
Midwest
National Committee
Republican Party
Wendell Willite
Harold Stassen
Minnesota
Canes ‘Willite
Statesman
Willkle
Aunt Mary Pyle Could Be Congress Material
Indianapolis columnist Ernie Pyle recalls his Aunt Mary born on a farm who never left the eighth grade yet showed political insight and energy. He notes she raised a large family, held the treasury steady, drove a car early, and stayed active into her late seventies, with strong New Deal views.
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Ernie Pyle
Mary
Congress
Indianapolis
Jim Williams
George
Exain
Uncle George
Treasury
Eve
Mullaney Named National Legion Field Director
James D. Mullaney, long time South Dakota American Legion department adjutant, is named national field director. He will take over Nov. 15 after a leave of absence is granted and an acting adjutant will be appointed. The post is among 12 new field offices created to handle wartime Legion expansion. Mullaney, from Wentworth, previously commanded the Legion post and served as bank cashier.
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Watertown
James D. Mullaney
South Dakota American Legion
Legion
Mullaney
National Legion
Wentworth
Legion Post
Wentworth Bank
Rationing Roundup and Stamp Instructions
Officials warn stamps must remain attached to ration books when presented for commodities. Stamps 14 in book one allow five pounds. Stamps 15 and 16 provide five pounds of sugar for canning through October. Registration of ration is required for purchases over ten pounds. expiration dates and allotments noted for October 31 and September 30 are cited.
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OPA
Vail
Dorothy Kilgaller
Bing Crosby
Sinatra
Bing
Crosby
America
Lover
Kilgallen Vole of Broadway Fans and Sinatra Notes
A Broadway column reader mailbag overflows with letters about Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. Readers defend Kilgallen, praise Sinatra, critique accuracy, and joke about stage teeth and style.
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Dorothy Kilgallen
the ‘Vole
Broadway
Frank Sinatra
Mise Kilgallen
Creoner
Frankie
Paramount
Frank
Miss Kilgallen
Bing Crosby
Hollywood
Sinatra
Secret Nazi opposition flourishes within top ranks says Swedish editor
Swedish journalist Arvid Fredborg reports in Behind the Steel Wall that secret enemies of the Nazi regime operate even in Germany's highest party bodies including the Hitler Youth. He cites monarchists liberals social democrats and underground resistance using radios and false papers while many oppose Nazism and fear Gestapo arrest.
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Edwin Shanke
Stockholm
Hitler Youth
Arvid Fredborg
W Legal
Fredberg
Germany
House of Hohenzollern
Nthan Dratactont
Austria
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