Power bill debate spurs war of words in Northwest policy
Stewart denounces a Congress bill to create a Columbia Power administration with broad federal powers to seize private Northwest electricity assets. The column defends local rights, warns against socialization, and argues for cooperation between public and private power while critiquing isolationism and tariff policy.
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Congress
Columbia Power Administration
CPA
Pacific Northwest
Washington
Northwest
Portland
Oregon
Spokane
Shall America Remal American
Two main counts frame the indictment against Republicans for isolationism. The article argues Republicans blocked League of Nations and World Court membership and promoted tariff isolation. It asserts Republicans preached nationalism and the nation practiced it, rejecting calls for internationalism and economic barriers.
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America
League of Nations
Senate
Wilson
League
United States
Democratic Party
Republican Party
New Order
Wheeling Intelligencer
New Deal
World Court
Lucas
Mlinois
History of Taylor County and Changing Times in Grafton
The county court saved expenses in 1925 26 by using idle prisoners on roads and eliminating the county engineer telephone Four H instructor and traffic duties. The Railway Express shift to motor delivery in 1925 marked a turning point. A missing man J McCloud died riding a train intoxicated. coroners jury found his body in Potter’s Field on the county farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Bennett
Grafton Sentinel
State Road Commission
Railway Express Company
United States Express Company
Baltimore and Ohio Express
Horace A. Owen
Tseason
Grafton
Old Station
Baltimore and Ohio
Burns Alley
Old ‘Dobbin
J. McCloud
Flemington
Squire L. C. Haymond
Unite Mine Workers of America
Gypsy
Potter Field
Taylor County Candidacy Announcement July 1942
Lo the voters of Taylor County I wish to announce my candidacy for the Democratic nomination for county commissioner subject to the voters in the August 4 1942 primary and solicit their support and respectfully ask reconsideration of all voters in my campaign for reelection to the court.
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Taylor County
Onlookers in Ardendale piece together love triangle
Dian Weston and Bill Rollins meet by chance at Ardendale home with Claire Lester and Paul Peters. Claire discovers Bill is not eloping, while Dian reveals a lingering attraction. The group navigates old flames, misread signals, and a shoe as comic prop in a tense social moment.
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Bian Weston
Ardendale
Dian
Bill
Claire
Paul Peters
Paul
Raney
Fred Mayhew
Fred
Bil
William James Rollins
Clair
Jean
Dian Weston
Sal Claire
Paul ‘Peters
Peters
Fragmented wartime musings mix politics and craft notes
The passage blends chatter about suppressing local gossip with praise for Pierre Laval and French resistance to Berlin, alongside scattered industrial process details for plywood manufacture and distant references to wartime figures and media. It weaves political opinion with technical descriptions and literary notes, creating a collage of mid century themes.
Cooking of Plane Continues on Method of Molding
A dry, concise description explains the construction of a solid wooden mold used in shaping the plane. The article continues from page one, detailing techniques and materials involved in forming the mold and the processes that follow in the cooking or curing stage.
Assignment to Berlin review echoes Berlin Diary
The Knopf book Assignment to Berlin by Harry W. Flannery mirrors Shirer's Berlin Diary and offers a naive, honest view of the Nazi mindset through the perspective of an inexperienced observer. The author’s naivete exposes how the Nazi method operates on a man who is not stupid but overwhelmed by events.
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Stalin
Benito
Spain
Camillo Franco
Japan
Adolf
Joe Davies
Davies
St. Louis
Berlin
Europe
Yugoslavia
Greece
Crete
Flannery
Harry W. Flannery
Knopf
William L. Shirer
Columbia Broadcasting System
Alfred Knopf
Berwing
Mr. Flannery
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Charles P. Stewart
Central Press
Joseph E. Davies
Russia
Mussolini
Hitler
Italy
Herr Hitler
Martin Dies
Jon
California
Monterey Peninsula
NEA Services
Ard
Peninsula
Chamber ‘of
Fort Ord
Torph Davies
Elkins
Mountain
Romance
Pescate
Apilionium
Pierre
Hattisburg
France
Pierre Laval
la Belle France
Idk
Reich
Henri Monore Giraud
Kinhwa
Chia’ Kinng Provinc
Sorn Selby
Gechl Cottrill
Fowler Ave
Clarksburg
St Sattar
Faye Gle
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