Keep Them Busy Tonight
An editorial urges reader civic duty and voting in the upcoming municipal election. It stresses registration, warns against apathy, and lists registration officials with home addresses to ensure eligible voters participate. The piece frames voter turnout as essential for city and community welfare.
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Fletcher Welch
Ardmore Circle
Joen Davis
Howell
C. S. Murphy
N. Hamilton St
J. F. Hart
Willowbrook St
W. J. Bennett
Liquor as a Political Asset Hums Over Roosevelt Era Policy
The piece argues that liquor stockpiles built during war work could create a major political headache for FDR in 1944. It notes 400 million gallons on hand with 300 million ready to be consumed, warns of rising demand, and discusses rationing, the dry wets divide, and the risk of undermining war economies and public support if distillers resume peacetime production.
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Roosevelt
Army
Hundred Fifty Walk Out Shuts Jeep Assembly Line
In Toledo, 150 Spicer Manufacturing Company workers walked out over a shorter week and raise not yet granted. The action halted the Willys-Overland jeep assembly line, the prime producer of military jeeps, underscoring the impact of the dispute.
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Spicer Manufacturing Company
Toledo
Jeep
Willys-Overland
War era quotes and civilian views on duty and policy
A mosaic of postwar voices and wartime concerns, including a lost dog inquiry at Salis bury, senators criticized for embargo inaction, cadet appeals at High Point College, and calls to honor national defense through simple symbols like defense stamp corsages. The remarks span governance, crime costs, and social duties during wartime.
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High Point College
William Simpson
High Point
Responsibility Not State Department Alone for UN Food Conference
The piece argues the press should not be barred by any office and asserts the President bears responsibility for public information at the forthcoming United Nations Food Conference. It dismisses the idea that the State Department or OWI should control what the public may hear.
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Enterprise
Ihs
Associated Press
High Point No
State Department
Office of War Informations
Northwest aluminum reconversion study sketches postwar uses
Peter Edson highlights a University of Washington survey with the Bureau of Business Research and the U S Department of Commerce. The report notes Northwest plants built with Defense Plant Corporation funds could face closure after the war unless new peacetime markets and continued employment are found. It outlines power, transport, and raw material challenges and proposes steps such as western alumina plants and an additional Tidewater rolling mill.
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North- West
N. H. Engle
Bureau of Business Research
University of Washington
U. S. Department of Commerce
Washington State
U. S
Alcoa
Vancouver
Spokane
Reynolds
Longview
Olin
Tacoma
Troutdale
Ore
U U. S
Defense Plant Corporation
Addi
Tion
Bonneville-Coulee
Northwest
Boeing
Seattle
California
Panama Canal
Northwest Aluminum
University of Washington Research
Washington
Idaho
Oregon
South America
Tidewater
Washington bureaus push limits on fashion and travel
The War Production Board limits on women's styles contrast with no rules on wedding gowns. The Office of Defense Transportation urges reduced pleasure travel but allows honeymoons, showing some officials won’t pursue impossible controls.
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War Production Board
Office of Defense Transportation
Washington
Broadway Gossip and Celebrity Mayhem in Hollywood
Widespread showbiz chatter spans John L. Lewis, Arthur Somers Roche, and the Pat O’Briens. Reno plans for Mrs Mickey Rooney. Marlene Dietrich’s groom Rudy Sieber. Ben Hecht’s growing family. news on Frank Mullens and NBC. Don Meade’s turf ties. Betty Garde and Barbara Hale. Mae West, Deanna Durbin, Frank Sinatra, and other stars surface in a rapid carnival of rumors and insider spins across Hollywood and New York.
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John L. Lewis
Arthur Somers Roche Widder
Pat O'Briens
Reno
Mickey Rooney
Marlene Dietrich
Rudy Sieber
Chums
Ben Hechts
Frank E. Mullens
Pop
Elyse Knox
H'wood
Paul Hesse
Tommy Harmon
Foreign Office
U. S
Don Meade
Dennis Day
Barbara Hale
Betty Garde
Oklahoma
Robert Shaw
Somerville
Matt Clark
MacArthur
Willkie
Ohio
Bricker
Time
Fdr
Amon Carter
North Africa
Damon Runyon
Phoenix
M. Todd
Star and Garter
Mae West
Goldwyn
Candy Jones
the Lambs
Dudley Field Malone
Churchill
Moscow
Deanna Durbin
Frank Sinatra
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