Congress Acts To Keep The Peace In 1943
The 1943 Congress backed the Connally resolution endorsing a Moscow peace framework and international security. It repealed the $25 000 pay cap, scrapped the NYA, trimmed nonwar spending, and passed anti strike measures while expanding lend lease and ending extraterritoriality in China.
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Texas
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Comao
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Flynn
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Edward J. Flynn
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Australia
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Lucas to push new federal absentee service vote bill
Senator Lucas proposes a revised absentee service vote measure replacing the leave it to the states option. The plan creates a four member federal ballot commission with largely administrative duties to prepare and forward war ballots to the Army Navy and state secretaries while local officials retain control over ballots.
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D-Ri
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Navy
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Willkie Picked by Tobin for 1944 Nomination
Daniel J. Tobin, international president of the Brotherhood of Teamsters, predicts Wendell L. Willkie will win the 1944 Republican nomination and defeat the New Deal if the war ends by election day.
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New York
Daniel J. Tobin
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Brotherhood of Teamsters
AFL
Wendell L. Willkie
Victory Garden Record at Berkeley Boosts Food Total
California victory gardens yield more than one million two hundred thousand tons of food this year. Professor B H Cro cheron, director of agricultural extension at the University of California, reports the figure.
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Berkeley
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California
Victory Gardens
B. H. Crocheron
University of California
Tolan plans reconversion czar to shift U.S. from war to peace
Rep. Tolan proposes a 10 point program led by a reconversion czar to coordinate federal and state agencies, form a three branch board, governors advisory council, fund expert staff, draft reconversion laws, survey local employment, aid small industries, use draft boards as worker centers, study new products, and decide government owned industries’ disposition.
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Rep. Tolan
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Agriculture, Labor and Industry
Forgetful Professor Causes Vancouver Lecture Slip
Dr. A. F. B. Clarke of the University of British Columbia forgot he was to speak and lost the invitation. The chairman canceled the meeting 35 minutes after the crowd gathered as Clarke could not recall the venue or even the address.
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Vancouver
B. C
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A. F. B. Clarke
University of British Columbia
Plenty Of Cars What About Gas In 1930s OKC Collector
Oklahoma City writer notes army inspector John Utter keeps eight classic cars and several prewar models from 1907 to 1935. He says maintenance is part of the hobby and that cars, not just collection, fuel the passion. A side note explains why snowshoe rabbit earned its name.
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John Utter
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Utter
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