Luce Talk and the Looming War Debates
The column critiques Clare Booth Luce and associates her rhetoric with alarm over Roosevelt era policies. It argues blame lies across parties and leaders, cites Hoover and isolationists, and notes a reported secret rocket plane program that could shorten the war if true. It reflects late 1940s partisan and wartime anxieties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Deal
America
Pacific
Clare
Wallace
Luce
Hoover
United States Navy
United States Army
Harding
Coolidge
Lady Luce
Roosevelt
Congress
London
Germany
Japan
Rationing Board Celebrates Two Years Of Service
The Enterprise marks the rationing board's two year anniversary, praising members and the secretary for a patriotic but thankless task. It notes civilians in rationing and draft roles face harsh criticism, yet affirms the board's fine service to country and community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Air Forces
Charles Boyer
Irene Dunne
Peace Now movement pushes for peace without victory
Greenville News notes a New York Peace Now meeting led by Dr. George W. Hartman urging an end to slaughter and peace with the Axis. The piece argues for total victory to prevent future global war and criticizes compromise with Nazi aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
George W. Hartman
Harvard University
Washington
Adolf Hitler
United Nations
Greenville News
Citizens discuss time changes and local issues in High Point
Letters from North Carolina residents express views on daylight saving and later school starts, praises for High Point College and its debt campaign, support for Methodist education, wartime civil defense, and concerns about veterans and civilian seating on trains.
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Commission On World Service and Finance
North Carolina Conference of the
Methodist Church
High Point College
Gurney P. Hood
State of North Carolina
Methodist Churches
HW. S. Smith
J. B. Ivey
Charlotte
Russia debt and economy under Stalin described
Paul Mallon argues Russia has no real war debt by Western standards and estimates ruble value on black market rates. He cites official figures and private data, notes massive taxation, state rationing, and centralized control of production as the financial system backing wartime rebuilding and redistribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Russia
Britain
U.S
United States
Chicago University
Moscow
Stalingrad
Commissariats
FOREIGN INFLUENCES AND THE CAMPAIGN Rhetoric
A satirical tour of campaign talking points suggests candidates invoke foreign and historical figures to rally support. It mocks accusations against Rhodes scholars and the use of patriotism to sway voters, labeling critics as agitators and bureaucrats.
Every Right Thinking American and The Little Man
A political tract contrasts Joe’s past campaign prowess with current expectations urging him to align with high pressure groups. It portrays the "little man" as neglected and manipulated by Congress, injured by the 1944 tax bill, and urged to endure Four more years under campaign salve.
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Joe
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