Negro policemen urged for High Point advisory support
The Negro advisory committee urges appointing two more colored officers after the success of Officers Leak and Steele. The editorial argues better policing of Negro neighborhoods promotes respect for law and child perceptions, noting the need for more officers and praising current ones. The piece speculates on state leadership and constitutional issues in a hypothetical emergency, calling the scenario applesance.
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Lnd
High Point
Steele
Leak
Freedom of the press spans all publications and readers
The piece argues freedom of the press is a public right for all publications and readers, not a special privilege. It cites diverse papers from conservative to radical and stresses international context and the need for an end to censorship after the war, urging a peace treaty guaranteeing news access.
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Free Press
Manufacturers Record
Daily Worker
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Sun
Senator Reynolds
North Carolina Press
Raleigh
Washington
Kent Cooper
Ger
Associated Press
Prodigy William Sidis Fades From Early Promise
The famed child prodigy William Sidis died at 46 after a lifetime spent in low paying clerical work. Despite a Harvard degree at 16 and a career as a math professor, he spent most of his life avoiding work that required thinking. His father Dr Boris Sidis had urged early childhood education.
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Boris Sidis
William
Sidis
Harvard
Roosevelt fourth term talk and war unity views
Walter Crissman questions President Roosevelt’s stance on a Chicago nomination and the France option while Dr J G Groome notes caution over infantile paralysis scares. Clarence Leonard recalls 71 months in the South Pacific and a furlough home. The League of Nations asserts growing world unity amid a world war and rapid communications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Washington
Chicago
France
Walter Crissman
South Pacific
U.S.A
Clarence Leonard
Now & Marine
Court notes and remarks echoing postwar tensions
In superior court Judge H Hoyle Sink revokes Ernest Gibson's probation suspending his sentence. Comments range from postwar employment cheers to ambivalent war talk by locals including Elizabeth Hawes and John Wilson. A Brooklyn mechanic jokes about emergency light, and Sgt Kiger voices wartime bravado as Roma Williams finds court entertaining. Silas Casey makes a light Drucker-style quip about alliteration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Gibson
H. Hoyle Sink
The President Title and Commander in Chief
A public dinner segment argues the President is the sole valid title for the head of the American nation. It emphasizes the President as Commander in Chief and as the officer who negotiates treaties and signs or vetoes acts, linking these powers to the office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Broughton
Chicago
Harris
State Senate
Senate
J. Hampton Price
Leaksville
Raleigh
United States
George Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt's Fourth Term and Issues in the Vice Presidency
By George Sokolsky, the piece argues the presidency is the focus, not the commander in chief. It critiques uses of the term Commander in Chief and warns the vice presidency must be ready should Roosevelt seek another term. It notes Henry Wallace's unpopularity with both parties and mentions possible successors like Byrnes, Truman, and Black.
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Roosevelt
Henry Wallace
Congress
Andrew Johnson
John Bracker
Hillman
Supreme Court
Byrnes
Truman
Justice Black
Wallace
Chicago
Jim Farley
Wartime America on the Woman and Worker Vote
The article argues the 1944 election will hinge on how candidates win the support of women and workers, who may outvote men for the first time. It cites 45 million women among 89 million potential voters, with women casting up to 55 percent of votes in 1942 and possible similar turnout in November. It notes Dewey’s appeal to women through radio, image, and family portrayal, contrasted with Roosevelt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Ed Flynn
Roosevelt
Thomas F. Dewey
Gov
Dewey
Wives and Women Vote Influence in 1944 Election
A political assessment notes Mrs. Dewey and Mrs. Roosevelt shaping women voters. It asks how wives of presidential candidates affect polls and party strategies, predicting unknowns in November and hinting at a feature on the worker vote tomorrow.
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Dewey
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Russia's Awakening From War to Industrial Miracle
The author recalls early 20th century upheavals and the Soviet era's white heat of rebuilding. He contrasts 1913 unrest with post-revolution hardship, then details 1920s forced modernization, the Dnieper Dam, Moscow Canal, and Moscow Metro. He notes villagers learning to read, children loved, and new cities rising from the steppe, culminating in 1937 Sverdlovsk and Siberia's rapid growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Moscow
Kremlin
Ukraine
Leningrad
House of Correction
Vladivostok
Baku
Caspian Sea
Dnieper
Moscow-Gorki Canal
Kharkov
Manhattan
Empire State Building
New York
Bétadusé
New Russia
Stalingrad
Caucasus
Black Sea
Armenia
Fir
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J. P. Rawley
R. B. Terry
D. A. Rawley
H. A. Cecil
Mgr
Robert L. Thompson
Theererpeien Grstane
N C
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
A Free Press
Parenthood
J. G. Groome
League of Nations
Elizabeth Hawes
Fort Bragg
John Wilson
Vincent d Jaastello
Brooklyn
Fraley Field
Sgt. Kiger
Roma Williams
Superior Court
Luther Leach
Silas Casey
George Sokolsky
America
Mrs. Dewey
Jack Stinnett
Urals
Sverdlovsk
Siberian Plain
Dmitrievsky
Private
Breger Abroad
By Lt
Dave Breger
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