Capitol square post mortems on Saturday primaries
Officials discuss the capricious results in statewide nominating primaries with labor and GI voting dynamics. Durham and Alamance counties backed Durham while Guilford's High Point area tilted, helping Folger to secure another term. Voters indicate incumbents prevailed in key counties.
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Thurmond Chatham
Earle Rives
Voti
Capitol Square
Rives
Durham
Alamance
Guilford
Folger
Chatham
Congress
G. L
Wartime Service Shapes North Carolina Voter Trends
By Lynn Nisbet observers note GI veterans and union members showed distinct voting patterns. While some veterans voted along war service, overall impact was limited. The May 25 and June 22 results illustrate Tar Heel voters resist bloc influence and exercise independent choices.
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Ee Chatham
Rives
Chatham
Capitol Square
North Carolina
Buyers Strike Urged By Senator Over OPA Limits
Idaho Senator Glenn Taylor known as the Singing Cowboy calls for a buyers strike if OPA authority ends. He argues nonessential demand and suit prices show supply laws in action and urges resistance to price controls until production resumes.
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Glenn Taylor
Idaho
Singing Cowboy
OPA
Appar
Iif
Sali
Jones and Co
Smith and Co
Law of Supply
Descon
Keep the m out of politics in judge selection debate
The piece questions electing vs appointing judges and solicitors arguing that political outcomes influence court choices. It recalls politicians who moved between campaigns and courts, noting the tension between democracy and court independence and lamenting voter apathy in elections.
Hershey warns pampered youth hinder life readiness
Hoosier Maj Gen Lewis B Hershey who runs selective service argues modern parents favor easy childhoods for their kids and that daily chores build responsibility. He believes youth roughness through work helps those rejected for mental instability adjust to life as a needed correction in attitudes toward authority. War Department board plans to examine Army caste system.
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Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
General Hershey
Hershey
Congressional
Democracy less afraid of opponents than other systems
The piece contrasts communism socialism and democracy and argues democracy tolerates diverse views. It notes diplomats and reporters under watch in some countries while England jaileds a Communist briefly during a Russia trip. It claims the United States, as a democracy, allows various groups to travel and speak freely. The essay asks if democracy is the weakest form and answers no, asserting greater tolerance of dissent.
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England
Earl Browder
Russia
United States
Drafting talk spurs debate over teen and 19 year olds
Washington observers warn that most men will be drafted by a volunteer army target rather than broad conscription. Congress is rushing to adjourn by July 15 for reelection, leaving draft power with the president during recess and deferring to local boards for final calls.
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Washington
Senate Committee
Thomas
Utah
Eisenhower
Congress
Navy
Paris
Truman
Senate
White House
Draft policy turmoil shapes postwar eligibility debate
Paul Mallon writes on interitorial emergencies and draft board pressures aimed at filling quotas. He notes lawmakers favor using high school graduates and college students to cover shortages while excluding married men, then extending to the 36-448 group and 19-year-olds, amid political concerns and President Truman’s conflicts with Congress over manpower and postwar policies.
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Gancy
Congress
Representative Andrews
Truman
Mr. Truman
OPA
Army-Navy
War Department
Policy sketch from state department fan mail unit
Francis H. Russell leads a new state department public liaison division handling foreign policy views and fan mail. The piece notes Americans’ habit of criticizing various groups and recounts a 191? era example about a Bronx resident objecting to Russian treatment of Ukrainian Christians as Taft era policy history.
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United States
Francis H. Russell
Department of State
Russell
State Department
State Chamber
Thomas F. Ward
Bronx
New York City
James F. Byrnes
Russia
Howard Taft
Roosevelt and Russell on American intervention for human rights
George Sokolsky argues that American policy has long intervened for persecuted peoples and questions State Department views under Mr. Russell. He cites 19th century actions by Frelinghuysen and Fish and notes U S aid to victims abroad while challenging the notion that humane motives are not US concern. He asks why the United States intervenes in Europe and Asia if protecting human rights is irrelevant.
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Mosley Boyette
Car
Camign
Hubert Olive
Armstrong
Boyette
Hoey
Wallace Win
Saime Court
Hughton
B. Denny
Supreme Court
Gover
William Umstead
Roosevelt
Russell
Uniate
Church of the
Ukraine
Frelinghuysen
Chester A. Arthur
Russia
St. Petersburg
Frien
United States
Hamilton Fish
Romania
Thorized
Hitler
Mr. Russell
Senate probes economic concentration and small business impact
A Senate small business subcommittee plans a new inquiry into the growth of monopolies, citing wartime consolidation. The report led by John Blair notes rising mergers from 1943 to 1945 and a surge in assets of major firms, while Estes Kefauver pushes a bill to curb mergers over five percent of a field’s sales.
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Washington
United States
House
Congress
Department of Commerce
Senate Small Business Committee
John Blair
War Plants Corporation
National Economic Committee
National Resources Committee
War Production Board
Blair
U. S
House Group
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Kefauver
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