Senate Advances War Bill as NYA Scrapping Fights Loom
The Senate cleared the way to pass a 71.9 billion war bill and open a fight over scrapping the National Youth Administration NYA with Truman proposing continued funding for NYA asserting its essential role in training youth for war industry jobs Downey urged retaining NYA to avoid waste Senate McCarran postponed further debate to Monday and the chamber also tackled farm and other war agency funding while rejecting some House prohibitions on painter payments and medical tuition.
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Washington
Senate
House
National Youth Administration
NYA
Truman
D-Mo
Bormngue
Federal Security Administration
Senate Appropriations Committee
FISC
Farm Security Administration
Office of Price Administration
Office of War Information
War Investigating Committee
Andrew Jackson Higgins
Henry J. Kaiser
Downey
Calif
Peace Speaker Recalls George in Connecticut College Talk
Vice President Henry A Wallace describes a pacifist youth named George who became a Marine dive bomber after Pearl Harbor. He recounts George’s final mission and death, and notes family connections and other youths who pursued wartime service.
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Henry A. Wallace
George
Connecticut College For Women
New London
Milo Perkins
Wallace
Board of Economic Warfare
the Lowan
United States
Germany
Hope
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Quaker College
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Subsidies and weapons dominate wartime policy debate
The piece argues that subsidies could lower U S food prices by mirroring Britain's system but warns against such a policy here. It cites lend lease, inflation control, and a new Winchester carbine tested at Aberdeen, plus wartime anecdotes from occupied Europe and a note about the Oregon Spectator as the first west coast newspaper.
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Prentiss Brown
Great Britain
New York
Washington
West Coast
Oregon Spectator
Puccini La Boheme and Verdi Rigoletto on Victor red seal
Classical record pairing Jussi BjErling and Hjördis Schymberg with the Metropolitan Opera cast, conductor Nils Grebillius, Victor Red Seal No. 11-8440. Highlights Puccini O Soave Fanciulla and Verdi E Il Sol Dell Anima with strong lyric tenor and soprano blending. Includes notes on military gifts and wartime music tastes.
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Jussi Bjererling
Hyperdis Schymberg
Nils Grebillius
Victor
Red Seal
Jussie Bjoerling
Metropolitan Opera Company
Hjoerdis Schmberg
Labor Security Bill Adds Nurse Training Funds in Senate
The Senate added 45 million dollars to the House labor security bill to fund a program under public health service supervision that would train 57 000 nurses annually amid a growing nurse shortage. It rejected a House provision blocking new NLBR elections in west coast shipyards linked to AFL affiliates, with McCarran noting a conference committee could craft compatible language. CIO says AFL contracts with Kaiser and others reached when few workers were involved, delaying worker choice of bargaining agent.
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Army
Senate
Public Health Service
National Labor Relations Board
AFL
McCarran
Johnson joins officer candidate camp at Davis site
Thomas A. Johnson the former art director of Popeye cartoons has become an officer candidate at the anti aircraft artillery school at Camp Davis. The article notes that Georgia’s Okmulgee National Monument hosted 35 105 visitors in 1940.
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Davis
Thomas A. Johnson
Popeye the Sailor
Georgia
Okmulgee National Monument
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By Albert Leman
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USO
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Victor Poll
Stephen Foster
Arturo Toscanini
NBC Symphony
Carson Robinson
Mussolini
Alvino Rey
Aragon Ballroom
Vega Plant
North Carolina
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Modoc
Carolina
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T. Dorsey
Janssen Symphony
Los Angeles
Nathaniel Shilkret
Fats” Waller
Abbott and Costello
Charlie Spivak
Leonard Lane
Bob Allen
Virginia Maxey
Barry Wood
Treasury Department
Shangri-La
the Sheraton
N. Main Street
N. BE. Russell
Savings & Trust CO
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Sandwich Shop
Lyles Chevrolet CO
High Point, N.C
Parker - Brown
Oak Street
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Tual
L. F. Ferree
First Chartered Mutual Life Insurance Company
America
Office Equipment Company
South Wrenn St
City Shoe Shop
Commerce St- Hig
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DIAL
South Main Street
Stesties
Sartin Day Cleaning CO
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