Bailey's Amendment: Limiting Presidential Terms Debated
The paper discusses Senator Bailey's plan to amend the Constitution to cap presidential tenure at two four year terms, noting it could still allow a Roosevelt fourth term but block a fifth. It weighs two four year terms versus a one six year term and arguments for restraint on executive power amid wartime politics.
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Enator
J. W. Bailey
North Carolina
United States
Roosevelt
Bailey
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
Congress
George Washington
Franklin Roosevelt
Americans split on wartime strike law in Gallup poll
Gallup finds 78 percent favor a law making it a crime to urge strikes in government taken over firms, 14 percent oppose, 8 percent undecided. Among union members 67 percent favor, 22 percent oppose, 11 percent undecided. The piece urges leadership to heed rank and file and questions wartime priorities over book costs in the broader war effort.
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Gallup
United States
Congress of
Wear A Poppy Tomorrow Poppy Day Appeal
A call to wear a poppy tomorrow in honor of the dead and to support living wounded veterans. The amount to pay is personal and depends on what one can give and what one wishes to do for those who served in the war.
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Uncle Sam
Victory Books Shortage Forces Army to Buy Volumes
The American public is not meeting wartime book needs for soldiers, leaving the Army to purchase books directly as families reportedly stockpile fewer volumes than expected. The notice highlights a gap between public expectations and wartime supply support.
Gate Crasher Congressman Bradley Challenged at Hot Springs
The article notes Michigan Congressman Bradley disrupts the Food Conference in Hot Springs and questions dignified handling of such acts. It contrasts congressional power, presidential aims, and the treatment of newsmen versus lawmakers, with broader riffs on traffic courts and language comprehension.
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Congressman Bradley
Michigan
Food Conference
Hot Springs
Judge Jones
Mr. Bradley
Congress
War Labor Board Faces Pressure as Cracks Show
Peter Edson reports the War Labor Board is backed into a corner by internal and external forces. The board's authority is questioned over railway wage cases and the hold the line order, with backlogs rising and the possibility of further defiance from leaders like John L. Lewis and the railway brotherhoods.
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War Labor Board
Byrnes
Railway Labor National Mediation Board
WLB
Washington
John Lewis
United Mine Workers
Ben Cohen
Tommy Corcoran
Little Steel
National Board
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Akron
Railway Brotherhoods
Poppy pins and cuffs spark talk as readers weigh style and politics
A collage of reader quotes covers fashion cuffs and civilian life, wartime sentiments, and public figures. Topics span poppies for soldiers, relaxation from army life, debates on policy, and recollections of Bob Reynolds and Asheville.
Psalm and Schiller Quote Teaches Joy in Faith
A verse from Psalms praises those who trust in God and find joy, followed by a Schiller line about the wheel of time and the joy that moves the world. The pair reflects religious consolation and universal delight in nature’s order.
Weather notes and wartime decencies in May
The piece comments on May weather urging umbrella use and notes gas curtailment affecting beer and liquor deliveries in the east. It suggests a national meatless day would reveal the official one and complains Mussolini reshuffles his cabinet while the Duce shifts for himself.
Five Sullivans and allied figures in wartime portraits
A reverent portrait lists George Frank Joseph Madison and Albert Sullivan from Waterloo Iowa who died aboard the USS Juneau in the Solomons. It salutes Lt. Arthur Hoffman and Lt. Clare Hoffman for wartime service and cites Donald Shea and Stephen Day among others tied to pro fascist figures, contrasting acts of heroism with hostile loyalties. The piece honors Francis Moran and Mike Moran for naval valor aboard the Boise and laments divided patriotism in wartime America.
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Sullivans
George
Frank
Joseph Madison
Albert
Waterloo
Iowa
U. S. Navy
U. S
Juneau
Solomons
May Abel
John J. Shea
Navy
Wasp
Shea
Donald Shea
National Gentile League
Hiram Evans
Ku Klux Klan
Bund
Madison Square Garden
Fichte Bund
Germany
George Christians
van Horn Moseley
George Deatherage
Stephen A. Day
Lilnow
Republic
Flanders Hall
New Jersey
George Sylvester Viereck
Washington
FE. J
Mike
Moran
San Francisco
Boise
Cape Esperance
America
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High Point Enterprise
J. P. Rawley
D. A. Rawley
Robert Thompson
R. B. Jerry
H. A. Cecil
Mgr
Associated Press
En Point NC
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Senator Bailey
Victory Books
Britain
Peter Edson
Cohen
War Food Administration
Mike Shiplett
Ben L. Herman
Stalin
Comintern
Senate
Bill Kerr
Women's Auxiliary Services
Filen Waller
John Doraska
Greensboro
American Legion Auxiliary
Eas
Andro
Carolina Motor Club
Bill Williams
DDT
Winston-Salem
N.C
Graham Barden
Union
Office of War Information
India
China
Burma
Japan
Edwin Barclay
Liberia
White House
Bill Piper
Hearst
Bob Reynolds
J. J. Corrigan
Asheville
Bob
Grover H. Jones
Schiller
Mussolini
Duce
Broadway
George E. Sullivan
Winrod
Hudson
Dilling
Biddle
Bill Maloney
Dillard Stokes
Walter Winchell
Conepiracy
Arthur E. Hoffman
MacArthur
Australia
Pacific
Darwin
Davao
Rabaul
Hoffman
Clare E. Hoffman
Charles Hudson
Gerald L. K. Smith
Lizzie Dilling
Joe Kamp
Robert T. Day
Niagara Falls
Tenaru River
Guadalcanal
Day
Francis P. Moran
Boston
Hamilton Fish
Charles A. Lindbergh
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