Crumbling Nazi Hold as Allies Press East and West
The piece reports on renewed Allied offensives across Poland and the Normandy front, with Russian advances threatening Baltic basins, German retreat from Warsaw to East Prussia, and signs of internal German turmoil over Hitler’s leadership. It notes Japan's cabinet shake-up as relief efforts fail and urges stronger UN unity toward victory.
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Children Right to Safety Shaped by Wartime Policy
News notes Britain has relocated 100000 children from danger, illustrating democracy protecting youngsters. It contrasts with Axis nations where civilians, including children, share wartime peril and portraits from fronts show stark suffering. The piece argues state versus people guided protection and hints divine quintuplets gaining independence from government control.
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Germany
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England
1944 Democratic Convention Opens House For Vice Presidents
Chicago reports the 1944 Democratic convention renominated Franklin D Roosevelt for a fourth term amid a record 31 speeches for vice president and a tense fight over Henry Wallace. Truman emerged as compromise choice as delegates debated behalf of CIO leaders and mass attendance, with platform aims similar to Republicans and showmanship dominating the event.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Henry Wallace
Harry S. Truman
Missouri
Madame Perkins
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Roosevelt
Herry Wallace
CIO
Massachusetts
Wisconsin
William B. Rubin
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Truman
Rubin
John Kehoe
Green Bay
Wallace
Cecilia Garvin
Elroy
Congress
Mr. Roosevelt
Justice Douglas
Jimmy Byrnes
Byrnes
Podunk
Pittsville
America
Quentin Reynolds
Voters pay little attention to party platforms
George Gallup reports that few readers study party platforms. Only 36 percent read any part of the Republican platform and knowledge of postwar policy is minimal nationwide. Among farmers only eight percent and among workers six percent know platform details.
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Princeton
N. J
Ae - Saaiteie
Gallup
United States
Wendell Willkie
Questions and Answers From The Haskin Service Card
Reader questions cover topics from dirigible length to Lend Lease aids, Bible versions, and Michelangelo. Answers cite the M class dirigible at 308 feet, 1634 arrival of Dewey, cat whiskers guiding passage, Panics during disasters, Shasta Lake metrics, Stephen Foster’s last song Beautiful Dreamer, and the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea chain starting with 25 stores by 1865.
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Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
America’s Favorite Poems booklet promotion
A 48 page poetry booklet features classic verses such as Paul Revere’s Ride and The Charge of the Light Brigade. The promotion invites readers to order a copy for fifteen cents postpaid by sending the coupon to The La Crosse Tribune Information Bureau in Washington DC.
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Light Brigade
Barbara Frietchie
Old Ironsides
Flanders Fields
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Hair Clipping Brings Turban Taboo in Normandy
In a Norman village turbans mark a woman’s shame after anti Nazi peers shaved heads of French girls who consorted with German soldiers. Townsmen bury dead airmen behind flowers on their chests. Normandy enjoys food abundance while bread and shoes grow scarce and Calvados remains limited.
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Normandy
France
Dawson Hails Rescue to File Democratic Ticket
Democratic George T. Dawson barely reached town before the filing deadline as a car breakdown delayed him. Republican T. R. Wells aided by rushing Dawson and the Democratic petitions to the town office just in time.
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Kas
George T. Dawson
T. R. Wells
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La Crosse Tribune and Leader-Press masthead
The La Crosse Tribune and Leader-Press announces publication details including the La Crosse Wisconsin office at Fourth and Cass Streets, publisher W T Burgess, managing editor R L Bangsberg and city editor A W Rice, with June 2 1904 as entry date and AP membership notice.
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