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Middletown Journal
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News-Journal
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AMA shifts stance to support national health program
The American Medical Association abandons its long opposition to socialized medicine, proposing a Cabinet department of health, a national medical research foundation, industrial medicine, voluntary health insurance, rural health centers, mental hygiene, and health education. AFL President William Green defends Taft-Hartley Act and labor power, but the piece urges union leaders to recognize that labor law affects consumers and employers as well as workers.
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American Medical Association
AMA
Cabinet Department of Health
National Foundation For Medical Research
AFL
William
Green
Congress
Mr. Green
Reuther proposes housing plan using idle wartime factory space
Walter Reuther urges converting idle aircraft plant space to prefabricated houses on an assembly line to ease housing shortages and provide a standby workforce. Lustron already using a Curtiss-Wright plant in Canton, Ohio to produce all steel prefabs at 30 homes daily, aiming for 180 daily by year end. Plan faces opposition from builders and some aircraft makers, but merits study as a quick action to a chronic emergency.
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Walter Reuther
United Automobile Workers
Reuther
Economists debate inflation and a delicate transition period
Washington economists including Kaplan Nourse Robey and Reed warn against a blanket depression as prices wobble. They describe inflationary prosperity a healthy disinflation and a delicate transition period while Congress weighs Truman’s request for broader economic powers. They caution about long term forecasts and future price movements amid mixed signals from farm and living costs.
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OPA
A.D.H. Kaplan
Brookings Institution
Burp
Edin G. Nourse
Kaplan
Nourse
Truman
White House
U.S
Ralph Robey
National Association of Manufacturers
Robey
Schmidt
Reed
Joint
Congressional Economic Committee
Shifting the Blame on Movies and Comics
A film industry spokesman cites juvenile delinquency studies to claim movies aim at youth. The piece argues movies or comics are not the root cause of crime. Real factors are unhappy homes, poverty, and bad environment, with calls for higher taste but not blaming media.
When Judy Feigned a Headache and a Pink Pill Cure
Dr George W Crane recounts a mother child vignette in which a five year old feigns a headache during nap time to escape play. The physician uses a playful yet strategic approach, giving pink pills and gum drops while addressing underlying issues, illustrating how to handle malingering with tact and honor.
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David
Danny
Judgy
Quotes on inflation and unity from postwar leaders
A set of remarks criticizes easy mortgage money as a driver of inflation, warns that organized wealth and entrenched greed restrain labor, and predicts a depression if the nation overextends itself. Senator Taft and Senator Vandenberg are cited alongside CIO president Philip Murray.
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Philip Murray
CIO
Spring arrives as readers praise local helpers and Lustron design
Dave Regan recalls a Fairmount Ave family blizzard experience and lauds Red Cross Salvation Army Boy Scouts National Guard Army and Air Forces for easing disaster. The Lustron home design reflects 17 500 women nationwide on small home facilities while Middletown housing is discussed and a visitor reveals he is a designer.
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Red Cross
Salvation Army
Boy Scouts
National Guard
Army
Air Forces
West
Aberdeen Dr
Middletown
The Smiling Philosopher and the Artist Maje
Arthur Baer recalls the 1948 best selling print The Smiling Philosopher by Henry Major. Baer describes Major’s acerbic drawing style, his Hollywood success, and Baer’s uneasy role as a stooge in the book’s creation. Baer laments Maje’s later fame and his own uncredited philanthropy.
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Henry Major
Major
Vienna
Maje
Defense of money in a column by Erich Brandeis Looking At Life
This column argues money is unfairly maligned and defends financial success. It praises earning through ability and industry, notes money grants security and pride, and contrasts American practicality with European decorations. It argues true knighthood lies in a good salary, commission, or business profit.
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South Africa
Europe
Order of the Red Eagle
Knights of the Garter
Bolonia
America
The
Elks
Shriners
Eagles
Stars Forecast a Busy, Ambitious Tuesday for Genevieve Kemble
For Tuesday February 22 a lively day is forecast with energy and initiative. Hard work, practical plans, and sound management may bring real objectives and growth in possessions prestige and security. A birthday sign indicates a productive career with support from influential sources and durable success.
Barbs and Quips From a Bygone Page
A satirical snippet jokes that a wife can read him like a book signaling a fresh start. A quip warns delinquency might revive punishment. A California man who fell three stories will recover and learn to use the elevator next time.
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California
Margaret Mitchell on Gone With The Wind Fame
Hal Boyle profiles Margaret Mitchell in Atlanta detailing her global sales for Gone With The Wind since 1936. Despite wealth and fame she remains down to earth living in a modest five room apartment with husband John Marsh, who is recovering from a heart attack. Mitchell says the book’s success surprises her and she dislikes the immoral portrayal of her characters while revealing she has no immediate plan to write another novel.
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Atlanta
Margaret Mitchell
Georgia
Peggy
Scarlet O'Hara
Rhett Butter
America
Margaret
John Marsh
Missy
Bessie
Scarlet
Rhet
Petain in His 94th Year Still Imprisoned
Sokolsky laments Petain’s continued imprisonment at age 94 amid questions about Vichy leadership and postwar judgments. He argues for humane treatment and questions whether France should let him die in peace, while reflecting on broader freedoms and past allies. He notes other figures like Vishinsky and Stepinac fading from memory, and criticizes ongoing religious persecution despite promised freedoms.
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Marshal Petain
Petain
America
Stalin
Europe
Asia
Teheran
Yalta
Potsdam
France
di Petain
Vichy
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Vishinsky
Carlsbad
Stepinac
Juestions And Answers on government secrets and languages
A quiz panel covers the first government Secret Service organized in 1864 with 28 districts under the Treasury for counterfeiting detection. It notes the UN has five official languages English French Russian Spanish and Chinese. It discusses yearly earthquakes about 50 major events and poison ivy distribution across the country. It mentions Weimar Germany as the poets city associated with Goethe Schiller and Liszt.
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Government
Treasury Department
United Nations
Weimar
Germany
Goethe, Schiller, Herder and
Wieland
Franz Liszt
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