Electoral College Reform Debated as States Consider Change
The piece notes December 16 electors voting for Roosevelt and cites Texas pledges to abolish the system while New York electors donate travel funds to Warm Springs. It discusses Norris Lea proposals to replace the Electoral College with direct popular vote and options for proportional or winner-take-all state votes, urging action in the new Congress.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States
Texas
New York
Warm Springs Foundation
Indiana
Wendell Willkie
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Norris-Lea
Norris
Congress
Christmas Thoughts and War Newsamy in Street Scene
A newspaper piece contrasts Christmas toy displays with newsies selling war headlines. It reflects on nostalgic childhood holidays under German aggression, noting a shift from peaceful holiday imagery to the brutal reality of Nazi aims and destruction.
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Newsies
Hitler
Kris Kringle
Submarine Losses Mark World War Ocean War
Submarines sunk 11 158 000 tons of allied and neutral ships during the World War. Germany lost 178 submarines she sent to sea.
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Germany
First air express shipment carried silk belts
Dayton sent the first air express package eighty years ago containing five belts of silk from Dayton Ohio to Columbus Ohio in a historic mail service milestone.
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Dayton
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Four Way Phone Pact Ends Northwest Lumber Strike
A four way long distance conference in which John Steelman, L T Murray, S P Marsh, and Earl Hartley agreed to a 5 cent per hour wage raise plus paid vacations, reopening 12 Tacoma mills and settling with logging camps. A wage study planned for next March aims to tie wages to lumber prices for lasting peace.
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Tacoma
L. T. Murray
West Fork Logging Company
New York
National Manufacturers Association
John Steelman
Labor Department
E. D. Bransome
Vanadium Corporation of America
Defense Commission
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Murray
Steelman
Seattle
S. P. Marsh
West Coast
Earl Hartley
Puget Sound
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Uncle Sam
Urray
Hardy
Defense Industry
Labor
Dexter Keezer
Reed College
Keezer
Isadore Lubin
Great Dictator not living up to expectations says Fidler
Hollywood writer Jimmie Fidler argues The Great Dictator underperforms at the box office and fails to meet hype. He condemns the film as propaganda and urges producers to avoid war inciting movies while noting strong early crowds did not guarantee lasting success.
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Charlie Chaplin
Hitler
Mussolini
Quotations on diplomacy and unemployment in policy debate
The excerpt cites diverse voices on international risk and economic policy. It includes Professor Barrett on intelligent directing groups, Isador Lubin forecasting unemployment, Knox on naval responses, and Fridtjof Nansen remarking that the impossible requires time.
Thanksgiving to Christmas: Turkeys and Trials Ahead
The column notes lingering aftereffects of Thanksgiving on Christmas moods, cites debates about Tom Harmon and Francis Schmidt at Ohio State, mentions champagne shipments to New York, and references Franklin D. Roosevelt’s continued education while retaining his diploma. It also offers a wry take on family responsibilities and motivation.
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Tom Harmon
Francis Schmidt
Ohio State
Leap Year Idea Promoted by Ancient Egyptian King Euergetes
Cartoons explain how Ptolemy II Euergetes, king of Egypt from 247 to 222 B C, earned the nickname Benefactor by proposing a leap year with an intercalated day every four years. The artwork also depicts a skating figure striking something on the floor at high speed.
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Euergetes
Egypt
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Moosejaw Mulligan Christmas Santa Tale From the 1940s
The writer recalls Hymie Augen’s clippings about Moosejaw Mulligan a small time thief who becomes a department store Santa. After a street theft ends with a bicycle gifted to a starving child Moosejaw vows honesty and changes his path, earning unexpected respect from police and the community while evading capture.
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Red Hook
Augen
Moosejaw Mulligan
Moosejaw
Kansas
Odd Items In The News Chronicle
The bomb squad rushed to the natural history museum after a suspicious suitcase was found in bushes. It contained a nose drops prescription and two dead birds. In Snow Hill Maryland B Clay Chapman recalls shooting two pheasants with a .22 rifle after seeing them fly over a field. In Amarillo Texas a boy’s note to his teacher prompted a fire department visit and a sack of toys for repairs. In Alton Kentucky Officer Charles Stahl noticed his draft and license numbers align with 23s and requested 232323 but received 232322.
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Moosejaw
Santa Claus
Copa
Dan O'Hearn
New York
Natural History Museum
Snow Hill
B. Clay Chapman
Amarillo
Tex
Six Scio residents hold joint Christmas birthday party
Six Scio residents born on Christmas Day host a joint birthday party to celebrate their shared date. Friends reportedly pass on attending due to the party being too near Christmas.
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Scio, Ore
Soio
Paper food containers puzzle Scottsbluff draft board
In Gering Nebraska 2 500 fancy paper food containers arrived at the Scotts Bluff county draft board office prompting confusion among members as they assessed the odd shipment.
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Gering
Scottsbluff
Storm coat folly shows kid’s peer pressure danger
Angelo Patri’s Our Children column tells of Junior pressured into buying a flashy white rubber storm coat costing much. He faces ridicule from peers, learns simplicity and herd style protect a child’s peace of mind, while a reader note promotes Patri’s booklet Your Child and Other People. A traffic tip adds a quirky line about tire blowouts and traction.
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Angelo Patri
Monroe
P. O
Station O
New York
N.Y
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Board orders two thousand envelopes for containers
The board has ordered 2,000 envelopes as they wait for supplies to fill containers.
Girded for the New Year Sunday School Lesson
The article presents a Sunday School lesson on faithfulness and watchfulness framed as a New Year theme. It urges daily vigilance, compares it to watch-night devotion, and uses the parable of the master and the thief to urge constant readiness for God’s knock at our doors and hearts.
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Jesus
Gethaamene
Girl Admires Doll as Father Dies in Plunge
December 21 report from Seattle describes 20 month old Marjorie Keene gazing at a cheap toy doll while her father Herbert Marvin Keene, unemployed, vowed to buy it for Christmas. He later fell two feet from a railroad viaduct while attempting to catch a pigeon, fatally injuring himself.
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Seattle
Marjorie Keene
Herbert Marvin Keene
Greece Prepares As War Planes Move Through Ancient Battlegrounds
Wartime mood grips Greece with Allied planes over the country as 120 Greek air force aircraft face Britain and Italy. Evzones guard the line with white foustanella kilts and long-toed shoes. Greece’s army is 120 000 strong with compulsory service. Navy plans to expand were halted by the war.
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Greece
Bible Thought Reflects Mercy and Uprightness
A devotional note cites Psalm 18 26 about mercy and honesty and adds a brief reminder that in all God’s dispensations He works for our good, referencing Job. The fragment presents a religious reflection with cited verses and a general exhortation.
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