Period of reform era sparks anti liberal sentiment in the United States
The excerpt criticizes liberal and radical thought during a crisis era, arguing that anti American ideas spread through ballyhoo and social pressure. It warns that government overreach would shield the common man while replacing individual responsibility with state control, condemning proposals to standardize effort and curb ambition. The piece frames the era as one where business and government collided in a struggle over American principles.
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Unitedates
America
Ballyhoo
Teocracy
Russian Drive Against Nazis Rolls Onward
Soviet dispatches report the siege ring around Leningrad and Sevastopol weakened as Red Army storm troops push at Poventsa and Kerch forces. German positions near Sevastopol crumble while the Stalin canal area sees heavy fighting east of Leningrad.
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London
Red Army
Poventsa
Stalin Canal
Schluesselburg
Leningrad
Neva
Russia
Ladoga
Crimea
Great Black Sea
Sevastopol
Kuibyshev
Kerch
Izvestia
Cold spell lingers across state with wintery damage
New Orleans reports record cold as a 20 to 34 degree wave disrupts Louisiana. A fire at Queen theater on Tuine avenue causes 40 000 dollars in damage and a death in a separate blaze. Shreveport sees light snow and low of 10 degrees. Louisiana forecast calls for cloudy rain and colder air tonight.
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New Orleans
Unitedtates Weather Bureau
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Intance
R. A. Dyke
Shreveport
Poice
Queen Theater
Tuane Avenue
Fannie Metcalfe
Soldiers escape by daring ruse in Luzon battle
Five Salinas Calif. soldiers escaped encirclement by Japanese forces in southern Luzon on Christmas Day. Privates William Anson Joe Gillis and William M Hall with Sergeants Emil Mertelly and Mitchel played dead for 28 hours while Mitchel and Anson slipped through enemy lines. The quintet later regrouped with U S forces after a grueling trek through rugged terrain.
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Fort Mills
Luzon Island
P. 1
Emil Mortelly
Mitchel
William Anson
Joe Gillis
William M. Hall
Salinas
Calif
Luzon
Anson
United States
Tokyo Aims to Invade U S Says Plan Is Feasible
The Japan Times and Advertiser claims a Japanese landing on the American continent would enable a trained army to sweep all before it. It argues the United States can be invaded and recalls 1812 British landings in Maryland and Louisiana as precedent while noting air alarms along the Pacific coast.
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Tokyo
Associated Press
Japan Times and Advertiser
United States
Singapore
Pearl Harbor
San Francisco
Golden Gate
Pacific Coast
Maryland
Louisiana
Woman shoots self to give birthday gift in death
Iris N. Peterman sought to arrange her funeral last October at a mortuary, selecting a casket and burial clothes. She died last night of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, age 44, at a time she had planned as a birthday present to herself.
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Los Angeles
Iris N. Peterman
Samuel Croninger
Croninge
MacArthur praised as fighting man by Vanderbilt trainer
Vanderbilt trainer Cecil Smoky Harper recalls General MacArthur as a fighter in World War I and argues he will not settle for defense in the Luzon campaign. Harper, who served under MacArthur in France, says the general’s offensive mindset suited him as a coach. Hawaii officials outline plans to boost agriculture and convert sugar to motor fuel while pledging readiness against further Japanese attacks.
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Nashville
Tenn
Vanderbilt
Cecil “Smoky” Harper
MacArthur
Harper
France
Douglas MacArthur
Rainbow
Luzon
Philippines
Lorraine
Strike Threat in Los Angeles Ends After Mediation
In Los Angeles a threatened work stoppage by the CIO Transport Workers Union was averted before the deadline after a telegram from John R. Steelman urged a five day pause and no further layoffs. The union, with about 1,200 members, sought a preferential election and rehiring of 100 workers, opposing the AFL affiliate’s closed shop contract with the two transit companies.
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Los Angeles
John R. Steelman
United States Conciliation Service
Ci.o. Transport Workers Union
Los Angeles Railway Company
Los Angeles Motor Coach Company
Steelman
Transport Workers Union
C. I. O. Union
Soldier Marries By Long Distance
In San Francisco Private Charles R. Bogar wed his fiancée Mrs. Margaret Pickering via a telephone ceremony from a minister’s study to a rooming house in Hutchinson Kansas. The couple planned a Christmas wedding in Salt Lake City but war duties and scarce furloughs delayed the regular ceremony.
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San Francisco
Charles R. Bogar
Margaret Pickering
Bogar
Pickering
Hutchinson
Kas
Fort McDowell
Kansas
Salt Lake City
West Coast
Inductions in Army Speed Up to Quadruple Peace Time Rate
Washington reports officials say inductions into the army are being accelerated toward a hard hitting land force of four million. The move taps present registrants and the 9 million men aged 20 to 44 who will register February 16, with no fixed war time size limit. Draft calls and area quotas are being doubled and may be trebled, with distribution cards prepared for 6,500 draft boards.
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Washington
Britain
Stimson
War Department
United States
Selective Service
Hearing delayed on Christenberry nomination to U S attorney
A Senate judiciary panel postponed the confirmation hearing for Herbert W. Christenberry for the eastern district of Louisiana to 10 a m tomorrow at the request of Louisiana activists opposing him. Opponents say he was a dummy candidate for city judge in 1932 and urge a thorough review by the committee chaired by Senator McFarland. Christenberry, an assistant U S district attorney in New Orleans, hopes for a clean bill of health after the hearing.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Herbert W. Christenberry
United States
Eastern District of
Louisiana
Samuel Ballard
James J. Morrison
Louisiana Association For Clean Government
Christenberry
Earl Christenberry
Huey P. Long
Morrison
Ballard
United States District Attorney
New Orleans
Overton
Ellender
Roosevelt
McFarland
Arizona
Landis Named Executive To Lead Major OCD Reorganization
The White House announced a partial reorganization of the Office of Civilian Defense with Dean James M. Landis of Harvard Law School to take a large share of OCD responsibilities as executive officer, while Mayor La Guardia remains director. Landis will build the needed organization and oversee personnel to carry out policy.
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Washington
Office of Civilian Defense
James M. Landis
Harvard Law School
la Guardia
New York
White House
Stephen Early
Landis
OCD
Congress
House
War Department
Senate
Senate House
Securities and Exchange Commission
Federal Trade Commission
University
Louisiana tourism warned for 1942 slump amid war limits
Louisiana expects a sharp drop in tourist travel in 1942 as war rationing and tire shortages cut auto trips. Last year the industry brought in about 75 million dollars with 3 million visitors averaging three days, but the outlook is dim as the tourism bureau halts most activities for defense efforts.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
G. T. Owen
Department of Commerce and Industry
Owen
Bureau
Rex Laney
Tourist Bureau
Boy Donates Entire Bank Account To Help Win War
In Royal Oak Michigan on January 9 Teddy Burton an 11 year old sent the president a cashier's check for 428.88 the amount from his entire bank account with his parents consent. He wrote I am 11 and cant get in the marines but am sending you 428.88 to help win the war. The money was withdrawn yesterday and mailed to the president.
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Royal Oak
Mich
Teddy Burton
World War II Fronts See Turmoil Across Pacific and Asia
The World Today reports Japanese mass for a death blow at Luzon remnants, Pearl Harbor attack heightening US invasion fears, a US commander warning Hawaiian islands may face another surge, and a fierce Malay front battle with high casualties. It notes Allied air forces pounding Japan with several ships sunk and Wake Island Marines aiding, while sieges around Leningrad and Sevastopol ease.
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Associated Press
Luzon Island
Tokyo
Pearl Harbor
United States
United States Army
Hawaii
Islands
Slim River
Malaya
Navy Department
Langley
Bangkok
Navy
Wake Island Marines
Leningrad
Sevastopol
Agree to test vote on price control bill
In Washington on January 9, administration leaders planned a Senate test vote over who should set wartime farm prices under the price control bill. Senator Brown of Michigan, floor manager, said he expected enough votes to defeat farm bloc demands for veto power by the agriculture secretary. Democratic Leader Barkley of Kentucky anticipated a close result, predicting administration victory by a few votes, aided by the president’s telegram urging action.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Brown
Michigan
Secretary of Agriculture
Barkley
Kentucky
Yount Executed in Mississippi
J A Yount a Hollandale merchant convicted of killing Hollandale town marshal Clifton Pope was executed by electric chair at 12 37 a m after a sanity ruling by six physicians the governor had stayed the original December 19 date to allow the hearing Pope had visited Younts grocery to stop a quarrel with his wife when Pope left Yount shot him several times denying premeditation while claiming self defense Yount age 60 left seven children
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Greenville
Miss
J. A. Yount
Hollandale
Clifton Pope
Jimmy Thompson
Yount
Paul Johnson
Pope
You
Japanese ship hit near Tokyo as US submarine raid reported
A 2225 ton Japanese freighter Unkai Maru No 1 was torpedoed 100 miles from Tokyo in a raid the Japanese acknowledged. Reports also indicated US Asiatic Fleet submarines sank a 10000 ton transport and three 10000 ton supply ships as battles moved toward a climactic push on Bataan and Malaya.
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Associated Press
Japan
Imperial Headquarters
Tokyo
United States Navy
Philippine
War Department
Douglas MacArthur
Batan
Navy
Far East
Imperial Tokyo
Izu Shichito Islands
Yokohama
United States
Singapore
Pearl Harbor
Sai
Japan Times
Troika
Kuala Lumpur
A V G Wrecks 1 Jap Bomber Squadron Raid
A V G aircraft from the American Volunteer Group raided Meshod airdrome near Bangkok destroying seven Japanese light bombers on the ground and probably eight. One A V G aircraft is missing after the raid from their base to Meshod. The action, led by Colonel Claire L. Chennault, follows Japan's December offensive in the Pacific and Far East.
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Rangoon
Burma
Thailand
Meshod
Bangekok
Wiry Louisi
Claire L. Chennault
Burma Road
Japan
Pacific
Far East
Air Command
London
Tavoy
Moulemein
all-India Radio
Chinese Troops in Burma Move Toward Designated Positions
Chinese troops in British Burma are advancing to designated positions and more units stand ready to enter Burma if requested. The spokesman said the main force is in northern Burma and declined to specify how far south toward Rangoon they might move.
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Chungking
British Burma
Burma
Rangoon
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