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A sweeping profile of Chester C. Davis, tracing his rise from Grinnell College to state agricultural commissioner and Federal Reserve administrator. The piece blends Davis's career with light social color and headlines Tokyo and Mussolini era remarks, noting observers view him as a cautious, somber figure amid wartime shifts.
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Iowa
Little Grinnell
Clemson
South Carolina
South Dakota
Montana
Illinois
Grain Marketing Association
Cornstalks Processing
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Federal Reserve System
Reserve Bank
St. Louis
Chester C. Davis
White House
Claude KR. Wickard
Grimy Gazette Funnies From Maggie O Flaherty On War Fronts
The Grimy Gazette magazine by Maggie O Flaherty brings soldier jokes from Australia to North Africa via mail from a Chicago editor. Readers include Capt Tom Griffin in North Africa and Camp Polk sergeants who find it boosts morale and reading interest on bulletin boards.
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Australia
North Africa
Chicago
Maggie O'Flaherty
Sis
Maggie
Tom Griffin
N. Africa
Camp Polk
Mirror gag on a Berlin worker and state bonds bargain
The Mirror prints a wartime joke where a Berlin worker asks a bank clerk how to invest 1000 marks. The clerk says buy state bonds, noting the Nazi Party will ensure repayment. the worker questions a state bankruptcy, and the clerk counters that the party would prevent collapse, making the 1000 marks worthwhile.
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the Mirror
Berlin
Notes on wartime journalism and morale songs 1942
Notes critique Time editors and press figures editing war coverage. Mentions Stalin ditty removal, Tom O’Connor rebuttal of E. James Smythe, Al Schmid piece unearthed by Philadelphia reporters, Time’s off the record briefs, Quentin Reynolds in Russia, and 93 newspapers suspending publication in 1942. Home party policy cites Stage Door Canteen songs servicemen find depressing.
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March of Time
Stalin
Stallin
Golden Gate Quartet
Tom O’connor
E. James Smythe
Bond
Roger Butterfield
Life
al Schmid
Philadelphia
Time
Quentin Reynolds
Russia
New York
Pearl Harbor
White Cliffs of
Dover
America
Western stars and films highlighted in Metro and Warner notes
Western Newspaper Union previews Metro and Warner Bros projects with Signe Hasso Christine Gordon Carlton Morse and Ann Sheridan. It mentions Assignment in Brittany Hi Didle Diddle Lady s in Gray and Bombardier plus a Stage Door Canteen plan and Edge of Darkness print for Norway.
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Haakon of
Norway
Warner Bros
Lisbon
Clipper
London
Ann Sheridan
Errol Flynn
Walter Huston
Judith Anderson
Ruth Gordon
Morris Carnovsky
Hollywood Leading Men Shine Amid War Bond Drive
Gloria Blondell builds a film career alongside Joan Blondell in I Love a Mystery. Victor Borge stars in Broadway Melody of 1943 then in a Lamarr picture as her leading man. Pierre Aumont debuts as assignment in Brittany's lead. Ralph Edwards seeks $20,000,000 in war bonds as Truth or Consequences tours sell out across cities.
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Gloria Blondell
Joan
Victor Borge
Hedy Lamarr
Pierre Aumont
Brittany
Hollywood
Ralph Edwards
A Yank in India Exposes Delhi’s Ninth Delhi Life
William Chaplin chronicles six months in New Delhi with the Tenth Air Force. He describes the ninth Delhi formed by American HQ and barracks, daily life in mess halls, local markets and cars, and the soldiers daily routines as they adapt to Indian culture and food while targeting Japan in Burma.
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Dutch Schultz
Razor Brains
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India
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Delhis
Delhi
Burma
America
Queensway
East Orange
N. J
Terre Haute
Ind
Aunt Lou
AEF
Cel
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