War Finance Debate Reflects Tension Over Taxation and Bonds
The piece surveys Secretary McAdoo's warning against heavy war spending financed by debt, contrasting bond issuance with taxation. It cites economists and editorials urging prompt tax hikes to avoid inflation, higher interest rates, and profiteering, while stressing public sacrifice and national resolve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MuAdoo
Kitchin
Paul Warburg
Irving Fisher
Herner
Joans
Times
Wall Street
Tribune
Tabor
McAdoos
Germany
Secmary McAdoo
Tax and wages drive cost of living in perilous balance
The passage argues that sudden wage increases and high demand for labor push up living costs beyond the rich and poor alike. Taxation is proposed as a tool to curb extravagance, while praising a government leader for a clear, sober handling of the issue without demagogy.
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Vlad
MrAnoo
Marines Signal Arrival With News Of Victory
The article hails American Marines as a bold force upon the famous battlefield praising their new and glorious victory. It lauds American manpower as unmatched and emphasizes renewed spirit and confidence shared with French and British allies. It predicts deep gratitude across the nation for striking alongside seasoned allies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newa
Marto
Red Cross Battle Over Nurse Rank and Army Staff
The article argues the Baker bill to reorganize the Army Medical Department morse corps could pass if the Red Cross war council recommends it. It notes Red Cross leaders sought military rank to avoid handicaps, and urges creating a nurse staff corps inside the army with lieutenant status to boost recruitment of 20,000 skilled army nurses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Baker
Morse Corps
Medical Department
Army
War Council of
American Red Cross
Ary
Medical Corps
el Cross
Amy
Congress
Continent Wide Bird Protection Legislation Moves Forward
The House supports an enabling act to implement a treaty with Great Britain for migratory bird protection across the continent from U S to Canada. The program, begun with Weeks McLean in 1913, seeks uniform rules on shooting seasons and protections to prevent extinctions of sea birds and insect eaters, benefiting agriculture and wildlife.
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House of Representatives
Great Britain
United States
Canada
American Gane Protection Association
Arduban Society
Yrony Tocs
Wilson
Canada Acts Prohibition on Bird Shooting During Flight and Nesting
Canada will prohibit agring shooting from the moment birds begin flight until they reach steering grounds and during nesting, aiming to protect the species through the safe periods of aerial movement and reproduction.
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Canada
War Time Economic Controls and Alien Draft Controversy
Observers note broad mobilization of industry under War Industries Board led by B M Baruch and the shift to a ministry of munition as trade and output align with government needs. The alien draft policy remains tangled with neutral and enemy classifications, while Hoover and Wilson push for prohibition via direct legislation rather than wartime drift.
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War Industries
A American Stepl and Iron Institute
Vrentust
Tts
Nomwar Industring
Wall Street
United States Steel Common
War Industries Board
B. M. Baruch
Ministry of Munitions
Phere
Arenndine
Crowder
State Department
Congress
Rogers
House
Senate
House Committee On Foreign Relations
Lansing
Great Britaiy
Cayada
France
Italy
Marphy
Gonpress
Aley Slavker
Polley
White World Power Fears Amid Wartime Propaganda
A fragment discusses fears of white race peril if war widens in Europe and Asia. It claims German and Hearst links push white peace propaganda while US mobilization grows, noting figures on mobilization and stirring alarm about Japan, China, and the East. It questions editorials suggesting war aims against Japan.
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Europe
Govrer
Hearst
Krom
Atlantic
Wilds
Menrat
Ventura Asia
Anties
Tess Alia Bo
Ruasin
Walter
Mifopd
Asis
Austria
Meir Quyerely
Danmany
Glimpses By Wilbur Forrest From the American Front
Wartime column recounts Major and twin Grierson brothers from St Louis serving together near Picardy. They share mail from home and a growing romance via sisters Geraldine and Blendirie Smiley. The twins enlist after a joint bank visit and remain intertwined in duty, risk, and family letters amid shellfire.
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Albert
Walter Gritrson
St. Louis
Picindy
Crivrsan
Hue
Togethen
Peinca
Petler
France
Griersons
Albert Grierson
Grierson
Éfleex
Ant
Walter
Alert
Sheldon
The Great Gamble With Platinum Supply In War
The address discusses platinum shortages affecting ammunition for a large army. Government orders in March and May seek to ration platinum, iridium, and palladium, while dam builders impede supplies by using the metal for adornment and delaying completion. The piece questions whether current measures will suffice to equip troops and calls for completing the dam to ensure metal flow.
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Wilson
New
Puiggerts
Mme
Jugyelyns’ Shale Fie Commercial Ange
Disgraced Harmonies To the Editor of The Tribune
An American music lover protests a school concert program in New York on June 5 1018 decrying a German-dominated lineup and referencing World War I atrocities. The writer questions the propriety of performing German composers while war rages in Europe and urges inclusion of Chopin Saint-Saëns and others.
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the Tribune
Molmuaborger Hvertone
Vienna Woods
Lusitania
Armentana
Red Cross
Wilt Cormat
Tami
Keethoven
Mogard
Haydn
Sehnhert
Lehmin
Chopin
Saint-Saéns
Cégar Franck
Uebiasy
MocHowell
Grieg
Elgar
Dertinz
Tehaikowsky
Uris
New York
America Arrives in War Effort as German Drive Faces Setback
The piece argues America's entry shifts the war balance and stresses the need to quickly deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to France. It reviews German strategy in 1918, the Allied response, and contends rapid American and Allied manpower must overwhelm German forces before November to avert a decisive German breakthrough.
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Champagne
United States
America
Lille
Verdun
France
Britain
Russia
Einat Prus
Marne
Yser
Rominia
Wirtmysin
Ameries
Germany
Waterloo
Prustins
Phigrionty
Europe
Wavre
Watertos
Aln
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Hoover
Tre Piper
China
Japan
Ub Reflect
Thia Manny
Wilbur Forrest
Nebraska
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Ireland
Milwwaukee Sentinel
Frank H. Simonds
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