Bureaucratic Verbiage and Un-American Critique
Wright A Patterson decries government jargon as impenetrable, recounting how the Department of Agriculture formed a facts bureau to translate pamphlets into plain English for farmers. He calls for interpreting OPA and other measures and argues for citizen readiness as part of compulsory training and the right to protest.
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Ernie Adamson
Pittsburgh
House Committee On un-American Activities
New York City
Adamson
Treasury
Agricultural Departments
Agricultural Department
Washington
Bureau of Information
Department of Agriculture
George Wharton
Wharton
MacArthur Kirk flap, Marshall on war end forecast
General Marshall testifies before the Senate Military Affairs Committee that Germany may still resist with fuel shortages and mobile repair backstops, while Japan remains formidable and unlikely to collapse quickly. He suggests the Pacific campaign will be extremely tough and declines to guess war end timing.
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Washington
Senate Military Affairs Committee
George Marshall
Germany
Gestapo
Marshall
Japan
Notable aged milestones in art and literature across history
The record lists various figures who produced works or achieved milestones at advanced ages. Verdi composed Falstaff at 30, Goethe finished Faust at 80, Tintoretto painted Paradiso at 74, Tennyson wrote Crossing the Bar at 83, Holmes published Over the Teacups at 78, Gladstone became PM again at 77, Titian painted The Battle of Lepanto at 98, and other noted feats span ages 3 Score to 85 years.
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Verdi
Tintoretto
Goethe
Faust
Cato
Tennyson
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Gladstone
England
Titian
Battle of Lepanto
Venice
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Adolf Hitler
Rhine
Uerdingen
Stork
Nassau County
New York
U. S. Army
10Th Air Force
Burma Road
Rhine River
Big Top
Pretty Juanita Deisler
Paul Jerome
Madison Square Garden
Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey
America
New Dies
Counsel
Lloyd George
David Lloyd George
Britain
Wales
Commons
Wright A. Patterson
Western Newspaper Union
Department
OPA
WFA
WMPA
WLB
Un-American Activities Committee of the House
Macarthur-Kirk
Pacific
MacArthur
Norman Kirk
Manila
General Kirk
Kirk
Luzon
Army Medical Corps
Leyte
Leyte Island
General MacArthur
War Department
Krueger
Eichelberger
Kenney
Arnold
Eisenhower
Patton
Hodges
Simpson
Patch
Devers
Ludendorf
Rhine Valley
Schutzstaffel
Remagen
Joseph Stalin
Roosevelt
Churchill
Yalta
Europe
Poland
Stalin
Hitler
POST
Uncle Sam
Fred. Gretsch
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Hydra E Pinkhamis
Seas
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