Army credits set for postwar discharges and labor peace plan
The Army will use a credit system to determine postwar discharge readiness, awarding overseas, combat, and dependent-child credits as of Europe’s end. Henry Kaiser helped shape a broad labor peace pledge, advocating a new chamber of commerce AFL CIO alliance to promote cooperation locally. Bailey bill fears loom for Petrillo Lewis negotiated health and pension funds, while RFC hires Fuller Smith Ross for surplus property ads and Rep Gallagher garners respect after past criticism.
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Europe
G.i.s
U. S
Alaska
Army
Henry Kaiser
Eric Johnston
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
CIO
Phil Murray
AFL
Bill Green
Kaiser
Green
Johnston
Murray
Mayflower
The
RFC
New York
Fuller, Smith and Ross
Aluminum Company of America
William Gallagher
Minneapolis
Four Hobbyists' Wartime Suspensions and Shifting Town Life
The piece profiles Col Charles E Jacques Bill Morden and Dr Frank Thompson whose travel and collecting hobbies are halted by the war. It notes the impact on their incomes and museums and argues that postwar towns must offer culture and opportunity to returning workers. It closes with rising labor share of national income from 1940 to 1943.
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Col
Charles E. Jacques
America
Arctic
Antarctic
Bill
Bill” Morden
American Natural History Museums
New York Museum of Natural History
New York Museum
Frank Thompson
Chicago
Burma
Malay States
India
Indo-China
Far East
Africa
Mason Warner
Dr. Livingstone
Central
Andes
Eisenhower highlighted as vigilant anti subversives in wartime notes
A New York blog excerpt recalls General Eisenhower’s fierce rebukes of subversive groups aiding the enemy during national peril. It notes his Alarmist Ike moniker and predictions, plus a Kansan mother boasting of a son in the army. Fred Allen is humorously credited in a Peabody award mention.
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Eisenhower
Winston
F. T. Miller
Ike
Axis
Walter
Fred Allen
Mark Twain
Will Rogers
Greeley story ends with goats and a sharp comeback
A tale about Horace Greeley recalls a stranger who told him he fed the Tribune to his goats. Greeley replied that if readers replace papers with goats, one day the goats may know more than he does.
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Horace Greeley
Tribune
Greeley
Pulitzer retirement creed frames St Louis paper masthead
The St Louis newspaper preserves Joseph Pulitzer's retiring message as a masthead vow. It pledges to fight for progress and reform, oppose demagogues, resist privileged classes, and remain devoted to the public welfare and truthful reporting.
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Joseph Pulitzer
St. Louis
Good News Camp Becomes Boys Vacation Site in New Jersey
A New Jersey band camp reopens as a boys vacation camp signaling renewed American identity. The stage scene offers intellectual fare with one notable production, A Bell for Adano, while readers note a shift from Nazi myths to American fortress imagery in public discourse.
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New Jersey
U. S
America
Adano
Cronin Tops Best-Seller List Amid Publicity Clash
A J Cronin novel The Green Years leads fiction charts despite Forever Amber publicity. A House Foreign Affairs probe examines U S war crime policy and dep'ts activities. A UP dispatch reports rifle shots fired at Mario Berlinguer in Rome wounding him as a purported Fascist crime punishment attempt.
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A. J. Cronin
House Foreign Affairs Committee
America
Dep’t
Joseph Conrad
T: A UP
Mario Berlinguer
Rome
Signor Berlinguer
Soldiers contemplate after curfew on Broadway
Two soldiers and a sailor discuss after curfew with plans to ride in a hansom bed through the park and then call Mabel and Jean. The third suggests a bolder idea to go to a restaurant and watch civilians eat, reflecting a mix of mischief and irony.
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Jan Murray
Mabel
Jean
Burma Battles Hidden in War News
Wartime reports show fierce fighting in Burma largely overlooked by papers. The battles there yield important Allied victories with sustained combat ongoing. Over the past year, Japanese deaths in Burma equal those in the Pacific.
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Burma
Pacific
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Washington, D. C
Petrillo
Congress
James Caesar Petrillo
American Federation of Musicians
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Capitol
Wright A Patterson
Western Newspaper Union
Abilene
Kans
Germany
Wermacht
Okinawa
Formosa
Japan
Bat Boy
Richie Whittington
Cleveland Park
Indians
Geruma
10Th Army
77Th Division
Geruma Shima
Isle of Okinawa
Maurice Rose
1St Army
Rabbi Rose
Denver
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