Democrats Renominated Roosevelt for Fourth Term at Chicago Convention
The Democratic platform pledges price guarantees for farmers, tax simplification, and world peace work including a postwar plan and a trade policy extension. U S forces push on Guam as Tojo’s cabinet falls amid reorganized government in Tokyo and hints of a friendly enemy approach to the United States.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Chicago
World Organization
Democratic
U. S
Guam
Hediki Tojo
Tokio
Farm Values No Spree In WWII Land Market
Despite good returns and heavy volume, farm land sales in 1943 show brisk turnover with two thirds of farms sold by operators and 51 percent of transactions for cash. Values remain well below 1912 14 levels though up about 37 percent on average, reaching as high as 53 percent in some areas. The Farm Security Administration Tenant program is hindered by inflated values above real earning potential.
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Farm Security Administration
Allied Forces Push In Normandy Amid German Resistance
Allied troops push forward in Normandy amid tough German defenses along hedgerows and open plains. Rommel conducts counterattacks as the air war hampered by bad weather continues. Inside Germany a failed plot to assassinate Hitler triggered executions and a crackdown led by Himmler as the Führer vows to root out the traitors.
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Normandy
U. S
Marshall Rommel
World Bank Seeks Stability With Two Global Funds
Allied nations back an 8.8 billion fund to provide currency reserves for trade balances and a 10 billion World Bank to finance long term reconstruction. The plan would use 2 billion for loans and 8.6 billion to guarantee private loans with U S shares totaling about 2.75 billion and 3 billion respectively, awaiting congressional approval.
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World Bank
U. S
July High for Prime Steers Dominates Chicago Trade
Smaller shipments and stiff competition push prices at Chicago yards to 17.65 per cwt for choice prime long fed steers, the July record high since 1919 and the best since April 1943. Top heifers reach 17.35, matching July records, with strong gains across steers and yearlings.
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Chicago
GI Reading Politics Permitted Amid Army Magazine Expansion
The army widened the list of magazines allowed to circulate among GIs to 189, while Senator Robert Taft urged easing restrictions on distributing political literature to troops. He argued the Hatch Act bans government material only, not political items from private sources mailed at their own expense. The army cited soldiers’ reading habits abroad and post purchases at home to justify the expansion.
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Sen
Robert Taft
Ohio
Taft
Army
Tobacco Shortage Persists Amid War Food Limits
The War Food administration restricted 1944 flue cured tobacco purchases to 70 percent of last year, leaving manufacturers with about a year's stock. Smokers face ongoing shortages as supplies tighten despite aging demands. Iron Ore: Great Lakes furnaces used 44,290,320 tons in the first half of 1944, a new high, with stockpiles on U S and Canadian docks totaling 26,655,414 tons by July 1, about 550,000 more than 1943.
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War Food Administration
Lower Great Lakes
U. S
Canadian
Global War And Oil Trends Mark Week Of July Midyear
U S oil production rose to about 4.60 million barrels per day for the week ending July 15 with gas stocks at 82.25 million barrels, up from last year. Russian forces pressed the eastern front across East Prussia and into Poland while Allied troops attacked the Gothic Line in northern Italy. Livorno’s port repairs promise daily clearance of 17 500 tons of shipping. Russians widened breaks south of East Prussia driving toward Lwow and Warsaw, encircling risk as German forces withdraw.
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U. S
Italy
Livorno
East Prussia
Poland
Lwow
Warsaw
Great Northern Plans $119 Million Bond Call to Cut Interest
In a major financing move the Great Northern considers calling $119,887,700 in bonds and notes to reduce fixed charges to about $10,000,000 per year from $12,506,172 in 1943 and averages over 1921-31. The plan would issue $100,000,000 of new general mortgage bonds to redeem old debt, with $4,000,000 in premiums and remaining funds from treasury. Remaining bonded debt would total roughly $249,000,000 plus equipment trust certificates and conditional sales obligations.
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The
Great Northern
Marsh Hares Bill Renames Muskrats in Louisiana
Governor James H. Davis signs house bill 675 renaming muskrats as marsh hares to boost musk rat meat sales. Authors hope the new term sounds neutral or attractive, given musk and rat impressions. The aquatic rodent flesh is considered a Louisiana delicacy where muskrats are common.
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James H. Davis
Louisiana
Complicated arrangement of farm credit analyzed
A writer critiques government farm financing under ten agencies, detailing Production Credit Corporations and Associations since 1933, stock ownership shifts, and how funds largely stay with the government. He notes farmers bought little government stock, and many associations were loss-making. The piece also contrasts American heritage with a California festival and condemns Soviet-style farming.
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Citizens National Committee
L Street
Washington
Insull
Congress
Electoral College History and a Tires Tale
The piece reviews how electors have diverged from popular votes in past elections from 1876 to 1912 and notes current anxieties about the electoral college. It also recounts wartime tire red tape delaying civilian sales of imported German and Japanese tires, culminating in a 1944 transfer to Defense Supplies after months of delays. It closes with a North Carolina delegation heading to Chicago for a convention.
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Jim Farley
Teddy Roosevelt
Wilson
Roosevelt
California
Bryan
McKinley
Michigan
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
Harrison
Ohio
Cleveland
FDR
South
United States
Rubber Development Corporation
FEA
Rubber Development
Defense Supplies Corporation
Jesse Jones
Brazil
Col
Bradley Dewey
Dewey
North Carolina
South Carolina
Chicago
Broughton
Max Gardner
John Ehringhaus
R. L. Harris
Will Smith
Frank Hancock
Private Papers of a Cub Reporter in Wartime Wanderings
A collection of breezy wartime vignettes from a visiting young journalist. Highlights include an actress praising Albert Einstein for his star knowledge, humor about a colonel and Africa, and Jackie Coogan’s Burma Burma theater tale. A sailor laments furlough delays, and a German buried a train station valise of dollars while Sweden’s KVINNOR sign misleads the man’s search. The piece closes noting Marine 1st Lieut. Mitchell Paige’s Medal of Honor and his accidental grounding after a B-25 mission.
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Albert Hinstein
Manhattan
Einstein
Norway
Sweden
Stockholm
Gestapo
Germany
Kvinnor
Mitchell Paige
S. Pacific
New Guinea
Guadalcanal
Paige
Rabaul
American Dreyfuss dies at 88 in Chicago
Oberlin M. Carter once dubbed the American Dreyfuss by critics for his protracted court martial fight died in Chicago at age 88. He had been convicted of defrauding the government of two million dollars tied to a Savannah Georgia project.
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South Pacific
Dreyfuss
Oberlin M. Carter
Chicago
Savannah
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