Truman Cabinets Shift Tone Amid New Dealers and Liberals
President Truman names Clinton Anderson of New Mexico as agriculture secretary and Lewis Schwellenbach of Washington as labor secretary to balance his cabinet with New Dealers and liberals. Tom C. Clark becomes attorney general as Justice Department reforms loom while Perkins resigns and Wickard seeks continuity.
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Clinton Anderson
N. M
Lewis Schwellenbach
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Labor
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White House
Capitol Hill
Department of Justice
Tom C. Clark
Mr. Truman
Perkins
Claude Wickard
Department
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Pendergast
Congress
House
New Mexico
Anderson
Albuquerque
Japanese Home Front Mobilizes as U S Presses Advance
Japan tightens defense with mass mobilization of 20,000,000 students and an agrarian militia, imposes propaganda purge, develops Kamikaze air corps, and allocates labor time while rice stockpiles near five billion bushels. Tokyo and Nagoya face intensified U S air strikes as security talks with Big Five progress. Germany’s surrender leaders are arrested. Himmler dies.
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Japan
Nagoya
Tokyo
U. S
Air Corps
Dessau
Conquest Complete as Doenitz Arrest Ends German State
Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz is arrested by Allied authorities in Flensburg ending Germany as an organized state. The territory is divided into three Allied occupied zones, with control and administration left to the occupying powers.
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Doenitz
Germany
U. S
Eisenhower
Karl Doenitz
Flensburg
Laws against employment and public discrimination expand in several states
New York New Jersey Indiana enact laws to ban discrimination in employment and public places. New Jersey and Utah add general anti discrimination measures. Additional New Jersey laws prohibit racial and religious discrimination in public places.
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New York
New Jersey
Indiana
Utah
Freight rates equalization shifts balance for South and West
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered parity in freight charges for manufactured and high grade goods across regions from the Atlantic to the Rockies. East rates rise for class freight while South and West see reductions, enabling southern and western producers to compete with eastern rivals, and lower bulk commodity rates for coal livestock lumber grain cotton and sand apply in the South and West.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Atlantic Seaboard
Rocky Mountains
ICC
Marines Learn Okinawa Burial Customs
Marines who searched Okinawa's sacred burial vaults learned the islanders' burial customs. They observed items placed on coffin lids such as food writing paper pen ink writing boards clothing and candles for the dead's use.
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Okinawa
Food Outlook Projects Pig Shortage Vastly Below Goals
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration reports pig crops for 1945 at 87.2 million head, about 5.3 million below War Food Administration targets, signaling reduced pork supplies and an eight pound per person drop. Plantings of corn, potatoes, beans, sugar beets, peanuts, and flax also fall short of WFA goals, prompting calls to raise the 13.00 per hundredweight support price to boost pig breeding.
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration
War Food Administration
AAA
WFA
Britain Votes as Churchill Forces General Election
Great Britain moves to a general election after Winston Churchill, facing Germany’s defeat, resigns as prime minister to head a temporary regime. The Conservatives seek resounding endorsement in July contests, with leadership potential passing to Anthony Eden if re elected. The Liberals exit Churchill's wartime cabinet, becoming a critical minority in Parliament.
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Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Germany
Churchill
Commons
Anthony Eden
Lator
Redeployment: Ist to Pacific shifts amid supply constraints
The U S 1st Army moves from Europe to the Pacific theater as Allied forces expand the war effort. Production boosts allow higher A card gas rations and B card monthly mileage, but June dates limit immediate changes. Veterans freed under a point system will get 30 day U S furloughs before new duties. Lt Gen Courtney Hodges led the unit from Normandy to Saar and Remagen as it prepares for reassignment.
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France
Elbe River
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Europe
War Department
Courtney Hodges
Ist
Normandy
Reich
von Rundstedt
Siegfried Line
Remagen
Rhine
George Patton
3Rd Army
Air evacuation reaches over one million patients in war theaters
More than 1,000,000 sick and wounded U S and Allied personnel have been evacuated by army air forces transport aircraft across all theaters since fall 1942 when mass air evacuation began in the South Pacific. Battle casualties rose from about 35 percent of evacuees in 1944 to roughly 50 percent in early 1945. others were hospitalized for sickness or non combat injuries.
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Army Air Forces
South Pacific
CIO Rebuked at San Francisco Confab Exposed Coup
Paul Mallon reports that Sidney Hillman and Russian labor leaders attempted a coup to place a World Trade Union Congress in the world peace framework. Molotov backed the bid in the San Francisco steering committee but the plan failed, boosting AFL President Bill Green’s push to keep world labor under the League of Nations framework.
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China
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CIO
Washington
Sidney Hillman
Oakland
Bay
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California
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AFL
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Green
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Walter Citrine
London
Home Remedies for Small Kitchen Mishaps
Use olive oil to wipe an electric griddle for easier cleaning. Cut a glove finger to cover a bandage over injured fingers and protect from dirt. Tape adhesive over scour powder can to prevent rust stains in a white enamel sink.
Laundering tip warns against using sheets as bags
Do not use sheets or pillow cases for laundry bags as they are not woven to stand the strain and may tear under heavy loads. Use purpose made bags or strong fabric instead.
Household hints for efficient laundry and sewing
Practical tips include boiling rice water for starching fabric and using running lettuce water to separate leaves. It suggests varnishing rustic furniture, pin cushions on the wrist for pin management, keeping pins handy, washing aged linens to stay fresh, and notes ironing is unnecessary.
Frugal Decor Hint: Cut Flowers for Unity in Room
Cut a flower or two from the new wallpaper on your walls and paste it to a white lamp shade or two. This creates unity of design in the room. Apply the same idea to a scrapbook cover kept at hand for ongoing inspiration.
Language and government trivia from a historical quiz
Questions cover meanings of French phrases, differences between Washingtons Japanese cherry trees and native varieties, a term for government by women, methods of electing congressmen at large, the country home to Singhalese people, and the longest English monosyllable.
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Washington
Proper. As it should be.
The list presents six lines of phrases each pairing a noun or concept with a brief descriptor or title. Notable items include Gynarchy and Ceylon with minimal context.
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Ceylon
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Tom) C. Clark
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