Roosevelt plans and rising veteran influence in postwar politics
Washington analyst notes four key moves shaping FDR's postwar strategy. He argues veterans, led by the American Legion and future groups, will be a decisive pressure force for or against national service and international peace efforts. The piece also highlights the personal story of a paratrooper’s first jump and its impact on a father.
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Congress
CIO
Roosevelt
American Legion
Legion
Army
Navy
Stars and Stripes
Veterans Administration
United States
United Nations
Women Work Force Grows in War and Postwar Needs
The Women’s Bureau notes 18 million women in the labor force, 5 million new entrants since 1940, with roles expanding from traditional factory work to skilled, dangerous, and new war industry jobs. It calls for planning a managed shift to peacetime employment and highlights training for retooling and advisory support at local levels.
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C. V. Peters
Department of Labor
Women’s Bureau
Woman In Industry Service
Mary Anderson
War Agency
Miss Anderson
United States
Rdenieaiseel Feminine Etash
War Department
Navy Department
Women's Bureau
Frieda S. Miller
America
Seattle
Wash
Nita Carlin
Weehawkin
N. J
Miss Carlin
Hunter College
New York City
Radio and magazine notes on streaming era and stars
Fred Allen guests on three shows in a week and may boost Danny Kaye prospects. Radio as a medium faces possible cutbacks of round the clock programs to save electricity. The column surveys Byrnes editorial blueprint, Harper’s Argentinazi report, Vogue takedowns of soap opera gullibility, and a patchwork of showbiz anecdotes from Farrell to Crosby.
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Radicafs
Fred Allen
Allen
Danny Kaye
Henry Youngman
Cbsession
James F Byrnes
American
Harper's
Harriet van Horne
Davenport
Collier's
Esquire
Byrd
FDR
Reubens
Frank Conville
Bea Lillie
Theodore’s
Ann Sheridan
South America
Italian Boy Scouts Rally Sparks Debate on Deeds
Report notes the first rally in 20 years by Italian Boy Scouts and questions what constitutes a good deed under fascist style rhetoric. It mentions Fala the White House dog and other colonial era chatter, with economic shifts hinted and OPA rules affecting prices.
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Boy Scouts
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Washington Digest
Baukhage
WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
International Organization For the Preservation of Peace
Teddy
Czar Nichbollas II
Russia
Women’s Bureau of Labor Department
Nora T. Sterns
Sterns
Frank Farrell
Farrell
Frank
South Pacific Islands
Marines
Fred
Intelligentsia
Walter Davenport
Air Transport Command
Pacific
Paul Hunter
Liberty
Marshall Field
Weekly
Motion Picture Herald
London
Peter Burnup
Bing Crosby
Cole Porter
Philip Wylie
Wylie
Ted
Broadway
New York
WMCA
Meyer Davis
Lincoln
Fala
White House
Tokyo
Mit
OPA
Liberal c 8 Products Company
de Alba Gan
Raham Hatchery & Pal
Hayward
Calif Fare
Mae
Boca
Lydia £. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
WNU
Dean
Doan
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