Truman and the New Deal Inheritance in Congress
A Washington observer describes President Truman wrestling with inherited New Deal policies as Congress debates aid and office expansion. He notes political pressure from labor and industry, midwestern restraint, and the balance of power between government and the private sector.
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Washington
White House
Congress
Pennsylvania Avenue
Truman
Vandenberg
Senate
Wallcott
Harry
Aguinaldo
Army
Navy
National Guard
FBI
United Marching and Social Clubs
Well Known Figures and Witty Quotes From Public Life
A gallery of anecdotes features FDR and his mother Sarah Roosevelt, Theodore Dreiser in Europe, Clarence Darrow on birth control, George Norris on war, and Winston Churchill remarks. It includes Mark Twain quips, Samuel Johnson puns, and other short vignettes about leaders, writers, and public figures.
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Fdr
Truman
United States
White House
New York
Warm Springs Foundation
Sarah Roosevelt
Mrs Roosevelt
Theodore Dreiser
Soviet Union
England
Churchill
Clarence Darrow
Darrow
Frank Case
Carroll
Samuel Johnson
Mermaid Tavern
Algonquin
Sam
Johnson
Barbs Woodman and the Use of Trees in Jobs and Safety
The piece links forests to jobs and timber, notes a shift from saving trees to using them, questions hypochondria with government aid, mentions a sale of a use-saving suit by the Maritime Commission for 15 dollars, cites rising farm prices via the Alexander Hamilton Institute, and highlights safety gains from the National Safety Council's campaign reducing deaths from 855 to 717 per 100000 between 1913 and 1944.
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Maritime Commission
National Safety Council
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Harry Truman
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L. C. Craigie
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Don
Air Commandos
Tokyo
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Marshall Group
Army and Navy Command
Ralph Flowers
Hickory
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Ray Shaw
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Miss Shaw
Lotte Wallerstein
Radford College
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Nazi Germany
George Norris
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Eisenhower
GI Liberation Committee
Paris
Ike
Germany
Mark Twain
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Dorothy Dix
Perry
Paul Ernst
E. Jones
Ben Grauer
Jack Marshall
Thoreau
la Rochefoucauld
Winston Churchill
N.y
Palestine
U. S
Bankhage
Alexander Hamilton Institute
McKesson & Robbins
Hulman & Company
Terre Haute, Indiana
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