Lewis Roosevelt feud and coal crisis shadow Washington
Washington observers tie the Lewis Roosevelt split to the coal strike and wartime labor policy. The piece links John Lewis and Franklin Roosevelt, noting AFL CIO shifts, Wagner Act passage, and rising tension at the White House and Capitol as coal shortages loom. The author warns the antisemitic Nazi Slave Labor Society framing echoes in public discourse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Office of War Information
Slave Labor Society
Constitution Avenue
Potomac
Constitution’ Avenue
Penn-sylvania
Washington
White House
Capitol
Harold Ickes
War Labor Board
Roosevelt
Lewis
AFL
CIO
John
New Deal
Puerto Rico
Labor Party
Jawn
America
Vox Populi
V. P
Franklin
Indian Fighters of Old and New Rise in War Effort
A sweeping look at Native Americans in U S military service across World Wars highlights Maj. Clarence L. Tinker and his son as part of a broader history. The piece notes high enlistment rates, honors earned by Indigenous soldiers, and legal battles over citizenship and draft rights for tribes such as the Iroquois Six Nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Clarence L. Tinker Jr
United States Army Air Forces
North Africa
Clarence L. Tinker
Army Air Forces
Hawaii
Wake Island
Midway
Tinker
United States
Uncle Sam
New York City
Congress of the
Zens
Pearl Harbor
Tecumseh
Geronimo
Great Southwest
New Mexico
Arizona
Nelson A. Miles
Florida
Alabama
Fort Sill
Okla
Homer Yahnozha
Bataan
Corregidor
Nevada
Winnemucca
Piutes
Stanley Winnemucca
Army
Marines
Navy
Francis J. Mee
Detroit Lakes
Minn
Private Papers of a Cub Reporter and War Correspondents
A single reporter notes U S policy censors during North Africa coverage as Columbia Broadcasting pressures colleagues to mute reporting. War reporters recall aboard a ship returning POWs and Arab customs booklet influence on the Sultan of Morocco. General Nogues and Sultan discuss resisting landings. a bloodstained booklet inspired hope in allied cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midleton
Aps
John MacVane
Chas
Collingwood
North Africa
State Department
Columbia Broadcasting
Collingwooth
Harry Butcher
Eisenhower
Germany
Jated
Nogues
Meknes
Rabat
Harvard
Port Lyautey
Kasbah
Bangkok radio urges Thai businessfolk to improve manners
The Japanese controlled Bangkok radio urges private business people to be well dressed honest and agreeable to customers and to avoid smoking or intoxication. The United States produced fighting equipment eight times faster than Japan in spring 1943. A Dutch bicycle joke notes widespread theft and asks what happens to ladies bikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangkok Radio
Thailand
United States
Japan
Holland
Unknown Soldier of Arlington a Indian Hero Record
TheUnknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery may be American Indian The four Indian chieftains Red Owl Stranger Horse Lone Wolf and Plenty Coups attended the 1922 ceremony Plenty Coups placed a war bonnet and coup stick on the tomb and spoke of honoring Indian soldiers and hoping for peace for all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlington
Arlington Cemetery
Red Owl
Stranger Horse
Lone Wolf
Plenty Coups
Red Man
United States
Churchill Suggests Bipartisan U S Peace Delegation
In a closed session Churchill urged appointing a U S peace delegation that is strictly bi partisan with equal major party representation. He argued a bipartisan commission of leaders could improve congressional approval of a treaty among Allied powers.
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Churchill
U. S
Senate
House
Woodrow Wilson
United States
League of Nations
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Washington Digest
Baukhage
Pentagon
John Lewis
Franklin Roosevelt
The
Mr. Lewis
Paris
Elmo Scott Watson
Odis N
Oklahoma
Cantigny
Soissons
St. Mihiel
Argonne
Sergt
James M. Gordon
Chester Armstrong Fourbear
Bellicourt
John M. Harper
Marty Beaver
Bert Hayman
Gus Gertier
Joseph Oglohombi
Corp
Nicholas E. Brown
France
Joe Schenderleon
Thomas D. Saunders
United States Army
Wilkerson
Jaulny
Jaulay
Second Engineers
St. Etienne-a-Armes
Naval Intelligence
Boulder
Colo
Senator Glass
Carter Glass
Virginia
Treasury
Darden
Glass
Cliff Woodrum
Tom Burch
Ohio—Union Central Life Insurance Company
Cincinnati
Wisconsin
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Milwaukee
Iowa
Equitable Life Insurance Company
Des Moines
Missouri
General American Life Insurance Company
St. Louis
Mississippi
Federal Land Bank of
St. Paul
Northeast
New York
Pennsylvania
Providence Mutual Life Insurance Company
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of
Newark
Alsiers
Elmer Davis
Franco
Madrid
Wm. H. Castle
Russia
Johannes Steel
Castle
Herlihy
NBC
Horn
Hardart
Patton
Tunisia
Eliot Elisofon
Africa
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