World conference in San Francisco fuels long view of peace
Washington analyst notes the San Francisco world conference offers renewed hope for peace, reflecting on historic Bay Area roots and global power dynamics. He credits President Truman’s leadership, the U.S. role after World War II, and the balance between strong alliances and flexible plans to shelter a new international order.
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WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
San Francisco
Calif
Golden Gate
Seine
Paris
Quai d’Orsay
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Russia
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Eden
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Vandenberg
Senate
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White House
Truman
United States
Mahomet
Congress
Executive
Cordell] Hull
James Byrnes
Breakfast Club Appeals To Millions Of Air Fans
The Breakfast Club, hosted by Don McNeill, gains mass radio appeal after President Roosevelt’s death. Audiences aid scripts with living wit, 875000 join as charter members, 600 fans attend each show, and Chicago studios turn away many. The program thrives on audience input through tickets, guest stars like Nancy Martin and Fran Allison, and spontaneous moments.
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Roosevelt
Breakfast Club
Don McNeill
McNeill
America
Thecesa
American Broadcasting Company
Chicago
Nancy Martin
Singing Schoolmam
Marion Mann
Sam Cowling
Heckler
Ed Ballatine
Ray Grant
Fran Allison
Fanny
Fran
Iowa
Radio Gardener Club's D Day Broadcast Becomes Year Classic
The Radio Gardener program started 12 years ago with no visitors. In 1937 a tuberculosis patient’s plea led to a change and in 1938 doors opened to all. Since then about half a million have attended as the troupe gains national wartime notice.
Hybrid Hogs Pursue Superior Inbred Crosses for Meat
The Regional Swine Breeding laboratory unites thirteen state stations to inbreed popular hog breeds aiming to create superior hybrids. Early results show crossbreeding two breeds outperforms single-breed crosses, with plans to rotate Polands, Hampshires, Durocs, Berkshires, and Hampshire lines for future herds.
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George A. Montgomery
Capper
Mr. Montgomery
Mann
Minnesota
Illinois Experiment Station
Ohio Station
World Leaders Picture Loss Of Franklin Roosevelt Ties
A wartime portrait shows how the exit of Franklin D Roosevelt alters ties with Churchill, King, Somervell and Hopkins. Churchill faces unknown successor constraints as Hopkins steps in. King’s authority cools under a new White House. Somervell loses a direct path to policy. Hopkins and Baruch lose old access as Truman era shifts.
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Franklin Roosevelt
White House
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Harry Hopkins
Hopkins
Fdr
Ernest King
Navy
Frank Knox
Knox
Navy Forrestal
King
B. B. Somervell
Army
Truman Committee
Somervell
Truman
Harry
Jimmie
Nate
Bernard Baruch
War Production Board
Grou
Primner
Baruch
Barbs and blitz: Schmeling reshapes into welterweight
In Berlin, Swedish paper reports former heavyweight champion Max Schmeling, a Nazi camp survivor, trains as a welterweight. The piece links postwar shifts with crypto-diplomatic digs and notes broad claims of American bankruptcy.
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Max Schmeling
Berlin
Pacific Coast Farmers Offered Irrigation Benefits Plan
Landowners on 1 029 000 acres in the Columbia river basin in eastern Washington are offered irrigation benefits at 85 dollars per irrigable acre payable over 40 years. The repayment plan, approved by Interior Secretary Harold Lokes, moves the Interior Department toward its largest 200 irrigation and multiple purpose developments program.
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Columbia River
Washington
Interior
Harold
San Francisco Night Life and Political Banter Review
A colorful column sketches security for diplomats including Molotov and Hoover era gossip on FDR, LaGuardia, Luce, and the California conference. It notes Joe Rosenthal, Kent Cooper, Pyle, and cultural touches from theater to the United Nations Theater.
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State Department
New York City
Chicago
New Orleans
Capnons
Russia
Mr. Molotov
John Eggar Hoover
FBI
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