Army Discharge Credits and Labor Peace Pledges Stir Washington
The Army plans discharge credits based on war end date with extra for overseas service and combat awards. Henry Kaiser helped craft a postwar peace pledge, urging a new chamber led body for labor peace. Bailey bill risks Petrillo and Lewis pay structures and union health funds. RFC names Fuller Smith and Ross for surplus property ads. Gallagher gains respect in the House.
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Washington, D. C
Europe
G.ls
U. S
Alaska
Army
Henry Kaiser
Eric Johnston
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
CIO
Phil Murray
AFL
Bill Green
Kaiser
Green
Johnston
Murray
Mayflower
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
The
RFC
New York
Fuller, Smith and Ross
REC
Aluminum Company of America
William Gallagher
Minneapolis
Hobbies Ended By War And Shifting Community Life
The piece lists four professionals whose incomes fund personal hobbies now halted by wartime. Col Charles E Jacques travels widely in retirement plans. Bill Morden funds museum donations through frog and switch work. Dr Frank Thomp son photographs wildlife for science. Mason Warner scouts distant lands for travelers. It notes postwar social change will require towns to offer entertainment as veterans return. Labor’s share of national income rises from 62 percent in 1940 to 70 percent in 1943 as war and economy shift.
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Col
Charles E. Jacques
America
Arctic
Antarctic
Bill
Bill’ Morden
American Natural History Museums
New York Museum of Natural History
New York Museum
Frank Thompson
Chicago
Burma
Malay States
India
Indo-China
Far East
Africa
Mason Warner
Livingstone
Central
Andes
Eisenhower asAlarmist Ike and wartime wordplay amid a brave new world
A prose collage recalls General Eisenhower’s fierce stand against subversive groups and his nickname Alarmist Ike. It notes his warnings on Nazi fascism and a humorous anecdote about his mother in Abilene Kansas. The piece contrasts wartime humor, editorial stances, and Burma battlefield reporting with cultural references to Pulitzer Greeley and Cronin.
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New York
Eisenhower
Winston
F. T. Miller
Ike
Walter
Abilene
Kans
Jefferson Pioneer of Modern American Farm Methods
The article recalls Thomas Jefferson’s retirement at Monticello in 1809 and highlights his farm innovations. It details his soil restoration methods, crop rotation, contour plowing, legume use, livestock breeding with James Madison, invention of a metal plow and seed drill, and early industrial ventures like a flour mill and a nail factory, all framed as groundwork for modern agriculture.
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Jefferson
Elmo Scott Watson
Western
Union
Virginia Hills
Thomas Jefferson
Monticello
White House
James Madison
Washington
United States
Martha Wayles Skelton
Virginia
Agricultural College
England
George Washington
James
Madison
John Adams
Marquis de LaFayette
Arthur Young
Thomas Mann Randolph
Martha Jefferson
Jefferson Plantation
Middle West Soil Improvement Committee
Capitol
Richmond
University of Virginia
James Monroe
John Jay
Jefferson's Violin and the Lady He Won
The article recalls Thomas Jefferson in Williamsburg as a youth with a fiddle, rival suitors peeking in on Martha Skelton, and Jefferson later playing Cremona as elder statesman. The story is preserved in old music books gifted to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation by Fannie M. Burke of Alexandria, Virginia.
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Jefferson
Williamsburg
College of William and Mary
Martha Wales Skelton
Skelton
Martha
Skelton Jefferson
Cremona
Thomas Jefferson
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Mark Twain
Will Rogers
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Horace Greeley
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Joseph Pulitzer
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A. J. Cronin
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Joseph Conrad
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