World Peace Hopes Converge On Conference in San Francisco
San Francisco prepares for the United Nations conference opening April 25 1945. Delegates from 44 nations, about 1500 officials and 1000 press staff, fill hotels and venues as efforts focus on drafting a lasting world peace charter at Knob Hill headquarters and Civic Center sites.
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San Francisco
John E. Jones
Union
Yalta
United Nations
United States
Dumbarton Oaks
Lapham
Joseph C. Grew
Department of State
Golden Gate
Russia
South Africa
Egypt
China
Europe
India
Philippines
Scandinavias
Greenland
Australia
Canada
New Zealand
Mark Sullivan
Cmdr
Harold Stassen
Constitution Hall
Philadelphia
United States of America
Anthony Eden
British Empire
State Department
East
Dif
Mexico City
Kipling
Golden Gateway
Mt. Davidson
Opportunities Under G I Bill Explained by Legion Auxiliary
National President Mrs Charles B Gilbert outlines the American Legion Auxiliary guidance on the 1944 Servicemen’s Readjustment Act Title III farm loan guaranty. It explains eligibility for veterans to obtain bank loans for land, buildings, livestock, equipment, and farming operations with administrator approval.
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Charles B. Gilbert
American Legion Auxiliary
Auxiliary
Norwich
Conn
Administrator of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Administration
United States
Smeterlin's Palma piano tale and court jests
Polish pianist Smeternlin tours prewar world stage visiting Majorca Chopin home monastery now private and piano owned by Palma family host jokes about playing it. Supreme Court Justice Black twist on lyonnaise potatoes. Reporter notes court jokes about decisions and a park scene with Mefoofsky family child questions.
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Jan Smeterlin
Valdemosa
Majorca
Chopin
Smeterlin
Palma
Supreme Court
Hugo Black
Washington
United States High Court
Don’ts for Reporters Recalled in Hotel Guest Term Change
James Gordon Bennett once issued many reporting rules including not using patron or guest for hotel customers as those terms misstate facts. The practice shifted when rewrite desk staff began calling hotel registrants inmates as they searched for alternative wording.
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James Gordon Bennett
N. Y. Herald
New Yorkers Notebook and Londoners on Courage During Bombings
The piece recounts a New York remark about an RAF cook’s dog chasing a plane on a runway and a London pianist Ivor Newton’s retelling of a Cockney’s humorous view on German bombs. The Cockney quip notes the difficulty of guiding bombs from France to London and finding Bulstrode Road.
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Ivor Newton
London
France
Limehouse
Bulstrode Road
Churchill Mourns Archbishop as Nation Loses Great Churchman
Winston Churchill, moved by the Archbishop of Canterbury's funeral, calls the nation to mourn a great churchman. He jokes, noting a teetotaler’s untimely end, while crediting his own 70 years with occasional drinks.
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Canterbury
Winston Churchill
Churchill
The Newest Patton Legend Emerges From War Correspondents
After the death of General Maurice Rose the article notes Patton’s delayed response and his symbolic act of drawing a German English dictionary from his pocket and crossing out the word mercy. The piece frames this as a legend-like moment in Patton’s wartime leadership.
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Patton
Maurice Rose
Radio Tower Mystery At Naval Training Center In Georgia
Prof Leo Reisman relayed a tale about a trainee at a naval radio training center in Georgia near a radio tower. The trainee feared the arrival of an unknown fleet after losing contact with Pilot Jones who finally replied from the airfield saying he landed two hours earlier and to signal back.
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Leo Reisman
Naval Radio Training Center
Georgia
Pilot Jones
Value of a two party government and postwar Europe
Analysis argues for two party governance to counter one party rule, cites 1918 and 1932 clashes, and critiques postwar Europe toward mixed state socialism. Calls for caution on subsidies, citrus price policies, and German reparations funding, framing risks of drifting leftward.
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Europe
France
Belgium
Balkans
England
Russia
de Gaulle
California
Housing Project to Attract the Birds
An article describes bird house designs tailored to bluebirds robins and wrens with specifics on nest depth entrance size roof lines and location. Pattern 277 provides actual-size cutting guides and construction directions plus a materials list. send 15 cents with name and address to obtain it.
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San Francisco Opera House
Ian Obsec
Legion Auxiliary
C. B. Gilbert
Mefoofsky
New Yorkers’ Notebook
Ue Wright Rees
Western Newspaper Union
America
Congress
Wilson
Herbert Hoover
Germany
Ruth-Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Rass
Post
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