Washington Digest Ponders Morgenthau Plan for Germany
Washington commentary weighs Morgenthau deindustrialization idea against Clemenceau style punishment. Notes Quebec conference context with Roosevelt Churchill Eden. compares economic vs punitive motives, referencing Keynes, 1920 treaty lessons, and current wage data showing rising pay despite possible postwar curbs.
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WNU
Cnida Trust
Washington, D. C
Germany
Thos
Quebec
Morgenthau
Roosevelt
Churchill
Anthony Eden
London
Treasury
Stimson
Hull
Bec
Girl Scouts join wartime salvage drive headline
BRIEFS report the Girl Scouts near a million members joining the War Production board effort to salvage tin paper and rags on October 1. It notes drafts of German youths and young girls for frontier fortifications and provides 1943 life expectancy data showing longevity shifts among white men and women, with white men aged 20 experiencing a notable decline.
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Europe
Girl Scouts of America
War Production Board
America
Wounded Sergeant Describes Front Hospital Return
Ernie Pyle recalls a wounded Fourth Infantry sergeant on the Western Front who refused an early return, guiding fellow wounded soldiers to help as shells hit a wheat field. The tale features a hillbilly soldier with cigars, a doctor, aidmen, and stories about regiment leaders including a bold colonel and handyman mess sergeant Charles J. Murphy from Trenton New Jersey.
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Lucien Strawn
Heutenant
Gur
Ofan
Doctor
Dector
O.k
Eld
Aldren
Ose
Wand
Fouth
Teddy ‘Roosevelt
Sergeant Murphy Reflects On Newspapers And His Grandfather
Murph recalls his grandfather’s newspaper phobia buying daily papers at 3 cent each and reading all night. He mocked reporters for missing periods and would wake the boy to point to stories, raving about accuracy. Murph notes his own life avoided such scrutiny until D-day in France.
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Murphy
Murph
France
D-day
Closet Care Tips From Vintage Sewing Guide
This fragment‑style guide advises shoe racks and bags to prevent scuffs in closets, shoe trees for wool socks, stretch starch for stiffening, spacing garments to avoid press creases, a safety pin renewal for zipper ends, a magnet for loose pins, and washing dusters with soapy water and boiling then cold rinses.
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Washington Digest
Baukhage
Maynard Keynes
Sey
Keynes
Lloyd George
Harcourt, Brace
Clemenceau
Clemenceau-Morgenthau
Messrs
Secretary of the Treasury
Central
Wilson
League of Nations
Carthaginian
Bankhage
Reich
Ernie Pyle
Albuquerque
Africa
Sicily
Charles J. Murphy
Trenton
N. J
Emie
Psie
Epsom
Clarion
Vedio
Warwick Manufacturing Corporation
West Harrison Street
Chicago
Illinois
Pesky
L Howel
DVER
Clabber
Locke Stove Company
West 11Th St
Kansas City
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