Universal Training Faces Big Backing in Drive
Washington reports a renewed push for universal military training as a key to bolstering foreign policy. The movement, led by the American Legion and backed by veterans groups and a Roberts chaired security committee, seeks a January push with the President likely to proclaim UMIT week.
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Foreign Ministers
London
Marshall
America
American Legion
War Department
James F. O'Neil
VFW
National Security Committee
Supreme Court
Owen J. Roberts
Citizens’ Committee
Justice Roberts
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National Chamber of Commerce
Rotary Clubs
League of Women ‘Voters
UMT
Inflation Worry Grows and CIO Seeks Pay Raises
President Truman’s anti inflation push faces resistance in Congress as cabinet members testify on price controls. Clinton Anderson warns meat costs could trigger controls by spring while CIO plans general wage increases for six million workers, risking heightened labor tensions next March and April.
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CIO
Truman
Clinton P. Anderson
Secretary of Agriculture
House Banking and Currency Committee
Anderson
Congress
Robert S. Nathan
Secretary of the Treasury
John Snyder
Earl Bunting
National Association of Manufacturers
Philip Murray
Labor Organization
Murray
Ment
Lewis Schwellenbach
International Association of Machinists
IAM
Machinists
Harvey W. Brown
Taft-Hartley Congress
CIO Political Action Committee
AFL Labor
Railroad Unions
Railway Labor
Communication’ Workers’ Group
Turn for the Better as U S Education Crisis Eases
A citizens' committee report titled Citizens Look at Education says a five year decline has reversed. It notes progress in teacher salaries, retirement, and sick leave while warning against complacency as living costs rise and a teacher shortage grows with birth rates.
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United States
Citizens’ Federal Committee On Education
U. S. Office of Education
Pattern No 8238 Details for Children Sizes 2 6
Pattern No 8238 covers children sizes 2 through 6 with a skirt jacket and overalls. Size 3 includes a skirt and jacket measured in yards of fabric 39 inches wide and the overalls use 14% more yards.
Jefferson manuscript rediscovered after 47 years at Monticello
After the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776 a corrected Jefferson draft was taken to Monticello and stored for 47 years. A later authorship dispute brought the document to light in the Monticello file.
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Thomas Jefferson
Monticello
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Armored Cavalry Journal
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