Truman Proposals Seek Postwar Economic Reforms
The document outlines broad White House priorities including emergency unemployment compensation, higher minimum wage coverage, extended price controls, a reorganized government, a universal peacetime training program, and a unified armed forces. It calls for a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee, expanded farm support, a national housing program, a single Federal Research Agency, tax reforms, and renewed GI Bill and veterans benefits. It also covers federal works planning, airport and road funding, UNRRA expansion, and elevated congressional pay along with cautions on wartime end dates and employment service shifts. The president criticizes Japan after the war and endorses the Full Employment Bill as a political instrument with no guaranteed commitments.
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United States Employment Service
Commodity Credit Corporation
Red Cross helps veterans through home service notes
Local Red Cross notes show furlough verifications and a moving case of a wounded marine in a wheelchair who finds hope through occupational therapy and drawing. The article urges veterans to seek assistance for pension hospitalization insurance and GI Bill benefits through their local Red Cross chapter.
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Rat Cross
Pacific
Louise
Red Cross
G. I
Business Girls Circle Meets at Mrs Dickens Home
Presbyterian Church circle held September meeting at Washington Street home of Mrs Charles Dickens with eleven members and three guests. Mrs Reece Welch presided, Miss Susan Holladay led program on What Shall I Say, followed by Mispah Benediction and refreshments. Visitors Mrs Paul Roberson Mrs Jeff Welch and Mrs T O Wilson joined in. Mr Hubert Hudson family visited town. Pearson family moved to new home between Petersburg and Richmond.
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Business Girls Circle
Presbyterian Church
Charles Dickens
Washington Street
Reece Welch
Susan Holladay
Mesdames Fannie Bright
Flora Clifton
Edyth Dickens
Hubert Hudson
Harold
Enfield
Otis
Pearson
Charlotte
Petersburg
Richmond
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To Lina
Carroll Wilson
North Carolina
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TVA
Central America
UNRRA
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
American Statesman
Washington
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