Restoring the OPA Fueled Regimentation and Jobkeeping
The article argues that reviving the Office of Price Administration after Truman vetoes extended measures restores a New Deal regulated economy. It claims bureaucratic gains, extra-legal actions to preserve the agency, and a still uncertain decontrol framework that risks reviving a black market and extending payroll-based political power.
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Office of Price Administration
OPA
Truman
Court of Appeals
Pegler on refugees and American hospitality rights
Westbrook Pegler argues that the United States holds no inherent right to admit refugees and that Congress could restrict or end immigration. He notes how 580,000 refugees were admitted by 1943 amid wartime rationing and critiques selection by influence, money, or status, contrasting humane motives with practical politics. The piece cites Breckenridge Long and references Spain’s role in resettling refugees from France, suggesting selective aid and political motivations shaped by broader ideology.
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New York
Americas
Supreme Court
Congress
United States
Breckenridge Long
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Paul McNutt
Unites States
Hiller
Long
State Department
Mr. Long
Spain
France
Wartime Awards Sparked Waste and Scandal, Memoir Style
Revelations claim Army and Navy pushed extravagant celebrations to boost morale, with tax-deductible costs widening a multiyear scandal. Officers traveled on government funds to parties, while plants financed showy events, entertainers, and travel. A separate wartime narrative follows Diels and Goering in a perilous backstage of Nazi justice amid trials and loyalties.
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Army
Navy
Army Navy
Guardian Angels
Signal Corps
Mirror of Your Mind by Lawrence Gould
A columnist notes traits men find attractive in women and stresses genuine interest and zest for life as keys to avoiding loneliness. It also discusses blind individuals sensing obstacles via nonvisual cues and mentions an optical cane. The piece recalls how self understanding aided soldiers in World War II and suggests self-knowledge can aid business failures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Homes Are Not Built By Wood Alone
Elsie Robinson writes about Cora Older the tale of a ranch wife who rebuilt after fire and war, carrying old convent boards to fashion a home built on faith tears prayers and courage. The piece argues homes depend on more than steel and timber and require blessing and resilience.
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Cora Older
Fremont Older
Cora
OPA
Convent
Cara
Surplus Aid Cutoff Spurs County Budget Clash
In 1936 Assistant District Attorney L J Gittinger ruled Bexar county cannot spend 3000 monthly to fund surplus commodities work. Also noting a building boom in Alamo Heights and a 1926 oddity where two photographers were bitten in a staged fight between snakes with judges calling a draw.
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L. J. Gittinger
Bexar County
Missouri
Paramount shoots 15000 bushels of wheat for The Big Haircut
On a Fresno area field Paramount cameras captured harvest of 15000 bushels of wheat in one day for The Big Haircut. 27 combines operated in unison to film key scenes featuring Alan Ladd and Brien Donlevy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fresno
Calif
Paramount
Alan Ladd
Brien Donlevy
Teen dress pattern ad with drop-shoulder yoke glamour
Pattern 93525 offers a teen sized dress with a grownup look and a new drop-shoulder yoke. The teen 9325 pattern covers sizes 10 12 14 and 11 with a size 12 requiring 27 8 yards of 39 inch fabric.
Pattern Dept Ad Offers Cheap Patterns and Free Ballet Slippers
A San Antonio Light advertisement invites readers to send twenty-five cents for a pattern, with an option to add fifteen cents for the Marlin Martin Summer 1946 Pattern book. It requests plain print of sit name address style number and notes orders are filled in New York with a two week or longer delivery. A free ballet slipper pattern is advertised inside the book.
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San Antonio
Texas
New York
Hollywood
Eddie Small
Valentino
Nancy Guild
Menreen O'Hara
Ireland
al Trogeli
Seymour Nebenzal
Ernest Haycox
Rita le Roy
Genem
Rita
Andrea Leeds
Bob Howard
Bebe Daniels
Ben Lyon
Lorena Denker
Louis RB. Mayer
Louella Parsons
Harry
Tuberculosis Far From Gone Says Public Health Message
In the early postwar era a public health piece urges continued vigilance against tuberculosis. It notes 50 000 US deaths in 1940 and calls for early diagnosis, chest X rays, and patient isolation to protect families and prevent spread. Studies by Drs Isidore Bobrowitz and Ralph Dwork emphasize cough, weight loss, and other symptoms as clues warranting X rays for accurate diagnosis.
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Isidore D. Bobrowitz
Ralph E. Dwork
New York
King
Syad
Tne
Hollywood notes on Eleanor Parker and other stars
Movie column reports Eleanor Parker gains glamor star status for Live and Learn on the Warner lot while Bondage Gy features her dramatic presence. The piece also lists Cameron Hall, Benny Goodman, Harry James and a group of conductors and performers set for Carnegie Hall sequences, plus updates on Lana Turner, Ginger Rogers comparisons, and various MGM and Broadway activities.
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Molly Wood
Eleanor Parker
Warner
Billie Dove
Eleanor
Warners
Bett Davis
Miss Parker
Freddie de Cordova
Swith William Favebs
Carnege Hall
Arly
William Te Baron
Boris Morres
Harry Dames
Benny Goodman
Harry
Benny Wilkeep
Artur Rodzinski
Walter Damyosch
Bruno Walter
Leopold Stokowski
Jascha Neifelz
Arthur Rubenstein
Lily Pons
Ezio
Nlce
Jinny
Cass Timberlane
Martie McDonald
Lana Turner
Spencer Tracy
Lana
Marie
Gene Kelly
MGM
McDonald
Ginger Rogers
Ginger
Fred Astaire
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Adolf
Fuehrer
Trudolf
Hitler
Jermain Goering
Goering
Nuernberg
Flatty N. Sperber
Sperber
Indaw
Hermann
Clark Gable
E. 48Th St
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Gable
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Senorita
Betty Reilly
Rio Viera
al-Tzish
Lawrence Gould
Sue
Lfe
Army Signal Corps
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Thas
Elsie Robinson
L.A. Light
Alamo Heights
Jack Sperke
W. D. Smithers
Irsaa
Porothy Manners
U. S. Treasury Department
Charles Bickford
Marvin Wald
Millicent
Love
Charles
Charlie
Sald
Wald
Willian Schilman
SAN Antonio Light
Sam Antonio Gazette
Mirth
Associated Press
ST Mats
Peeves
Pally Excent
Mexico
Inwns
Agonle
Senoni-Clane Vhatter
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