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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1944
Page
6
Governor Bricker addresses Washington dinner noting Lincoln’s question and urging Americans to repudiate the New Deal concept of government. He warns the war alone won’t decide America’s fate and stresses preserving an American way of life free from socialistic bureaucracy.
A philosophical meditation questions if personality is only chemical and physical or if a wider self exists beyond the body. It suggests a concept of a core self that outlives physical form and is shaped by accumulated experiences and interactions with the world. It invites readers to consider how character is built through contacts and impressions over time.
The piece urges readers to develop a colorful, appealing personality through handling ups and downs. It argues that popularity grows from facing challenges and criticism, not from avoiding them, and warns that colorless people remain dull.
The piece rails against the fobholders' junta posing as a democratic committee for Roosevelt to lead the world indefinitely. It contrasts Nazi language with calls for continuity, recalls Flynn on Nazism, and recounts past jazz debates with Lopes and Whiteman. It ends noting Artur Rodziński denounces the Jazz critique.
Benjamin DeCasseres attacks tongie-woogie jive and similar forms as the greatest single factor in juvenile delinquency and war degeneracy among American youth, while Leopold Brakowski defends them as future American art music. Rod Ainskill warns that such music amounts to cultural degeneration and group insanity, likening it to wild animal sounds.
Margery Wilson and T champion wartime marriages as valid paths for women. The piece argues love is central to a woman's life, beyond career, noting enduring engagements may force change. It reflects on choosing stability and affection over prolonged waiting for soldiers who may not return.
Fifty years back in the L.A. Light Files notes February 29 appeared in a non-leap year. The item recalls Frost at Medina Lake training, Brooks Field cadet N. D. Frost, and a nostalgic column on love and marriage with SelZe insight about engagements, domestic life, and relationships, reflecting era attitudes.
A wild collage of Broadway gossip reports marriages plans arrests and scandals. Walter Winchell and unnamed sources sketch a web of famous names including Mrs Ham Fisher Lind Nedda Harrigan and Leonard Nesbitt as well as Capra Lepke and Baruch with notes on stage shows nightclubs taxes and political tensions. The item mixes satire and sensationalism about socialites actors and public figures with references to legal cases and world events.
An analysis of the U S government, stressing the tripartite balance among Congress the President and the courts. It argues that constitutional limits prevent tyranny, with Congress representing diverse constituencies and presidents needing cooperation to govern. Purges and confrontations with Congress are condemned as un-American.
The article describes granular pharyngitis involving enlarged lymphoid tissue in the throat. It notes red patches, gray secretions, and frequent sore throats, with radon treatment via a nasal applicator showing improved symptoms and general health in most patients, without adverse effects.
In a Nashville public square tale set after the War of 1812, a young United States Army lieutenant named Houston receives praise from two visiting Miss Kent sisters. The San Antonio Light notes the tale’s origin in Nashville around 1815, as Houston earns a gallant greeting before his later military career unfolds.
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