Retreat From Dictatorship Reforms Wartime Presidential Power
The article details Attorney General Biddle's evolving stance on executive power during wartime. It notes his initial claim of unlimited presidential authority to seize property, then his reversal to acknowledge Congress’s power to authorize requisition and legislative limits. It highlights the shift toward Congress directing presidential actions through statutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddle
United States District
Holly
Army and Navy
Congress
Mr. Biddle
Attorney General
Congress probes presidential power after Montgomery Ward seizure
Congress assigns two committees to examine executive authority following the Montgomery Ward seizure. Leaders emphasize the duty of the legislative branch to ensure such power is not abused again and to review presidential actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Montgomery Ward & Co
Congress
Montgomery, Ward & Co
Broad World of Broadway Wit and War Intrigue
A collage of postwar showbiz gossip and wartime notes mentions Walter Winchell, H L Mencken, Edna Bhelley, Michael Todd, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Joan Powers, Jane Pickens, Mary Phillips, Oscar Levant, Mae West, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jacqueline Busann, and Cpl. Lyon Phillips. It notes box office lines on 43rd Street, collaborations by Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Irving Berlin’s era influence during 1940s Broadway.
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Edna Bhelley
Michael Todd
Ernest Hemingway
Martha Gellhorn
London
Atlantic
Joan Powers
Jane Pickens
Cpl
Lyon Phillips
Doctors Hospital
Mary Phillips
Harper's Bazaar
Oscar Levant
Mae West
Gypsy Rose Lee
Sherman
Stork Club
Billingsley
John
These Days By George F Sokglsey
A reflective piece critiques New Deal critics and Coyle's tax philosophy, arguing that strong prolonged executive power and national planning shape economic security. It debates government role versus private initiative, discusses war costs and national debt, and notes historical trends in taxation and public policy.
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Roosevelt
Stme
OWT
Mr. Tioose= Welt
Loxee
Mr. Coyle
Coyle
Congress
Broadways Memoir Tales And Coastline Echoes
On Broadway Mirror follows Methos of Midnighter and Mrs Roosewelt confiding to colleagues. Palm Beach evacuates wounded soldiers from The Breakers hospital before summer. Maryknoll by Father Keller and M Berger has sold 40000 copies targeting 100000. Detective Hoodhan at St Vincent's sickbed. Mae West ex F Wallace has ten hillbilly songs published. G Man Hoover teased by Saints and Sloners Necklera. Jinx dept reports long list of shows with Kiss of Death, latest top listing A Highland Fling. George Washington Bridge vignette shows girls in summer dresses, a singing sailor on deck plays Come to Me, My Melancholy Baby, with a skyline view and a doorman in La Conga awaiting screen fest.
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Wm. Hoodhan
St. Vincent's
F. Wallace
Mae West
Angel Street
Paevor
Allah
Bigtown
Geroge Washington
Wish Gray
Wereilke
Clviance
Army supply office eyed for Southwest firms
May 15 1934 War Department considers establishing a quartermaster procurement planning office to rate and guide southwestern industries for Army needs. The unit would be sited at the Normoyle quartermaster depot and oversee locating capable suppliers. May 15 1924 optimistic notes from Charles H Alvord on banner peanut crop prospects in San Antonio area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwestern Industries
Army
War Department
Eighth Corps
Normoyle Quard
Charles H. Alvord
San Antonio
Labor moves seen behind Roosevelt fourth term bid
The piece links CIO and Hillman led labor pressure with political aims to back a Roosevelt fourth term, noting large union funding and actions before the Supreme Court, the War Labor Board, and elections. It cites Sidney Hillman directing organizers and widens to political reform and poll tax debates.
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Washington
Ite
Senate
Starnes
Alabama
Supreme Court
War Labor Board
Montgomery Ward
Whder
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
Roose
Lkely
Utah
Kennecott Copper
Rfthwood
U. 1
National Labor Relations Board
Sidney Hillman
Mr. Hillman
Wisow
Palltce
Mr. Roosevelt
Phil Murray
Wall Street
A. F
Democratic
Bailey
North Carolina
F Hillman
CIO
Denorratty Party
McKellar
Hillman
CLOPA
Barkley
O10
Communist Groupe
Supreme Court Rile
Connally
George
Bankhead
CIOPA
Hannegan
New York
CSOPA
WLB
NLAB
White House
Supremes Court
Congress
King Weather Sydicate, Inc
U. S. Best Model Opinion Letter on Roosevelts American Policy
The writer argues the Roosevelt administration runs cabinet policy and praises the American system as the war’s proven success. It questions harmonizing with Britain and Russia, asserting United States interests and democracy should guide war aims and postwar planning, not Soviet or British viewpoints.
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the Light
Cordell Hull
State Department
Roosevelt
the Treasury
Labor
Navy
War
Interior
Mr. Roosevelt
Hall
Hull
British Commonwealth
Soviet Union
China
U.S. A
Britain
Russia
Full
England
United States
Finstein
Japan
America
Liverely
Those Texans by James Farber
A San Antonio Light piece recounts how the famed Texas gunfighter Wes Hardin spent time in Huntsville prison studying arithmetic algebra theology and law while awaiting escape attempts. Pardoned by Gov Jim Hogg in February 1894 he then began practicing law in Gonzales.
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Huntsville Penitentiary
Weeley Hardin
Texas
Wes Hardin
Stoddard
Davie
Hardin
Col
A. T. McKinney
Huntsville
Jim Hogg
Gonzales
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Arthur Childers
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Chappel
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Irving Shel
George F. Sokglsey
David Cushman Coyle
Broadway
Manhattan
Marais
la Conga
Palace Theater
L. A. Light Files
Paul Mallon
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U. S
James Farber
SAN Antonio Light
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