Budget Bureau Maps Path to Cutting Non Defense Spending
The Budget Bureau prepared two detailed schedules showing how non defense expenditures could be cut by one or two billion dollars, without recommendations. The move follows calls from Senator Walsh and Secretary Morgenthau to inspect substantial economies and curb waste while financing defense needs. The January budget will likely show higher defense costs and taxes unless non defense waste is first eliminated, setting a test of national courage and fiscal honesty.
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Bureau of
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Budget Bureau
Senator Walsh
Massachusetts
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Congress of the
United States
Washington
Walsh
March of Events Sees Labor Unity Against Fascism
The Brotherhood of Painters Dec orators and Paperbangers AFL votes to bar Communists Nazis Fascists and any members subscribing to Fascism and Nazism. It rewrites its constitution with a new Americanist preamble promoting peaceful legal methods to improve workers’ wages hours and conditions and to foster better labor relations with employers while stabilizing employment for members. The piece contrasts labor aims with ongoing world conflict and warns of revolutions amid wars, noting historic precedents and a cautious view of future outcomes.
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Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperbangers
A. F. of L
Universal mind theory echoed by Hartshorne
By Benjamin DeCasseres explores a cosmic view that individual minds are brain cells in a universal mind. Citing Dr Charles Hartshorne and Einstein, the piece likens human thinking to parts of a larger organism and imagines the vast, unseen super-cosmos that knows and imagines.
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Charles Hartshorne
University of Chicago
Alpert Einstein
Empire State Tower
Fifth Ave
Saturn
Earth
Dr. Hartshorne
Dreams and Dope: The Allure and Myth of Escape
A reflective piece on dope addiction and dreamers, contrasting tempting fantasies with harsh reality. It argues dreams lure people by offering ease and escape from hardship, turning them toward addiction as a temporary relief, while stressing the damage to motivation and facing life.
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Wiela
Dope
Bodé
Daydreams vs Real Life in Elsie Robinson Advice
In a 1941 column by Elsie Robinson the author warns against lingering in daydreams and envy of others. She argues monotony and endless self criticism breed failure while urges focus on action. Strong language depicts dreamers as cuked by illusion and urges practical effort over wishful thinking.
Nursing committee chair named in local hospital
Ming Homer Harria, superintendent of the Nobert G. Green hospital, is appointed chair of the Ban Moni Fed Cross committee on nursing, succeeding Min M. J. Knittle. Nine new members were admitted to Post D, Travelers' Protective association at their Sunday meeting: Charles M. Christian, William Wilsdin, Woman F. McCullough, Thomas L. Webb, Charles J. Matthews, Leslie R. Neal, Robert W. Shelton, Otto Zoeller, and Claude D. Yeayer.
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Ming Homer
Harria
Nobert G. Green Howepital
Ban Moni Fed Cross Committee On Nursing
Min
M. J. Knittle
Ted
Membersip
Travelers' Protective Annodacion
Charles M. Christian
William Wilsdin
Cullough
Thomas L. Webb
Charles J. Matthews
Leslie R. Neal
Hobert W. Shelton
Otto Zoeller
Claude D. Yeayer
Naval war rumors and convoy tactics in Atlantic front
The piece mocks sensational Navy rumors about German U boats and curved torpedoes, explains a new water blitz tactic based on echelon formations and six-sub packs, notes patrols near Iceland and convoy vulnerabilities, and critiques U.S. leadership and policy shifts amid Atlantic losses and wartime debates. It also references Ickes and San Francisco power politics and queries political opposition to the war.
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Washington
Hitler
Bob Hope
Nuel
Atnikc
Iceland
Ickes Family Eggs and Automobiles in Washington
The narrator humorously imagines Harold Ickes and his wife trading poultry notes and compares household egg marketing to official duties. It cites Mrs Ickes selling eggs, barricading kitchens for baby chicks, and using a government limousine to haul eggs, sparking debate on propriety. Washington chatter claims Ickes sometimes transports eggs in the official car, while the wife defends the practice as practical for market.
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Harold Ickes
Missus
Mr. Ickes
Ickes
Washington
Tekes
Ickis
Changes in Tonsil Removal Views Through the Years
Historical medical view shifts on removing diseased tonsils. Early benefits faded as risks emerged, then renewed support for removal when infections threaten breathing and ears. Doctors urge careful exam and consider tonsils adenoids removal to prevent repeated throat infections and related complications.
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Craful
Sodottora
Tonsil Removal and Child Health Perspectives
Dr H N Bandesen questions need for tonsil surgery while Dr Barrington Ward links chronic tonsil infection to poor child health. Removal may aid malnourished, weak children or asthma but does not prevent colds generally. When fever accompanies tonsil inflammation, removal may reduce feverish attacks.
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Heas
Syad
Those Texans by James Farber
The piece recounts Roy Bean’s burial plan in Del Rio to avoid an alignia tied to Langtry cemetery. It discusses Langtry, nicknamed The Jersey Lily, and Bean’s distant admiration for her, noting his saloon and court through a transcontinental tour and his awe at Langtry’s reception.
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Roy Bean
del Rio
Langtry
Lille Langtry
John Singer Bargent
Muci
Eatlert
Giamor Jais
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