Trials and Justice for War Criminals questioned
Editorial questions the need for trials like Yamashita and Nuernberg arguing verdicts seem foregone and a public trial offers dubious justice. It notes Nazi and Japanese regimes lacked fair courts and muses on whether swift, brutal punishment would be preferred. War complicates legal norms and presumes guilt, yet preserves the principle of counsel.
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lPortune Magazine
Yamashita
Manila
Germany
Philippine
Nuernberg
Goering
Nazi Germany
Courts of Justice
Senate rejects amendment to UNO enabling bill
Round for Uno tidings from Congress report that the Senate defeated an amendment to the UNO enabling bill. The plan would have limited American participation by allowing discriminatory powers against sanctions or armed enforcement. The bill remains aligned with the United Nations Charter and world peace aims.
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Congress
Senate
United States
UNO
San Francisco
America
Ambition as a path to future profit and leisure
The piece discusses ambition as a personal arbitration that sits between radical conservatism and forward looking reform. It argues ambition seeks expression through leisure time if plants close on weekends, offering social profit via opportunities for self development beyond wages and hours.
Trend of the Times: papers push direct action across issues
A survey of Hartford Courant readers weighs meat and fat rationing impacts on supplies. Washington Post measures public opinion on military training Yes 82 No 14 Undecided. Baltimore Evening Sun starts annual city sketch contest with prize coupons. New York Post campaigns to aid Europe. New York Daily News faces defamation claims over Roosevelt material. World Telegram criticizes city police. Hudson Dispatch begins fundraising for blind veterans.
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Hartford Courant
Washington Post
Baltimore Evening Sun
NEW York Post
Europe
New York
LaGuardia
York Daily News
Roosevelt
The
World-Telegram
Hudson Dispatch
Union City N. J
Ambition Finds Challenge in Leisure Time Value
The speaker argues that future competition lies in understanding living things and the value of leisure. Ambition seeks weekend reading, added thought, and direction, promising future leadership. Leadership then becomes interpretation, guiding others to see opportunities for social profit rather than destruction of tools.
Through Other Editors Eyes on Travel and Strikes
A Sterling Advocate opinion argues stay at home for mental balance as travel clogs cities with overbooked hotels and crowds. It contrasts traveler chaos with a Kearney Daily Hub note that a two day Washington bus and street car strike heightened official opposition to strike threats.
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Sterling Advocate
Kearney
Washington, D. C
Quips and Stereotypes Parade in Satirical Snippets
A collection of humorous vignettes and social quips on weather, wives, flirtations, vanity, and gender roles. Lines poke at manners, money, and courtship with sharp, era-tinged punchlines, ending in a chorus of campus gossip.
Verses on Life and Honor from a Quiet Town
A compact collection of aphorisms and reflections on aging loans visitors whispers and personal virtue. The piece weaves moral maxims about earnings humility and daily life with a final prayer for a simple epitaph and peaceful end. It evokes a genteel small town voice and timeless values.
Old man falls for fountain of youth pill plan
An elderly man was told to take six pills once daily but consumed all six at once. His family struggled to wake him the next morning. He finally stirred and said, I get up, but I won’t go to school.
Nebraskan Elvin Frolik Elected World Crop President
Elvin Frolik on leave from the University of Nebraska Agronomy Department has been elected president of a World Crop Association and named head of the International Crops Association in Chicago. He is pursuing a doctorate at the University of Minnesota and plans to return to Nebraska next spring.
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Elvin F. Frolik
University of Nebraska
International Crops Association
Chicago
Frolik
University of Minnesota
Obituary of John Armstrong of Sidney Iowa 1945
John Armstrong born February 24 1884 in Cedar County Iowa son of Thomas and Nancy Armstrong. Married Lennah Richard January 23 1908 at Marion Iowa. One son Roger Armstrong. Moved to Sidney in 1920 and worked for Union Pacific railroad. Died December 3 from work injuries. Survived by wife Lennah son Roger granddaughter Marilyn Armstrong three brothers and four sisters. Funeral conducted by Rev Walter L Jewett at Gehrig Funeral Home December 6 1945.
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John Armstrong
Cedar County
Iowa
Thomas
Nancy Armstrong
Lennah Richard
Marion
Roger Armstrong
Armstrong
Sidney
Union Pacific Railroad
Sidney Yards
Lennah
Roger
Marilyn Armstrong
William
Frank Armstrong
Jesse Filson
Charles Cottrell
Arthur Hobstetter
Lester Blackman
Walter L. Jewett
Gehrig Funeral Home
RFC To Sell War Surplus Trucks At Omaha Sale
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Omaha announces a sale of war surplus automobiles trucks trailers and scooters at Fort Crook Nebr at 8 30 am December 19. No jeeps.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Omaha
Fort Crook
Nebr
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