Food Stamp Hearings to Open Friday in Senate Subcommittee
Washington January 11 amid a growing congressional fight over a food stamp plan to subsidize low income families, a Senate agriculture subcommittee announced public hearings to begin Friday. Testimony will include lawmakers and farm, labor groups, while the plan aims to distribute coupons for food purchases to those with insufficient income.
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War Food Administration
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GOP Unity Plan Seeks Absentee Ballots For Soldiers
Mrs. Katherine K. Brown of Ohio helped draft a GOP resolution urging states and Congress to provide absentee ballots ten days before voting to ensure soldiers can vote in November. Democrats favor a uniform ballot and congressional action. Halleck told party leaders that electing a Republican president could shorten the war, denying any plan to sideline General MacArthur.
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Ohio
Congress
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AL Haliveh
Indiana
Republican Congressional Capaign Committee
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Roosevelt
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Halteck
Puerto Rico sugar strike looms over wage push
Puerto Rico labor conciliator Charles Goldsmith warned an islandwide sugar industry strike is likely unless growers raise prices to cover worker wage demands. He cited rising living and production costs since the war began and urged parity with last year’s sugar prices.
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San Juan
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Allied forces press Saidor sector in New Guinea drive
American troops and Australian units push rear guards near Saidor as they advance south from the Tuan Peninsula. Allied air power bombs Kendari, Tom ea, Binongko, Matupi, Rabaul area, Madang and Cape St George while sustaining losses. one Allied plane is shot down.
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Tuan
New Guinea
Sin
Australia
Kendari
Interfa Ibi
Tomea
Binongko Islands
Crsal
Matupind
Rabaul
Cape
Cape St. George
New Ireland Island
Madang
Uligan
Mar~hor
Solomons
Buka Island
Bougainville
Thomas Demands Perkins Resign Over Labor Policy
Rep Thomas of New Jersey urges Democratic leaders to demand Labor Secretary Frances Perkins resign and be replaced by a capable outsider who understands both labor and the American people. He warns Perkins and her advisers are degrading the War effort and endangering hundreds of thousands of American lives.
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Perkins
Washington
Thomas R-N. J
House
Frances Perkins
House of Labor
Disney Government Film Output Drives 1943 Profit Report
Walt Disney released most of his 1943 film output on a nonprofit basis for Army Navy and other government agencies. The studio finished the year in the black posting a net income of 431 536. About 50 government films were made that year with estimates of 39 009 000 viewers for one educational piece on paying income tax. The article notes Disney produced far fewer personal films and describes the government produced content as substantial. In Albany the New York Senate approved Dewey appointees including Dr Frederick MacCurdy and Captain John A Gaffney along with several confirmations to state boards and commissions.
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New York City
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Elmer A. Carter
William Riordan
Thomas A. Jay
New York
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Niagara
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Myers
Ithaca
Louis Hollander
Brooklyn
John J. Meegan
Buffalo
Caroline W. Gansnett
Rochester
Harold C. Osterhag
Attica
J. Edward Conway
Kingston
Louis C. Gerry
Haymond N. Ball
Clinton County
Children’s Court
F. Claude O'Connell
Plattsburg
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