Opportunity Bond Drive Targets Over One Billion Series E Bonds
Treasury aims for 1.04 billion dollars in Series E bonds under the opportunity bond drive, surpassing the 1.002 billion Savings Bonds maturing next year. Bonds issued in 1940 show rising maturities, with 1951 projections at 1.556 billion and future values climbing to 9.13 billion by 1954 as public investment grows. The piece argues faith in solvency and prudent spending, urging government to align policies with wealth creation through production, not politics or handouts, and notes Truman's welfare-state blueprint as a test.
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Treasury Department
United States
Treasury
When Voters Reject a Soviet East German Election
A reader notes that in eastern Germany one third rejected the single slate in the Soviet run election. The piece argues that lack of choice still triggers a push for freedom and that police state fear of freedom is a powerful force driving eventual downfall.
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Germany
Outside the Club He United Nations and Franco Spain
The United Nations refuses to lower the bars on Franco Spain, complicating Washington’s efforts to ease diplomatic ties with Franco’s dictatorship. Diplomatic tolerance persists, but full recognition remains distant. Debates hinge on religion and power politics, with the core question whether democracies can engage with a dictatorship. Keeping Franco on probation may preserve trust. lifting it could erode it.
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United Nations
Franco
Spain
United States
Plowing Back the Wealth Demonstration in Franklin County
A rundown farm owned by Mr and Mrs Richard Eyer in Franklin County Pennsylvania is being restored in a two day U S Department of Agriculture demonstration to transform land contours enrich soil and build a pond and new buildings. The program mirrors an Ohio effort and showcases broad privately driven soil conservation efforts by farmers and gentlemen farmers alike to reinvest wealth into agriculture.
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Franklin County
Richard Eyer
Ohio
U. S. Department of Agriculture
United States
Senate
House
National Science Foundation
Brannan
Labor Department
German peace treaty prospects and Bonn split
Walter Lippmann surveys western powers’ attempts to shape a German peace process. Bonn’s basic law signals a temporary state of divided authority, with central Germany favored by Russians. The piece argues for mediation rather than forced frontiers, urging that eastern borders be settled by Germany Poland and Russia with Western mediation.
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Walter Lippmann
Bonn
Germany
Europe
Soviet Russia
Berlin
Russia
Social Democrats
Paris
Poland
Soviet Union
Legislative Scoreboard by Peter Edson review of stalled bills
Nineteen forty five to date shows Truman proposals nearly eighty domestic measures, Congress and executive departments proposing about forty more. Without passage for most, health, welfare, and social security bills stall. housing, education, labor, and civil rights measures face long odds or little action this session.
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Congress
Truman
Executive Departments
Federal Security Agency
Government Department of Cabinet
St. Lawrence Seaway
Coast Guard
Target Practice By H. V. Wade
A federated western Germany becomes a fact and democracy will be proven when an orator breaks into a tremolo on These great United German States. The blog notes Hollywood casting Betty Hutton as Theda Bara, while Betty is described as a rug cutter and Miss Bara once stirred cinema.
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Germany
Hollywood
Betty Hutton
Theda Bara
Betty
Miss Bara
Halsey Urges Unrestricted War Use and Carriers
Admiral William F. Halsey argues in a U S News interview that unrestricted weapons use is essential to win wars. He contends carriers and submarines must be prioritized, criticizes fixed weapon concepts, and warns that limiting tools risks strategic failure by nations like Britain and Russia in critical theaters. He also questions joint staff structures and warns of a shifted Pacific balance demanding reintegrated naval focus.
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Norway
Hitler
Britain
United States
Stalingrad
Midway
Russia
Persian Gulf
Halsey
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General Staff
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Germany
Japan
Joint Chiefs
Pacific
Asia
Summer Comes Fast Across the Land in Epic Style
The passage chronicles summer arriving early as crops head out and lawn mowing becomes routine. It notes harvest in Texas, revised pennant hopes, vacation euphoria, and students awaiting relief from training. The tone likens the season to a flawless, Technicolor epic with vivid imagery and nostalgic sentiment.
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Texas
Bear in the cockpit on World War II China India run
Brubaker of Chance Vought Aircraft recounts a hump pilot story. A Himalayan cub bear was being hauled in a C-47 during the China India drive. The pilot strapped the bear to the seat, activated autopilot, and ducked to watch. A fighter circled to verify the sight. Reported as extreme combat fatigue.
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Ee. Brubaker
Chance Vought Aircraft Corp
Transport Flyer
Football Players as Baby Sitters Appeals by OU Coach
The University of Oklahoma coach urges football players to take babysitting jobs, vowing 100 percent dependability. Reactions vary as fans weigh the idea of a rugged, All-American sitter who can discipline kids and detect signals like trick plays.
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OU Little
Columbia
Junior
Momsy
Popsy
Rhode Island classifies autos pre 1941 as jalopies
A columnist notes Rhode Island rules all cars older than 1941 are unfit for the road until inspected. A New England road trip reveals numerous cars with missing bodies, and praise is given to John L. Lewis as a cordial United Mine Workers figure, questioning any contrary views.
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Rhode Island
New England
John L. Lewis
America
United Mine Workers
Ed Blanchard Proposes Minimalist Two-Role Comedy
Ed Blanchard proposes a two role stage piece relying on talent rather than scenery. The plan envisions only the son in Edward My Son and the rabbit in Harvey as characters with a simple set of a stairway and two doors, escaping high production costs.
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Ed Blanchard
Edward
Son
Rabbit
Harvey
Very Fine Morning Radio Show Dedication Night
Radio DJ Maurice Maestro promotes Rancid's Record Rack and plays a minute and a half of requested music. He salutes listeners by name from multiple towns and ends with a line about the track Louie, Drop the Gun.
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Rancid
Madge
Merle
Minerva
Nick
Nora
Navarre
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Mabel
Massillon
Charley
Cora
Canal Fulton
Harry and
Hannah
Homeworth
Arlene
Alliance
Bud
Rosebud
Bolivar
Dolly
Dennison
Strasburg
Louie
Gerrit Smith Land Grants for Black Americans and White Pledges
A century ago Gerrit Smith donated land deeds to 3,000 Black men and announced plans to give deeds to 1,000 white recipients in New York. The Repository compared this to the Jaral hacienda in Mexico with vast land and livestock, urging land division along New Yorker lines.
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Gerrit Smith
New York
Jaral
Mexico
Church bishops salaries raised to 2500 in national conference
Forty years ago the United Brethren Church in national conference raised the annual salaries of its five bishops from 2000 to 2500 plus expenses. Frank Downs of 248 Prospecture was served with a warrant under a city ordinance for letting chickens run at large, particularly in the garden of A. Casteel at 400 Springfield Ave.
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United Brethren Church In National Conference
Frank Downs
A. Casteel
Springfield Ave
Edgewater to Build Clubhouse and Course Near Canton
Edgewater Golf and Country Club announced plans to construct a clubhouse and golf course on Robertsville Road about 12 miles from Canton’s public square. Frantz Royer Electric Co. of Canton was incorporated at Columbus for $10,000 by Louis P. Frantz and Howard Royer.
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Edgewater Golf and Country Club
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Public Square
Canton
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Louis P. Frantz
Howard Royer
Mount Union couple planning trip to visit missionary parents
Harriett and James Moore, students at Mt. Union College in Alliance, planned a visit to their parents Rev and Mrs. John Moore, missionaries in Korea. Col. Charles A Lindbergh testified to a House committee that Nazi Germany led in military aviation except for long-range bombers and declared the American four-engine Flying Fortress superior to Germany's craft.
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James Moore
Mt. Union College
Alliance
John Moore
Korea
Charles A. Lindbergh
House
Nazi Germany
United States
Germany
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