Plan for repayment of aid via resource access eyed
A House Foreign Aid committee report urges repayment realism and stockpiling rather than resource-for-aid deals. It notes Britain and France might trade Labrador iron ore chrome and nickel in New Caledonia, but warns such exchanges would undercut postwar recovery and could provoke a cries of mercantilist pressure. The piece stresses America must replace aid with production and avoid depleting global wealth while preserving allied strength.
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House Committee On Foreign Aid
United States
Labrador
Venezuela
New Caledonia
House Committee
Europe
Irica
England
Dunkirk
America
Defiant Arab States Highlight UN Limitations
Rep J P Wolcott cites UN decisions and historical boycotts to argue the UN lacks enforcement power and a binding code of law. He compares international constraints to domestic credit and consumer rules, challenging rigid caretaker schedules amid mental health concerns raised by Dr Milton J E Senn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soviet Union
Little Assembly
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Palestine
Milton J. E. Senn
Cornell Medical College
Taft on inflation and peace plans face split opinions
In a My Day column E Roosevelt argues the president’s inflation plan risks a police state image while urging balanced measures. He criticizes price controls, supports stabilization, and calls for prudent expansion in steel and farming while promoting conservation and foreign food production to aid Europe.
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United Feature Syndicate, Inc
E. Roosevelt
New York
Robert A. Taft
Mr. Taft
Trols
Department of Agriculture
Europe
E. R
Rich Man’s Tailor Trials Highlight Wealth Stereotypes
A humorous monologue on the burdens of wealth contrasts riches with poverty. The speaker recalls saving for a tailor made suit, enduring a costly fitting in Oklahoma City, and joking how wealth invites scrutiny and delayed service as he contemplates an Easter parade outfit.
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Plum
Oklahoma City
Lucius Beebe
Anthony Ben
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Shatter-the-Platter Logic Goes Beyond Music Strikes
Billy Rose analyzes Jimmy Petrillo’s plan to halt record production as a bargaining tactic aimed at unions and radio syndicates, arguing the real target is the juke box and broadcasting industries. The piece contrasts 1909 copyright rules with modern playback on mass devices and calls for kindness to the home cook as a metaphor for understanding labor tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy Petrillo
King Phonograph Records
Jimmy
James
Phonograph
Taft- Hartley
Lea
Mom
Pop
Kid
Victor
Seventh Ward Bazaar Sponsored by Relief Society
The Seventh Ward Relief Society hosted a Friday evening banquet at the church followed by a bazaar program and dance. The event displayed quilts aprons children’s attire and handiwork. Christ mas carols were sung and Jed Ashton performed. About 200 guests attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seventh Ward Relief Society
Jed Ashton
Textiles Boom Pushes Georgia Industry Growth
Atlanta reports from State Labor Commissioner Ben T. Quiet that textiles weaving leads Georgia industry with textile mills employing more workers and higher wages. Labor data show a 4.1 percent employment rise since 1939 and a 199.7 percent wage increase.
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Atlanta, Ga
Ben T
Georgia
Army officers linked to war contracts raise ethics questions
Representative George Bender and Lindsay Warren's GAO expose a pattern in wartime procurement. Army officers who set final payments joined the contracting firms they supervised, including Maj. George W. Parker who became Howard Aircraft's general manager after discharge, and Col. Forrest Smith who joined Schwitzer-Cummings with a $15,000 salary postwar. Other officers followed similar paths at Northwestern Aviation and Sheffield Steel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rep
Bender
Lindsay Warren
General Accounting Office
Army
George W. Parker
Howard Aircraft Corp
St. Charles
Ill
Parker
Howard Aircraft
Kerwin Hagerty
North Western Aviation Corp
St. Paul
Col
Forrest Smith
Cincinna
Cincinnati
Schwitzer-Cummings . Co
Indianapolis
Smith
Schwitzer-Cummings
G. L. Calvert
Sheffield Steel
Houston
Texas
Calvert
Sheffield Steel Co
Army promotes lobbyist to permanent general rank
A 1947 Be Syndicate report notes 100 officers promoted to permanent general, highlighting Maj Gen Wilton B Persons who did not serve overseas yet rose to general for Capitol lobbying. The piece contrasts promotions with combat veterans like Lt Gen Collins and Lt Gen Ridgeway, suggesting publicity influence rose in high ranks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilton B. Persons
Persons
Congress
Army
Lisb
Manton S. Eddy
War Department
Eddy
Joe Collins
Cherbourg
Lucius Clay
Germany
le Roy Lutes
France
Matthew B. Ridgeway
Be! Syndicate, Inc
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N. Main
Pocatello
Idaho
Robinson
Theron C. Liddle
J. P. Wolcott
Michigan
Bert
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London
Billy Rose
Junior
Tme
Seventh Ward
McFeatters
Daren
Drew Pearson
Corn
Oklahoma
Washington
George Bender
Ohio
Republican
Oere
AEN
Winthrop
Terrell Shoe CO
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