New Wage-Price Policy Pattern For Settling Strike
The piece outlines Truman administration shifts toward allowing wage increases to accompany price relief amid postwar labor disputes. It details steel and packing industry negotiations, proposed raises from 16 to 18 percent, and the aim to avert a broader inflationary spiral while monitoring reconversion costs. It also covers fears of demobilization slowdowns, military policy reviews, and rising crime concerns flagged by the FBI with youth delinquency and policy recommendations.
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FBI
Truman
CIO
United Steel Workers
AFL
USW
UNO Opens as Spaak Elected President at Inaugural Meeting
The United Nations opened in Central hall Westminster with Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak of Belgium elected president by 28 to 2 over Trygve Lie. Attlee praised UNO as universal hope for peace and warned against reliance on it as a mere foreign policy tool while urging wide participation from the U S and Russia.
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Westminster
United Nations Organization
Forein
Paul Henri Spaak
Belgium
UNO
Attlee
League of Nations
U. S
Russia
Spaak
Trygve Lie
Norway
Americans as Heaviest Investors in Life Insurance
Claris Adams, president of the American Life Convention, stated that about two thirds of world life insurance is owned by Americans. He cited that by end of 1945, 71 million Americans owned life insurance, more than half the U.S. population, and wartime in force rose by 40 billion dollars, equating to about 1000 dollars per family and lifting the family average to 4500. Life insurance savings rank among the top budget items.
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War Department
G.i.e
Army
MacArthur
Pacific Theater
Eisenhower
Pacific
G.I
Europe
State Department
Far East
Congress
Claris Adama
American Life Convention
Adams
War crimes case opens as Homma trial begins in Manila
The U S Supreme Court reviewed procedures as Lt General Masaharu Homma went on trial in Manila for war crimes. Veteran witness Baldassarre recounted the Bataan death march and Japanese guards shooting weakened prisoners while offering no aid.
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Gel
Yarideshite
Philippines
Get
Masaharu Homma
Manila
Yamaatita
V/Sat
Janes Baldassarre
New Haven
Conn
Vet
Oléf
Bataan
Baldassarre
German Relief Probe Prompts Christian Congress Move
Senators Wherry and Langer accused the administration of blocking private food shipments to Germany to avert famine. Dr. Lawrence Meyer of the Missouri synod Lutheran church urged a Christian congress to press for policy changes, citing dire German hunger and Russia’s objections to reopening mail and mail service without Big Four consent.
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Rep
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Langer
N. D
Germany
Lawrence Meyer
The
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Christian’ Congress
Truman
Russia
Christian Congress
Meyer
America
Frankfort
Fewer Deaths Reflect Football Fatalities Drop
Dr Floyd R Eastwood of Purdue reports 1945 football fatalities near nine, down from forty during early compilation. No collegiate fatalities that year. deaths mainly in high school and sandlot. Cerebral hemorrhages accounted for about 44.7 percent of football fatalities since 1931. calls for prevention measures.
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Floyd .R. Eastwood
Purdue University
Eastwood
National Collegiate Athletic Association
American Football Coaches Association
Kentucky Acts to Close Tobacco Warehouses
Kentucky acts to close all tobacco warehouses under legislative recommendation as barley tobacco prices plunge. The crop, auctioned statewide for 28 grades, faced OPS ceiling sales with prices up to 30 cents per pound, while farmers reportedly lose potentially a million dollars daily from prior month levels. Infantile paralysis topped 14,000 U.S. cases in 1945, a near record year, with epidemics across six states and 962 cases in the week of September 15.
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Simeon Willis
Kentucky
United States
National Foundation For
Germans Hope to Rebuild Nuernberg After War Destruction
In Nuernberg mayor Hans Ziegler outlines postwar recovery: rebuilding industry, securing raw materials, and restoring craft prestige while Germany navigates occupation controls. He warns of starvation risk if world markets stay closed and stresses must wait for Germany to trade again. Witness accounts from Berlin echo food and production shortages and local resilience amid ruins.
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America
Germany
Ruhr
Saaratena
Europe
Nuernberg
Nuernbergers
Ziegler
Washington Chaff and Capital Bits in Busy Roundup
A chaotic Capitol Hill snapshot covers Truman era graft gibes, political moves, and old allies. Ed Flynn and James Roe flirt with key posts while Hull supporters pivot. Sol Bloom’s sly rule tactic is quashed, Byrnes pacts and Dulles plans roll, and MacArthur’s Japan moves draw note amid postwar intrigue.
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Témi Cox
Sena
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Idaho
Harold Tokes
Then- Aeris
Clark
Truman
Roosevelt
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United States
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Bronx
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FDR
James Roe
Queens County
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Iis
Flynn
New York
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Vatican
Cordell Hull
Sumer Welles
Pearl Harbor Committee
Gerald Winrod
The
Defender
Forthreen Street
Barbs and Churchill Wit from Baukhage in Nuernberg
Baukhage recalls the most embarrassing moment in Nuernberg when a guard told the court booth to quiet down. He notes his artillery commission from outshooting horses and shares Churchill epigrams. The cholset Florida vacation plan hints at Truman visit and chamber commerce interest.
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Nuernberg
Mrs. Churchill
Florida
Mr. Truman
Washington
Florida Chamber of Commerce
Trivia riddle style questions about names and origins
A set of quirky queries asks about ivory from elephants, pineapple and fruit pie, incendiary burn degrees, Broadway length and origin of the name New York, the sweet potato family, and whom Pennsylvania was named after. The puzzle ends with the prompt The Answere.
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Pennsylvania
William Penn
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