The Troy Record Publication Details and Rates
The Troy Record lists staff including Dwight Marvin and David B Plum with ownership by The Troy Record Company and Frank L. York. It outlines subscription terms for in New York and Vermont counties, with annual, semiannual, and monthly rates for local and mail delivery, and notes Associated Press rights and circulation figures.
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David B Plum
Dwight Marvin
David B. Pluto
The
Troy Record Company
Frank L. York
J. EL H. Betts
Macwir Sercetany
Troy
Associated Press
Troy Record
Times Record
Albany
Refissemmer
Saratoga
Washington
New York State
Bennington County
Vermont
Moray
Audi Bureau of Circulations
County Finances and Reform urged for Troy and county
The Riverside County treasurer Avery G Hall reports a twenty percent debt reduction over three years while cutting the tax rate. He praises meticulous budgeting, ending sinecures and emergency bonds, urging Troy city authorities to apply the same discipline and restore fiscal stability.
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Rensselaer County
Avery G. Hall
Hall
Troy
Pravda Lets Rumor Of Separate Peace Circulate
The Pravda publication repeats a Cairo rumor that British figures met with Joachim von Ribbentrop to discuss separate peace with Germany. British and American denials are noted as lacking belief in the claim, and the piece questions why the rumor was published given propaganda risks.
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Moscow
Stalin
Britain
Soviet Union
Russia
London
Washington
Kremlin
Germany
America
Pravda
Communist Party
Cairo
Egypt
Naz
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Right to the Point on Subsidies From Cornell Economist
Professor F A Harper of Cornell University writes an essay on subsidies, arguing they are inflationary and fail to curb inflation. He cautions that increasing subsidy payments would spur further price rises and momentum toward larger subsidies, misaligned with Congress’s subsidy debate.
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F. A. Harper
Department of Economics
Cornell University
Congress
Office of Price Administration
National Council of Farm Cooperatives
Harper
United States
Harper Pawer
Enrichment for Posterity
War harms not only nations but the world’s cultural heritage. Nazis plundered and destroyed art museums libraries and cathedrals across Europe seizing works for their own gain. Much remains in America where museums and collectors now hold the bulk of the world’s finest paintings benefiting future generations.
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Reich
Naz
Goerings
Goebbels
Himmlers
Hitlers
Europe
America
Museums of America
Bache gift to Metropolitan Museum tops art world notices
Private collectors increasingly place works in public museums. Jules S. Bache's gift of the Bache collection of classical paintings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is valued at 12.5 million dollars. The collection, comprising world famous works, is seen as a transformative cultural boon. William Church Osborn, president of the museum's board, calls it the most important art-world event of the year.
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Bache
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Jules 5
Metropolitan
Wiliam Church Osborn
Every American's Duty To Buy Bonds Fourth War Loan Drive
The piece urges citizens to buy War Bonds in the Fourth War Loan Drive, starting Tuesday for four weeks, stressing individual and institutional saver participation to prevent inflation. It notes past drives underperformed, banks used credit for purchases, and emphasizes directing sales to individuals to safeguard peace prospects and fund postwar costs. County volunteers in Rensselaer County are organized to meet the goal.
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Treasury
Federal Reserve Banks
Congress
Rensselaer County
Old Guard debates Willkie amid smoky hotel room chatter
The Old Guard weighs Brother Willkie in alphabetical order while von Papen stops by another country. After several nights of fair flying weather, half of Germany remains ignorant of the other half. A Pittsburgh audience reportedly “couldn’t see” Sina tra in the latest Smoky City joke.
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Willkie
Germany
Smoky City
Pittsburg
Time as a weapon in history and war tactics
The article extols timing as a strategic edge across wars and leaders from Napoleon to Grant. It cites Izvestia praising a new weapon of mastery, then notes timing as a recurring factor in military success, from Marne to Pearl Harbor, Napoleon to Hannibal, and Joe Louis as a metaphorical dynamite.
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Providence Bulletin
Moscow Izvestia
Vatutin
Izvestia
Marne
Napoleon
Marshal Grouchy
Waterloo
Pearl Harbor
Alexander
Hannibal
Alps
Ulysses S. Grant
West Point
Annapolis
Joe Louis
Anonymous letters to The Record Newspapers clarified
The Record Newspapers will publish signed letters to preserve anonymity in print upon request. If writers decline to sign, the paper cannot guarantee publication of the communication.
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Record
Sacrifice and rationed butter sparks wartime debate
Letters to the Record from 1944 discuss butter shortages and wartime sacrifice. Mrs. R. J. Doliver of Troy condemns excess while urging shared burden and support for soldiers. M. D. Watervliet notes youth cooperation and seeks youth programs, and a reader asks how to gain Annapolis admission with guidance to contact a Congressman.
Westchester GOP Leaders Tied to Union Corruption Probe
Fair Enough Westbrook Pegler reports ties between Westchester County Republican leaders and James Bove a vice president of the Hodcarriers Union Local 60 charged with extortion. The piece cites payments to former Justice Bleakley and union treasuries used as campaign contributions while noting related indictments of Local 137 leaders and graft cases in Orange Ulster counties.
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New York
New Deal
Republican
Westchester County
James Bove
Hodcarriers’ Union
Local 60
Westchester
Bove
New York County
Supreme Court
William F. Bleakley
William F. Condon
Senate Committee On Labor and Industry
Orange
Ulster Counties
Hudson River
Delaware Aqueduct
Edward G. O'Neil
Lehman
Joe Fay
Bleakley
Mr. Bove
Parkinson
McGeory
Fay
White Plains
Aqueduct
Waione
Inside the war time title lobby and unpaid land claims
Washington's little known but powerful title, insurance, and banking lobbies blocked reforms to speed government payments to homeowners displaced for Army and Navy camps. About 70,000 of 120,000 condemned tracts remain unsettled, with as many as 300,000 people homeless yet unpaid as courts and title clearances bog down.
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Washington
Title Companies
Justice Department
Army
Navy
Portland
Ore
New River
N. Y
Hell's Bottom
Arlington
Camp Peary
Williamsburg
Norman Littell
Congress
J. O. Bratt
American Bankers Association
H. L. Smith
American Title Association
Horace
Wheelbarrows kept planes aloft in wartime supply chain
The piece recounts how wheelbarrows, once scarce, became a crucial wartime tool enabling the production of industrial diamonds in Congo and thus aircraft tooling. Delays hit Allied air operations until a converted plant resumed wheelbarrow production. The Congo diamond flow later eased fears of shortages and a diamond price surge. Meat price battle in Washington described with OPA and WFA disputes ending in a partial compromise on freezing costs for military and Lend-Lease meat.
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BEW
Belgian Congo
Congo
U. S
Board of Economic Warfare
WPB
Dakar
Madagascar
Africa
British
Washington
War Food Administration
OPA
Wfaa
WFA
Chester Bowles
Marvin Jones
Political Stage Behind Hannegan Move For Dnc Chair
Washington talk centers on Robert E. Hannegan to lead the Democratic National Committee. Critics see the Internal Revenue Bureau as a political tool of the Roosevelt administration and allege tax handling favors opponents. Hannegan, moved to campaign, may not return to the post after the election.
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Washington
Robert E. Hannegan
Internal Revenue
Democratic National Committee
Internal Revenue Bureau
Roosevelt
Hannegan
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von Papen
Denys Wortman
U S. Pat
Cleo Hater
Mayo Clinic
R. J. Doliver
Christ
C.C. HS
M.D
United States Naval Academy At
A M. D. Watervliet
Naval Academy
Fair
Westbrook Pegler
O. P
Pegler
Messrs
Merry
Drew Pearson
Revenue Bureau
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