Anglo American Rivalry In the Middle East
After three months in the Middle East James M Landis argues the United States is not maximizing trade opportunities there Britain dominates regional commerce and politics while the U S exports mainly via lend lease The piece urges reconsidering a competitive policy toward Britain and expanding trade without harming vital British interests.
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Middle East
James M. Landis
Washington
Britain
United States
Great Britain
Middle Eastern
Egypt
Algeria
Tunisia
Times of London
Times
Europe
Mediterranean
India
Australasia
America
Near
Landis
Allied forces land on Italian coast in bold westward push
The Fifth Army executes a major amphibious assault on the Italian front, landing behind the Gustav Line and near Rome. The operation threatens German supply lines and creates uncertainty about the line's hold. Heavy fighting and tough terrain remain as the Germans mount possible reserves and counterattacks to push the Allies back.
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Salerno
Clark
Fifth Army
Italy
Rome
Rome in Reach as Allied Forces Press Central Italy
Allied troops land with little trouble and push toward Rome while German defenses along the Gustav Line weaken. Rome’s fall would force a rapid German reassessment of central Italy plans as reserves from the north prove limited.
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Rome
Italy
Gustav
OPA to Regulate Fresh Vegetables Amid War Time Prices
The article assesses the OPA's wartime role in price control, noting successes in keeping costs reasonable while acknowledging inflation. It highlights the upcoming regulation of fresh vegetables after February 15, with beans dropping from fifty three cents to twenty per pound, and discusses impacts on consumers and producers.
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OPA
Critics condemn 105th Street Home child care in New York
An excerpted critique decries the 105th Street Home run by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in New York City. It accuses managers of harsh discipline, deplorable sanitary conditions, and unpalatable food while noting the city funds most of the center’s budget and fails to supervise adequately.
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America
105Th Street
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
New York
City of
New York City
Oliver Twist
New York City Faces Child Welfare Versus Style Center Plans
A debate over a dilapidated city shelter for 5000 children annually pits urgent child welfare against an $88 million Style Center. Mayor LaGuardia has not yet announced plans, and public funding scrutiny urges permanent safeguards and intelligent supervision of future private management.
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LaGuardia
New York City
Clarifying the Pravda Dispatch Debacle and Suspected Authors
The piece deconstructs a Pravda separate peace dispatch and notes Cairo origin and censorship doubts. It dismisses Willkie Hopkins Ickes as authors, cites diary writers, Phillips Oppenheim figures, and asserts no Pyrenees Peninsula link. It also mentions 1943 film salaries and Morgenthau renunciation.
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Pravda
Cairo
Department of the Interior
Ickes
Mr. Willkie
Harry Hopkins
Willkie
New York Times
Hopkins
American Magazine
Repubiican
White House
Department of Interior
Pravda Dispatch
Phillips Oppenheim
Herr von Ribbentrop
Pyrenees
Wendell Willkie
Pyrenees Peninsula
Postwar Gloom and Whimsical Odds in a Fireside Chat
James A. Farley foresees a bleak mood after the war while claiming a private soldier inherits 51,300,000. A sergeant with dice sees a dreamlike take on hay. Cornell appropriates 75,000 to argue 375,000 is not hay. Vesuvius erupts as a fireside chat setting foreshadows joyless postwar days.
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Cornell
Skating Opinions and Butter Ration Letters from Troy
During 1944, letters to The Record discuss skating scenes at Belden Pond and Knickerbocker Rink with nostalgia for earlier days, while readers critique wartime butter and coal rationing. Veronica from Troy condemns discrimination, warning morale hinges on fair access to scarce goods.
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the Record
Belden'’s
Rensselaer Park Pond
Hudson River
Canal
Waterford
Beiden Pond
Knickerbocker Rink
James H. Malloy
Troy, Jan
Labor front critique by Westbrook Pegler in New York
Westbrook Pegler surveys a decade of labor front developments, condemning the loss of responsibility and rising violence in public life. He cites Supreme Court decisions and political rhetoric as undermining government, urging dignified leadership in politics and labor to restore order and trust amid a bleak February atmosphere.
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New York
Motors
Supeme
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Stimson
Secretary of War
Military Affairs Committee
Senate
Mica monopoly probe linked to British firms shocks U S war needs
The Justice Department widens its anti trust inquiry to British group companies amid claims of a wartime mica monopoly. The article details how Colonial Mica Corporation runs U S mica operations for Jesse Jones, neighbors with a British mica official, and notes India and the United States as key producers. It cites Blood and Schoonmaker and WPB links, tracing a pyramid of companies and fears over postwar domestic production.
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Washington
Justice Department
House of Lords
Britain
Imperial Chemical Industries
General Electric
United States
Jesse Jones
Metals Reserve Company
Colonial
Mica Corporation
Jones
George A. Purcell
Colonial Mica Company
Colonial Mica Corporation
Purcell
Howard C.sykes
Mica
Collins Avenue
Bloomfield
N. J
J. P. French
Eugene Munsell & Company
British Trust
Sykes
Munsell & Company
U. S
Bureau of Standards
India
London
Ministry of Munitions
Germany
Munsell & Co
Purcel
Justice
WPB
Sidney A. Montague
Huse Liberty Co
Asheville
N.C
Mica Co
Blood and Schoonmaker
Mica Combine
William E. Blood
Current Comment on Pacific War Momentum and Japan’s Shipping
The Rochester Times Union notes British and American naval pressure is shrinking Japan’s merchant fleet. Submarines cripple Japanese shipping while ground and air forces in the Far East remain limited. Allied Empire efforts, led by Britain and Australia, aim to intensify once Germany is defeated.
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Rochester Times Union
Great Britain
United States
Far East
New Zealand
Germany
Japan
Office of War Information
China
Pacific
Roosevelt Administration Faces Auto Price Gouging
Washington scolds wartime policy fairness as used car prices surge. Critics say the Roosevelt administration fails to regulate auto prices while other essentials are frozen, creating a high risk market. Dealers mark up cars massively, harming low income buyers who must pay well beyond replacement value. Buyers take risks on unverified, altered cars, facing danger and loss. Public resentment grows as industry profits ride on inflation while production resumes slowly. (Continued on Page Eight)
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Washington
Roosevelt
Lina
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Cleo Hater
Veronica
Troy
Fair
Westbrook Pegler
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Merry
Drew Pearson
Mica Trust
Chemical Industry
British
Associated Electrical Institute
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Chrestien Mining Co., Ltd
F. F. Chrestien & Co
Mica Insulator Co
Howard Sykes
Library of Congress
Esquire
Delta
Lister Hill
Alabama
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