Stabilized Local Budgets By State Tax Reallocations
Governor Dewey appointed a commission on municipal revenues and reduction of real estate taxes. The report urges replacing state shared tax allocations with a flat 103 million dollars yearly to localities effective April 1, 1946. It notes risks of overspending and praises Comptroller Frank C. Moore while calling for continued study.
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Dewey
New York
Frank C. Moore
Ascal
Avery
Moore
Inactive Front in Italy Masks Grim War Realities
Veterans and correspondents describe the Italian front as harsh and demanding with the Fifth American and Eighth British Armies facing extreme mountain fighting. Air operations by the Fifteenth Air Force bombed targets across Europe including Ploesti, while troops in India, Burma, and south China shared neglect and hardship. The piece highlights forgotten soldiers amid praise for hard won victories and brutal conditions.
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Eheak
Ltaiv
Italy
Shen
Hheir
India
Burma
China
Fifteenth Air Force
Germany
Austria
France
Balkans
Tith
Ploesti
Romania
Luftwaffe
Heinie
Help Them Help Themselves in War Food Policy Debate
A political column argues against expanding a central food and supplies committee, urging domestic needs be prioritized. It criticizes aid to liberated nations while famine looms at home, contending Americans must produce and consume enough milk and food to sustain the war effort. It condemns export overreach and calls for self-reliance and clear limits on foreign relief.
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America
Jess
Clais
Henry Wallace
Europe
Little Man in a Hurry over Bretton Woods Ratification
The piece criticizes Treasury Secretary Morgenthau and the administration for pressing Congress to rush ratification of the Bretton Woods agreements. It argues the pace is unseemly and riskily framed as a test of our cooperation, noting Congress acted slowly and urging merit-based debate rather than pressure. It cites the UN Relief and Rehabilitation Organization pledge and questions Britain and Russia’s contributions.
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Morgenthau
Treasury Department
Bretton Woods
Congress
House Banking and Currency Committee
United Nations Rehabilitation and Relief Organization
United States
San Francisco
Great Britain
Russia
International Bank and Monetary Fund
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington
America
Lend-Lease debate faces postwar limits and oversight
The House voted to restrict lend-lease to wartime use for another year, arguing it aided Britain, Russia, and China while saving American lives. It warns against postwar duties, notes the program’s $70 billion revolving fund, and calls Congress to examine postwar relief and reconstruction as a new world order forms. It critiques Mussolini and mocks a cigarette queue anecdote.
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Great Britain
Russia
China
Congress
Legislative Branch
House
New World Organization
San Francisco
New International Bank
The 30 Day Republic of Domodossola
A Swiss frontier town, Domodossola in Ossola valley, became a rallying point for thousands of patriots who planned to strike German troops. After Rimini’s fall, the uprising briefly seized several valleys before German reinforcements crushed it. About 4,000 fighters and 10,000 civilians fled to Switzerland. many were killed or captured, and some were executed in Osella. The republic lasted 20 days with 350 killed, 300 wounded, and about 1,500 casualties on the Germans.
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Minneapolis Star-Journal
Republic of Domodossola
Italy
Domodossola
Ossela
Rimini
Adriatic
Ossola
Switzerland
Osstla
Whodunit for Army engine fighters and costs
In World War I the term Whodunit spread to engineers and technicians. A frontline effort to produce engine fighter planes once required 22 927 man hours three years ago now 8 290. If contracts had been based on cost minus instead of cost plus designers would be owed about 126 000 000 dollars.
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Chicago Daily News
Tfme
Readers Seek Clarity On Betty Smith Widow Status And Local Pensions
A sample of reader letters printed in The Record discusses Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and whether she is a policeman's widow with pension. The editor notes anonymity, editorial rights, and publication caveats. The letter asks about clothing wholesalers and NY sources, and includes opinions on wartime patriotism and support for service members.
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Betty Smith
Brooklyn
Daily Reader
Troy Times
the Times Record
Elmer Mr. Searles
Middle Falls
North Street
Chapel , Hill
North Carolina
The Political Stage Today by David Lawrence
Washington notes a clash between hopeful war end forecasts and official caution. Officials underestimate German resistance while Allied progress grows, yet a 1946 end remains unlikely. Hitler seeks prolongation, while Allied diplomacy and fear of dismemberment shape public perception.
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Washington
War Department
Churchill
Rhine
iWashington
Yara
Lmnor
Missouri Constitution Extends Free Speech Protections
Raymond Moley notes Missouri's new streamlined constitution includes a broad free speech clause. It protects saying writing or publishing any subject with responsibility for abuses, covering film and radio as evolving public expression. The piece traces Missouri innovating in 1875 and hints this liberty trend may spread to other states.
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Missouri
Will Hays
Congress
Bureau
Freedom
John L Lewis and Petrillo Sales Tax Proposals Stir Debate
The piece argues that John L Lewis seeks a ten cent per ton royalty paid to the miners union treasury, while Jimmy Petrillo backs a sales tax on recorded music to fund unions. It notes precedents in needle trades and local unions, critiques New Deal effects, and warns of potential misuses of funds and unemployment payments, with broader reflections on political power and public interest.
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John Ll. Lewis
Jimmy Petrillo
War Labor Board
Roosevelt
Needle Trades
Lewis
Petrillo
Petrilio
Jimsey
Joe Patway
Patway
Pattway
John L. Lewis
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Levis
Wendell Willkie
United Mine Workers
C.so
WHS
C.S
John. L. Lewis
Lewis Powertat
Clarifying usage of fewer vs less and who's whose
Fort Smith readers seek guidance on correct grammar for countable versus uncountable items. Guidance clarifies that fewer is used with countable nouns, less with uncountable, and whose vs who with possessive and contraction distinctions, with examples and cautions about awkward phrasing.
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