Troy Record Company Names officers and contact details
Dwight Marvin edits Troy Record Company with David Plum as president E Betta as vice president Frank York as treasurer and Dwight Marvin as secretary. Private branch exchange connects all departments and a Associated Press license covers news dispatches for publication.
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Poll Tax Politics in House Vote Sparks Debate
The House passage of an anti poll tax bill is framed as driven by decency and democracy but chiefly politics. It argues poll taxes deny voting to sharecroppers, hillbillies, and especially the colored race, urging federal action over state resistance. Political posturing is blamed, with Republicans poised to gain from reform.
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House of Representatives
United States of America
Virginia
South Carolina
Georgia
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Texas
Arkansas
Alabama
South
Union
Tennessee
Republican Party
Call for End to Chinese Immigration Exclusion
An unofficial Chinese daily urges the United States to repeal discriminatory Chinese immigration laws. It argues a quota for China would standardize immigration and protect favorable U S relations, noting the general quota system now applies to all countries and that the Chinese exclusion law was born of labor competition fears.
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China
Repeal of Chinese Exclusion And Global Quota Reform
The speaker argues that after decades of discriminatory policy the Chinese Exclusion Act should be repealed. A regular immigration quota should include not only China but all Asia and Western Hemisphere nations. The note frames quota expansion as meeting a legitimate request and correcting past outsized limitation.
Mental Hygiene: Governor urged to probe state department
Archie O. Dawson, Moreland Act commissioner, calls on the Governor to appoint a commission to scrutinize the State Mental Hygiene Department. He cites Creedmoor conditions and argues that mental illness care, environment, and treatment must improve as the nation presses for broader advances in medicine and surgery.
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Archie O. Dawson
Moreland Act
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Creedmoor
Dewey
Gasoline Ration Rules Stir Eastern Public Morale
In the East the no pleasure riding edict slashes car usage as a war measure. Ickes cites a Big Tank pipeline break near Little Rock causing a fuel shortage while Atlantic seaboard demands rise. The public questions ration abuse, while officials push sacrifices for the home front and warn of a growing gasoline famine.
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Harold L. Ickes
Little Rock
Arkansas
Army
Navy
Atlantic Seaboard
Public Transportation and Gasoline Rationing Frustrations
The article laments inadequate public facilities and gasoline shortages, noting that curtailing transit will burden mobility. It criticizes the rationing system, coupon trade, and reliance on repeated trials with many errors, blaming overconfident economists and experimenters for public hardship.
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Washington
What Will Reaction Be? War Labor Board Dispute
Workers in Detroit Chrysler plants and Akron rubber factories walked out to protest a meager wage raise. They argue the war needs higher pay, while officials claim such stoppages threaten war production and invite broader public backlash.
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Chrysler
Detroit
Akron
America
Die Sinkers International
Wari Labor Board
New England Shipbuilding Corp
Portland
Maine
Labor
Holland
Arthur Seyz-Inquart
Australia
John M. Curtin
Tunisia
Pulse of the People: War bond appeals and letters to the editor
In letters to The Record, readers urge signing names or remaining anonymous, but stress unity in wartime. Editor urges buying bonds and stamps to support troops abroad, while readers note delayed mail to camps hampers morale and express frustration with home front sacrifices.
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Alaska
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Churchill Dreamed of Prime Ministership and Atlantic Talks
The Washington Merry-Go-Round recalls a 1933 country weekend where Winston Churchill, then a cabinet confrontor, expressed a wish to become Prime Minister and to forge regular trans Atlantic conversations with the U S President. He envisioned a joint Anglo American alliance and imagined a currency called the Sterling Dollar. Randolph Roosevelt reportedly speaks easily, and his father admires him.
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Washington
Winston Churchill
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Churchill
Jimmy Roosevelt
United States
Kay Halle
Cleveland
Board of Trade
White House
British Empire
Jimmy
Stalin wary of American allies after aluminum steel promise
The piece recalls Joe Stalin’s distrust of U S allies after Harry Hopkins Averell Harriman and William Batt promised Russia more aluminum steel than the United States could produce in a year. The overcommitment risked American war aircraft and forced President Truman to admit the error and scale back the pledge.
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Joe Stalin
Harry Hopkins
Averell Herriman
William Batt
Joe Davies
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Batt
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Russia
Hopking-Batt Harriman
Capital Chaff and Political Buzz from the Era
Leon Henderson’s weekly radio spot sponsored by O Sullivans Heels hints at a rubber comeback. Congressman John Costello of Hollywood may challenge Senator Sheridan Downey for the Senate. Willkie’s book One World attracts offers from movie moguls. he courts 20th Century Fox, with potential political friction. Orson Welles eyed as Willkie’s on screen double.
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Leon Henderson
O’sullivan
John Costello
Hollywood
Senate
Sheridan Downey
la Willkie
Joe Davies
Willkie
20Th Century Fox
20Th Century
Orson Welles
Friends expect Hoover to be California senator pick
Friends of Senator Hiram Johnson say Hoover will be appointed to the U S Senate by Governor Warren if Hiram resigns for health. Ex Senator Herring of Iowa, whose son is a prisoner in Germany, reports from Red Cross letters that food in camps is reasonably OK and that cigars cigarettes clothes may be sent through Red Cross at intervals.
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Hiram Johnson
Herbert Hoover
U. S. Senate
Warren
California
Hiram
Herring
Iowa
Germany
Red Cross
Little Man Who Pays Letter to Congress
The Record editor argues against the Rumi Plan and current tax schemes, claiming big earners escape enough, and the burden falls on the little man with family finances. He urges taxing war profits more and stresses family life as a business that should profit too.
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Congress
Political Stage Today on withholding tax fallout
Washington columnist David Lawrence critiques a potential withholding tax. He argues administrative strains, wage cuts, and budget hardship threaten workers and employers, warns of enforcement breakdown, and suggests political repercussions for Democrats and the President if a tax bill stalls or is vetoed.
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Senate House
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Treasury
House
Senate
Churchill yearns for Ran dolphs open oratory in Congress
Public crowd in the House of Representatives heard the Prime Minister of England last week while Churchill privately envied his son Ran dolphs extemporaneous skill. He rehearses speeches, studies climaxes, and practices aloud before a mirror to ensure a flawless delivery for significant occasions.
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England
Churchill
Randolph
Congress
William E. Borah
Memoir of Bill Moon and Ocean Service Era Memories
Fair Enough Los Angeles Bill Moon reflects on a forty plus year career in newspapers and early wartime service aboard the U S S Navajo. He recalls peers like George Titch and Ole Skjarsen the Swede janitor fullback, plus Pearl Harbor era plans and a fox terrier aboard the tug. The piece opens a park conversation near the Hall of Records with a fragmentary continuation noted for Page Fifteen.
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Los Angeles
Bill Moon
Los Angeles Times
Peoria
Des Moines
George Titch
Knox College
Midwest
Ole Skjarsen
Hall of Records
Bill
Pearl Harbor
U.S.S
le Havre
McDougal
Loma Linda Learnings on Communique and Troops
In this reader exchange, a French word communique is explained with pronunciation rules and accent marks. A separate note clarifies that an infantry unit called a “troop” does not exist. the plural “troops” means soldiers, and Napoleon is quoted on troops and defense. A teaser offers a pamphlet on combining forms for vocabulary expansion with a stamped self addressed envelope.
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Houston
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Soliers
France
Napoleon
Frank Colby
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