Justice for the Forgotten People in Inflation Fight
An editorial defines the forgotten people as clerks, teachers, municipal workers, police and firemen, widows, veterans’ dependents, and elderly pensioners who saw little wartime pay gains. It urges the government to hold the line on wages and prices, tax excess profits, cut waste, and use war bonds to curb inflation for nearly 15 million affected families.
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America
Labor Board
War Labor Board
Commodity Credit Corporation
Roosevelt
Office of Price Administration
Congress
Famine in India blamed on British policy and disarray
The piece argues two fault lines for India’s famine crisis. It criticizes the English government for its stance toward Indian nationalism and accuses British officials of ineptitude that worsened conditions. It notes 8,000 deaths in the Calcutta area between August 15 and October 16 as part of the figures cited.
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Singh
India
Indi League of America
Indie League of
Amer
Qoee Wittout
Great Britain
Indian Office
Calcutta
Famine death toll in Calcutta and India birth rate critique
The report notes 2,150 weekly famine deaths in Calcutta versus 600 normal, while praising British welfare measures but questioning how to reconcile rising population with stagnant grain acreage. It argues famines in the East predate colonization and cites cultural birth-rate patterns in India and other Oriental lands.
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Calcutta
Sirdar J. J. Singh
India
East
Americans Strike Bougainville as Japan Clings to Rabaul
The report notes Japanese troops retreating from occupied positions in recent months while repeatedly resisting on Bougainville Island where U S Marines hold a beachhead. It argues Bougainville is key to Tokyo preventing loss of Rabaul and Truk, and urges larger Allied forces and a unified South Pacific campaign led by General MacArthur with Navy support to intensify bombardment and land operations toward Japan.
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Bougainville Island
United States
Bougainville
Tokyo
Rabaul
New Britain
South Pacific
Truk
Japan
London
Sir Robert Leslie Cragie
Royal Empire Society
England
Germany
Robert
Oute
Britain
America
General MacArthur
Wartime Spending and the Cost of Modern Conflict
The article argues that wartime spending has surged beyond World War I costs, noting the four and a third months since July 1 total about $30.6 billion including lend-lease. It contrasts modern warfare logistics with past battleships like the New Mexico and discusses efficiency versus waste, urging recognition of high expense and urgency, while warning against nonessential spending.
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United States
New Mexico
Cnat
New Deal Administration
Treasury Department
Monarchist stir in postwar Spain challenges trend
A Western world trend toward republican and parliamentary systems meets a surprising turn as monarchist sentiment surfaces in Spain. After a republic and then fascist dictatorship, observers wonder if Spain could revert to a monarchy to unify a fractured populace amid Europe’s volatile postwar landscape.
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Spain
Russia
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Turkey
Hitler
Mussolini
Republic
Europe
Government spending and looming reckoning confrontation
The piece argues that normal government expenses reached about 2.2 billion dollars and warns that continuing at this spending pace will bring serious consequences. It contrasts administration extravagance with Congress's tax reluctance, predicting years of grief ahead and a delayed but unavoidable reckoning.
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Congress
Rationing notes and supply hints from OPA memo
OPA says unneeded coffee stamps in new ration books are spares for personal splurges. US whiskey stock estimates suggest a two year supply, still seen as staggering. Acknowledge moth damage from last summer and impact on winter wardrobes. When rationing officials warn coal shortages, concerns about fueling persist.
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OPA
United States
The Middle of the Road for Disabled Veterans
In a New York Sun column Major Benjamin H. Baiser urges balanced community support for returning veterans with injuries. He warns against over solicitude that plants fear of difference, and against indifference that causes withdrawal. Proper understanding helps maimed men regain productive roles and prove their ongoing value to society.
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New York Sun
Benjamin H. Baiser
Mitchel Field Hospital
Pulse Of The People and Anonymity in Letters
Readers ask about signing communications to The Record to ensure publication anonymity and good faith. A caller from Lansingburg seeks guidance on lunch-for-school arrangements for part time work.
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Pulse of the People
U. S. Pat
Record
Lansingburg
Troy
White House press conferences boost wartime unity
A Washington dispatch applauds Roosevelt inviting editors and writers to informal White House sessions. It defends these gatherings as useful to explain wartime policy, urges larger rooms, and argues the press will remain independent. It criticizes isolationist attacks as counterproductive to national unity.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Theodore
Wh House
America
Free World
Ress
Westbrook Pegler on race, agitators and the New Deal
The article critiques Mr Biddle and Mr Field for inflaming racial tensions and identifies Communists, Negro press, and Marshall Field as exploiting white Negro frictions. It argues these agitators seek violence and disorder to weaken government, praising cautious mainstream press while condemning false rumors and hate-mongering.
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New York
Biddle
Marshall Field
New Deal Party
LaGuardia
Field
Communist Party
Standard Daily Press
Eye Witnesses Tell Corregidor Heroes Story of End
Repatriates describe Corregidor surrender after months of bombardment and siege in the Philippines. Survivors recall nurses and soldiers enduring beri beri malaria and malnutrition in tunnel hospitals, two meals daily under Japanese watch, and the last stand of the 31st and 57th Infantry and the Fourth Marines amid peril and courage.
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Rio de Janeiro
Corregidor Fortress
Philippines
Manila Bay
Bataan Peninsula
Corregidor
Guam
Bataan
57Th Infantry
Fourth Marines
Mariveles
Rock Fortress
Pronunciation Guide for Dnepr in English Form
The article details correct Dnepr pronunciation with four possible Russian e sounds and offers a preferred English rendering. It advocates broadcasters say d n YE p r or simply NEER, and promotes a pamphlet on Italian pronunciation by Frank Colby.
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DNEPR
Volochek
Orel
Marole
Inflation Sweeps Germany, British Say
London reports Germany faces severe inflation as the Reich’s currency swells from eight billion marks at war start to about thirty billion now. The British Ministry of Economic Warfare cites war finance strain and extensive post blitz repairs as the causes.
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London
Germany
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Reich
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