Peacetime wage levels and wartime costs debated
Charles E. Wilson of General Electric argues for maintaining workers earnings after the war, as a forty hour week returns to peacetime conditions. He questions if employers can sustain 30 percent higher wartime take home pay while absorbing discharged service members and expanding production for civilian goods. The piece notes imponderables and warns against high wages for few paired with unemployment or low-wage government work for many.
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Charles E. Wilson
General Electric Company
G. E
The Telephone Strike and Its Contested Origins in Dayton
A critique of the Dayton telephone strike traces it to a wage and living-allowance dispute between local employer and workers. It argues management imported外 outside labor at $18.25 living expenses, while home workers claim discrimination and insufficient negotiation efforts. The piece questions negotiation outcomes and the impact on local labor versus imported labor.
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Dayton
Rotienouch Telephone xi & Areg
Public dispute over workers strike and management response
The text debates whether workers should strike without prior talks and if management refuses negotiations. It argues interruptions of communications are harmful and that the most defensible ground is contested. It calls for facts on workers actions and whether a conference was sought.
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Denis Hich
Aroushi Ebour
Harmony in Washington Speech Ties Party Lines to War Aims
A congress speech by Representative Cox of Georgia urges harmony between the administration and Congress to win the war and peace. The piece notes Southern Democrats often align with Republicans to block New Deal measures, and cautions against overreach that could jeopardize Congress. It stresses the president’s Democratic majorities and warns against un-American projects while urging reasonable interpretation of Southern overtures.
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Congress
Cor
Aporgia
Abe Legis
Cox
Représentative Cox
House
Senate
Roosevelt
Which Type Are You in the Human Body Types Debate
Aldous Huxley revisits the link between body types and behavior, tracing endomorph, mesomorph, and ectomorph categories to Kretzschemer. The piece discusses social pressures in schools to fit students into athletic or social roles and questions tailoring development to physiology for mental wellbeing.
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Aldous Huxley
Hippocrates
Kretschmer
Mr. Huxley
Kretsehmer
Noxious Weed and Allied Cigar Shortage Hope Or Charity
In a quirky wartime note the AudCigarette Alliance argues cigarette use is a social ill while proposing odd cures like gentian roots camomile blossoms Rochelle salts and Turkish baths. The piece blends humor with a call to buy War Bonds and hints at changing smoking habits during a cigarette shortage.
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AudCigarette Alliance
Chanve
Siiance
Alce
Reformiaue
Pulse of the People letters to The Record lack of trust debate
A reader letters column argues over New Deal policy, criticizing Roosevelt for defying constitutional limits and expanding federal power. The writer highlights deficits, increased bureaucracy, civil service growth, and calls for accountability, while contrasting support for the Allies with domestic dissent. A separate letter from a service member’s spouse recalls wartime concerns and urges cutting off critics and protecting troops.
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New Deal Record
the Record
Detommesi
Roosevelt
Roosevele
United States
Mr. DeFommasi
Supreme Court
Current Comment As The French Tackle Their Financial Difficulties
The piece analyzes postwar Europe with focus on France and its Provisional Government. It praises a new currency exchange plan that will census capital and expose collaborators while preserving money supply. It argues the move could stabilize administration and finances, earning respect for justice and simplicity.
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Baltimore Sun
Europe
Italy
Belgium
Holland
France
Liex
Vichy
Compulsory Training Debate in Congress and Press
The Utica Press outlines a debate on universal military training as a peacetime policy, noting recent signals from the President to push for early consideration. It contrasts military schooling with non military elements like the CCC program, arguing the core question is national security in the postwar world and condemning vaguer proposals as dilution of the main issue.
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Utica
Congress
Wadsworth-Gurney
Allied drive on Rhine and Vosges under heavy weather
Reports say the six army push against the Nazi West Wall continues toward a crisis at both ends of the 10 mile battle line while a vast Russian advance and renewed Allied pressure in the Vosges threaten German defenses. American and French forces advance through Colmar and Strasbourg as air support intensifies. In Asia, China and American forces prepare coordinated operations with Chiang Kai shek as Wedemeyer assumes command and joint plans proceed against Japan.
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West Wall
Danube
Poland
High Rhine
Scuth
Voszes
Germany
Rhine Valley
Colmar
Strasbourg
Vosges Tange
Vosges Pass
Siegfried Line
Asia
Buroze
China
Wedemeyer
Stilweil
Chungking
Chiang Ka Shek
Littell Fights Biddle and the Lust for Power
The piece outlines a personal feud between Attorney General Francis Biddle and liberal Assistant Attorney General Norman Littell. It highlights Littell as a hard driving New Deal crusader who opposed naval oil leases, opposed a Florida hotel plan, and pushed for government aided land clearance for camps. The column also notes political maneuvering by Senators over a public power bill and hints at presidential backing for the bill’s fate, contrasting Dewey’s stance with the Bailey amendment.
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Washington
Francis Biddle
Norman Littell
Bitdie
Littell
Juste Department
Nnsarore
Navy
California
Floride
Justice Department
Nealed Biddie
Biddie
International
Air
Chicago
Stevens
Twal
Jane
State Department
Soviet Union
Senate
Bry Baltia Tong
Grand Coulee
Bonneville Dam
Tennessee Valley Authority
Bailey
Commerce Committee
Ilbo
Mississippi
Pepper
Florida
Robertson
Wyoming
Burton
Ohio
Wiley
Wisconsin
Brewster
Maine
Bennett Clark
Missouri
North Carolina
Radcliffe
Marveland
FL D. al
Caraway
Arkansas
Arthur Walsh
New Jersey
Connecticut
Clark
Walsh
Congress
White House
Dewey
Seattle
Democracy Versus Income Tax Debate in Roosevelts Era
The piece argues the federal income tax is a democratic tool used to pressure control, claiming it burdens a few while benefiting many and criticizes Roosevelt era policy. It links tax democracy to Communism and European ideologies, questions religious implications, and hints at national service proposals, ending with a note that the discussion continues on page nineteen.
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York
Treasury
Roosevelt
Aus
Rogsevelt
Democratic National Committee
Democratic Party
Congress
Supreme Court
Communist Party
Russia
Naw
Mre
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Yoss
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