The Hearth Cricket and a Georgia Pastoral Meditation
A writer blends a Georgia farm scene with a reflection on religion and charity. It contrasts Sunday clothes and preacher visits with Jesus teaching and a pastoral ideal, then pivots to a humorous profile of the European house cricket Gryllus domesticus and its courtship display. The piece likens rural life to a spiritual tableau and notes the entertainments of a cricket musician amid farm life.
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Georgia
David L. Cohn
Atlantic Monthly
Umbrella Mike Boyle and the Chicago union racketeering case
A profile of Michael J. Boyle of Chicago, longtime Local 134 head for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. The piece cites a Court of Appeals ruling praising Boyle as a blackmailer and leech on commerce, with graft sums cited and his 1920 jail term commuted by President Wilson. It links Boyle to labor racketeering alongside New York’s Harry Van Arsdale and notes blockades on war production by unions in both cities.
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Supreme Court
Michael Joseph Boyle
Chicago
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
A. F
Umbrella Mike
Johnson's Saloon
W. Madison St
Court of Appeals
Boyle
Mike Boyle
Michael J. Boyle
United States
County Club
Woodrow Wilson
Mike
Samuel Gompers
A. F. of L
American Federation of Labor
Harry van Arsdale
New York
van Arsdale
Brooklyn
Broadway
Buick Aviation
U. S. Air Corps
A. F. of
War Department
Senate
Roosevelt
Phoenix parking meters warn Tucson on snap judgments
An editorial notes Phoenix experience with parking meters shows dangers of emergency ordinances and snap decisions. It cites Tucson's rushed police pension moves as actuarially unsound and criticizes council for ignoring expert opinion.
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Phoenix
Tucson
Municipal Civil Service Commission
End of the line for old Phoenix parking meters
Editorial urges replacing aging meters after six years of operation that yielded declining nickels and rising malfunctions. Reports say 54 meters were inoperable in one week, with police noting frequent failures and citizens paying the price in red hands and necks.
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Phoenix
Phoenix Republic
Baer Grumbles on Letters of Marque in 1941
In a satirical piece Arthur Baer compares U S letters of marque to political tricks in New York City and New England history. He jokes about needing such licenses for personal use while noting Congress can authorize them and pokes fun at party shifts and annual tests.
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New England
Thai canal plan could shift balance of Pacific power
In a 1941 look at Siam then Thailand, the piece explains how a proposed Thai Isthmus of Kra canal would cut Singapore from sea lanes, shorten routes to India, and realign British and Japanese influence. It notes U.S. advisers, Siamese nationalism, and strategic threats to colonial bases. It also covers internal U.S. political feuding and a CIO construction union revolt led by Denny Lewis in New York.
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Drew Pearson
Thailand
Singapore
U.S
Siam
Tokyo
New York
Denny Lewis
Construction Union
Washington
South Pacific
Japan
Britain
Pacific
United States
Francis Sayre
Woodrow Wilson
Philippines
Herbert Hoover
Asia
Panama
Kra
Indian Ocean
Gulf of Siam
India
Indo-China
Burma
Straits of Magellan
Panama Canal
United Construction Workers
CIO
Denny
Local 91
United Feature Syndicate
Pyrrhic Victory Threat to Hitler Said Condensed Analysis
Washington estimates Nazi claims of 4,000,000 Russian casualties are inflated. Analysts project Soviet losses around 1.5 million, with German forces possibly halved. The piece cites Pyrrhus, critique of Nazi propaganda, and notes on American war supplies and Trans Ocean News Serviceward.
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Washington
Hitler
Pyrrhus
Britain
Egypt
England
Hemisphere
Trans. Ocean News Service
South America
Messrs
Zapp
Tom
Treasury
Trans-Ocean
Latin
Zeesen
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
Norman Littel Emerges as Possible Attorney General Nominee
The article notes Francis Biddle as next in line for attorney general while President Roosevelt receives strong backing for Norman Littel age 38, an assistant attorney general. Littel helped shape a liberal western convention supporting a third term, a move John Lewis opposed, accusing preordained outcomes. The piece hints at Tommy the Cork Corcoran's behind the scenes influence.
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Tom
Cork
Francis Biddle
Roosevelt
Norman Littel
Littel
John Lewis
New Deal
Tommy
Cork Corcoran
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Bugs" Baer
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Mr. Biddle
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