What Price Loyalty in Farm Political Winds
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson touring Wisconsin warns on farm voting trends. He cites Missouri and Wisconsin as examples of farm support shifting from the Democratic bloc, questions subsidies and the 1940s price policies, and suggests farmers may trade loyalty for policy shifts as 1946 plans unfold.
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Clinton P. Anderson
Wisconsin
Anderson
Missouri
St. Louis
Department of Agriculture
Henry Wallace
Uncle Sam
United States
Democratic Party
Two of a Kind by Frank Knox Secret Exchange
E M Marshall quotes a line from Your Life noting how Frank Knox as Secretary of the Navy confides a private joke about keeping a secret. The anecdote portrays Knox asking, and answering, if a friend can keep a secret in a casual exchange.
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Frank Knox
Atlantic
Knox
E. M. Marshall
Closing The Books For 1945 By Paul Mallon
A year-end recap reviews 1945 with bold claims of ahead forecasting on Truman labor mediation, unification of armed forces, Shintoism policy, atom bomb debates, and China Burma India theatre actions. Noting two minor mistakes, the column highlights government policy shifts and press revelations shaping postwar outlook.
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Paul Mallon
Truman Labor Mediation
Truman
Labor Management Conference
General George
Army
Navy
Chiefs of Staff
Congress
MacArthur
Japan
China-Burma-India
Surplus Property Board
Russia
Byrnes
Moscow
War Department
Ickes
Chungking
United Nations
Cio-New
Hue and Cry
CIO
Stalin
Yalta
San Francisco
Byrd
Stettinius
Hillman
Figures May Be Ignored By Westbrook Pegler
Westbrook Pegler argues unions contribute to higher living costs through dues and taxes. He criticizes government laxity on union finances, cites Truman’s cautious stance, and notes union collections and taxes on goods like phonograph records and coal. He asserts unions wield covert influence and calls for tighter scrutiny.
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Westbrook Pegler
New York
Truman
Mr. Truman
George Spelvin
United States
Congress
Treasury
U.’s
Roosevelt
Hodcarriers
Jimmy Petrillo
John L. Lewis
King Features Syndicate
Mutiny on the Bounty in the Boy's Department
Arthur Baer recalls in 1945 a chaotic Children’s Day in the Navy with sixty thousand students occupying the Missouri River waterfront. The parade-like clash included hijacked items, a stolen admiral’s sword, and a wharfside spectacle of juvenile mischief at sea.
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Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Navy
Old Jupiter
Calchas
Margutte
Philomenes
Missouri
Commander Spring
Manhattan
Younker
Captain Bligh
Correction on Poem Attribution Sparks Editorial Record
A writer acknowledges an error attributing the poem A Rose Is a Rose to Archibald MacLeish and notes Gertrude Stein wrote it. The piece cites San Francisco research lapse and preserves a firm point about MacLeish's propaganda, with 1946 book housekeeping context.
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Archibald MacLeish
Roosevelt
Gertrude Stein
San Francisco
Miss Stein
Mr. MacLeish
Undertakers and Embalmers Union Ultimatum Revealed
A wartime column reflects on a striking union contract for undertakers and embalmers. It details rules on hiring derma surgeons, 60 hour weeks, and limits on janitorial work, noting the boss faces possible closure if he signs or declines. The piece blends satire with labor tensions of 1945.
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Hamlet
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Washington Scene at Army and Navy Club Revels in Brass and Tales
Reporter recalls a night at the Army and Navy Club featuring Brig. Gen. Clayton Adams and his Baroness Stackelberg wife. Conversation covers a maid’s divorce, a comical bath anecdote, and memories of Maj. Gen. James A. Ulio and Elmer Davis' wartime information office broadcast plans.
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Washington
Army and Navy
Clayton Adams
Baroness Stackelberg
Baron Stackelberg
Gen. Adams
Madelaine
James A. Alio
United States
General Adams
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
Italy
OWI
Ulio
Night fighter love tale after disappearance in occupation zone
A Czech woman in the American occupation zone of Czecho Slovakia says her fiancé Willie P Brown vanished after proposing marriage. She claims he claimed to be a white man injected to appear black as camouflage and later revert to white, a story the army supposedly dismisses as a Mississippi rumor.
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Czecho-Slovakia
Willie P. Brown
Willie
Army
Mississippi
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