Experienced Planners Should Guide Postwar Planning
The piece argues that industrial leaders who coordinated wartime production should help shape postwar employment and peaceful reconstruction. It criticizes bureaucrats for underestimating business expertise and urges trusted, unselfish collaboration between industry and labor to craft orderly, profitable postwar plans.
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South Pacific
Africa
Italy
Europe
Washington
America
Back To The Beginning From Washington Foggy News
A column recalls odd government inquiries from World War II era. A Food Administration official questions a Texas con man about cattle. A War Production Board professor asks about lumber grade limits. A Defense Plant Corporation site-title inquiry in Louisiana reveals a tongue in cheek legal reply tracing titles back to 1803.
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Spain
Christopher Columbus
Genoa
Italy
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Jesus Christ
Court Decision Condemned by David Lawrence
Washington notes condemn the Supreme Court ruling on insurance as interstate commerce. Dissenters Stone Jackson Frankfurter warn the decision upends 75 years of precedent, risks state control, and invites nationwide litigation and harmful regulatory chaos.
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Supreme Court
Washington
Congress
Court
Black
Murphy
Douglas
Rutledge
America
Stone
Robert Jackson
New Deal
Frankfurter
Jackson
Con gress should weigh reconversion pay, not reward loafers
Westbrook Pegler urges Congress to resist paying weekly wages and dependents' grants to laid off war workers. He cites Brewster Aircraft and Akron rubber cases to argue that selectivity and punishment of slackers are essential, warning equality could reward the undeserving.
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Westbroot Pegler
New York
Congress
Navy
de Lorenzo
Army
William Green
Phillip Murray
Brewster
Akron
Ohio Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Useless Professions And The Case For Weeds
A 1944 King Features piece compares useless professions to pulling weeds and drowning cats, arguing weeds grow easily and thrive without care. It humorously notes weeds appear where crops are expected and that effort against them often feels futile.
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King Features
Court rift over wartime cases shocks home front
Justices Roberts and Reed recused for personal reasons and did not issue opinions. The invasion last week overshadowed this case, which critics call the most sensational blow to orderly government in wartime, marking a pivotal moment in American judicial history.
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Roberts
Reed
Judiciary
Marshall Eisenhower cooperation drives wartime planning
Washington reports General Marshall credits soldiers and Eisenhower for invasion success while recalling his own behind the scenes work. The piece contrasts Marshall and Pershing era planning with current cooperation and notes Justice Douglas amid Vice Presidential speculation and Wallace politics in Texas.
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George C. Marshall
U. S
Eisenhower
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Marshall
France
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St. Mihiel
Meuse- Argonne Front
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Tasker Bliss
Peyton March
Bliss
Walter Reed Hospital
Supreme Court
Justice Billas
Douglas
Far West
Pendleton
Ore
Bill
Surprised General Bans Teeth Souvenir Plot
A lighthearted tale recalls a general who had teeth extracted and learns they were sold as mementos. He orders aides to buy every personal tooth found to keep them from the public. By evening the aides return with 175 teeth, a humorous ending.
Warren frees California delegation from pledge at GOP convention
Gov. Earl Warren releases the California delegation from any pledge to him and asks that his name not be submitted for any office. observers say he remains a potential but unlikely vice presidential candidate while aiming to shift responsibility to the delegation. He emphasizes reform goals and western representation.
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Wallace
Big Harold
Texas
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Yakima
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