Back To The Home Front Congress Homecoming Critique
Arizona readers face a call to judge national legislators as they return from recess. The piece lambasts “fence fixing” votes and cowardly evasions, urging primaries to spare weak leaders and demand courage and competence for the nation’s critical times. It questions lawmakers tied to pressure groups and political machines.
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Congress
Main Street
Hes
Capitol
Arizona
Chicago
North Dakota
Gerald Nye
Asher Burdick
West
Washington
City Hall Promises Meet Pay Debates And Utility Talks
City workers voice discontent over pay in a meeting with the city council led by Mayor Henry Jaastad. Officials discuss House Bill 188 mandating unspent balances for postwar use while exploring utilities acquisition as a path to small pay increases amid tense politics.
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City Hall
Henry Jaastad
Steve Tormey
Phoenix
Mr. Wolf
The Power To Destroy
A June Washington column surveys how Supreme Court expansion of the commerce clause, while enlarging federal scope, also boosts state taxing power that hinders interstate business especially aviation. It cites Georgia and Minnesota tax rulings, use taxes, and the need for Congressional action to curb state interference. It also notes a Navy slogan shift amid military fashion changes.
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David Lawrence Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
Georgia
Internal Revenue
Bureau
Washington
Minnesota
Justice Frankfurter
Justice Black
City Audit Sparks Heated Debate Over Promises
The city auditor dismisses a claim about a 96 vote margin and a 300-strong pool as cheap politics. The speaker likens it to feeding a starving baby with a pacifier and warns that the rank and file are no longer naive.
Codes For Congratulations By Westbrook Pegler
Westbrook Pegler mocks coded telegrams and proposes a war effort friendly code to convey felicitations. He explains old Western Union messages like No 806 and No 1389 and criticizes patriotic groups for delaying telegrams to senators and officials.
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Westbrook Pegler
New York
New Mexico
Andette
Eddie
Jane
War Communications Board
Western Union
Bridgeport
Wheeling
Rufftown 44 Class Chooses Its Pin Up Boy in 1944
The Rufftown Prep class of 1944 names me their pin up boy in a satirical collage of college life. The spoof lists favorite actors books and drinks while joking about reforms, politics, and school culture with sharp humor.
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Bugs Baer
Rufftown Prep
Rufftown
Mussolini
Willkie
Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah
Stalin
Roosevelt
Churchill
Veronica Lake
Jinx Falkenberg
Dewey studies foreign affairs and Army Navy cooperation
President hopeful Dewey deepens military insight through talks with Commander Walter Ebert and consults Time publisher Harry Luce. He touts foreign affairs reading, hosts ambassadors, and recalls a Brazil misstatement at a New York banquet, signaling preparation for a possible presidency.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
Tom Dewey
U.S.A
Army
Navy
Walter Gale Ebert
Cara Ebert
West Virginia
Ebert
Albany
Dewey
Harry Luce
Time, Life and Fortune
New York
Palestine
Oscar Correia
Brazil
Latin America
Caribbean
U. S
Correia
South America
In Sponsors Utopia Full Hour of Commercial Announcements
An experimental radio concept promises a full hour of non stop commercial announcements with no music or other sound. The caption notes the format as a novelty in The New Yorker context.
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Music
Corma
The
New Yorker
Mixed German Nazi units in France cited in review
Washington report notes morale among Nazi fighters in France is uneven with third rate forces and foreign units mixed with veterans. It details German efforts at Caen Tilly Cherbourg Montebourg and Carentan, plus Ninth Division actions in Sicily and Tunisia. In the Pacific Japan’s morale and air strength are strained as Saipan losses loom and home defense shifts.
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Washington
France
Germany
Europe
Caen
Tilly
Montebourg
Carentan
Cherbou
Valognes
Cherbourg
Sicily
Tunisia
Paul Mallon
Naples
Pacific
Saipan
Japan
China
Burma
Tinian
Guam
Yap
King Syndicate
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National Maritime Union
Wallace
Admiral Land
Maritime Commission
War Labor and Labor Relations Boards
Marcantonio
NMU
Marcantonio Telegram
King Features
Publilius Syrus
Dewey Studies Foreign Affairs
U.S. Navy
Nye
Northwest Prairies
Tom Girdler
Labor-Baiti Republic Steel King
Senate
Bill Langer
Japan IN Review
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