Bible Reading For Today II Samuel Passages
In March 0 1873 readers refer to Bible readings for today focusing on II Samuel chapters 14 and 15 verses 18 with a note likely guiding devotional use. The brief entry points to scripture portions and their study context for the period.
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Truman calls for shrinking government to speed postwar recovery
The piece argues for dismantling many wartime commissions and shifting control to private business for reconstruction. It credits President Truman with consolidating government functions and using market logic, warning that heavy regimentation risks feeding black markets while urging cooperation and fewer orders.
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White House
ABC
Truman
Clinton P. Anderson
Anderson
United States
America
Ice cream Freezer Recalled From Cellar Storage
Recalled memory lane notes reference a two-quart White Mountain ice cream freezer with a snow mountain image on a green bucket. The clue hints at a forgotten item tucked under a cellar bench.
Foxhole in the Parlor Reflections on Returning Soldiers
George E. Sokolsky praises the play Foxhole in the Parlor for portraying a returned soldier as normal yet changed by war. He argues families must listen to veterans and seek God at the peace table, urging public empathy and understanding of postwar trauma.
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George E. Sokolsky
Dale Carnegie
Eisenhower
Pacific
Dante
God
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Crank Your Own Ice Cream as Sugar Shortage Bites
The piece notes a sugar shortage will limit store ice cream this summer, urging home production. It outlines a simple method using a four pound ax, burlap bag, ice, and coarse salt to churn ice cream, with the family sharing the dasher and tasting. It adds a nod to electric freezer brands yet warns they lack dasher access.
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Christian Science Monitor
A Bold Idea to Discriminate Against Discrimination
In a satirical vent, Westbrook Pegler mocks anti discrimination laws and proposes a scheme to train people from minorities using a minstrel style school funded by a $200000 plan aimed at beating rival John Hartford. The piece lampoons legal and social issues with scathing humor.
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Sioe
Anti-Discrimination Board
Hartford
Non-Stop Pullman Flight and Insomnia Shelves
A humorous riff on Pullman travel imagining sleep arrangements in berths with upper and lower bunks. The speaker jokes about sleeping on ladders and skylines, wrestling with snorers, and the inefficiencies of space on trains, boats, and submarines.
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Pullman
Truman Succession Plan Draws Fresh Senate Clash
President Truman proposes a line of succession change affecting the speaker of the house and cabinet roles as a political fight unfolds among congressional leaders and party figures. The piece notes Byrnes Stettinius Rayburn and key power plays shaping near term elections and cabinet options.
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Truman
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House
Congress
Sly Hatton Sumners
Texas
Judiciary Committee
Sam Rayburn
Sumner
Jim Farley
Stettinius
Mr. Truman
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
Chicago
Sidney
Washington
CIO
Rayburn
Politi
Berlin
London
White House
King Features Syndicate
Eisenhower and Pershing Meet at Pershing’s Bedside
Historic private visit at Walter Reed Hospital sees General Eisenhower visit Black Jack Pershing in his bed. Signal corps photographers captured the moment but the prints and negatives were destroyed, erasing a potentially lasting record for history books. Ralph Smith, one
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Eisenhower
John J. Pershing
Germany
Pershing
Walter Reed Hospital
War Department
Signal Corps
Black Jack
Ike
Dixon
Signal
Ralph Smith
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