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IssueVol. 004 Issue 044 (November 2 1940)
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Paid articleTrial Discloses Sensational Hopson Greed
Taxes Won't But May Be Higher If You Can See Through Gov. Heil Trial Discloses Sensational Hopson Greed Utility Magnate Charged With Siphoning Huge Funds, Padding Bills THE MOST sensational...
Paid articleHere's How The Polls Fared On Election
Here's How The Polls Fared On Election THE ELECTION RESULTS have caught up with the "scientific polls," the newspaper predictions, the prophecies of party leaders, the miscellaneous oracles and the...
Paid articleFear Is Dictators' Great Weapon Against America, Major Eliot Points Out
Fear Is Dictators' Great Weapon Against America, Major Eliot Points Out BY overcoming fear, the most powerful weapon the dictator nations are using against us, the American people will achieve...
Paid articleHillman Says AFL, CIO Back Defense Program
Hillman Says AFL, CIO Back Defense Program The AFL and the CIO are united in support of the national defense program, Sidney Hillman, labor member of the National Defense Advisory Commission...
Paid articleIckes Calls For *A Truly Free Press*
Ickes Calls For *A Truly Free Press* The need for "a truly free press that represents no class or economic group," was pointed out last week by Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes in a Washington...
Paid articleLabor Drives For N e w Test O f Peace Act
Labor Drives For New Test Of Peace Act VI7ITH one battle lost before *» the state supreme court* Wisconsin labor began this week to drive forward on new fronts in its campaign to have the antiunion...
Paid articleN.Y. Milk Giants Nick Farmers And Consumers
N.Y. Milk Giants Nick Farmers And Consumers The big dairy monopolies were up to their old trick last week, this time in New York, of tacking on that little fraction of a cent on the milk price that...
Paid articleNazis Train Youth In Rigid Physical Life
Nazis Train Youth In Rigid Physical Life GERMAN youth mobilization began long before the war—in plenty of time to be of value when the war began, points out Wade Werner, back in America after 10...
Paid articleConsumers Urge Defense Tax On Profits
Consumers Urge Defense Tax On Profits REPRESENTATIVES from 43 organizations, meeting in Washington at a consumers' conference, voted to set up a continuations committee for the purpose of forming a...
Paid articleRadio In Modern Warfare Is An Instrument Of Destruction
Radio In Modern Warfare Is An Instrument Of Destruction VOICE of discipline and command—voice of destruction—and instrument of conquest—that is the role of radio in modern warfare, a role enacted...
Paid articleU. S., Bolivia Launch Tin Production Plan
U. S., Bolivia Launch Tin Production Plan A plan operated jointly by the United States and Bolivia, under which a tin production industry will be developed entirely within the Western Hemisphere,...
Paid articleIs It Defense Or War, Rail Official Asks
Is It Defense Or War, Rail Official Asks American railroads want to know whether the United States is planning for defense or for war, so they can make plans accordingly, a leading railroad...
Paid articleortense Odium Leaves Job To Be Just A Customer'
New Electric Machines Will Keep Army Records The U. S. army's "paper work," which handicapped combat units in the World War, will give way to record-keeping by electric machines under new systems...
Paid articleBritain's Chamberlain Dies At 71
Britain's Chamberlain Dies At 71 A Britain at war mourned this week tor Neville Chamberlain, former prime minister who once had hoped for "pea^e in our time." Chamberlain died at 71 after months...
Paid articleTVA Units Pay Three Millions Out For Taxes
TVA Units Pay Three Millions Out For Taxes Publicly-owned power systems that make up the Tennessee Valley Authority's electrical scope are paying $3,280,000 a year in taxes and tax replacements,...
Paid articleMerlin Hull Returns To Congress Again
Merlin Hull Returns To Congress Again Memphis Utility Cuts Rates, Jumps Profits The Memphis Light, Gas & Water Company, publicly owned and operated utility, reported a net income of $2,299,635 for...
Paid articleT h e Common Defense
The Common Defense* In the fight for its life, democracy in the United States has to learn to be efficient, asserts this Wisconsin research worker now in Washington. -By GEORGE F....
Paid articleAssociated Farmers' Role Exposed In Senate Probe
Associated Farmers' Role Exposed In Senate Probe LABOR HATERS, led principally by the "Associated Farmers," sought to shackle the union movement by legislation on the West Coast when they failed to...
Paid articleCost Of Living Moving Upward
Cost Of Living Moving Upward Living costs are slowly climbing, declares the National Industrial Conference Board, an employers' research organization, in reporting a one-half of one per cent...
Paid articleTax System Topsy-Turvy, Survey Shows
Tax System Topsy-Turvy, Survey Shows THE tax system of the United States is found to be" "topsyturvy," according'to a recent study by the U. S. Department of Commerce for the Temporary National...
Paid articleTHE PEOPLES FORUM
. . . THE PEOPLES FORUM . . . The Home Grounds Dear Sirs: Some readers complain that too much space is given to Wisconsin news in The Progressive. From the standpoint of Wisconsin this is...
Paid articleThe Third Term Arrives
The Third Term Arrives -By OSWALD GARRISON VILLARDSO THE PRESIDENT has wou again and carried oft an honor never before bestowed upon any American. He may rightly claim that he has received a new...
Paid articleSen. Pittman Dies After Heart Attack
Sen. Pittman Dies After Heart Attack Sen. Key Pittman, 68. chairman of the U. S. senate foreign relations committee died of a heart attack last week at Reno, Nev., a few days after winning...
Paid articleTVA Points To $300 Million Market Open
TVA Points To $300 Million Market Open If electric users throughout the nation purchased as much electrical equipment as the average TVA residential customer, an additional market for more than...
Paid articleLabor, Co-ops Talk Consumer Buying Power
Labor, Co-ops Talk Consumer Buying Power AMERICAN farmers, organized as consumers, buy $440,000,-000 worth of farm supplies cooperatively, E. R. Bowen, secretary of the Cooperative League of the U....
Paid articleArmy Organizes Colored Groups
Army Organizes Colored Groups Negro units will be organized in all branches of the army, combat as well as service units, President Roosevelt said at a recent White House conference dealing with...
Paid articleA ROOM OFOUR OWN
A ROOM OF OUR OWN j^TTHERE'S NO REST for the weary" or is it "wicked"? I've -¦¦never found out which. Maybe both! Anyway, weary or wicked, after long months leading up to November 5th, there was no...
Paid articleTake Steps To Kill Whining In Children
Take Steps To Kill Whining In Children THE easiest thing for anybody to do is to complain, and since this is an imperfect world, there is always something to complain about! We all know chronic...
Paid articleBoom Days May Lie Ahead For Women Workers
Boom Days May Lie Ahead For Women Workers Boom days are ahead for working women, predicts Mary Anderson, director of the women's bureau of the department of labor. As millions of men are absorbed...
Paid articleOur American Government
Our American Government Taxation—For Government Services THE American people have got to do some clear thinking on the question of taxation. As the bills mount, people complain, yet go on asking...
Paid articleJeanetteRctnkin, 7 Other Women Go To Congress
JeanetteRctnkin, 7 Other Women Go To Congress JEANETTE RANKIN, Montana Republican, won a political "comeback" on election day as she anoj seven other women throughout the country were elected to...
Paid articleHortense Odium Leaves Job To Be Just A Customer'
Hortense Odium Leaves Job To Be Just A Customer' Hortense M. Odium has just retired as president of Bonwit Teller, New York specialty store, after lifting its sales volume from $3,-500,000 in 1934...
Paid articleWilson Pledged Peace in 1916
Wilson Pledged Peace in 1916 IN THE closing weeks of the campaign, as it became increasingly evident that the American voter feared our involvement in conflict overseas, President Roosevelt and...
Paid articleNo 'Mandate' For Gov. Heil
No 'Mandate' For Gov. Heil RETURNED to office by the narrow margin of 12,000 votes, Gov. Heil should take stock of his precarious position as a minority governor and resolve to give Wisconsin a...
Paid articleKnocked Off Their Soapboxes
Knocked Off Their Soapboxes AMAJORITY of the American voting public last week knocked a majority of daily newspapers off their editorial soapboxes for the third time in eight years. In 1932 about...
Paid articleLet's Have More Of Them
Let's Have More Of Them DISPLAYING the ethics of a Tammany alderman, five private utility companies have poured $55,788 into a propaganda campaign to block out public ownership in the state of...
Paid articleNo Dictator Can Object
No Dictator Can Object (From The New Republic) 'THE FEW snappy words of government propaganda, stamped on envelopes along with the postmark, are familiar to receivers of letters throughout the...
Paid articleMore Than Mere Senator
More Than Mere Senator (From The Milwaukee Evening Post) SENATOR LA FOLLETTE, like Senator Norris and a few other chosen souls in the upper house of congress, has become more than mere senator...
Paid articleBritain Wants America In
Britain Wants America In BRITAIN wants America to enter the war as an ally, in the belief that this country's participation will turn the tide against the axis powers, declared William H. Stoneman,...
Paid articleElection Balance Sheet
Election Balance Sheet (From The New York Daily News) A STRONG opposition party—knockdown and drag-out political fights—strong and heartfelt campaign debates, with the hatchet buried immediately...
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