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IssueVol. 005 Issue 005 (February 1 1941)
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Paid articleBob LaFollette Says
The PROGRESSIVE VOL 5, NO. 5 MADISON, WISCONSIN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY I, 1941 Price Five Cents Bob LaFollette Says: * * * Bill 1776 Would Make Congress's War Power A Slender Reed...
Paid articleWheeler, Nye Ask Statement Of War Aims
Wheeler, Nye Ask Statement Of War Aims ARESOLUTION summoning the warring nations of the world to proclaim publicly their war aims, peace conditions, and the contents of "any secret treaties" was...
Paid articlePayoff
Payoff Insull investors To Get $78 For $ 1,000 The thousands of American investors who poured their life savings in Samuel Insull's fabulous utility empire will receive a maximum liquidating...
Paid articleAdministration Bows To Public Opinion,Agrees To Changes
Administration Bows To Public Opinion, Agrees To Changes FACED WITH rapidly mounting opposition to its sweeping lease-lend bill, including objections from its usually staunch supporters, the...
Paid articleThe Lone Eagle Speaks
Middleton, George
The Lone Eagle Speaks By GEORGE MIDDLETON j Noted Author and Playwright ; Washington, D. C. WHATEVER OUR sympathies, the hearings on the Lease-Lend Bill before the House Foreign Relations...
Paid articleChallenging A Trade Myth
EGAN, CHARLES E.
Challenging A Trade Myth Editor's Note:Owe of the most frequently expressed arguments for American involvement in the war is the one in which Nazi Germany is pictured as wrecking our Latin and...
Paid articleTwo Year Limit Doesn't Improve Bill, Taft Says
Two Year Limit Doesn't Improve Bill, Taft Says The proposal to place a time-limit of two years on President Roosevelt's lend-lease bill is "wholly unimportant—whatever harm can eome of the bill...
Paid articleDemocrats Get Into Real Stew Over Regency?
Democrats Get Into Real Stew Over Regency' 'Wisconsin's quarrelling Democrats sought to get together on patronage distribution last week, but their plan for a four-man regency to administer the...
Paid articleFree Speech
Free Speech Chicago Faculty Endorses FDR Policy Day Their Prexy Opposes It They have free speech on the campus of the University of Chicago—bushels of it. On the same day that their president,...
Paid articleGOP Steamroller Blocks Action On Squandering
GOPSteamroller Blocks Action On Squandering WITH its fourth week in the offing, the Wisconsin legislature has still to grapple with a major, controversial issue. Introduction of dozens of new...
Paid articleRepublic Steel Net Record High Profit
Republic Steel Nets Record High Profits Republic Steel Corporation, bursting with defense orders, last week reported an all-time record net profit for 1940 of $21,113,507, which represents an...
Paid articleArbiter?
Arbiter? Scientist Sees Influenza Coloring European Situation Influenza will soon become a world-wide epidemic and perhaps the final arbiter of the war, Dr. David T. Smith, professor of...
Paid articleWinant Looms As U. S. Envoy To England
Winant Looms As U. S. Envoy To England John G. Winant Anointment of John G. Winant, liberal Republican and former governor of New Hampshire, as ambassador to Great Britain appeared virtually...
Paid articleLease, Lend Bill called Violation of FDR Pledge
Lease, Lend Bill Called Violation Of FDR Pledge Thirty-eight prominent New Yorkers characterized President Roosevelt's lend-lease bill as "tantamount to a declaration of war," in a letter they sent...
Paid articleCampaign ExPenses Exceed $50,000,00
Campaign Expenses Exceed $50,000,00 The nation's political parties spent between $50,000,000 and $60,000,000 in the 1940 political campaign, Sen. GuytJillette, Iowa Democrat and chairman of the...
Paid articleRed Russia Is Appeased By Administration
Red Russia Is 'Appeased' By Administration Despite the administration's habit of calling everyone who disagrees with its foreign policy an "ap-peaser," the State Department moved last week to...
Paid article$10,000 Cash Licks Public Power Project
$10,000 Cash Licks Public Power Project Discovery of a mysterious cash payment of $10,000, made in a St. Louis hotel room after the Centralia, III., city council had repealed an ordinance for a...
Paid articleAmerica First Asks Definition Of Claims
America First Asks Definition Of Claims The Milwaukee chapter of the America First Committee has enrolled 10,000 members in the first 10 days of its existence, Lansing Hoyt, chairman, disclosed...
Paid articleWood, Gibson Clash
Wood, Gibson Clash On Aid To Britain The leaders of the two major contending groups on the issue of American Foreign policy will debate aid to Britain in Chicago Feb. 3. The debaters are Gen....
Paid articleTHE PEOPLE'S FORUM
. . .THE PEOPLES FORUM . . . Thrill With Pride Dear Sirs: I" have been a reader of your courageous "free press" for the past half year. I have also been a subscriber (until recently) of the...
Paid articleMORE FORUM
MORE FORUM 'Cause And The Remedy' Dear Sirs: During the past three years, false war propaganda has been featured in the weekly and daily press, over the radio and from the various platforms and...
Paid articleAmerica And The War
HUTCHINS, ROBERT
America And The War By ROBERT HUTCHINS President of the University of Chicago IBELIEVE THAT THE American people are about to commit suicide. We are not planning to. We have no plan. We are...
Paid articleNot A Wall Street Man Peeped!
Villard, Oswald Garrison
Not A Wall Street Man Peeped! -By OSWALD GARRISON VILLARDMAYOR LA GUARDIA'S annual messages as Mayor of New York always deserve wide reading because' of their remarkable frankness and because of...
Paid articleBritain Suppresses Reel, Leftist Papers
Britain Suppresses Red, Leftist Papers The British government invoked its wartime censorship powers last week to suppress the Daily Worker, Communist organ, and the Week, a. leffest weekly news...
Paid articleLegislation Proposed
Legislation Proposed To Halt Rent Racketeers Charging that landlords are taking advantage of a housing shortage to "soak" defense workers with high rents in some communities, Harriet Elliott,...
Paid articleShort Of War'
'Short Of War' Misnomer, Says Rickenbacker The phrase "all aid short of war" is a misnomer because the aid needed cannot be given "unless you go the whole way," Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, World War...
Paid articleAnother Big Banker Backs FDR Program
Another Big Banker Backs FDR Program More powerful banking support was thrown to President Roosevelt's foreign policy of all-out aid to Britain when Winthrop W.- Aldrich, chairman of the Chase...
Paid articleSocial Security Group Pushes Draftees Aid
Social Security Group Pushes Draftees' Aid Unemployment benefits geared to a "minimum standard of living for family" rather than previous wages are recommended for America's conscripts by the...
Paid articleIN THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT
IN THE COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT Co-op Members Save 10-25%, Writer Declares Consumer cooperatives are an illustration of democracy in action and can save members from 10 to 25 per cent on household...
Paid articleA ROOM OF OUR OWN
^ of interest to WOMEN ^ "It has always seemed to me that women should play a larger part than they do in the greater housekeeping of the state. . . .My widowed mother was a woman of wise...
Paid articleChild Labor Days'
'Child Labor Days' Being Observed Schools, churches, and other groups are observing "National Child Labor Days" this weekend, Jan. 25, 26, and 27. The constitutional amendment to curb child labor...
Paid articleCongressmen
Congressmen Write Their Biographies A NEW EDITION of a red-' bound, much-thumbed book —the Congressional directory— has just been issued, and 13 members of the House of Reprc-| sentatives found...
Paid article2 Million Women Workers' Available For Defense Jobs
2 Million Women Workers Available For Defense Jobs Two million women workers are ready to help turn the wheels of industry for the national defense emergency, Mary Anderson, director of the U. S....
Paid articleYour Money's Worth
Your Money's Worth Electric Bulbs . . . GM's '6%' Plan . . . Consumer Market News . . . Brooms DID YOU KNOW THAT a 100-watt bulb may be a better buy than a lower watt bulb—and cheaper to operate?...
Paid articleWomen Asked To March On Capital Against Bill
Women Asked To March On Capital Against Bill Rosa M. Farber, Detroit Mich., vice-president of the Mothers of the United States of America, has appealed to the women of America to march on...
Paid articleMrs. FDR Opposes Drafting Women
Mrs. FDR Opposes (Drafting Women Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt thinks that it would "do no harm" to require young women to give a year's service to their country, but she adds that "at the present...
Paid articleThe PROGRESSIVE
The PROGRESSIVE .With which is combined La Follette's Magazine, founded in 1909 by Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Published every Saturday by the Progressive Publishing Company. Robert M. La Follette,...
Paid articleThe Military Mind
Putnam, Harold
The Military Mind =By HAROLD PUTNAM= Washington, D. C. TTHE BIGGEST BATTLE in Washington is being ¦*• waged between Progressives who see in the defense program an opportunity to carry out some...
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