Revolt on tax bill aids rise in stock list
Rail average hits 7-year high, utility since 1940
By Elmer C. Walzer, United Press financial editor
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Editorial: OWI’s ‘mistake’
Just after Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Information, settled a family row with his Overseas Branch and admonished that branch to keep out of public trouble, the Republicans jumped all over the same outfit for failing to identify Governor Bricker of Ohio as a candidate for President.
Mr. Bricker was one of two men in United States about whom such a mistake is unpardonable.
He is an announced candidate. So is Wendell Willkie.
But if OWI had failed to mention that Governor Dewey, for instance, is a candidate, it could easily have been forgiven. Or if it had omitted saying anything about President Roosevelt being a candidate, no fault could be found with it.
Presidential aspiration is no longer a matter of thumped chests, bellowed challenges and brass bands. The modest blush, the averted eye, the indecisive answer, the coy humor seem to be the marks of a candidate.
Taylor: New Deal stronghold
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent
Washington –
By a strange political development, traditionally Republican Pennsylvania has become one of the last remaining strongholds of the New Deal wing of the Democratic Party, while the Solid South, except for a smattering of votes, has slipped away.
The rock-bottom strength of the New Deal in Congress was ascertained last week by the roll calls in the House and Senate on President Roosevelt’s veto of the new tax bill – a showdown brought about by the President himself when he trampled on Congressional sensitivities in his veto message.
Pennsylvania has 13 Democratic Congressmen and 12 of them voted to sustain the veto, a total exceeded only by New York. The State’s Democratic Senator, Joseph F. Guffey, a New Dealer all the way, not only remained staunchly in the President’s corner, but also reiterated his prediction that Mr. Roosevelt will be reelected for a fourth term.
If the Congressional vote represents adequately the sentiment of the constituents – and this is a campaign year – it means that Mr. Roosevelt, as the Democratic nominee, will be supported in the South because he is on the Democratic ticket and because he is the only Democrat with a chance to win.
In Pennsylvania, however, Mr. Roosevelt will be the one big candidate, with other party candidates comprising only a sort of supporting cast and the whole campaign waged on a pro-Roosevelt or anti-Roosevelt basis. Pennsylvania Democrats, with a single exception, remain firm in the conclusion that their success depends on Mr. Roosevelt.
That policy was plainly enunciated at the meeting of the Democratic State Committee three weeks ago, when a harmony program was ratified to prevent a primary fight, and Republican leaders promptly accepted the issue with a similar harmony program, formed for the same reason.
In Pennsylvania, party managers know they’ve got to get Republican votes to win, and every statewide election since 1932 has proved that Democrats can carry Pennsylvania only when Mr. Roosevelt runs or on the high tide of a strong New Deal issue, as in 1934.
The rupture between the President and Congress, therefore, caused Pennsylvania members considerable concern, not because of fear that their constituents won’t approve their stand on the tax bill veto but because it marks a new low in the steadily worsening relations between the Executive and Congress.
The vote against the President may have political repercussions next November that can mean the difference between victory and defeat for some of the Pennsylvania Congressmen who have continued to support him throughout his fencing with Congress on such issues as the anti-strike bill, which was passed over his veto, and the food price subsidy issue.
How rapidly Mr. Roosevelt’s Congressional support deteriorated is shown in two House votes to override presidential vetoes. The first, on his veto of a bill that would eliminate food price subsidies, was 226–151 with a Republican-Democratic coalition failing to override. The second, less than a week later, on his veto of the tax bill, was 299–95.
While the issues differed, in each case the House was voting on whether to override a presidential veto. The food price subsidy issue was one that gathered widespread popular support for the President from labor, consumer and other groups. Even with the help of an unofficial consumer committee of Congressmen, headed by Rep. Thomas E. Scanlon (D-Pittsburgh), and strongly backed by labor, the administration forces managed to sustain the veto only by a narrow margin.
Hopper: Hollywood hails a new comedian making triumphant screen debut
Danny Kaye after 12 years hits the jackpot
By Hedda Hopper
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Plays spouse of W. Wilson
World War I President is subject of movie
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The New York Times (February 27, 1944)
Red Cross woman is killed at Anzio
Miss Esther Richards, U.S. hospital worker, a victim of German bombing
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Völkischer Beobachter (February 28, 1944)
Aasgeier über Neapel –
Juden, Yankees und Kommunisten im Wettlauf
Eigener Bericht des „Völkischen Beobachters“
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The Pittsburgh Press (February 28, 1944)
ALLIES ADVANCE AT ANZIO
Yank thrust smashed by U.S. troops
British take 2 strongpoints on left flank of beachhead
By Robert Vermillion, United Press staff writer
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YANKS BLAST FRENCH ROCKET COAST
Nazi targets hit by waves of bombers
Attack breaks lull after record week of raids against Germans
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Carolines raided again –
Nimitz raises toll at Truk
40 Jap ships blasted in two-day assault
By William F. Tyree, United Press staff writer
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14 ships blasted –
South Pacific bases shelled
U.S. destroyers hit Japs at Kavieng and Rabaul
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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‘Sammy the Rose’ –
Rosenman named as writer of blistering tax bill veto
Roosevelt’s legal aide may become new whipping boy
By Lyle C. Wilson, United Press staff writer
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Graham candidate for Congress race
Butler, Pennsylvania – (special)
Attorney John C. Graham today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Congress at the April 25 primary.
Mr. Graham has sought election to Congress several times, the last two years ago when he polled Butler County over Congressman Louis E. Graham, but lost the nomination in the results from the other two counties in the district, Beaver and Lawrence.
Mr. Graham said his candidacy gives Butler County a chance “to have a representative in Congress for the first time in 20 years.”