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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the Congress to do away with the Information and Education program of the nation's armed forces, in the name of economy. It is no secret that several of the legislators have long considered the program dangerously liberal and subversive, ever since, back in 1945, the Orientation Branch of the I & E Division published Orientation Fact Sheet No. 64 on Fascism, which included a section on 'how can we identify native American fascists at work?" The fact-sheet stated that "in the United States, native fascists have often been anti-Catholic, anti-Jew, anti-Negro, anti-Labor, anti...
...generally excellent performance during World War II. It operated under the assumption that an informed soldier is a better soldier, that a man who had a sense of the why and wherefore was of greater use to the Army. And, through its troop Information Program and its Orientation Branch, it labored to give the American soldier facts about his country, his service and his allies, as well as his enemies. The I & E program brought education to the American GI through its USAFI branch, gave his news in I & E-edited overseas newspapers, broadcast him radio entertainment programs, and provided...
Post Offices are not accepting any parcels over five pounds in weight, over 16 inches in length, and over 60 inches length and girth combined, according to William D. Berkeley, assistant superitendent of the Cambridge 38 branch. This restriction means that "Laundry boxes are out," Berkeley stated...
...spokesman for the Boston branch of the Post Office reminded prospective gift-sonders that the deadline for west bound backages was last month, but that parcels sent "special handling" or "special delivery" and under the weight and size limits may still reach their western destinations "with reasonable assurance." Emergency restrictions, however, do not hold for points within the Boston postal district or A.P.O. centers...
Anonymity. Harold Segur grew up, gradually stopped worrying about who his parents were. He married, had four sons of his own, finally became a grandfather. At 58 he was a mild, grey-haired, paunchy, average man. He wore steel-rimmed spectacles, had an average job (employment manager for a branch of the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co.), lived in an average frame house in an average Worcester, Mass, neighborhood...