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The article discusses the studies of anthropologist Margaret Mead and her attempts to influence U.S. military strategy against Japan during World War II. The article examines Mead's life and career, her research concerning morale in Japan, and a rumor that Mead and her romantic interest, anthropologist Ruth Benedict, decided after their counterinsurgency efforts in Japan that bombing the Japanese Imperial Palace and killing the emperor would motivate the Japanese to a frenzy. The article also discusses the significance of anthropology as a scientific discipline in the mid-20th century. It also discusses the significance of anthropologist Franz Boas upon Mead, the U.S. Office of War Information (OWI), and Mead's experiences with the U.S. government following the war. INSET: Among the Natives.

Presents a speech by Wendell L. Willkie, former United States presidential nominee from the Republican Party, delivered over the radio on November 11, 1940. Thoughts on the political condition during the time he ran for president; Belief that should opposition to the government be suppressed, chaos would ensue; Urge for Americans to stand up for a free nation, despite the presence of World War II; Final remarks.

Discusses the foiled coup d'etat directed to topple the government of United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Role of retired US Marine Corps General Smedley Darlington Butler in foiling the impending putsch; Butler as a powerful symbol to many American soldiers and veterans; Testimonies of Butler concerning the coup d'etat; Ultimate aim of the coup plotters; Butler's dedication in upholding democracy.

Traces how the magic of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his practiced social programs welded American labor to the Democratic Party. Tensions that eventually weakened that union; Impact of the New Deal; Prominent labor leaders of the period.

Profiles United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His role in lifting the United States out of economic despair and revolutionizing the American way of life; His role in making the world safe for democracy; Career highlights; How he was the best loved and most hated American president of the 20th century.

Focuses on political developments in various parts of the world with emphasis on the socio-political condition in the U.S. German counter-proposal to sort out the crisis caused by the violation of the Locarno Pact; Efforts to shape a tax bill in the U.S. House and an investigation of the Townsend plan in the Senate; Efforts of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler to gain majority in the national referendum on recent acts; Information about the naval treaty signed in London; Suppression of efforts of labor leader John W. Davis to declare Utilities Holding Company Act unconstitutional; Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in favor of the government's anti-trust action against Sugar Institute Inc.; Conference of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party last week; Secret purchase of weapons by industrialists against workers; Strike of building employees in New York; Educational system in the U.S.

Presents information on the political and social conditions in the U.S. and other parts of the world. News related to war in various countries; Efforts of the U.S. administration to bring about the adoption of the substitute farm program; Approach of the French Chamber of Deputies for the ratification of the mutual-assistance pact with the Soviet Union; Information on elections in Spain; Views expressed by U.S. Senator Key Pittman for protection of citizens by force of arms; Report of the American Neurological Association on an increase in feeble-mindedness and mental disease; Reference to the strike by editorial workers of "The Wisconsin News."

Focuses on various socio-political developments in the world with emphasis on the political condition in the U.S. Forward thrusts by motorized units of the Italian army followed by Ethiopian raids on exposed positions; Information about speeches delivered by various politicians in the U.S.; Opposition to neutrality bill in the U.S. Congress; Plans of Jewish leaders to launch a United Palestine Appeal to aid a mass exodus from Germany; Use of a letter signed by businessman John J. Raskob to seek members by the Liberty League; Trial examiner of the National Labor Relations Board, Charles A. Wood's report on consumer research; Information about ship's officers sentenced for maritime criminal negligence; Acquisition of the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry by Bryn Mawr; Organization of tiff miners in Missouri; Formation of a Monarchist Party in the U.S.

This article presents news briefs on international relations and U.S. government and politics. The dispute between Italy and Ethiopia and the wait for the League of Nations to start a formal inquiry on the matter continue to dominate the international affairs. Meanwhile, the U.S. has warned the Russian government of dire consequences unless it compels the Third International to stop from Communist propaganda in the U.S. On the domestic front, the U.S. Congress has passed a neutrality resolution that expires in six months, which is good for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's foreign policy option in case another international war broke out.

This article presents updates on U.S. government and politics and international affairs. The League of Nations once again failed in its attempt to deal with the Ethiopian situation but will attempt to decide to whom the territory belongs, which is the chief problem. This failure, similar to the League's failure in dealing with Japan when it invaded China, is being attributed by Great Britain to the U.S. The U.S. House has passed a tax bill that in substance fully conforms to the desire of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Comments on the neutrality policy of the U.S. Result of increasing public apprehension brought by the war scare in Europe; Drafting of legislative bills calling for immediate and drastic revision of existing law; Evaluation of economic implications in the possible U.S. entry into the war; Debate over the implementation of disarmament; Presentation of provisions of the Nye-Clark legislative bill related to arms and munitions; Potential of U.S. involvement in conflicts in the Far East.

Comments on several political and foreign affairs developments in the U.S. Rejection made by the House of Representatives of the plea made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to pass the legislative bill abolishing public utility holding companies; Efforts of several prominent individuals and representatives of groups to create a new political party in Chicago; Inability of the U.S. administration to take active involvement regarding the conflict between Ethiopia and Italy; Arrest of several Americans forming a Commission of Inquiry into political and economic conditions in Cuba; Announcement on the completion of a giant bomber airplane with increased capabilities for the U.S. Army Air Corps; Impact of the strike conducted by garbage collectors on the political career of New Orleans Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley.

Focuses on the socio-political issues of the U.S. in particular and the world in general. Demand of the Federation of Labor of the U.S. for a constitutional amendment and immediate legislation protecting labor from the wage cuts; Rise of Japan is posing a threat to European and American territories in the Far East; Information related to the $4,000,000,000 work-relief program in the U.S.; Dispute between Great Britain and Italy over the question of occupying Ethiopia; Adoption of conservative principles by the Republicans in a convention at Springfield, Illinois; Affiliation of the American Newspaper Guild with the American Federation of Labor; Question of legality behind the removal of officials by the Chief Executive of the U.S. whom he/she appoints; Information on the appropriation bill for 1936 that suggests an increase of $1,000,000 for the express purpose of setting up new units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps in schools and colleges in the U.S.; Introduction of a bill in the U.S. Congress to reestablish asylum in this country for political, racial and religious refugees; Rise and fall of the British Prime Minister Ramsey MacDonald; Calls for readers' response to the repeal of prohibition to public drunkenness in the U.S. ; Discussion of censorship imposed upon the German press.

Focuses on the difference in the political situation between the United States of 1933 and the United States of 1935. Information on a steady process of polarization, by which the human atoms of that most atomistic thing, American society, are being attracted to the opposing political poles of left and right. Report on the combination of inflationary price-raising designed to restore profits and social services designed to take the edge off working-class intransigence; Discussion on the Unemployment Insurance Act.

Presents several views regarding the attempt of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration to provide economic security through the drafting of several legislative bills. Exploration of the general principles of unemployment insurance; Argument against the Wisconsin plan, calling for the formation of separate reserve fund from the contributions of each employer; Suggestion of letting the insurance plan rest primarily upon payable contributions; Reasons supporting the rejection of proposal mandating the creation of a national insurance plan; Question on the prevalence of unemployment in the construction, manufacturing and service industries.

Comments on political and socio-economic issues in the U.S. Abandonment of efforts to bring about limitation of all armament through the League of Nations; Increase on the physical volume of industrial production; Impact of economic downturn on various housing programs and rural electrification projects; Factors influencing the rise of the electric power rates of several private companies; Demonstration of the usefulness of public competition with private utilities; Number of suspected radicals throughout California.

Reports developments related to politics and government in the U.S. Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court on the objection of students against war; Call of Senator William Edgar Borah to the Republican Party; Strike organized by journalism students of Louisiana State University against Senator Huey P. Long.

Comments on various political and socio-economic issues concerning the U.S. Impact of economic depression on the business performance of various companies in the country; Opposition of several bankers to the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Criticisms on the performance of various political leaders; Accusation of Governor Culbert L. Olson by conservative elements of favoring the Minneapolis truck strikers in his use of the state forces.

Presents political and social developments related to the U.S. Significance of the rumor that the Public Works Department is recommending to President Franklin D. Roosevelt a program of 12,000,000,000 dollars which is to be spent in five years; Insignificance of Roosevelt's policy toward the Upton Sinclair campaign in California; Impact of a possible Sinclair win in California on employees in the state; Importance of Sinclair's attitude toward religion; Information on a case of lynching involving an African American in the South; Need for long prison sentences for those involved in lynching; Information on a commercial whispering campaign; Denial of ballot to a communist state ticket in Illinois; Contribution of Federal Relief Administration towards college students; Discussion on a textile-strike settlement; Orders given by the president regarding safeguard for the mills; Discussion on a conflict between the Protestant opposition and the Nazi church in Germany; Need for German political leader Adolf Hitler to take a stand when Reich Bishop Müller takes his oath to the Chancellor.

Focuses on political and social developments at various parts of the world with emphasis on the U.S. Labor dispute that called a strike last week at the textile industry; Pickets killed during strike at Honea Path, South Carolina; Investigation of the marine tragedy involving the ship Morro Castle; Possible candidature of wife of the present Governor of Pennsylvania Mrs. Gifford Pinchot to success her husband; Foreign policies of Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini; Use of cattle hides for shoe manufacturing by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.

Reports political developments in the U.S. Reorganization of the National Recovery Administration; Correspondence of Senator Warren T. Thayer made public by the Federal Trade Commission; Disclosure of some additional interesting material regarding the Associated Gas and Electric Company by the Federal Trade Commission.

Comments on politics and foreign relations issues in the U.S. Message of the Chancellor of Austria Engelbert Dollfuss to the American people about the civil war in Austria; Need for extending the present investigation by Congress into army airplane and motorized-equipment contracts to the affairs of the Navy; Support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the Child Labor Amendment.

Presents information regarding political developments from around the world with special emphasis on the U.S. Analysis of the revised retail code which eliminates the proposed provision that no retailer could sell an article for less than 10 per cent above its invoice cost; Statement of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt regarding the state of unemployment in the country; Objection of small independent oil producers regarding the provisions of the oil code; Support of Walter H. Eddy, head of the journal "Good Housekeeping" to the Copeland Bill, designed to strengthen and extend the work of the Pure Food and Drug Law; Objection of the Americans on the circulation of "The Daily Worker," the Communist newspaper in the U.S.; Analysis of the Literary Digest poll, based on ballots sent to every registered voters in the New York City which indicated that Fiorello LaGuardia, the Fusion candidate will win; Information regarding the election in Spain to choose a new Cortes.

Presents several political and socio-economic issues affecting the U.S. Suggestion of inflation advocates that the way to bring back prosperity is for the government to issue a specified amount of money to every adult in the country to induce spending; Decision of the federal government to go into housing business of its own; Efforts of the Senate banking committee to close its indictment on Wall Street; Violent and bloody reprisals on the striking cotton pickers in California; Killings on miners in the Harlan County primaries in Kentucky; Allegation of the Berry Schools of charging students to do manual labor in exchange for tuition and living expenses; Reaction of the readers on the allegations against the school; Arrests of alleged American fascists headed by Art Smith in Philadelphia; Assertion of Smith that he and his men will establish a new Fascist dictatorship and he will rule America; Credibility of Smith of having financial means to support such plans to establish a Fascist government; Assertion of the author that there is a probable alliance between Smith's Khaki Shirts with the Italian Fascists, German Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan; Strike in the Yakima Valley in Washington.

Presents an update on various political developments in the U.S. Report of the Federal Relief Administrator (NRA) related to the growing unemployment problem in the U.S.; Criticism of the nomination of Ferdinand Pecora for the district attorney of New York State; Justification of the attention given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the membership of U.S. Federal Communications Commission; Account of the work undertaken by the Railroad Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman amidst the report about the NRA and other governmental agencies.

The article discusses various political events involving the U.S. Both the House and Senate of the Congress have indicated an inclination to revolt against the leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The author believes that the success of the domestic-allotment plan for the farmers depends on the people who will either support or oppose it. John Collier, secretary of the American Indian Defense Association, has been nominated to the Indian Bureau in the Department of Interior.

Profiles Charles Abraham Halleck, the U.S. Republican leader of the House of Representatives. His political career background; His support for Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey in the 1944 presidential election; His tenure as a member of a committee headed by Representative Howard Smith, which investigated the National Labor Relations Board; His efforts to build a record of unswerving opposition to the New Deal; His support for restrictive amendments to the Price Control Act.

Presents an insight into the political situation in the United States. Overview of the political activities taken by the Independent Voters of Illinois; View that the outcome of 1946 congressional elections will be determined by the extent to which the Democratic Party leadership, the labor movement and independent progressive groups can agree on a program of positive action; Suggestion to encourage new leadership in Missouri; Acknowledgement that Utah has become a really progressive state through political action; Comment that organized labor is the most important political force in California; Description of the situation of the Negroes in Oregon; Deterioration of the Non-Partisan League in North Dakota.

Focuses on political developments in the world, with emphasis on political conditions in the U.S. Information on the U.S. Navy's proposal for peace and weapon disarmaments; Discussion of the Pearl Harbor investigation and theory set up by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to warn the Americans of the dangers of fascist aggression; Information on the U.S. Government's encouragement of reconversion policy; Discussion of the Anglo-American talks on the Lend-Lease between Great Britain and the U.S.; Discussion of the unemployment-compensation legislation and the Kilgore unemployment bill which is considered by Senator Walter George of Georgia to reveal his opposition in the U.S. Congress; Opinion of Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada on the Administration bill that the main purpose of reorganization should be to return to the states the powers which, the federal government usurped during the war; Discussion of the demands of the steelworkers for a wage increase; Information on the U.S. state referenda which states that since there is ceiling on the price of cotton, one must have a low price on the cost of picking and poor sharecroppers must pay their hired hands, and cannot afford decent wages; Information on U.S. General Douglas MacArthur's announcement that he will be the boss of the Japanese Emperor, and stay in Japan until the Potsdam terms are carried out; Discussion of the responsibility of the U.S. in deciding how to control the atomic bomb and cooperation of British and Russian scientists; Information on the Economic Stabilization Act that authorizes the U.S. President to set farm wages and State Wage Board in each state, which holds hearings and then sets a tentative figure for farm wages.

Focuses on several issues related to U.S. politics and world politics. Positive reaction on the election of U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt; Military campaigns against the southern borders of Germany; Fall of the Schelde estuary in Belgium into the hands of the Allies; Disadvantage of using landing crafts; Military campaign of General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines; Dismissal of Homer P. Rainey, president of the University of Texas, by the Board of Regents in a fight over academic freedom; Religious debate in France and Germany; Iranian government's refusal to grant to the Soviet Union concessions for the exploitation of the Kevir and Khurian oil deposits.

Analyzes elections for the U.S. House of Representatives by assessing the balance of forces in the House and studying previous elections. Composition of the House includes 215 Democrats, 212 Republicans and 4 minority party members, with 4 vacancies; Importance of party control in the House of Representatives; Probability of the election of majority of Democrats in the House; Chances of gains for the administration in a number of states with industrial populations; Details about political campaigns in various states.

Presents news related to recent political developments around the world with an emphasis on political issues in the U.S. Call for U.S. citizens to cast their votes in the 1944 election; Plans of the Nazis for a continuation of hostilities in Germany after the Allied armies have passed; Politico-military domination of Great Britain in Greece and Albania; Intention of Great Britain to prevent the liberation of Greece by the Greeks themselves; Denial of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt regarding his sympathy toward the Communists' program for the country; Views of presidential candidate Thomas Dewey on federal taxation.

Focuses on the electoral chances of the U.S. Democratic and Republican parties in the November 1944 congressional and gubernatorial elections. Domination of the liberal party in the legislative body's lower and upper chambers prior to the fall elections; Total number of senatorial seats for contention by both parties; Analysis of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt's electoral success in 1940.

Focuses on supporters of Governor of New York, Thomas E. Dewey. Support of Frank Gannett, newspaper publisher for Dewey; Membership of Louis Haber for National Committee on Food for Small Democracies; Discussion of the support provided by Old Guard members to Dewey; Potential candidacy of John Foster Dulles as Dewey's Secretary of State; Dulles business connections probably provide a better key to his international thinking; Assistance provided by Dulles to the conservative banking clique which went all-out to attack plans for international stabilization and a world bank; Organization of the New York State Young Republican clubs by the follower of Dewey, Paul Lockwood.