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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.

The article discusses the U.S. government disposal of war surpluses, and what businesses can expect from it as of May 1945. It states that since most are weapons and war machines, they will likely be stored, scrapped or sold to another nation. The rest, such as copper wire, clothes and machine tools, will be sold, about 60 to 70 billion dollars worth. It is unknown exactly what and how many will be available, but businesses must reportedly adapt to a new situation, that instead of selling to the government, they will be buying from it, instead.

The article presents political news briefs for the week of December 13, 1948 for the United States. A merger may occur between the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union and the Farm Equipment Workers union. The leadership of Republican National Committee chairman Hugh Scott Jr. is seen to be out of step with the U.S. electorate.

The article presents political news briefs for the week of November 29, 1948 for the United States. Great Britain and the U.S. are objecting to the Soviet Union's blockade of Berlin, Germany. A reflection on U.S. policy toward China is presented. Former first lady Elenor Roosevelt may be appointed embassador of France.

The article presents several political news briefs for the week of November 15, 1948 in the United States. President Harry Truman was elected over his opponent New York governor Thomas Dewey. The price of corn played a role in the presidential voting in Illinois. The author also presents election results from the state of Massachusetts.

The article discusses the possibility of an economic depression in the late 1940s. The author contends that all of the signs of a depression are present, including general prosperity, high prices, and high employment rates. The author also discusses the history of depressions in the United States dating back to 1837, the relationship between politics and depressions, and what can be done to prevent another depression.

Focuses on political action committees, labor's participation in American politics. Labor's participation in the gubernatorial elections in Connecticut; New England Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)-Political Action Committee Director Henry Murray's assessment of the political situation in Connecticut; Election of Chester Bowles as Governor; Argument that labor's turnout will decide whether or not Bowles will win; Anti-labor referenda in Massachusetts; Key labor leaders' efforts to learn the basics of political war organization; Cooperation and mutual admiration between the American Federation of Labor and the CIO.

News briefs pertaining to politics and government are presented. The situation in the U.S. Congress and the potential effects of the 1948 elections on Democratic or Republican control is discussed. The author describes the efforts of the Montana Power Company to get the U.S. government to build the Cañon Ferry Dam but prohibit use of government funds for power facilities. A description of France's celebrations of the Parisians' liberation of the city from Germans is included.

News briefs related to politics and government are presented. The author describes partisan politics in the U.S. government and President Harry S. Truman's efforts to win reelection. The Soviet Union's control of the Danube Conference, at which the U.S. and allies were a minority, is described. Three Soviet teachers, Mr. and Mrs. Mikhail Samain and Mrs. Oksana Kosenkina, attempts to renounce their Soviet citizenship are described together with the Soviet Union's attempts to retain the three.

News briefs pertaining to politics and government are presented. Republican party reaction to U.S. President Harry S. Truman's proposals to control inflation and inadequate housing is described. The author reports on activities surrounding the Danube Conference, held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. From Memphis, Tennessee, political strongman Ed Crump's attempts to retain control by discrediting gubernatorial candidate Gordon Browning are described.

Argues that the United States House Un-American Activities Committee has undermined the Constitution and weakened democracy by denying fundamental liberties and violating basic principles of government in its investigation of alleged Communist spies. Observation that the committee has illegally assumed the role of prosecutor, jury, judge and firing squad; Character assassination of the suspects; Importance of the system of separation of powers where the Congress legislates and appropriates, the executive administers, and the courts judge and convict.

News briefs related to politics and government are presented. The author describes preparations for a special session of the U.S. Congress, called for by President Harry S. Truman and to be directed by his staff. Information on the political maneuvers of the Soviet Union and the U.S. over control of Berlin, Germany is included. The economic status of U.S. farmers is reported in a summary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "Agricultural Situation" article "Many Farmers Not Prosperous."

News briefs pertaining to U.S. politics and government are presented. The author reports on the Democratic party convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at which Sergeant Marty Snyder supported General Dwight D. Eisenhower over incumbent President Harry S. Truman. In North Dakota Protestants won a campaign to ban religious garb in public schools, which allows removal of Catholic nuns teaching in the western part of the state. Information on the Ku Klux Klan's political activities is included.

Discusses the author's resignation as Contributing Editor at "New Republic" magazine to lead the New Party. Author's role in the development of national programs, such as a system of storage known as the Ever Normal Granary; Awareness of the supreme importance of overcoming delinquencies in civil liberties; Argument that the protection and extension of civil rights and the elimination of discrimination and segregation must be the priority in the platform of any progressive party.

Discusses the need for progressive leadership in the Democratic Party in time for the November 1948 presidential election. Factual background on the kind of political leadership advanced by former Democratic president Franklin D. Roosevelt; Efforts of the opposing party in raising administrative competence as a political agenda against the ruling Democrats; Electoral chances for the reelection bid of President Harry S. Truman.

Presents information on political issues in the U.S. Details of the 80th Congress; Reason behind the nonadjournment of the 80th Congress; Approval of Representative William Howard Taft's bill by the Senate; Discussion of a bill sponsored by Representative Bertrand W. Gearhart which would keep an estimated 750,000 persons outside the social-security system; Cause for the veto of the Labor Department Federal Security Agency appropriation bill.

News briefs pertaining to politics and government are presented. The Ku Klux Klan's support of Herman Talmadge for Georgia's Governor and opposition to civil rights program is described. The U.S. Rubber Act of 1948, sponsored by Ohio Senator John W. Bricker and signed into law by U.S. President Harry S. Truman, allows private companies to purchase government rubber plants. The United Nations World Health Organization has been approved and will be set up in Geneva, Switzerland in June 1948.

Focuses on political issues in the U.S. Reason behind the choice of Harry Truman for political nomination; Situation in the home town of Truman; Information on a Democratic delegation held in Beverly Hills.

Focuses on political and economic issues in the U.S. Achievements made by Dwight David Eisenhower; Information on the future plans of the U.S. Army regarding educational war; Comment on the new rent-control bill.

News briefs related to U.S. politics and government are presented. Increasing steel prices and the testimony of US Steel's president Ben Fairless in front of a Congressional Joint Committee on the Economic Report are reported. Competition from lobbyists for the National Association of Margarine Manufacturers could cause the dairy lobby to lose support in Congress. A Supreme Court decision upholding the separation of church and state with regard to religion in public schools is discussed.

Presents information on various political developments in the U.S. Report that U.S. President Harry S. Truman's St. Patrick's Day speech on the civil-rights issue, in New York presages a dreary Democratic campaign, looking to probable Democratic defeat; Information on the Representatives who voted against continuing the Un-American Activities Committee, with doubled appropriation; Allegation of subversive activities framed against atomic scientists, including David E. Lilienthal.

Focuses on political and social developments related to the U.S. Information on the panic in the stock market; Comments on President Harry S. Truman's Civil Rights message to the Congress; Significance of an announcement made by Secretary of Defense James V. Forestal's announcement that the Army and Navy air-transport services will be merged; Information on savings which will be possible due to merger of Army and Navy air-transport services; War preparations made by the Atomic Energy Commission; Information on an anti-lynching bill; Views expressed by Walter White, secretary of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People, regarding people who he feels are threats to democracy; Information on an art exhibition of Nashville, Tennessee-based artist Aaron Douglas; Impact of inflation on textile manufacturers; Information on California's disability-insurance plan; Impact of assassination of Indian political leader Mahatma Gandhi on social and political situation in the country; Pledge made by the Pennsylvania wing of the Civil Air Patrol asking industrialists and businessmen to help set up a secret spy system to engage in industrial espionage; Information on training for Russian language provided to employees of the Civil Air Patrol.

Presents information regarding the political developments taking place in the U.S. Naming of Charles A. Grey as Veteran's Administrator to succeed General Omar H. Bradley; Information that international edition of "Time" is especially prepared for readers in Europe, Latin America and the Far East; Criticism of anti-inflation policies of the U.S. government by Senator Robert A. Taft.

Focuses on various socio-political developments in the U.S. Information on public hearings to be conducted by Republican Senators Ralph E. Flanders and Arthur V. Watkins and Representative George H. Bender in more than twenty cities on the price situation; View that it is votes instead of price facts the gentlemen are seeking; Description of ways and means of conserving electric power to overcome California power shortage; Information on growing anti-Semitic demonstrations by avowed Fascists in London's East End; Creation of a new insulin compound which may be of value to diabetics; Victory of Franklin H. Lichtenwalter, speaker of the Pennsylvania house, in the Eighth Pennsylvania congressional District elections; Opinion of state attorney general Eugene F. Black on the Callahan Act, Michigan's thought-control law, which makes it a crime to advocate any policy that might benefit a foreign power; Information on food export policy of the U.S.

Focuses on the political conditions in various states of the U.S. Response of the university students in the isolationist areas of Minnesota, Illinois and Michigan, to the idea of world citizenship; Observation that the Farmer-Labor Party had deep roots in rural and industrial Minnesota; Split in the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Chicago, Illinois; Presence of a base of hard militant strength in Detroit, Michigan.

The article offers news briefs concerning issues in United States and world politics. The article discusses how the U.S. Senate Labor Committee focused on proposals for eliminating secondary boycotts and jurisdictional strikes. Senator Claude Pepper delivered a foreign policy speech to the 80th Congress, which criticized Republican foreign policy proposals.

The article offers news briefs concerning issues in United States and world politics. The article expresses criticism towards Senator Robert A. Taft's Republican leadership in the Senate. The Soviet Union held election campaigns for deputies to the Supreme Soviets of the 16 Soviet Republics. The article reports that cigarette sales were up 20 percent over 1945 and 56.3 percent over prewar levels.

The article offers news briefs concerning issues in United States and world politics. The United States Steel Corporations and the Congress of Industrial Organization Steelworkers agreed to extend their labor contract until April 30, 1947. Former Republican U.S. President Herbert Hoover went on an inspection trip to Germany and Austria for Democratic President Harry Truman.

The article offers news briefs concerning issues in United States and world politics. The article comments on U.S. President Harry Truman announcing a plan for the unification of the U.S. armed forces, which involves the creation of a new office holder, Secretary of National Defense. Socialist Vincent Auriol has become the first President of the Fourth French Republic.

The article offers news briefs concerning issues in United States and world politics. The article discusses how U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes has been replaced by General George C. Marshall, which marks the first time in U.S. history that a soldier has taken the position. President Harry Truman has sent to Congress a proposal for a balance budget.

The article offers news briefs concerning issues in United States and world politics. The article comments on President Harry Truman's state of the union address. Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York has proposed a solution to labor-management relations, which involves expanding the existing U.S. Conciliation Service into a stronger agency. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower denied that he had any presidential, or political, aspirations, and that he had no party affiliation.

The article offers news briefs concerning issues in United States and world politics. The article asserts that the Republican Party is waiting for U.S. President Harry Truman to make his state of the Union speech, before they commit themselves to a specific budget and employment program. The article also comments on the Republican Party taking the majority rule in the U.S. Congress.

The article offers news briefs concerning issues related to United States and world politics. The article asserts that there are less liberal voices in the U.S. press and radio. The article also discusses how several Republicans have begun to make prepreparations to run for party's presidential nomination in 1948.

Presents cartoons that reflect views about United States and global politics.