Biff Tells a Love Story of a Boxing Champion
The veteran trainer recounts the rise of Spottingham T. Mathers, his wife Sally and their baby, as trainer Biff Jones describes early struggles, courtship, marriage plans, a rocky showgirl romance, Sally’s pregnancy, and the champion’s return to form after personal turmoil.
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Matt Walsh
Walsh
Mathers
Pete Miley
Miley
Young Mathers
Biff Jones
Biff
Pete
kid
BIA
Sally
New York
Crossword Puzzle Clue List Gives Mixed Answers
A scrambled crossword clue set lists definitions for many entries including Demure, Vast treeless plains, Roman gods, Landed, Teutonic deity, and various numeric and linguistic hints. The string blends numbers, broken words, and stray letters, resembling OCR noise rather than a coherent grid or solvable puzzle.
The People Hold the Power in the Un-American Debate
Westbrook Pegler argues that the people wield unlimited power over constitutional limits and that Congress can swiftly enact a law punishing Communist party membership or collaboration. He claims the nation has room to widen or warp the Constitution and that delay is superstition about enforcing penalties against communism.
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committee of congress
congress
Thomas committee on un-American activities
United States
Communist party
Viewpoint on war justice and American wealth myths
Molotov quoted remark contrasts occupied Europe with the United States claiming no occupation and enrichment during war. The piece notes GIs suffered and died aiming to reach millionaire status, while unrelated items touch on domestic life, travel from Newark to Miami, racing programs and a social questions column.
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United States
Voluntary controls fail as grain plan backfires
The citizen food committee and Agriculture Secretary set a voluntary plan with distillers to save about four million bushels of grain monthly by not distilling whiskey. One neutral spirits producer ignored the pact, expanding output and nearly doubling prices, costing four million bushels monthly while producers paid more for neutral spirits. Consumer credit limits collapsed after November 1 as all but one mail order house joined a voluntary credit race.
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citizens food committee
secretary of agriculture
Europe
mail orde houses
Washington ticket whispers and 1948 intrigue fields
Walter Winchell reports insiders say inflation threats persist as Truman advisers keep him isolated. Baruch asked about, ALP split debated, unity in the army, Hoover eyes Durante, and Marshall hints at a 1952 stumping if Eisenhower runs.
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White House
Mr. Truman
Barney Baruch
St. Louis Cardinals
Sec'y
Marshall tells
Eisenhower
Uncle Sam as a Banker to publishers and studios
Drew Pearson reports a plan by movie magnates and publishing houses to pay U S information service staff abroad in foreign currency credited to publishers and studios. The U S treasury would repay home offices in dollars, a step Congress generally supports and could extend to Marshall Plan personnel abroad.
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Uncle Sam
U. S
Europe
Eric Johnston
U. S. information service
U. S. treasury
Adventurers' club of Chicago aids needy children
Since early in the present century the Adventurers' club of Chicago has held a holiday dinner with presents, a show, and turkey for underprivileged children. This past year charities report no needy children in Chicago. housing is the city’s only need.
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Adventurers’ club of
Chicago
America
You Build It Bench for Cellar or Workshop
Handyman note offers a bench pattern from East Bird Pattern Co. Pattern No 15. Order by money order or check to Box 74 Pleasantsville, N. J. Pecertte in coll. error likely.
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Pecertte
East-Bird Pattern Co
Pleasantsville
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