Taft Advises Grads Against Government Careers
Sen Robert A Taft urged Ashland College graduates to avoid civil service work noting limited advancement in government careers He spoke to 87 graduates at Ashland Ohio in June The article also reports Maj Gen Yakov Balakin’s death after a lengthy illness in the Soviet press June 9 The piece mentions Balakin served in combat in World War II.
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Taft
GRADS
Ashland
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Ashland College
Moscow
Yakov Balakin
Balakin
Footnotes of a Small Town Romance at Beems Grocery
In a playful string of conversations at Beems' Grocery the narrator probes residents including Mrs Poke Bennett Miss Norma and Mabel while the butcher shares a wry quip about a dog and a cat sleeping near his feet. The musings reveal everyday life and a sense of emotional maturity amid neighborhood quirks.
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Beems‘ Grocery
Mr. Smith
Norma
Mabel
Random Thoughts Out West Travelogue Aboard toward Cheyenne
A traveler recalls a Texas to New Mexico trip from Amarillo to the New Mexico line. The party experiments with a new water jug, endures thirst and packing challenges, notes highway conditions, prices, and scenery including Capulin Mountain and Clayton dust, and observes road markings and a stray paint line on the center of the road.
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Amarillo
Cheyenne
Texas
New Mexico-Texas State Line
New Mexico
Colorado
Texline
Raton
Coronado
Clayton
Rabbit Ear Mountain
Little Grenville
Capulin Mountain
Des Moines
Texas Line
Price Trends Defy Expectations In 1950 Agricultural Markets
Rising prices across beef pork flour oats lard cheese and potatoes push market outlook against Bureau of Agricultural Economics forecasts. Hog prices climb despite predicted post‑spring dumping while beef demand remains robust amid west and south crop setbacks. прогноз
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Agriculture Department
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
BAE
Washington
Sensational Anger as Amerasia Case Reopens
The Amerasia espionage case, tied to the McCarthy era, nears renewed investigation. Officials deem material old but possibly embedded in Washington circles, with one 1944 Pacific submarine article cited as dangerously revealing. The probe aims to expose current espionage and punish culprits.
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Amerasia
Sen
Joseph McCarthy
State Department
Pacific
Washington
Hotel Guild list of perils and a playful alphabet tale
The Hospitality Guild warns of murder, death by action, robbery, rape, fires, accidents, thefts, food poisoning, labor troubles and bad checks on premises while a wry joke notes husbands should wear married symbols. A Smithsonian expert links letters to modified pictures from A to Y with drawings like a camel hump or door.
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Neat O'Hara
Hospitality Guild
Hubby
Smithsonian Institution
McNaught, Syn. Inc
Tokyo Trip Could Shape Japan Policy, Allen Reports
Washington hears that Defense Secretary Johnson and Gen. Bradley will press for a peace treaty with Japan. Debates center on military freedom vs. curbing Soviet influence and the role of Gen. MacArthur amid State Department and Pentagon positions.
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Robert S. Allen
Tokyo
Japan
Washington
Defense
Louis Johnson
Omar Bradley
Douglas MacArthur
Dean Acheson
Moscow
Pentagon
State Department
Joint Chiefs
Par East
Russia
China
Asia
MacArthur
Department
John Foster Dulles
Switzerland
Far East
Lyons notes and Hollywood chatter from Leonard Lyons page
Bing Crosby helps Joe Frisco at John's audition in San Francisco where nostalgia sells. The Stork Club hosted Crosby’s 200 friends including Winthrop Rockefeller. Sir Alexander Korda discusses trend toward problem pictures in Hollywood. George Shearing’s quintet faces segregation issues on tour. Admiral Forrest Sherman hosts officers. joke links him to General Sherman. Marx Leva receives a surprise 35th birthday party from the Little Cabinet.
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Bing Crosby
San Francisco
Joe Frisco
John’s
Crosby
John's
Frisco
Bing
John
Stork Club
Winthrop Rockefeller
Rockefeller
Marx Leva
Defense
Leva
Chamber of Commerce
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Lewis Norpyke
Dalhart
Our
Central Intelligence Agency
Roscoe Hillenkoetter
National Security Council
Army
Air Force
NSC
Formosa
Truman
Barkley
Acheson
Defense Secre
Tary Johnson
Stuart Symington
The
National Security Resources Board
Johnson
Navy
Francis Matthews
Matthews
Congressional
House Appropriations Subcommittee
Harry Livingston
House
Christopher McGrath
New York
Livingston
Rep. E. P. Scrivner
Kansas
Europe
McGrath
Michael Kirwan
George Andrews
Alabama
Gordon Canfield
New Jersey
Post-Hall Syndicate, Inc
Lyons’ den
Leonard Lyons
Sir Alexander Korda
England
America
George Shearing
Shearing
Unification Dept
Forrest Sherman
General Sherman
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Southern Brokerage CO
G. McClain
Octa
Joe
Mickee
Burke
Hem, Burke
Napoleon
Creature
Pworry
Tibet
Walt Dieney
King Pfessures Syndicate
Miss High
Tnleys
WGA
BYN
Soytton’s
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