The Globe News Publishing Co. Editorial and business staff
The Amarillo Globe News announces publication details and rates for daily and Sunday editions. It lists Wesley Izzard as president and publisher, with Grady Campbell as general manager, and Alzinomam as editor in chief among staff. Subscription prices are given for yearly, semiannual, quarterly, monthly, and weekly periods.
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The Globe's Platform for Amarillo Growth and Reform
The proposal outlines a broad city program including revising the city charter city hall and traffic system downtown cleanup expansion of park and recreation facilities water supply hospital capacity English Field as a terminal small industry development cultural welfare and expanded school facilities with higher teachers' salaries.
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Congress politics and the landslide of influence in lawmaking
The piece critiques lobbying, log rolling, and party interests on Capitol Hill while highlighting Rep. Gerald W. Landis for exposing motives behind bills on poll tax and anti lynching. It notes bipartisan patterns of pressuring Southern Democrats and warns that politics dominate Washington ahead of the 1948 elections.
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Andis
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Chandler's Revenge in the Sports Press Clash
Bill Corum, longtime New York sports columnist, accuses A. B. Chandler of pulling strings to bar him from the All-Star game broadcast. The piece argues Corum’s columns criticize Chandler while Chandler censors voices, spurring a broader fight over press freedom and integrity in baseball.
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New York
Corum
A. B. Chandler
Chandler
Leo Durocher
Durocher
del Webb
Bugsy Siegel
Changier
Webb
Yank
Siegel
Flamingo
Las Vegas
Belles Lettres
Freedom of
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Political Pretzels and Presidential Paths Across Parties
A tangled survey of 1948 presidential maneuvering. Dewey hunts delegates coast to coast while Taft, Stassen, Warren, and Truman plot in back rooms. Labor and budget issues loom as John Lewis weighs economic paths and unions.
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Truman
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Stassen
Warren
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Taft
Shere
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South
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White House
John Lewis
Lewis
Open Bic Has Reds on Spot
HYDE PARK Senator Bricker faced an assassination attempt as a shooter fired at him. The piece discusses postwar attitudes toward force, Europe’s economy, and the USSR’s role in Paris talks. It argues coercive control over nations is precarious and elections remain the peaceful path to change.
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United Feature
Hyde Park
United States
Joseph W. Bricker
Ohio
Paris
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Ussr
Europe
Seeing Eye columnist ends in tragedy over truth
In a 1947 Billy Rose tale, Herman Treakle, a conscientious newspaperman, writes a gossip column exposing a romance between Daisy May and a powerful husband. When the husband shoots him, the moral warns that fame or truth means little if your name is misspelled.
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Herman Treakle
George Washington
Herman
Growler
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Walter Winchell
Drew Pearson
Billy Rose
George Adse
Eve
Moonglow Manor
Daisy
Max Factor
Buster
Miss Podalsky
Seeing Eye
H T
D.M
Bobolink
Versa Vice
Henry Treakle
Daisy May
McCarthy
Polk Street Professor Imagines Heroic Film Idols
A speaker recalls childhood fantasies of Douglas Fairbanks and William S. Hart. He describes swinging from ropes and drawing a .45 Colt in imagined showdowns, later mirroring actors to charm girls and win battles with criminals. He confesses those instinctive fantasies persist into adulthood.
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Douglas Fairbanks
Doug
William S. Hart
Crossword Puzzle From Previous Punzie Writer
Horizontal clues fill a themed crossword with entries like low Latin abbr and pictured novelist. Vertical clues include printing mistakes and Greek letter, with several abbreviations and place names interspersed throughout the grid. The puzzle blends wordplay and general knowledge in a standard newspaper format.
Memorial half dollar proposal heads to Senate
The Banking and Currency Committee recommended to the Senate today a 50 cent commemorative piece for Patrick Henry and Memorial coinage at four percent.
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Senate
Banking and Currency Committee
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