Amarillo Globe Platform Promises City Reforms
The Amarillo Globe outlines a 13-point platform urging charter revision, expanded city services, and infrastructure upgrades. Proposals include traffic system upgrades, downtown cleanup, new city hall, expanded parks, hospital facilities, and stronger cultural and educational support. Letters contest readers with a 500-word limit offer a weekly prize.
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GLOBE
Amarillo
eCiTy
City Commission
Ilda Coliseum
Arfa
the Globe
Amarillo Globe
A Plan for Labor Management College Grants
Charles Luckmans proposal envisions a thousand youth from labor and management sent to college for a year with a $1000000 fund from Lever Brothers. Half chosen by unions and half by management would study labor relations with coursework aimed at boosting productivity and living standards. The idea emphasizes mutual understanding to reduce name calling and foster enlightened contract talks.
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Charles Luckman
Management
Lever Brothers
Organized Labor
Luckman
Britain’s Labor Move Toward Nationalization Analyzed
Bill Cunningham argues America must recognize Britain’s permanent shift toward socialization under Labor. He describes a sweeping House of Commons majority, nationalized mines, and the Trades Union Congress driving change, with Newcastle and Durham cited as representative regions.
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London
America
Britain
France
Russia
CIO
United States
Senate
House of Representatives
House of Commons
House of Lords
Labor Party
APL
Eia
Trades Union Congress
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Durham
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Hoover's Plan for Separate Peace Threatens German Japan
Walter Lippmann argues against Hoovers proposal for a rapid separate peace with Japan and a dismembered Germany. He warns it would leave Japan and German puppet states at war with neighbors, undermine the United Nations, and create a fragile new alliance led by the United States. He notes 1947 differs from 1920 and emphasizes no recognized German government exists to peace with.
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Mr. Hoover
Congress
United States
Japan
Germany
Russia
France
Soviet Union
Hoover
Harding
United Nations
Billy Rose Forgiveness Recalled From a Drug Store Past
In a reflective tale Billy Rose recalls hating then forgiving Mr Maxwell of a drugstore where he began as a teen in 1912. He recounts sweeping outside, earning two dollars a week, and a later visit to a Washington Heights shop that uncovers old memories of the Maxwell family and a life of late hours and hard work.
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Mr. Maxwell
Eleanor
Wiseguy Drug Store Tales From a 1947 Memoir
A narrator recalls a New Jersey druggist amid jokes about sponges, medicine, and odd customers. The piece blends humor on pharmacy work, modern store variety, and a nitty world of late 1940s retail life, ending with a reflective Christmas memory and a sly sting about a stolen perfume.
Polk Street Professor’s Hilarious Fly Season Poem
A playful verse recounts a wife battling houseflies in a domestic scene. The speaker, a Polk Street professor, jokes about swatters, roasting waffles, and August delays as a housefly season returns. The tone mixes humor with affectionate exaggeration and comic stroke.
Crossword Puzzle Clues Digest From Vintage Page
A compact listing of crosswords clues across horizontal and vertical categories. The set includes a long list of definitions for people places and objects such as ambassadors locks of hair and various Latin and antique terms, reflecting a historic newspaper puzzle page.
Pazo Ointment Promises Quick Relief for Piles
An advertisement extols Pazo Ointment as a single soothing remedy for simple piles. It claims immediate relief from pain and itching, soothes inflamed tissue, lubricates dry parts, prevents cracking, reduces swelling, and checks minor bleeding. Perforated applicator tubes and tins are advertised for easy use.
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Billy Rose
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Jersey
Society of Pharmaceutical Research
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Guillermo
Nicaragua
Arabian Gulf
Skeleton Organization
Union
Very
Edgar
Steve
Name
Ma‘am
the Daily
Man
Miss X
Lady P
Moon
ST. Bernard
Glocca Morra
N. Fillmore
Ers Prescription Laboratory
Polk St
Southern Brokerage Co
Fisk
G. McClain
Chrysler
Southwestern Motors, Inc
Polk
Ol’ Vernon
Oriental Cleaners
Buchanan
Vernon Hancock
Purina
Gouldy Bros
Tyler
Saba
Fed
Fairbanks-Morse
Lewice & Supply
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