Tribute From Britain to FDR in MY DAY
Eleanor Roosevelt writes from England describing a planned Grosvenor Square memorial for Franklin D Roosevelt. She notes American Pilgrims raising funds, British officials attending, and expected attendees including the King Queen Churchill and Winston Churchill family. She recalls past London visits and aims to observe April 12 dedication and postwar rehabilitation efforts.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
United Feature Synd
England
Husband
Zoe
London
Lincoln
Westminster
Robert Scott
Grosvenor Square
Ike
Maj
Henry S. Hooker
American Pilgrims
Truman
William Chadbourne
Theodore Douglas Robinson
Winston Churchill
United Nations Generals Assembly
Campbell Stuart
Carnival by Dick Turner and the equinox storms
The piece discusses comparisons with Great Britain and notes that observations show no unusual prevalence of storms at the equinox period when the sun crosses the celestial equator. It mentions strong gales and fetes as context for seasonal weather patterns.
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Great Britain
First Legal Test of 1946 Lobbying Act Indicts Savings and Loan League
A federal grand jury indicts the United States Savings and Loan League for not registering as lobbyists under the 1946 Act. The Justice Department hints this starts many actions against groups. Three officers are listed as lobbyists, but DOJ says further filings are required. The league handles housing legislation, home finance agency consolidation, real estate lending, and postal savings.
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WASI
Grand
United States Savings and Loan League
Congress
Justice Department
Clark
The
Savings and Loan League
Martin Bodfish
Chicago
Horace Rusell
al Ner H.ferguson
Washington
League
Amarillo educator invited to New York workshop on economic education
Norman of Amarillo High School was chosen among 75 educators to help develop an economic education curriculum. The NYU sponsored workshop in New York City July 26 will explore the U S economic system and aims to produce new curriculum materials and bibliographies for public schools. Principal Norman and others will stay at Riverdale Country School in Riverdale on Hudson. Also in St Louis, a parking charge was dismissed after Charlotte Lee argued with an officer past the deadline.
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Norman
Amarillo High School
New York City
New York University
United States
Riverdale Country School
Riverdale-on-Hudson
ST. Louis
Charlotte Lee
Relatives Seek Commitment for Congress Candidate Graff
In Wetumpka relatives filed papers seeking to recommit Thomas W. Graff to talk institution. Graff, a candidate for Congress from the eighth district, was previously confined at the VA hospital in Tuscaloosa as mentally unbalanced but later deemed sane and released on habeas corpus. He is now jailed in Montgomery County on a peace warrant after threatening his uncle W. E. Roy. a jury trial on the commitment plea is planned.
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Wetumpka
Ala
Thomas W. Graff
Graff
Veterans Administration Hospital
Tuscaloosa
Eighth
Graff ‘the Only Candy With Papers To Prove He's Not Crazy.” Graff
Montgomery County
W. E. Roy
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Amarillo
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Blackburn-Shaw
Fieth
Pierce
8. T. Curtis Company
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M.W
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