New Deal Monopoly Probe Seen as Economic Breakthrough
Washington May 24 The white house push for an anti monopoly inquiry alarms business groups while promising to revive the undistributed profits tax and press broad reforms. The plan targets large insurers and big corporations, aiming to curb economic power and shape the 1940 campaign.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
White House
Pat Harrison
Bernard M. Baruch
Labor Relations Board
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
J. P. Morgan and Company
Charles Evans Hughes
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
Wyoming
House
Justice Department
Securities and Exchange and
Federal Trade Commissions
Executive Branch
Robert H. Jackson
Native Texan Dr. C. Q. Smith Named Commencement Speaker
Dr. C. Q. Smith D D a native Texan raised in the Panhandle will deliver Am arillo High School s graduation address He has served as Memphis High School principal superintendent Memphis Public Schools president of McMurry College and vice president of Southern Methodist University He pastored prominent Southern Methodism churches and built a two million dollar Methodist Hospital in Fort Worth He is listed in Who s Who in America and related directories.
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C. Q. Smith
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Amarillo High School
Panhandle
Childress High School
Clarendon
Memphis High School
Memphis Public Schools
McMurry College
Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodism
Methodist
Fort Worth
Couple to Celebrate 81st Wedding Anniversary
In Longview on May 24, the William Kelleys planned their 81st anniversary for June 8. Kelley will be 109 and his wife 105, and they believe they are the oldest married couple in the United States.
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Longview
U.P
William Kelleys
Kelley
United States
Actors Depict Themselves In Cocoanut Grove Portrait
Hollywood notes compare the film Cocoanut Grove to real life in the Grove haunt. Fred MacMurray leads a cast of professional musicians and screen favorites, with Jimmie Kern Billy Mann and Claire Trevor among others. A humorous night club sequence prompts extra smoking extras.
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North American
Alliance
Hollywood
Cocoanut Grove
Garden of the Moon
Fred MacMurray
Grove
Bing Crosby
Carole Lombard
Joan Crawford
Kenny Baker
Ricardo Cortez
MacMurray
Harriet Hilliard
Miss Brooks
Cary Grant
Foster
Ask Program Be Extended to Private Nonprofit Theaters
The advisory council on social security urged extending the federal old age program to private nonprofit neighborhood and small town theaters to increase return on investment. It proposed rapid inclusion of more groups, sought information by September 15 on farm labor and self employed workers, and opposed lowering the two percent payroll tax. J Douglas Brown of Princeton University chairs the 22 member council.
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Washington
Advisory Council On Social Security
Arthur J. Altemeyer
Social Security Board
J. Douglas Brown
Princeton University
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Robert Kintner
North American Newspaper Alliance
Canada
Port Huron
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St. Clair River
Lake Huron
Lake St. Clair
Southwestern University
Columbia University
William Jameson
Wiliags
Ifetime Guarantee
Gunn- Hinerman
Winged Service Gunn
Hinerman
Goodyear
Harold Hefferman
Broadway
Street of Bright Lights
Claire Trevor
Phyllis Brooks
Leah Ray
Jayne Regan
Lynn Bari
Dixie Dunbar
Norman Foster
Claudette Colbert
Michael Whalen
Joan Carol
Walter Woolf King
Leon Ames
Douglas Fowley
Association of the Junior Leagues of America
Helen Leavy
William Boyd
George Hayes
Windy
Hayes
Walter Long
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W. O. Budd
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