Globe and News Platform Promotes Amarillo City Goals
The Globe outlines a 13 point platform for Amarillo including revising the city charter, building a coliseum, a new city hall, improved traffic control, downtown cleanup, new sports facilities, park expansion, water supply study, more hospital facilities, English Field air terminal, and support for small industries cultural activities and expanded schools and teachers.
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GLOBE
Amarillo
City Commission
English Field
Return of Wallet Offered by Rochester Tourist
Fred C. Randolph of Rochester NY offers a liberal reward for the return of his wallet and the $500 it contained. He stayed at the Elite Courts 410 North Fillmore last night and told police the money was lost or stolen while en route back to his itinerary.
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Fred C. Randolph
Rochester
Mr. Randolph
North Fillmore
Traffic Wisdom From the Road for Safer Intersections
A letter argues that skilled driving and adherence to rules reduce jams. It suggests placing traffic officers at busy intersections to educate drivers about lane discipline and proper turning where right turners must stay clear for others. The author notes violations like swinging into the wrong lane and argues for clearer behavior at signals.
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van Buren
Sixteenth
Selling Capitalism at Swedish Retail Congress
The Swedish Retail Federation hosts a congress in Stockholm this month inviting two American Retail Federation officers to explain free enterprise to Swedish and other European retailers. The piece argues active capitalism underpins prosperity and supports the Marshall Plan, urging strong advocacy by the visiting retailers.
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Swedish Retail Federation
Stockholm
American Retail Federation
Sweden
Free Europe
Europe As Ruin and Rage, Echoes of War’s Aftermath
A stark vision of Europe reduced to rubble and pestilence, where ancient feuds and modern ideological flames inflame unhappy, hungry populations. Winston Churchill warns of a continent torn by nationalism and conflict, seeking unity amid chaos.
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Europe
Winston Cuurcuire
Peacetime training push sparks peacetime military plan
Dorothy Thompson surveys the push for universal peacetime military training sparked at the New York American Legion convention. She notes opposition, calls for UN backed disarmament, and urges a world warless system of collective security with a show of US leadership in ending conscription and arms races. The piece reflects postwar doubt about global security and the effectiveness of existing treaties and institutions.
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American Legion
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Legion
Harry L. Towe
New Jersey
House Armed Services Committee
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Truman
Legion Convention
San Francisco
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USA
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Beil Syndicate, Inc
Charlie Gregg's Night of Robbery and a Fateful Outlook
In 1947 Billy Rose tells of Charlie Gregg, an New England accountant with a wife and two children, who after a nightclub robbery finds himself humiliated in public. The incident shakes his faith in humanity and leaves him fixed on a bleak view of progress as the crowd mocks his misfortune.
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Charlie Gregg
New England
Charlie
Insurance
Charlies Gregg
Sonny
Billy Rose
State Department Reads Rough Figures From Paris on Aid
The State Department dispatched George Kennan and Charles Bonesteel to Paris after rumors of Europeans planing to take 38 to 40 billion dollars from the United States over four years. They were to deliver firm, veiled warnings in line with a confidential dispatches view and an off the record briefing by a senior official warned of harsher consequences.
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New York
Ben Cohen
Lovett
George Kennan
Marshall General Staff
Kennan
Russia
Foreign Affairs Quarterly
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Charles Bonestel
Will Clayton
Clayton
Geneva
Bonesteel
Grabbing at the Paris Marshall Plan Debate Sparks Policy Rethink
In a Kennan Clayton Paris conference, officials criticized European demands for aid as unreal, urging self-help first. They warned Congress may block free funds and noted a Sept plan reveal plus a Harriman committee review on how much aid the U.S. can provide without fueling inflation.
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Clayton
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Polk Street Professor Recalls Umpire Impressions From Ball Game
The writer recalls attending a Gold Soxers versus Dukes game with Matherly and Mitchell, noting his draws to the players and fans. He criticizes umpire Rabé as dictatorial and Meadows as prone to emotional strain, yet he concedes the game was well managed and fair overall.
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M. L. Matherly
Maurice Mitchell
Albuquerque Dukes
R. B. Norman
Henry Krisher
Matherly
Gold Soxers
Dukes
Rabé
Rabe
Mr. Rabe
Meadows
Crossword Puzzle Horizontal and Vertical Clues
A mixed crossword list with horizontal clues including Pictured news paper reporter Frederick and Pulitzer prize, plus vertical clues for dissolute exaggerate and other terms. several garbled entries appear, but the puzzle presents standard crosswords with connected clues and answers.
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Frederick
Downtown Fort Worth Asphalt Blast Shakes City
A metal tank holding 100 barrels of asphaltic cement exploded in downtown Fort Worth, shattering windows and sending flames across the area. Two storage buildings caught fire, workers escaped, a fireman was injured by a hose nozzle, and plant manager V. Venrick said sparks sparked the tank causing gas fumes to ignite.
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Fort Worth
V. Venrick
School board seeks Fourteenth Avenue closure after hearings
The school board plans to ask the planning and zoning commission to close Fourteenth Avenue between Polk and Tyler to divide two school properties. A rezoning hearing for 3602 Washington from residential to retail is also on the agenda. Principal attendees include Chas M. Rogers and George Waddill, with most board members present except Jerry Briscoe.
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Fourteenth Avenue
Polk and
Tyler
Planning and Zoning Commission
City Hall
Washington
Jerry Briscoe
Fourteenth
Chas
M. Rogers
George Waddill
R. P. Parcells
Herman Smith
Beaumat Stinnett
Dick Bivins
Bill Gunn
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Mr. Briscoe
W. H. Fuqua
Milwaukee man arrested after kicking store window
Milwaukee police say a man was arrested after allegedly kicking in a clothing store window while claiming he was catching a burglar in the window. Officers found only display dummies inside the window.
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Milwaukee
U.P
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