Globe News Platform Calls Amarillo Progress Plan
The Amarillo Globe presents a platform listing goals for city growth and public welfare. It advocates revising the city charter, building a coliseum, a new city hall, improved traffic control, downtown cleanup, enhanced sports facilities, park expansion, water study, more hospitals, English Field as an air terminal, small industry development, cultural support, library and arts expansion, and expanded school facilities with higher teachers' salaries.
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Amarillo
City Commission
Amearillo
Sereford
English Field
National Guard Day Drives 1940 Recruitment Push
The Sept 16 1940 National Guard Day kicks off a two month drive to rebuild the Guard to 682000 peak strength by 1951. President Truman endorses the plan, targeting 88888 initial enlistments and 250000 for the year, highlighting Guard history and duties beyond battlefield service.
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National Guard
Truman
Home Guards
San Juan
Puerto Rico
National Guardsmen
Erich Brandeis on Collecting Stolen Hotel Items
A New York restaurant chain laments patrons pilfering silver and towels from hotels and Pullman cars, citing a 206436-piece loss valued at 33434 dollars. Erich Brandeis recalls his past habit, now stopped, attributing swankiness to lifestyle and noting his wife’s view that their station allows lawful shopping at Woolworth’s.
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New York
Erich Brandeis
St. Francis
San Francisco
Haddon Hall
Atlantic City
Blackstone
Chicago
St. George
Bermuda
Waldorf-Astoria
Biltmore
Los Angeles
British Subterfuges on Attlee Resignation and Coal Crisis
The piece argues Washington sees Attlee resigning as unlikely and criticizes British socialist policy. It claims Bevin or Dalton as premier would not alter policy, warns of anti American sentiment, and describes a plan to use gold credits to keep Britain supplied, denouncing miners’ strikes and socialism.
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Britain
Attlee
State Department
London
Socialist Party
Bevin
Hugh Dalton
Washington
Dalton
Foreign Ministry
Trades Union Congress
Fort Knox
Europe
King Features Syn., Inc
Lisa Kirk Triumphs After Fall in Allegro Opening
Billy Rose lauds Lisa Kirk for a knockout return after tumbling into the orchestra pit during the New Haven opening of Allegro. The performance, amid a smoky scare and a 300000 dollar production, earned a broad ovation as Kirk finished the song unbroken.
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Lisa Kirk
My Times
New Haven
Miss Kirk
Lisa
Dempsey
Firpo
Billy Rose
Polk Street Professor on a Wife's Stove Defense
A husband recounts his morning awakening to his wife defending buying a new stove for 250 dollars. She extols the stove as the family hub and essential furniture, arguing against a secondhand model after years of cleaning others’ grease and detailing its many uses from cooking to drying shoes.
Crossword Puzzle Clue List From The Newspaper
A grid of crossword clues covers horizontal and vertical entries with labeled numbers. Clues reference people places and objects such as a U S congressman from Nebraska and terms for verbs nouns and adjectives across common puzzle categories.
Governor Jester backs Texas P T A membership drive
Governor Jester issued a proclamation designating October 3 to 19 as Parent-Teacher Membership Week endorsing the Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers. The action supports PTA efforts to boost local group participation across the state.
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Austin
Jester
Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers
Balky Landlord Vacates Prison After Vow
Abraham Weiner, who vowed on Aug 27 to stay jailed until the moon turns green rather than refund $1,279 rent overcharges, has vacated Moyamensing prison. Relatives posted the needed funds yesterday to secure his release.
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Philadelphia
Abraham Weiner
Weiner
Moyamensing
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King Features Syndicate, Inc
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Volga
Kirk
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Polk Street
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U.S
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Austral Shoals
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Honey
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Janis
Gee
Mother Hubbard
Steve Canyon
Steve
Jinjab Army Airways
Horizons Unlimited
Transport Command
Make Believe Music Shop
Okee Ddt
Melody
M'Sieu Canyon
Madame Jones
Cherry
Mark
Meridy
Hoss Thief
Donald Bucwchool
Walt Duney
World Bakes
Superman
PTA
13Th & Fillmore
V. G. Martin
Optometrist
Zale’s
U. G. McClain
Southern Brokerage CO
Fisk
Beverley-Bauman Lbr. CO
Georgia
Francis M. Arant
West Amarillo
Tennessee
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