Lausche Wins Fourth Ohio Term in Broad Victory
Gov. Frank J. Lausche becomes the first Ohio governor to win a fourth term while leading a Republican sweep. He tops Charles P. Taft by over 422000 votes as Eisenhower carries all 25 electoral votes and Bricker and ONeill win re elections. The GOP maintains a strong legislative majority and a bid for a constitutional convention fails by about 800000. Frances Bolton and son Oliver Bolton win a congressional seat in the 23rd district.
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Buckeye
Frank Lausche
Lausche
Charles P. Taft
Robert A. Taft
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
GOP
John W. Bricker
Bricker
Michael V. DiSalle
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
C. William O'Neill
Ike
Paul W. Ward
O'Neill
Eisenhower
Herbert Hoover
al Smith
Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
Congress
Frances Bolton
Oliver
Northeastern
General Needs Bipartisan Support To Back Policies
Congress returns to Republican control with a razor thin margin and Eisenhower likely to rely on bipartisan backing. Senate balance shifts to 48 Republicans, 47 Democrats. House GOP gains 220 seats to 206 for Democrats. Key races include absentee ballots from abroad and potential contests, with vacancies to be filled by special elections. Major issues ahead include foreign aid, military buildup, tax policy, and Wage Board questions.
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Congress
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Korea
Senate
Len Wayne Morris
Oregon
Gov. Stevenson
GOP
Rep. Sabath
D-Ill
House
American Labor Party
Eisenhower
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Massachusetts
French Author Wins Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952
The Swedish Academy awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in literature to French novelist Francois Mauriac, age 67. Mauriac, known for The Desert of Love and Vipers' Tangle, is also a poet, playwright, essayist, and biographer. He will receive 171134 Swedish crowns.
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Stockholm
Swedish Academy Today
Francois Mauriac
Mauriac
Pay Dispute Halts Airline's Schedule
New York United Airlines cancels parts of its timetable as 300 flight engineers stage a quickie strike in a 10 month dispute with the Engineers Association. Some Pacific Ocean flights are affected while air lift to Korea remains unaffected.
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United Airlines
AFL
Oo He
Engineers Association
Pacific Ocean
Korea
Taft wary of Dixie aid in Congress after Eisenhower victory
Cincinnati reports Senator Robert A. Taft sees a real split in the South over Eisenhower. He doubts immediate Southern Democratic moves into the Republican Party or quick assistance from figures like Texas Senator-elect Price Daniel in Congress.
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Cincinnati
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Eisenhower
Tidelands
Taft
Eight Sewanee Faculty Resign Over Negro Admission Policy
Eight faculty members at the University of the South in Sewanee resign in protest of trustees decision not to admit Negroes to the Theological School. resignations take effect at the end of the current academic year and were accepted by Dr Edward McCrady, vice chancellor, amid ongoing dispute over Tennessee law and university policy.
Eisenhower Rejects White House Plane For Korea Trip
President elect Dwight D. Eisenhower declines Truman offer of the Independence to travel to Korea. He says any suitable military plane will suffice and will notify the Defense Department of his plans. Defense officials have drafted tentative arrangements with a high ranking officer likely to accompany him.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Korean War
Truman
White House
Eisenhower
Korea
Defense Department
Defense
Robert Lovett
Omar Bradley
Pentagon
Bradley
Itoun Gale Sagen
Daadibel
Russia
United States
Douglas MacArthur
Far East Supreme Command
Camp Houses Ohio Convicts
Ohio Penitentiary riot ends with convicts moved to Camp Perry on Lake Erie. The peaceful transfer contrasts with five days of bedlam, one dead inmate, four wounded prisoners, and an injured guard. A guard reports: Everything is quiet, extremely good, with no excitement at all.
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Columbus
Ohio Penitentiary
Camp Perry
Lake Erie
FDR Jr Wins New York Congressional Seat
Frank D Roosevelt Jr son of the late president won reelection to Congress on Tuesday as the nominee of the Democratic and Liberal parties in New York.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Congress
Russian note calls US blockade illegal in Korean waters
Moscow protests to Washington call the UN sea defense zone around Korea an illegal act. The 350 word note delivered by the Soviet Embassy accuses the United States of aggression and demands accountability.
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Moscow
Washington
United States
Moscow Radio
State Department
Soviet Union
Mark
General Eisenhower Begins Vacation With Golf Plans
General Dwight D. Eisenhower starts a 10 day vacation in Augusta staying at the National Golf Club with an afternoon round of golf and rest. He arrived from New York, replying to Truman messages and weighing world peace talks while considering a personal representative to sit with the budget director. Eisenhower is joined by Mamie and his family at the club as he contemplates a possible trip to Korea and notifies the defense secretary of his departure date.
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Dwight’ Eisenhower
National Golf Club
Eisenhower
New York
Truman
White House
Lewis Douglas
Arizona
Douglas
Great Britain
Mamie
Golf Club
John Eisenhower
Dwight David
Barbara Anne
Susan
J. S. Doud
House Dean Sabath Dies at 86 in Washington D C
Adolph J. Sabath a longtime Chicago congressman and dean of the House died at age 86. He had just won a 24th straight term representing a Chicago district. Sabath served from 1907 under eight presidents and chaired the Rules Committee guiding floor action. He helped shape workmen compensation old age pensions social security and eight hour day legislation.
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Washington
Adolph J. Sabath
Congress
House
Chicago
Sabath
Theodore Roosevelt
House Rules Committee
Four Evading Draft Convictions in Cleveland Federal Court
Four men were convicted in Federal Court Wednesday of evading selection service and sentenced to three years in prison. The defendants Cy Richard King 21 Barberton Nicholas A Muzechuk Jr 22 New Philadelphia laborer William S Brandozzi 21 former Youngstown janitor and Ronald R Fleck 21 Sherve claimed Jehovah's Witness religious exemption. One defendant had been in the Naval Reserve while asserting exemption on religious grounds. The trials were conducted without a jury before Federal Judge Charles J McNam ee.
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Naval Reserve
Charles J. McNamee
Cy Richard King
Barberton
Nicholas A. Muzechuk, Jr
Philadelphia
William S. Brandozzi
Youngstown
Ronald R. Fleck
Sherve
Jehovah's Witnesses
Rent Curbs Extended In Atom-Plant Area
The Office of Rent Stabilization declares the Portsmouth Chillicothe defense housing area in Southern Ohio a critical defense zone. The new rent control applies to sections of Ross Pike Jackson counties not previously covered.
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Atom-Plant
Washington
Portsmouth-Chillicothe
Ohio
Office of Rent Stabilization
Ross, Pike, Jackson
Plane Crash Kills Two In Circleville Cemetery
An airplane crashed into St Joseph's Cemetery on Wednesday killing pilot L R Garrison 50 and passenger Mrs Doris Hufford 344 of Dayton.
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Circleville
St. Joseph’s Cemetery
L.R. Garrison
Doris Hufford
Dayton
Ike Beats FDR Mark Ike Beats FDR Mark
Eisenhower drew more votes than any candidate in history as incomplete returns logged 381,875,451 votes on 146,361 precincts. The record surpasses Roosevelt 1936 totals and 1940 national turnout, with Stevenson contest contributing to the overall count of 57,544,367.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alf M. Landon
Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Roosevelt
Wendell L. Willkie
Dixie Crosby Will Is Filed for Probate
Dixie Lee Crosby leaves her half share of Bing Crosby’s fortune to family. She gives all personal property to Bing and her interest in Beverly Hills and Pebble Beach homes and Hayden Lake Idaho. Remaining holdings split into two trusts for Crosby relatives and four sons.
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Dixie Lee Crosby
Bing Crosby
Bing
Beverly Hills
Pebble Beach
Calif
Hayden Lake
Idaho
Catherine Crosby
Evan L. Wyatt
Nora Wyatt
Crosby
Gary
Philip
Dennis
Lindsay
Smith Sues Newsweek Over Malicious Defamation
Dayton, O. Gerald L. K. Smith, director of the Christian Nationalist Crusade, sues Newsweek in U. S. District Court for one million dollars over a November 26, 1951 article. He claims the piece defamed him wholly with false statements and seeks 500,000 compensatory and 500,000 exemplary damages.
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Dayton
Gerald L. K.smith
Christian Nationalist Crusade
Newsweek
Smith
U. S
93 year old woman perishes in Columbus house fire
Mrs Ange line Davidson aged 93 suffocated in a Columbus house fire. Firemen found her beneath a bed where she had crawled to escape the flames.
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Columbus
State Department Braces for Agency-Wide Shakeup
Washington eyes a broad staff purge after Eisenhower win. Dean Acheson is certain to depart, with 40 to 100 or more high officials likely to be replaced. About 72 ambassadors and ministers worldwide face reshuffling, with many career diplomats at risk amid impending administration changes.
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Washington
State Department
White House
Dwight Eisenhower
Dean Acheson
U. S
Department
Eisenhower
Richard C. Patterson Jr
Switzerland
Charles Ulrich Bay
Norway
Walter S. Gifford
Britain
William O'Dwyer
Mexico
Pete Jarman
Australia
UN Artillery Batters Reds In Sea Front
The 24 day battle north of Kumhwa slowed as Chinese forces retired to regroup. South Korean troops held Sniper Ridge after repelling a predawn assault by 150 Chinese Reds. The Triangle Hill crest remained in Communist hands amid a lull. Allied leaders urged halt of ground progress and pressed for heavy artillery barrages.
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Seoul
Kumhwa
Triangle Hill
Hurtgen Forest
Germany
Adlai Retains Thin Ky. Lead
In Louisville Kentucky Tuesday’s general election the state elected a Republican senator and kept six Democrats to two Republicans in the House. Absentee ballots were seen as the可能 deciding factor in whether Eisenhower or Stevenson carried Kentucky.
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Louisville
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Herbert Hoover
Kentucky
House of Representatives
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Press surveys underestimated the Eisenhower sweep in 1952
New York reports note that while Gallup Roper and Crossley showed Eisenhower with an edge, none predicted the landslide. Only Kenneth Fink’s Princeton study narrowly missed the actual margin. Editors polled by AP foresaw Eisenhower in 20 states with 327 electoral votes, but he carried 28 states.
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Eisenhower
Gallup
Roper
Crossley
Dwight D.eisenhower
Kenneth Fink
Princeton Research Service
Associated Press
Nation
Eisenhow
Samuel Lubell
Back to Law For Brannan
Secretary of Agriculture Brannan said the farm vote may not have swung as strongly toward Eisenhower as other groups. He noted it is hard to judge decisiveness and that farmers probably did not move as far with the trend. He plans to return to Colorado to practice law after leaving office January 20.
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Brannan
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Colorado
Chavez defeats Hurley in New Mexico senate race
Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez leads Republican Patrick J. Hurley 121,563 to 117,018 in unofficial results as ballot checks threaten a delayed official count. Hurley refuses to concede and alleges impounded ballots in four northern counties.
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Albuquerque
Dennis Chavez
Patrick J. Hurley
Chavez
Senate Public Works Committee
Hurley
China
Chief Hiss Accuser In Serious Condition
Whittaker Chambers remained in serious condition at St. Agnes Hospital after a heart attack last Monday. Doctors said his condition is expected to stay serious for some time. The 52 year old Chambers has been near waste government's star witness in sending Alger Hiss to prison.
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Whittaker Chambers
St. Agnes Hospital
Chambers
Alger Hiss
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