Unicameral Plan For Legislature Loses Early Drive
Former Texas Senator G H Nelson of Lubbock pushed a unicameral legislature idea, arguing it would cut costs and speed lawmaking. He faced strong opposition about increased minority influence and the dangers of larger individual power in a single chamber. Interest waned as tax burdens eased and no state study occurred.
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Coke Stevenson
House
House of Lords
Commons
Great Britain
Senate House
England
Texas Senate
Nebraska
The First Confession of a Murderer Priest
In 1903 near La Rochelle a young boy confesss to a priest that he killed a girl after an argument though he later admits it was a fabrication. Decades later a recovered body confirms the grim tale while the priest remains bound by vows and wartime secrecy.
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France
Antoine
Father Antoine
Paris
Underground
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Ernest Hemingway
Met Ballet
R. M Rutter
Wall St. Journal
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Financial Oracle
Harvey Cushing
Elizabeth H. Thomson
H. Schuman
Washington
Harper’s
Lilliput
Holiday Mag
Irwin Shaw
Jerusalem
J. S. Montgomery
Doubleday
Wolf
Answers and Questions from the Austin American Information Q
A reader section lists Q and A on ants color forms and Formica species. It compares human body efficiency to engines, traces Washington name origin, Balder’s death by mistletoe, and football play timing. It also covers ship masts Lawson, oath for VP, kangaroo speed, oxyacetylene torch temp, Raoul English form Rudolf, uranium energy, Tel Aviv start, Taft-Hartley injunctions, chess masters, and Dedham Fairbanks house 1636.
Fire prevention drive tags Bryan fire hazards
Gov. Allan Shivers praised Bryan efforts in a fire prevention campaign that expanded to College Station and Brazos County. Inspectors tagged nearly all hazards, planned follow ups, and school children were taught prevention as 10,000 annual fire deaths and $650 million in property losses were cited.
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Allan Shivers
Bryan
College Station
Brazos County
Shivers
Houston Field Club
Texas Fire Prevention Association
Texas
Washington Worry Round Ecuador Faces Revolt Threat
Washington columnist Drew Pearson details how Congressman Rooney blocks CAB funding risking aviation safety while McCarthy Kamp links to fascist influence. Ecuador endures record floods and landslides cutting Quito to Guayaquil rail service. President Galo Plaza works to mobilize trucks as political instability grows.
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Ecuador
Drew Pearson Washington
Congress
John J. Rooney
New York Democrat
Rooney
Civil Aeronautics Board
Able Cab
Joseph J. O'Connell Jr
House
CAB
O'Connell
New York
Chanchan
Quito
Guayaquil
Quito-Guayaquil
Broadway Week Sketches and Showbiz Highlights
New York correspondent reviews Helen Hayes in The Wisteria Trees and celebrates Golden Anny milestones for Walter Hampden and Grace George in The Velvet Glove. Box office notes report Ballet de Paris at $32,000 weekly, Ringling Freres opens April 5, and The Consul era sparks debate over its label.
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Helen Hayes
Our Town
Walter Hampden
Grace George
Ballet de Paris
Cashier's Web
Ringling Freres Circus
Mad. Sq. Garden
Runyon Fund
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