Texas Legislature stalls like snowy 49 gridlock
Austin circles around Gilmer-Aikin with SB 115 in the House and Senate, as finance and appropriation committees recess for weeks. Pressure rumors grow on representatives, while cancer fund drive in Austin seeks $11,503 for Travis County.
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Austin American
Texas Legislature
Gilmer- Aikin
Senate
House
Senate Finance Committee
Otis Lee
Gilmer-Aikin
AmericanCancer Society
Austin
Ausstin
Travis County
Erican Cancer Society
Society For Research
Walter Remond
Travis County Cancer Society
Capitulational Bank
Reuther Seeks City Control Through Political Machine
At a quiet hometown banquet Walter Reuther urges support for George Edwards, a jailed 1937 sit down riot participant, now Detroit City Council president poised for mayor. The piece outlines CIO plans to build a shop by shop political structure with union leaders directing mobilization across plants and cities.
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Walter Reuther
Auto Union
Detroit
Reuther
George Edwards
Richard Reading
CIO
Auto City
Edwards
Reading
Michigan
Wayne County
United Automobile Workers
Charley Edgecombe
Board of Education
AFL
Cloers
PAC
New York
Gus Tyler
Dave Dubinsky
AFL Ladies Garment Workers Union
Truman
Phil Murray
Washington
New York Post Corp
Quiz Show Answers From A Historical Q And A Column
A long reader Q and A segment covers engines numbering by railroad companies, apple browning chemistry, naval insignia oak leaves, Barbara Frietchie’s legend, Gray's tomb inscription, koalas water intake, house centipede legs, will probate, Bible animal tally, martial law in peacetime, starlings spread, and Pekingese crate origin.
Rankin Defends Vets Pension Bill in Congress
Representative John Rankin of Mississippi pledges to shield veterans from loss of pension benefits while urging passage of his proposed pension legislation. The remarks defend veteran aid amid budget debates and legislative scrutiny.
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John E. Rankin
Mississippi
Lively Texas redistricting fight amid census gains
The piece surveys Texas potential extra congressmen from the 1950 census and the ensuing battle over district lines. It notes incumbents’ resistance to changes, the difficulty of creating new districts in the 150 member House, and the likely impact on the 1951 Legislature and reapportionment. It also discusses Louis Johnson’s civilian orientation program to improve public understanding of defense needs and peacetime readiness.
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Texas
Congress
Texas House
House
Senate
National Defense Establishment
Johnson
Army
Navy
Air
Ional
Bill Boyle
Truman
Democratic National Committee
Colonial Airlines
Colonial
White House
Floyd Adlum
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft
Air Force
Adlum
Consolidated Vultee
Louis Johnson
Secretary of
National Defense
Delaware
John Williams
Betty F. Perater
Wilmington
Del
Denver Post
Post
Palmer Hoyt
Alaska Governor Gruening Faces Senate Battle Amid Lathrop Ties
Washington gossip tracks Cap Lathrop as Alaska power broker blocking Alaska statehood to shield taxes while pressuring for Gruening's downfall. The piece notes Lathrop's theater holdings and newspaper interests, the nine month Senate Interior Affairs hold on Gruening, and testimonies challenging the governor's record.
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Washington
Cap” Lathrop
Alaska
Senate Interior Affairs Committee
Ernest Gruening
Senate
Charlie Jones
Chairman O’mahoney
Wyoming
Cap Lathrop
Jones
Broadway social whirl glitters with stars and society
Winchell on Broadway highlights Mrs Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt shopping at a corner grocer and socialites like Lucie Bigelow Dodge Rosen and Patrice Munsel attending events. Jennie Jones and Red Smith quips mix with gossip at the Persian Room and Waldorf. A playful collage of Manhattan’s nightlife and notable names.
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New York
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Lucie Bigelow Dodge Rosen
Elliott Lawrence
Columbia
Hildegarde
Yale
Tallulah Bankhead
Theodore’s
Thomas Mitchell
Morton Downey
Wedgwood Room
the Waldorf
Phil Regan
Red Smith
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Jack Kroll
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John Caspar Frietchie
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Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Gray
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Anderson
New Mexico
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Gruening
Robert Hoops
O’mahoney
Hoops
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Gromyko
Queen Mary
Hector McNeil
Southampton
Merry
Benzedrine
George Grant
Alabama
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Capitol
Ohio
Bricker
GOP
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Mississippi Shipping Company
Delesseps Morrison
New Orleans
Peron
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Berg
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Golde
Victor Moore
Steed
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D. O. Selznick
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Televiz
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Wm. Campo
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