Circuses Start Rolling Out So Spring Is Here
The piece notes Dailey Brothers Circus based in Gonzales plans its season opener there next Saturday with proceeds supporting the Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation. It surveys Ringling Brothers history, salaries, and the allure of the Palace Theatre for performers. It also includes wood weight table trivia and Easter date speculation, plus travel musings about Senor and Senora Fidel Figueroa from Taxco Mexico and local Community Chest results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dudley
Austin American
Ray Dean
Dailey Brothers Circus
Gonzales
Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation
Ringlings
Barnum and Bailey
Ringling Bros
Barnum & Bailey
Dean
Hollywood
Ringling
Palace Theater
New York
Palace
Senor
Senora Fidel Figueroa
Taxco
Mexico
Figueroas
National Community Chest
Austin
Texas
Waco
Paris
Port Arthur
Lubbock
Texas City
Brothers Lewis Rally For New Union Dues Drive
John L Lewis fronts for his ailing miners union while Alma Denny Lewis launches aggressive recruitment across New York Cleveland Philadelphia and smaller towns. The drive funds up to 1 200 000 a month in higher dues and targets timber workers truck drivers and other trades through United Construction Workers raids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Lewis
East
Washington
Alma Denny Lewis
Denny
New York
Ohio
Lewis
Denny-boy
West Virginia
John Lewis
Bill Blizzard
Charleston
W. Va
AFL
United Construction Workers
Sir
Blizzard
Philadelphia
Theater
Scranton
Ohio-West Virginia
Pennsylvania- Kentucky
Adolph Pacifico
V. R
Portage
Puritan (Ladies) Foundations, Inc
Construction Workers
Foundation
Kentucky
Georgia
Connecticut
New York Post Corp
United World Federalists urge world government over NATO
The North Atlantic Pact is viewed as a temporary military measure. United World Federalists call for a universal world government within the UN framework to secure lasting peace and oppose limited state unions that perpetuate arms races. Texas leaders back broader disarmament and world federation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United World Federalists
United Nations
Texas
J. Chris Dougherty
The
World Organization
America
Russia
Europe
ECA
UWF
Supreme Court
Owen M. Roberts
Answers and Questions Learn from History and Facts
A collection of trivia Q and A covers Drake’s Golden Hind decay and a chair from its timber, Thomas Sydenham’s air therapy, egg shell color and quality, Gaelic drink term deoch an doruis, Hart County Georgia named for Nancy Hart, White House initial cost, paresthesia, proper greeting card verse length, and the 27 ex governors in Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Lobby Probe Resolution Stymied in Committee
Washington reports a push for a broad probe into lobbying in the 81st Congress stalled in the Senate Judiciary Committee by a one man filibuster. The piece details the American Enterprise Association funded by major manufacturers, its staff, and ties to NAM and real estate groups, plus covert influence on lawmakers through daily bill analyses and speeches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Commission
Employment Commission
Washington
Kilgore
Senate Judiciary Committee
Wiley
Wisconsin
USA
Congress
American Enterprise Association
National Association of Manufacturers
Foundation For Economic Education
Lewis H. Brown
Johns Manville
Sinclair Weeks
Massachusetts
United Carr Fastener
Robert L. Lund
NAM
Fred A. Poor
Poor and Company
N. Baxter Jackson
Chemical Bank and Trust
Alfred C. Fuller
Fuller Brush Company
Edward H. Little
Colgate-Palmolive-Peet
Hughston M. McBain
Marshall Field
Henry P. Bristol
Bristol-Myers
B. E. Hutchinson
Chrysler
Wilfred Sykes
Inland Steel
Thomas Drever
American Steel Foundries
Henry D. Sharpe
Brown and Sharpe
Guy Wyatt
American Foundry Equipment
Association
Malcolm Hardgrove
Irving Trust Company
No. 1
Wall Street
Hardgrove
Joe Martin
William Patten
Patten
Martin
Eddie Carr
National Association of Home Builders
Q. T
Carr
Waverly Taylor
Clark Daniel
Joe Deckman
Big Builders
Judiciary Committee
Winchell On Broadway
A collage of theatrical lore and gossip recalls Winchells Broadway era. The piece glances at George Jessel and other stars in dramatic, tongue in cheek vignettes, ending with a biting note on Pravda attacking Winchell and Hearst press.
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Ringling Brothers
Sells-Floto
Hagenback-Wallace
American-Statesman
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia
Christ
TEC
House Revenue and Taxation Committee
Texas Employment Commission
Hiram Staton
By Smith
Sir Francis Drake
M.F
Ao II
University of Oxord
R.mck
Thomas Sydenham
Sir Harry Lauder
W.F.H. A
Highlands
Scotland
C.L.E. A
Hart County
Hartwell
Nancy Hart
White House
M.L.M. A
V.P.D. A
Senate
House of Representatives
Drew Pearson
American Enterprise
Jim Milne
Milne
George Jessel
Jessel
Hurd Hatfield
Ivy Green
Miss Evelyn
Carmen Mathews
E. Wilson
Arthur Godfrey
Alaska
Pravda
Winchell and
Hearst Press
Hearst
Aon
Bers
Austin Stetemsse ‘Loo
Whl
Audit Bureau of Sade Eoration
United States
Associated ‘Press
Associated Press
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