Early Parking Ban for Congress Avenue Sparks Debate
Austin chamber of commerce panel reviews whether banning pre 9 a m parking on Congress Avenue would ease downtown traffic. Critics argue it shifts double parking to side streets and harms tourists and convention visitors and local eateries. The piece also notes TEC job openings for typists and stenographers with varying salaries and employer expectations.
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Congress Avenue
Austin Chamber of Commerce
Austin
Red River Street
Nueces
Rio Grande
Fourth
San Antonio
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Texas Employment Commission
West Sixth
Lavaca
TEC
Commission
Texas
Commissio
Radio humorist claims twelve thousand five hundred jokes yearly
A radio humorist estimates he writes 12 500 jokes each year with many being re polished. The piece notes famous last words about a boat capsize and a man being thrown into water. It also comments that a civilized country is judged by bodies of girls found in rivers and ambush incidents.
Cancer Control Month urged by UT MD Anderson doctor
The note calls April Cancer Control Month and cites Dr. R Lee Clark Jr director and surgeon in chief at UT MD Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research. He advocates broad public education and universal access to a cancer team, with early diagnosis, decisive primary treatment, and coordinated input from pathologist internist roentgenologist and surgeon to improve outcomes.
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R. Lee Clark Jr
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital For Cancer Research
Clark
Political party filing deadlines and convention timeline
The article outlines Democratic and Republican timing for candidacy filings and party conventions. May 15 marks the first Democratic filing deadline for district offices, with June 5 and June 17 for statewide and county/precinct offices respectively. Precinct, county, and state conventions follow, leading to the September state convention and a November general election.
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Courts of Civil Appeals
Congress
State Senate
Texas House of Representatives
Labor witch doctors threaten Congo uranium supply
A 1950 analysis portrays African voodoo rituals around the Shinkolobwe uranium mines as part of a Soviet influenced labor agitation. It links native ceremonies to strikes at key Belgian Congo pits and notes U S unions plan a global federation influenced push to control Africa’s mineral output.
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Congo
Lubumbashi
Jadotville-Panda
Shinkolobwe
Chon Ys
Pitchblende
Labor
New World Federation of Free Unions
United States
Washington
Africa
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
AFL and Cio
Ceylon
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Oak Ridge
Hanford
Los Alamos
Union Miniere du Haut
Katanga
Shinkolebwe
AFL Atomic Trades Council
CIO Chemical Workers
Addis Ababa
Ousmansky
Belgain Congo
Moscow
Lenin University
Washington Backers Behind McCarthy Lobby Forces
A look at the backstage supporters of Senator McCarthy outlines the Kuomintang lobby and allied figures. It details financiers like Alfred Kohlberg and ex-diplomats plus journalists linked to McCarthy's rhetoric, and notes funds from China and US officials tied to Chiang Kai-shek.
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Washington
McCarthy State Department
Wisconsin
Kuomintang
Louis Johnson
Chiang Kai-shek
H. H. Kung
T. V
Kersten
McCarthy
George Watters
Chicago Tribune Group
Scripps-Howard
Senate
FBI
Alfred Kohlberg
China
American China Policy Association
Kohlberg
Owen Lattimore
Acheson
State Department
United States
Treasury Department
William C. Bullitt
Claire Chennault
Worth Clark
Idaho
Bridges
New Hampshire
Knowland
California
Clark
Chiang
Styles Bridges
Senate Appropriations Committee
Coughlinite
Robert M. Harris
Father Coughlin
William J. Goodwin
Goodwin
Pearl Harbor
Senator Connally
Texas
Hitler
America
Germany
New York
Malmedy
Huey Long
Bell Syndicate
Winchell On Broadway Buzz and Celebrity Skirmishes
A rapidfire Walk through Broadway chatter highlights Joan Fontaine wedding plans to a Hollywood agent soon, Dick Haymes intrigue, Ann Blyth’s long-distance calls, and feisty remarks from Shelley Winters and Marta Toren. Also notes political tangle, Saroyan’s finances, and theater awards oddities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Fontaine
Hollywood
Dick Haymes
Nora Eddington
Ann Blyth
Steve Kelly
Chicago
Shelley Winters
Marta Toren
Myrna Dell
Travis Kleefeld
H. Cain
Nancy Oakes
Shirley
James Montgomery Flagg
Medicos
Lenox Hill Hosp
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The
Editors
By Scott
Voodoo
BY Victor Riesel
Booth
Belgium
New International Federation of Free Trade Unions
Moscow Radio
Asia
Politsburo
Phil Murray
Carleton
Central Park
Hampshire House
White House
Damon Runyon
Pittsburgh
Phil
Murray
CIO
AFL
John L. Lewis
Mr. Murray
Lewis
Steelworkers
Atlantic City
Philadelphia
Mr. Truman
Harry Truman
Post-Hall Syndicate, Inc
Drew Pearson
Impartial’ Survey
Tom Corcoran
T. V. Soong
Eddie Lockett
Time Magazine
United States Senate
Lockett
George Marshall
Marshall
USA
MAN About Town
Ike
O'Dwyer
Liberal Party
Marxantonio
Demos
Repubs
CDC
Wm. Saroyan
Bendix Corp
Saroyan
Boston
Peter Gimbel
Mary Jane Dennison
Hank Daniels
Armando’s
Whittaker Chambers
Park Avenue
Gloria Swanson
Runyon Fund
General Motors
Mohawk Mills
Gulf Ojl
Merwin K. Hart
Critics
Barnes
Tousluae
Menotti
Italy
Air Foreign
Austin American
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Press
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