Cartwright and the Bible of Thin Love
The piece surveys William Cartwright’s verse No Platonic Love as a rebuke of idealized soul only love. It contrasts 17th century poets Wyatts and Seydneys with Cartwright’s earthy feelings and traces love’s revival after Cromwell’s fall toward licentious satire. The column ends with a flippant weather aside rendered in mock code.
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William Cartwright
England
Cartwright
Wyatts
Surreys
Sidneys
Cromwell
Oliver
Venus
Richard Cromwell
Charles II
Mr. Cartwright
Old-Timer Sayings and Quick Jabs Across Time
A collection of wry aphorisms touching on memory Sundays law and justice, work and wages, public opinion on fires, tattooed dogs, girlhood chores, time and language counts. A playful sampler of midcentury quips and cultural snapshots.
Spain faces UN bid with risky finances and March schemes
Washington reports describe Spain under Franco as a tight dictatorship with shaky credit. A 25 million six month loan was secured by gold and lent in London, highlighting weak confidence. Juan March maneuvers to seize foreign assets clash with Franco aims to attract American capital, drawing sharp European condemnation. The 1948 US assessment notes high inflation, low industrial base, landlocked growth, and peseta controls that mask fragile recovery and potential banking panic.
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NEA
Spain
United Nations
Chase National Bank
London
Madrid
Juan March
Franco
March
Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company
Compania Hispano-Americana de Electricidad
D. N. Heineman
Charlotte
N. C
BLTP
CHADE
European Financial Pa
Answers and Questions from the Daily Knowledge Column
A sequence of historical trivia covers gold production led by South Africa, Death Valley temperatures in 1913, Yeats as Ireland’s greatest poet, longest U.S. railroad straightaway, rainbow directions, the origin of bits, destroyer facts, Alaska brown bear weight, first commercial aviation in 1920, Steamboat Springs naming, Gutenberg Bible value, federal elective offices, and rock wool production.
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Ireland
William Butler Yeats
Yeats
France
County Sligo
Congress Demos Plan Special Session Soon
Journalistic summary notes Democrats aim for a summer special session to push the President's program despite GOP opposition. Senate leaders Lucas and Eastland discuss strategies while Taft and Bricker clash with Mundt and Malone over housing, civil rights, and welfare policies amid party tensions.
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Congress
Demos
Drew Pearson Washington
Senate
Scott Lucas
James Eastland
Mississippi
Eastland
Lucas
United States Senate
Wherry
Kenneth Wherry
Nebraska
Taft
Ohio
John Bricker
Bricker
Mason-Dixon
Mundt
South Dakota
Malone
Nevada
Bricker, Mundt
Mundt-Malone
Winchell On Broadway and a Patchwork of News Commentary
A collage of jokes and barbs about Time, Newsweek, FDR, Axis Sally, and Franklin Roosevelt anniversaries. It notes lamb prices at 1.25 and lampoons public figures, the Klan, Jackie Robinson, Hitler, Franco, and US policy, with a closing quip about Franco and American support.
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Fdr
Roosevelt
Frank Marlowe
Axis Sally
West
Franco
Stalin
Hitler
Open Public Sessions bill gains House approval
Representative Preston E. Smith of Lubbock pushes a measure to require open meetings for all state agencies and advance public notice to newspapers and news services. The bill, passed 118 to 4, awaits Senate action and aims to end closed sessions and ensure public records of meetings. Coordination on pollution control and Austin’s sewage disposal plant are noted elsewhere.
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House
Preston E. Smith
Lubbock
Senate
College Board of Regents
General News Services
Preston Smith
Texas urged to curb industrial stream pollution in rapid growth era
Health officials call for a statewide coordinated pollution control program as Texas’ industrial expansion tests sewer systems. They seek field supervisors, cheaper waste treatment research, funding for municipalities, land disposal options, operator certification, legal aid, and public education to demand clean streams.
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Texas
Subscription Rates in The Austin American
The Austin American announces subscription rate details for readers. This notice outlines pricing options, delivery terms, and renewal steps for subscribers. It reflects standard newspaper policy on circulation and readership commitments.
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Austin American
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