West Virginians Poke Fun At Outsiders In Charleston
West Virginia residents jeer at outsiders who stereotype them as hillbillies in Charleston. The piece jokes about shoes pipes and stills, mocks local water, and notes Charleston’s confusion with other Charlestons. It laments misperceptions of state pride and kinship rumors.
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West
Joe
West Virginia
Prince Albert
Charleston
New World
George
USA
South Carolina
Oddball Headlines From Courtrooms And Kitchens
A Massachusetts judge rules a man may slash his wife's clothes to ribbons but not while she wears them. An Illinois man devours four pounds of spaghetti in 15 minutes. Two swindlers claim their father trained them. An eastern farmer converts a pump into a grain scale. A Pennsylvania divorce notes coal-bin confinement. Oklahoma youth arrested for yelling at police. Nudist convention benches sanded in Colorado. Cincinnati fire destroys 17 streetcars. A Florida sailboat honeymoon couple is later found two weeks after departure.
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Massachusetts
Labor Day marks AFL political drive for 1950
A nationwide AFL labor political plan outlines a multimillion dollar push ahead of the 1950 election. The drive includes coast to coast radio, mass rallies, voter registration, and fundraising targeting 8 million members to elect pro labor candidates.
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Congress
American Federation of Labor
Toronto
AFL
Washington
Louisville
Secretary of Agriculture
Charles Brannan
NBC
Farmer
Labor
Charles MacGowan
Bill Green
San Diego
Pittsburgh
Taft
Joe Keenan
Answers from the Information Bureau Quiz Quiz
A collection of Q and A excerpts covers world population estimates since 1650, Madams Pandit’s maiden name, various food animals, the history of the letter U, and the World Bank, Nobel Prizes, and Arctic mosquitoes. It shows facts about population history, biographies, linguistics, finance, prizes, and climate.
Editor's Notebook Railway Hearing Highlights Irony
A Texas hearing on the Southern Pacific line's bid to abandon daytime service between Austin and Houston revealed irony as officials touted bus and air schedules while workers warned job losses. Rail executives cited higher fares and lighter maintenance costs, yet claimed current daytime trains lose money. Local business leaders argued for keeping trains to support Austin's growth, conventions, and tourism amid broader rail cutbacks. The piece notes a 154 mile run now takes 4 hours 25 minutes, versus the 250 mile Houston Dallas run in 240 minutes, and cites a Supreme Court ruling supporting passenger-train abandonments elsewhere.
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Great Southern Pacific Lines
Austin
Houston
Southwest
T&no
Southern Pacific
Rail Brotherhood
Cific
Waco
Yoakum
Austin-Houston
Slip Covers for Furniture Government Publication
A government publication offers guidance on using light colored slip covers to brighten homes. It outlines uses, fabrics, decorative features, and yardage, and invites readers to order the illustrated booklet for 10 cents via the Austin American Information Bureau in Washington DC.
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Austin American Information Bureau
Eve Street
N. EB
Washington 2
Washington Worry Round Lefties Seek to Beat Murray
CIO backstage scramble tied to Cleveland convention leftist moves. New York meeting Aug 30 may launch a national labor group led by Bridges and other unions amid Murray purge plans. Bridges may head the new faction.
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Robert S. Allen Washington
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Phil Murray
CIO
Cleveland
New York
Communist Party
United Electrical Workers
Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers
United Public Workers
United Furniture Workers
United Packinghouse Workers
United Fur Workers
Murray
Sinking of Task Force 66 Shrouded in White House Dispute
The article reports alleged presidential anger at Admiral Byrd and delays to the Antarctic mission Task Force 66. It notes $2.9 million spent, ships and personnel briefed, sailing set from Norfolk to targets via Panama Tahiti Auckland, then halted as Virginia politics shifted.
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Navy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
AGC
General Communications
Adirondack
Norfolk
Panama Canal
Tahiti
Auckland
Admiral Byrd
Defense
Johnson
Virutnia Ghestline
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International Longshoremen’s Union
Harry Bridges
Bridges
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Alabama
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John Carson
Coal Showdown
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Everett Dirksen
Grand Rapids
Iowa
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Harry Vaughan
Bell Syndicate, Inc
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Russia
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