Curiosities of Xmas Customs and the Puritan Clash
A retrospective notes Walsh 1897 text on Christmas origins from pagan rites to Christian celebration. It cites Julius fixed Dec 25, Puritan bans in England and Massachusetts, and Charles II revival shaping Christmas in the English speaking world. The author links enduring customs to antiquity and comments on modern tolerance and politics.
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Austin Public Library
William S. Walsh
J. B. Lipincott & Company
Rome
Greece
Julius
New England
England
General Court
Massachusetts
Europe
Charles II of
Noyes Helped Clean Up Illinois Politics
Former Chicago editor Ickes recalls exposing Lorimer Jamieson machine. Frank B. Noyes, then head of Washington Evening Star, confirms and publishes tale of political perfidy. Revelations aimed to topple Jamieson and Lorimer, reshaping Illinois GOP power.
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Noyes
Illinois
Frank B. Noyes
Washington Evening Star
Mr. Noyes
Victor Lawson
Chicago Morning Record
Chicago Record Herald
Cook County
Chicago
Lorimer
United States Senate
T. H
Doc”) Jamieson
Hyde Park
University of Chicago
Harry Pratt Judson
Judson
Jamieson
Robert R. McCormick
Chicago Tribune
Mr. Ickes
Record Herald
Lorimer- Jamieson
Washington
Mrs. Noyes
Question and Answer Compendium From 1948 Inquiries
A 1948 compilation presents Q and A on topics from medicine and railroads to weather and naval history. It covers doctor density in DC, Soviet rank equivalence, number of railroad bridges in the US and Canada, wood hardening methods, moth feeding, West Point admission, Peary caches, traffic ticket counts, oyster sizes, tidal effects in the St Lawrence, and Roosevelt’s naval chaplaincy service.
Wallace purge linked to leftists amid Hiss scandal
Washington reports Henry Wallace purged liberal AAA staff accusing some of leftist sympathy while Alger Hiss avoided removal amid Chambers allegations of passing State Department documents to a communist contact. The piece notes internal clashes over farm and meat codes and hints at broader White House personnel shifts and staffing searches.
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Washington
Henry Wallace
Wallace
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
State Department
Hiss
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
South
Triple-A
Agricultural Department
AAA
Chester Davis
Gardner Jackson
New York
Fred Howe
Woodrow Wilson
Frank Shea
Justice Department
Felix Frankfurter
Supreme Court
Harvard Law School
Frankfurter
Truman
Fred Vinson
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
Warren Austin
United Nations
Albert Fitzgerald
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
CIO
Herbert Hoover
Commission On
Chip Bohlen
Marshall
Cominform
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Moscow
Tito
Kremlin
The
Bell Synd., Inc
Francis Sayre
Sayre
Igor Gouzenko
Canada
Gouzenko
Chambers
Notable WWII Heroes Highlighted By Winchell On Broadway
Joseph J. Sadowski, from Warsaw to 37th Tank Battalion, led a crew under heavy fire and sacrificed himself to save comrades. Junior Van Noy, from Grace Idaho, endured multiple wounds at New Guinea and stayed at his post until death. Joe Martinez and Philip Katz, both cited for conspicuous gallantry, showed bravery at Attu and in combined actions. Thomas Atkins, born in Campobello SC, refused to yield under fire and repelled enemy assaults while wounded.
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Joseph J. Sadowski
Joseph J. Sadoweski
Warsaw
Poland
4Th Armored Division
United States Army
Sadowski
Junior van Noy
Rotterdam
Grace
Idaho
New Guinea
Roosevelt
Joe P. Martinez
United States
Taos
New Mexico
Chickagof Pass
Attu Island
Aleutians
Attu
Philip C. Katz
America
Thomas E. Atkins
Campobello
South Carolina
Tommy Atkins
Atkins
Texas Law Enforcement Academy Forges Statewide Training Network
The Texas Department of Public Safety has built a statewide training system with police and law enforcement schools, clinics and seminars at its Austin headquarters. Hundreds of county and city officers attend focused programs for sheriffs, traffic officers, and detectives, spreading modern practices across the state.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Medical Association
Texas Press Association
University of Texas
Department of Public Safety
Highway Patrol
State Police
Rangers
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The
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Dudley
Austin American
China
Dewey
Tommy” Jamieson
Rector’s
DSGA
Medical Economics
District of Columbia
Department of the Army
Railway Age
C.K.J
R.B.D. A
West Point
US Military Academy
Far North
M.C.K
Peary
Donald B. MacMillan
Cape Sheridan
Ellesmere Island
F.H.C
Federal Security Administrator
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act
St. Lawrence
US Coast and Geodetic Survey
St. Lawrence River
Quebec
Lake St. Peter
Navy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nourmahal
Ellis
New York Post Corp
Austin, Texas
Drew Pearson
Odds and Ends
Army
Air
Forrestal
Omar Bradley
Senator Cabot Lodge
Willard Paul
Great Lakes
Bradley
Cabot Lodge
Camp Hood
Lodge
By Herblock
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
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