Naming Hancock Park for Capital City golf course suggested
The American Staff Morris Williams recommends naming the old Country Club golf course Hancock Park as Austin discusses city projects. Mayor Pro-Tem Drake urged council to consider the change when gaining possession of the recreation center.
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Ourecompadre
Morris Williams
Sports Department
Old Country Club
Hancock Park
Brother Williams
William S. Drake Jr
Lewis Hancock
Austin
Colorado River
McDonald
Texas
Labor unions and business talk shape postwar industry
A 1949 analysis shows unions wield banking loans to manufacturers and fund ad campaigns to promote union made goods while pushing efficiency and wage gains. It cites Amalgamated Clothing Workers and CIO sectors influencing plants, housing, and health programs, plus contracts with Celanese and General Motors.
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Jack Potofsky
CIO
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
New York
Chicago
Amalgamated
CIO Textile
Celanese Corporation
Texas State Guard Reserve builds internal security force
The Texas State Guard Reserve Corps grows to about 2 000 members and expands across the state. Officials press for federal backing to provide transport training and arms, and for a legal update to ensure a ready militia when the National Guard is federalized.
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Texas National Guard
Organized Reserve Corps
Texas
Secretary of Defense
National Guard
Texas State Guard Association
San Antonio
Defense
Johnson
Federal Defense Establishment
State Guard
Red Cross
Congress
Washington
Answers and Figures From the Nation’s Ledger
A compilation of Q and A items covers prison costs per day in federal institutions 1948 1949 McKinley presidential terms and assassination rent control status 1947 1949 and White Sulphur Springs history as a health resort plus a brief dream booklet offer and guidance for readers to obtain it by mail.
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Bureau of Prisons
White Sulphur Springs
West Virginia
United States
Henry G. Alsberg
Hastings House
Austin American Information Bureau
Eye Street
Washington
D. C
Wallace and Groves Over atomic power legacy in 1949
Henry Wallace helped spark the atomic project and later clashed with General Groves over secrecy and continuation. The piece recalls Wallace's knowledge of progress, his influence with Marshall and Stimson, and the Manhattan Project’s disputed future in 1945. Einstein’s wartime warnings and postwar views on Germany and the Cold War Also noted is Willie Ray Smith, a crippled Negro coach honored in Orange Texas for his football program and youth aid.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
Henry Wallace
Wallace
Leslie Groves
Groves
Einstein
Roosevelt
Alexander Sachs
Lehman Brothers
Enrico Fermi
Leo Szilard
Harold Urey
Gen. Groves
Pentagon
Gen. Marshall
Stimson
Marshall
Germany
Japan
War Department
John Madigan
New York
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Gen
Atomic Energy
Patterson
Oldman Einstein
Princeton
Albert Einstein
South
Orange
Texas
Willie Ray Smith
Broadway Musings and Hollywood Notes Collide in Snippets
A collage of showbiz anecdotes and quotes from Alma Brumbelow to Sam Goldwyn. Frank Shields is teased for tennis over acting. legal note on Merwin K. Mart loses a suit. public snarks on John L. Lewis and Madame Chiang. FBI arrest hints, odd witticisms, and foreign policy quips fill the page with wry celebrity glimpses.
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Frank Shields
Sam Goldwyn
Sam
Frank
Goldwyn
Shields
AP Holds Exclusive Local News Rights
The Associated Press holds exclusive republication rights to all local news printed in this newspaper plus AP news content. This agreement ensures the AP receives first use of the paper's local reports for all affiliated outlets.
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University of Texas
Congressman Thornberry
Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis
Texas-Oklahoma
Fort Worth
Oklahoma
Kiwanis District
Taylor Glass
Brackenridge Hospital
BY Victor Riesel
International Association of Machinists
Vultee Aircraft Corporation
Phil Murray
Steel Union
General Motors
Columbian Rope Company
Ing
Dan Tobin
Teamsters
AFL Seafarers Union
Post-Mall Syndicate, Inc
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By Herblock
Sawyer
Austin American Information
Rye Street
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McKinley
N.A.M
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Merwin K. Mart
John L. Lewis
John L
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Samee Tee-Hee
Chiang Kai-shek
H. H. Kung
Yonkers
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FBI
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Taylor Grant
ABC Newsroom
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Powell
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Wm. Greaves
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