Inside Labor 11 Convicted Reds Instructing New Party Chiefs
A Dec 21 22 meeting of 11 American Communist leaders laid plans to rebuild the party machine. Under Gus Hall they will press a twofold strategy: terrorize labor leaders and recruit CIO rank and file using a New York file of 4 000 labor officials tied to Communist fronts and front campaigns.
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Communist Party
Ohio
Gus Hall
Earl Browder
William Z. Foster
America
WOR
New York
Mutual Broadcasting System
CIO
Joe Cur
Joe Curran
New York City
Communist Front
Louisville
Walter Reuther
International Harvester Tractor Factory
Reuther
Auto Union
Father Rice
Pittsburgh
Phil Murray
Farm Equipment Union
Labor Board
Labor Front
Progressive Veterans
Christmas Gas Tragedy on Rivington Street
A 1949 Billy Rose story scene on East Side Rivington Street reveals a Polish refugee girl who died by gas poisoning on Christmas night. A chain of letters from a suitor named Frank, all postmarked Saturday, hints at heartbreak and unfulfilled love.
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Charlie
Frieda
Allen and Stanton
Sam Carmel
Sam
Allen Street
Rivington
Nan
Poland
Billy Rose
DeMille
Tiffany
Vic
Hedy
Baby
Barbara Hale
Robert Young
Prince of Foxes
Wanda Hendrix
Ty Power
East Side
West Side
Avah Gardner
Babs Stanwyck
James Mason
Red Desert
Miss Pigtails
Mr. Kneepants
New Mexico
Gene Autrying
Historical trivia Q and A survey from early American inquiries
A compilation of Q and A covering topics from the first Philadelphia home of the Department of Foreign Affairs to infant mortality, Napoleon III jewelry, ice cream flavors, Elbert Hubbard, the Mormon Tabernacle dome, Palomar telescope, Mississippi River formation, Curran's liberty quote, nursing distinctions, ancient fishing nets, Grant's birthplace cabin, Sousa's band first concert, and Harvard expense estimates.
Acheson and Johnson Work to Patch Cabinet Rift
Washington reports friction between Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson over policy on Yugoslavia Formosa and Far East policy. Both men now lean toward cooperation while balancing conflicts over planes budget and White House access.
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Washington
Truman
Secretary of State
Dean Acheson
Defense
Louis Johnson
Yugoslavia
Johnson
Acheson
Formosa
Far East
United States
Chiang Kai-shek
State Department
Soong Dynasty
Johnson-Acheson
Secretary of Defense
White House
Air Force
Dewey
Iran
American Airlines
Europe
Walter Winchell
Democratic National Committee
Winchell on Broadway Christmas Gossips and Backstage Feats
A collage of theater and TV notes from Christmas week. Lilli Palmer and Sir Cedric Hardwicke in Caesar and Cleopatra earn glowing notices while Betty Field’s The Rat Race draws quips about the script. Rex Harrison spurns a seat, New Year’s fears loom for night life, and TV's Dave Garroway gets sponsor questions.
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Lilli Palmer
Sir Cedric Hardwicke
G. B. Shaw
Betty Field
Brooks Atkinson
Miss Field
Sentinels
Boston
Rex Harrison
Shaw
Rex
Harold Talbott
Harrison
Tony Farrell
Todd Duncan
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
Ned Schuyler
Gene Bayles
Mother Kelly’s
Scrooge
Carol Channing
Arristocrats
Dave Garroway
Lee Tracy
Maracas
Andrews Girls
Carmen Miranda
Calivision
Bernard Form
Newark
Wries
Afton Prince
New Orleans
Black Prince
Runyon Fund
VA Seeks End to School Rackets in GI Education
A Veterans Administration study due Feb 1 to Congress details widespread abuses by privately operated vocational schools for GI education below college level. The piece outlines past VA regulation changes, Taft proposals, and concerns over 839000 GI students in about 12000 schools, with some schools profiting dramatically and others exploiting subsistence payments.
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Washington
NEA
Veterans’ Administration
Congress
Taft
Ohio
H. V. Stirling
Stirling
Sen. Taft
Senate
House
Chicago
G.I
U S Map Offered In Five Color Booklet
A promotional notice advertises a five color 21 by 28 inch Map of the United States including Alaska Hawaii and dependencies with time zones and insets. The reverse shows area and 1949 population figures for states the 100 largest cities and 344 metropolitan districts plus travel distance tables. Send 15 cents to Austin American Information Bureau Washington DC.
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United States
Alaska
Hawaii
Austin
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