Ridgeway Proposes One Year Budget Plan For Texas
Austin legislator Jack Ridgeway urges a rule that no single shot appropriations be voted until five major biennial supply bills are acted on. The plan aims to shift to one year operating appropriations, reduce last minute budget surges, and speed up budget preparation via Budget Board and Legislative Council previews.
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Jack Ridgeway
House
San Antonio
Ridgeway
Dallas
John L. Crosthwaite
Budget Board
Joint Legislative Council
Treasury
Gilmer-Aikin
Beauford Jester
Board
Legislative Council
Senate
House Appropriations
Senate Finance Committee
Truman urges openness on policy and future aid plans
The editorial urges the president to disclose policy and commitments about future aid to Britain and Marshall Plan funds, arguing taxpayers deserve briefing on any new emergency or tax measures. It notes Senate discussions on a gross receipts tax and suggests new revenue sources as Texas lawmakers consider changes for the upcoming session.
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Truman
White House
Congress
United States
Dunquerque
Chemical and Allied Industries
Texas
Chemical and Allied
Washingtons hatchet tale mocks honesty in school books
Billy Rose recounts Patsy Doyle on Rivington Street a 1950 reminiscence of playful mischief on Washingtons birthday. The piece contrasts lore about George Washington with Patsys pranks including hydrant watering egg crate fires and fruit market mischief. It ends reflecting on a Florida hitchhiker case and a possible Patsy link.
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Committee On unAmerican
George Washington
Lizzie Borden
Allen Street Angels
East Side
Patsy Doyle
PS4
Washington
Patsy
Rivington Street
Okeh
Tony Scappioli
Tony
Angel
Florida
Peter Donnelly
Billy Rose
Answers to readers questions in Austin American Information Qs
A compilation of brief Q and A covering terms like allergy origin in 1907, Social Security tax progression with 1952 schedules, duties of a reefer ship, largest cathedrals by area, standard railroad gauge adoption by 1887, loading military hardware on planes, early American vaudeville venues, ocean water density, Jefferson's tombstone history, insignia singularity, and Whistler's West Point tenure.
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Missouri
Missouri Pacific
Ohio & Mississippi
Baltimore & Ohio
United States
Webster's Illustrated Tower Dictionary and Atlas Offer
Today’s booklet offer for Webster’s Illustrated Tower Dictionary and Atlas. The miniature encyclopedia features 378 pages, 16 four color world maps, 25 000 definitions and pronunciations, plus weights measures and terms across commercial legal medical fields. Send 40 cents to Austin American Information Bureau for a copy.
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Austin American Information Bureau
Tye Street
Washington
Acheson Hiss Controversy Prompts Franco Radio Rebuke
Washington notes that Secretary Acheson faces harsh criticism from GOP senators and the Spanish Falange radio in Madrid claims Communists in the State Department. The piece draws parallels with historic defenses of controversial figures and cites Truman and Hughes as precedents.
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Washington
Acheson
Alger Hiss
Franco
Madrid
Moscow
Voice of the Falange
State Department
US State Department
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Hiss
Andrew Jackson
Aaron Burr
Charles Evans Hughes
Senator Newberry
Taft
Richard Ballinger
Harry Truman
Tom Pendergast
Franklin Roosevelt
Kansas City
Maurice Milligan
Pendergast
Truman
White House
Hughes
Michigan
Truman H. Newberry
Newberry
Senate
Henry Ford
Supreme Court
Sen. Newberry
Cordell Hull
Democratic National Committee
Hull
Secy. Hughes
America
Broadway Doodles From Press Box of Radio and Screen
A collage of notes on wartime films and TV programs showing public taste. Mentions Einstein film, Ingrid Bergman, Susan Mernan, Jane Russell, Hopalong Cassidy, The Third Man, Cinderella, and Lana Turner with remarks on ratings, newsreels, and critics.
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Teevee
Mister Genius
Ingridroberto
Romeolini
Washington
Jacques Benny
Bronx
New York
Jane Russell
Jane
Hopalong Cassidy
Stephen Courtleigh
Lincoln
Merman
Susan Maynard
East Sy Entertainment
Charles Perrault
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