Fearful Lewis confronts power shift in Jefferson‑Jackson Day crisis
In Washington the coal miners chief John L. Lewis faces a potential $3,000,000 contempt fine as he contends with a new labor power structure. President Truman weighs drastic steps amid a national economic strain and pending emergency parleys with CIO leader Philip Murray pledging full aid to the United Mine Workers.
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Traitors No Longer Fashionable On Times Square
Theatrical figures shift away from Marxist circles as Hollywood ten trials and Alger Hiss verdicts reshape Broadway politics. Eleanor Roosevelt criticized the Independent Citizens Committee, prompting supporters like Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse to work to disband it, ending Times Square traitor fashion.
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Famous Q and A from early 20th century quiz column
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Texas lawmakers rail against federal surplus food threat
Texans rally against federal bureaucracy amid threats to cut off surplus foods unless Texas forms a central agency. They attack Congress filibusters and the Perlm an era of claiming harbors and tidelands while debating rural telephone coop programs and Soviet propaganda in schools.
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Tidelands
Philip B. Perlman
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Dean Acheson
Alger Hiss
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Weight Control booklet persuades natural diet plan
The notice advertises the revised Weight Control booklet claiming proper diet is the easy method to improve figure without stuffing or starvation. It promises tables of average weights for men and women by height and asks readers to send 15 cents to the Austin American Information Bureau in Washington DC.
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Andrews for GOP PR Chief as Washington Bureaus Boss
Bert Andrews, Pulitzer prize winner and chief of the New York Herald Tribune Washington bureau, is offered a seven year 40 000 contract to lead the Republican Party public relations drive. The move comes as a response to his Washington know how and the party’s need for stronger publicity. Civil defense planning and war mobilization are also discussed by Pentagon officials as part of broader expansion of industrial capacity and underground shelters.
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Pulitzer
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Detroit
Winchell On Broadway and Hollywood Gossip Roundup
A whirlwind of celebrity tidbits centers on Ingrid Bergman, Ava Gardner, Ida Lupino, and Meg Mundy, with Wardrobe gossip, divorces, and rattling finance figures. Notables include Frank Sinatra, Laird Goldsborough, and Mary Flagstad.
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Collier Young
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Marc Daniels
Jay Carlisle
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