Card Players Aid State Debt With Tiny Tax Bills
A Texas column notes 145 645 decks of playing cards sold in the last four months of 1949, adding 1 416 via a five cent state tax. It discusses politics, Lincoln Day dinners, and a proposal by Rep Frank Svadienak to sell state hospital property to fund upgrades, amid calls for a larger capital program.
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Texas
Frank Svadienak
Thrall
Claud Gilmer
Rocksprings
Board For State Hospitals and Special Schools
State Hospital
North
Austin
Expenditures and Cold War Rhetoric in Congress Speech
In a fragmented excerpt, UAW President Walter Reuther critiques Communist influence while a debate on saving the body or cancer of the nation unfolds. The text references Asia, Europe, and wartime outcomes with Walter H. Judd noted as a Republican figure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Auto Workers
Walte Reuther
Women Jury Service Debate Could Shape Texas Law
The Sandra Peterson case may become a test of whether Texas can bar women from juries. Women’s groups plan to appeal to the U S Supreme Court, arguing Mrs Peterson’s conviction by an all male jury denied her a fair trial and mirrored successful race-based reversals in other states. The Kerrville note on Captain Schreiner Road funding and the Dallas News quip on charitable bequests are also cited. A Council of State Chambers of Commerce backs Senator Byrd’s $36 billion budget alternative, urging tax savings for Texas and questioning the Truman plan’s first-year outlays.
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Sandra Peterson
Texas
United States
United States Supreme Court
Kerrville Mountain Sun
Captain Schreiner
Kerrville
Kerr County
Dallas News
Council of State Chambers of Commerce
United States Chamber of Commerce
United State
Harry F. Byrd
Truman
Byrd
Governmnt
Sen
Sen. Byrd
Taft
National Labor Relations Board
Russell Manufacturing Company
Alexander City
Ala
NLRB
Alford
Anchor-Rome Mills
Gesegie Labor News
Texas Capitalist Honored for Lifetime Bequest to Town
A Texas businessman who, at his death 23 years ago, left a lasting bequest for the taxpayers of his community continues to receive civic praise. The man’s unusual act is highlighted as a notable example of philanthropy and public service in local remembrance.
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Texas
Patience Worth Mystery Stirs Question Of Ouija Origins
In 1913 St Louis housewives used an ouija board to channel Patience Worth claiming a Dorsetshire birth in 1694 and authorship of four novels and 2,500 poems. Investigators noted rapid dictation, 17th century style, and eyewitness corroboration, leaving critics divided.
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St. Louis
John Curran
Emily Hutchings
Patience Worth
Dorsetshire
England
Henry Holt and Company
New York Times
Hope Trueblood
London
Braithwaite
Rachel Lindsay
Amy Lowell
Edgar Lee Masters
Notorious Boss Tweed Captured Abroad in Spain
A long circulated claim about Boss Tweed being captured in Vigo Spain after escaping U S jail rests on a Nast cartoon and a 1892 letter from Alvey A Ades secretary at Madrid The piece also covers Turkish city name changes and other trivia.
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Boss Tweed
New York
United States
Thomas Nasts
J. D
A. Boss Tweed
Vigo
Spain
Tweed-le-dee
Nast
Tweed
Alvey A. Ades
Madrid
Rown
Interesting Facts About Our Presidents booklet feature
A 56 page illustrated booklet profiles every President from Washington to Truman and First Lady, delivering essential historical facts and a condensed political history. Priced at 25 cents, it is offered by the Austin American Information Bureau in Washington.
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Wash
Truman
United States
Austin
American Information Bureau
Bre Street
Washington
Taft Alters Democratic Taft Hartley Report Behind Closed Doors
Washington column describes Senator Taft trimming a Democratic labor report to weaken criticism of the Taft Hartley Act. Taft allegedly removed adverse findings on union violence in the South and softened language on policy, while two Democrats resisted briefly before backing the change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bob Taft
Taft
Senate Labor Committee
Senate
Jim Murray
Montana
Matt Neely
West Virginia
NLRB
Truman
the Bell Syndicate, Inc
Memo notes on Broadway and press humor of the era
A collage of gossip and social notes from a Broadway and Time magazine milieu. Mentions Truman jokes, Panyushkin, Williams new play, Paula Clark, Clark Gable ears, subway booths, concerts at West Point, a drugstore incident, Bill Farrell at Bop City, and industry quips about sources and securing Data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee Williams
Paula Clark
G. H. Clark
British Columbia
Clark Gable
West Point
Hanson
Roxy
Bill Farrell
Bop City
Bob Hope
Radio City
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Margaret Mayer
American Capitol Staff
Frank Blankenbeckler
Texas Republican Party
Capitol
Blankenbeckler
Gillespie County
Owen Brewster
Maine
San Antonio
Houston
Harry P. Cain
Amarillo
Guy Gabrielson
Republican National Committee
Fort Worth
Svadienak
Hospital Board
Guadalupe Street
Gilmer
Svadilenak
Asia
Europe
Japan
Russia
Pacific
Walter H. Judd
Sandra
By Smith
Ouija Board
BY Billy Rose
Patience
Missouri
Artists’ Guild
America
Curran
Alter Franklin Prince
Boston Society For Psychic Research
Billy Rose
Bureau
Eve Street
N. E. Washington
D. c
Austin American Information
Turkey
Istanbul
Constantinople
Constantine the Great
Turey
L. LH. A
Holland
Islands
World
Alaska
Drew Pearson
South
Western Union
Pipple
de Havilland
Miriam Hopkins
Thant M. Clift
Damon Runyon
Ed Weiner
Army
Rockefeller Center
Broadway
M. McNamaras
Time-Life
Pearson
Naval Intelligence
Carrier Mai
Texas Mall
Austin American
Perera Rro
Audit Bureau of
Che Phe
The
Austin Statesman
National
Associated Press
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