Texas Election Routine Needs System Change
A Texas writer urges moving precinct conventions to a separate day from elections to speed results and improve publicity. He notes burdens on precinct chairs during busy city boxes, calls for updates to absentee voting laws, and cites modern communications as justification for reform.
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Texas
State Committee
I. W
Stormy) Davis
Austin
McNeil
Creedmoor
Bluff Springs
Elroy
Travis County
A Hicktown Baseball Ideals Clash With Dreamers
Paragraphs contrast town spirit in baseball with money, noting managers' long careers and others in Boston Red Sox management. It cites easy credit, class distinctions in America, and the lure of dreams without hard work, while observers discuss seating privileges at athletic events.
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Boston Red Sox
Editors Notebook: US Needs Quality To Win War
The piece argues American troops in Korea are green and poorly equipped but perform valiantly against heavy odds. It cites Hanson Baldwin on WWII outcomes, notes shortages in tanks aircraft and artillery, yet praises American intelligence initiative and industrial strength as key strengths. It warns that defense readiness requires both quality and quantity to deter a Soviet threat.
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Korea
Japan
Russia
Hanson Baldwin
New York Times
Baldwin
Dallas postmaster must restore three daily mail deliveries
In a Dallas suburb, J B Fite sued for fair mail service and won as Judge William A Atwell ordered the Dallas postmaster to restore three daily deliveries. The piece surveys mail system criticism and praises civic courage and public service.
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J. B. Fite
Dallas
Texas
William A. Atwell
Fite
America
United States
Jesse Donaldson
Congress
Mr. Fite
Quitz
Milquetoast
Washington
Trivia Q and A from a historical quiz page
A compilation of Q and A items covering topics from sculpture counts in Washington to H-bomb usefulness, roast pig origins, French alphabet letters, male to female degree ratios, distillery strikes, palm tree symbolism, Luke Easter's Polo Grounds homerun, Monitor nickname, congressional drafting help, coin issuances timing, and ant eye count with concise factual answers.
Johnson Vinson seek united defense plan amid postwar push
In Washington Secretary Louis Johnson and Rep. Carl Vinson meet to align on an enlarged Army Navy and Air Force. Vinson cites earlier Army and Navy budget demands, warning of a shortsighted perilous road amid McCarthy era scrutiny of State Department.
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Washington
Secretary of Defense
Truman
Congress
Louis Johnson
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Carl Vinson
Georgia
Vinson
House Armed Services Committee
Johnson
Joint Chiefs
Congressional Associates
National Guard
Navy
State Department
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
GOP
Henry Lodge
Massachusetts
Bourke Hickenlooper
Iowa
Subcommittee
Lodge
Millard Tydings
Tydings
McCarthy
Hickenlooper
Joe McCarthy
Theodore Green
Rhode Island
Wallace Graham
Elmer Thomas
Oklahoma
Amerasia
Brewster
Maine
Howard Hughes
Neely
West Virginia
Bob Taft
Dean Acheson
Acheson
Byrd
Virginia
George
Cordell Hull
Tennessee
Ed Stettinius
Jimmy Byrnes
South Carolina
Connecticut
Maryland
South
James Webb
North Carolina
John Peurifoy
Edward Barrett
Alabama
George McGhee
Texas
Dean Rusk
Adrian Fisher
New York
Harvard
Willard Thorp
Philip Jessup
John Foster Dulles
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Broadway Stars Share Nostalgic Showbiz Tales
Winchell on Broadway recalls Henry Fonda praising New York after moving from Movietown while living in Connecticut. Ted Healy’s stooges joke about gags and hats as Milton Berle and Joe Penner feud over the brim. Helen Hayes and Charles MacArthur anecdotes mix with Noel Coward’s sharp box office jab and stage gossip from wartime and prewar theatre life.
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Ted Healy
Stooges
Mousie Garner
Milton Berle
Joe Penner
Ted
Napoleon
Audit Bureau membership and AP rights statement
The Austin American and The Austin Statesman belong to the Audit Bureau of Circulation certifying local newspaper circulation. The Associated Press holds exclusive republication rights for local news and AP dispatches printed in the newspaper.
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The
Austin American
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Patie
United States
Associated Press
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Syngman Rhee
General MacArthur
South Korea
Izzatso
FBI
Eye Street
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Washington, D. C
M.T.R. A
O.S.P. A
Charles Lamb
Elia
C.C.A. A
Alcohol Tax Unit
Luke Easter
Celevand Indians
New York Polo Grounds
G.C. A. Easter
Polo Grounds
John Ericsson
Troy
N. Y
Greenpoint
Long Island
Merrimac
Hampton Roads
Tor
R.C.G. A
House
Z.H.L
Treasury Department
Mint
US Treasury
D. C
Secy
Drew Pearson
Taft and
Ohio
Dean
Bob
Southern State Department
Henry
Mr. Roberts
Peter Lind Hayes
Eddy Foy
Mr. Foy
Fay
Helen Hayes
Charles MacArthur
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MacArthur
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Noel Coward
Ivor Novello
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