Airmail Cut Sparks Local Postal Carrier Protest
AFL Letter Carriers Association members in Austin oppose the April 18 Postmaster General order reducing mail service. They cite 40 jobs lost, 75 percent of Austin's airmail held 20 to 22 hours in the post office, and afternoon deliveries delaying 50 000 residents. A. F. Baker, a 21-year carrier, argues conditions burden workers and customers, and he is sending a detailed letter to Congressman Homer Thornberry.
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AFL Letter Carriers Association
A. F. Baker
Austin
National Union
Washington, D. C
Iowa
Union
Baker
Postoffice
Homer Thornberry
California
AFL
Dave Beck
San Francisco
Pat Brown
Beck
Fred Howser
Vinson
House
Armed Services Committee
Air Force
Army and Navy
Harlem
Adam Powell
Congress
House Labor Committee
FEPC
Truman
Florida
Pepper
Collier’s Magazine
Mobile
Frank Boykin
O’dwyer
David Potts
New York Civil Service Commission
Potts
O'Dwyer
Ifopyright
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Ates
Mali
Texas
One Way Traffic Gains Ground In Austin Experiment
Austin adopts a six month one way street test on Colorado Brazos Seventh and Eighth streets as drivers adjust. Early snarls and awkward left side parking fade as observers say cities learn to embrace the change and safety records look promising after months of study.
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Austin
Colorado
Brazos
Seventh
Eighth
Precinct Pledge Rules Stir Texas Party Conventions
In Texas the pledge rule can strip officials of office when not taken. Fort Worth and Houston show many refuse the pledge. Travis County replaced a dissenting precinct chair. Some county committees refuse to fill vacancies, and contested chairmanship undermines precinct conventions. Impact on 1952 presidential electors and state committee control hinges on precinct outcomes and turnout.
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Texas
Ing
Fort Worth
Houston
Travis County
Tarrant County
Peter Pan star Jean Arthur hailed for stage triumph
In a glowing appraisal, Billy Rose singles out Jean Arthur in Peter Pan at the Imperial Theater, praising her age-defying turn as a 12-year-old and describing the production as electric from curtain to climax. The piece notes Arthur’s path from Hollywood to Stepp
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Jean Arthur
Peter Pan
Imperial Theater
Miss Arthur
Who's Who
Jeanie
Miss Buskins
Hollywood
Jean
Stevens College
Missouri
Stevens
Maude Adams
Ravel
Perman
Peter Lawrence
la Arthur
Kitty Hawk
Answers and Questions in a World War II Era Quiz
A collection of factual Q and As covering topics from stair climbing counts in tall buildings to the origin of papal bull and the visibility of the Statue of Liberty torch. It includes astronomy of sea visibility, Germany’s eastern capital, praying mantis head movement, American calorie intake, Pulitzer cartoon prize year, ocean plant life absence, and race divisions in the US Army.
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LGB
Ambrose Channel
Atlantic Ocean
Washington Post Columns on Politics and Corporate Ties
A Washington column chronicles defense secretary Louey Johnston’s favors to friends, notably General Aniline and Film, detailing firm counsel payments and political contributions. It also notes Congress actions, McCarthy reaction, labor politics, and regional appointments shaping postwar policy.
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Washington
Louey Johnston
General Aniline and Film
United States
Justice Department
Loney
Louey
Steptoe and Johnson
East
Aniline
Truman
Winchell On Broadway CASE OF THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR
Sixty months after V E Day the article argues official policy again leans toward Nazism and war. It criticizes the State Department and Occupation officials for muddled actions, faulting Major General Draper and aides for not breaking German cartels. It notes Ben jamin J. Buttenwieser’s appointment and questions Shuster’s anti Nazi record.
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Germany
State Department
Clay
William H. Draper
Draper
Lawrence Wilkinson
Philip Morgan
Richardson Bronson
Wilkinson
General Clay
Newspaper memberships and AP rights statement
The Austin American and The Avastin Statesman are ABAC members certifying circulation and belong to the Associated Press. The AP holds exclusive rights to republication of focal news printed in the newspaper and to AP dispatches.
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The
Austin American
Avastin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Reading
United States
Associated Press
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JO Ann Eicom
BY Scott
Billy Rose
Peter Edson
National Association of Electric Companies
Public Power Trust
Purcell L. Smith
NABC
Power Company
J. E. Corette Jr
Montana Power Company
Rocky Mountain
Corette
Albert A. Cree
Central Vermont Public Service Corporation
Wilkes’ Charge
Rural Electrification Administration
Eet of Interior
Ilkes
Southwestern Power Administration
Empire State Bing
G.R.L
K.mlt
Papal Chancery
L.T. A
Berlin
Department of Agriculture
S.C
A.S.H. A
Roland Kirby
New York World
H.Y.S. A
Army
General Aniline
Uncle Sam
Jack Frye
Democratic Party
Trans World Airlines
Bob Hannegan
Donald O. Lincoln
Johnson
Richard C. Patterson
Guatemala
Floyd Odlum
Morton Downey
Coca-Cola
David Bazelon
Bazelon
Court of Appeals
Calvin Brown
Motion Picture Daily
Frank Walker
William J. Mahaney
Bigwig
John S. Bugas
Ford Motor Company
T. Colburn Davis
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Horace C. Flanigan
New York
Robert Heller
Harold Church Paull
Rhode Island
Seton Porter
National Distillers Products Company
James A. Purse, Jr
Dallas
Fred Hoffman Rhodes
Cornell University
Cary P. Wagner
Brotherhood
Ways and Means Committee
Hughton Greene
Mills
Arkansas
Greene
Doughton
North Carolina
Cooper
Tennessee
Reed
Woodruff
Michigan
Freedmen’s Hospital
Wisconsin
Alex Wiley
Wiley
McCarthy
Benjamin J. Buttenwieser
George Nauman Shuster
Hunter College
Adolf Hitler
Shuster
Bavaria
Dr. Shuster
Hitler
George N. Shuster
Hotspur
Toby
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