Gambling crackdown shifts Austin to skill games and dice
The Travis County grand jury crackdown on illegal gambling in Austin spurred venues to swap slot machines for skill games such as trivia, shooting galleries, and a long shuffleboard style challenge at Stallion Drive Inn. A vet treats animals with dice found in a dog’s stomach, and a wheelbarrow confidence scam surfaces. FBI Director Hoover receives praise from Congress amid strong local agent support and praise for secrecy and versatility.
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Travis County Grand Jury
The
Alamo
San Antonio
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Congress
Texas
GI trio start Rome Daily American with bold truth
In 1946 three U.S. GIs in Italy launched the Rome Daily American after pooling funds and facing paper and ad hurdles. The paper grew to 35,000 circulation, stood for unvarnished truth, and earned early clashes with both communists and fascists.
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Italy
Rome
Bill de Meza
Plainfield
N. J
Mussolini
Milan
Daily American
Commie
Minner details misspelled but cover multiple Q A topics
Navy file numbers started after World War I for personnel. The minnow term refers to a single Cyprinidae family of small bait fishes. Flight of the Bumble Bee stems from Rimsky Korsakov’s fairy tale about Tsar Sultan. Salt and creosote kill weeds between bricks within 24 hours. Smallest mammal is the shrew, monotremes include platypus and echidna. The Afton flows in southeastern Ayrshire Scotland into the Nith near New Cumnock Church. Paraffin test for gunfire is inconclusive and may detect nitrates but cannot confirm firing.
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Rimsky-Korsakoff
Bumble Bee
Histroma
Scotland
Ayrshire
Dumfries
Kincaid
New Cumnock Church
Editor's Notebook Report on Savings Drive and Jobs Data
The piece notes Travis County trails state savings bond quotas in the Opportunity Drive and urges passing a bill for payroll deductions, plus bond a month and cash investment options. It also reports May Texas job gains with TEC data, and references American Bar Association praise for Britain's free legal aid plan.
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Travis County
United States Treasury
Treasury Department
Austin
Fred C. Morse
Texas
Texas Employment Commission
Austin Area
Government Employment Service
American Bar Association
United States
Atlantic City
Great Britain
Reginald Heber Smith
American Bar Committee
Conservative Party
Labor Party
Law Society
British Bar Association
Smith
Legal Profession of
England
Real Start To Marshall Plan Acheson Gave
Washington analysis details how Dean Acheson shaped and launched the Marshall Plan after Truman tapped him to delay a Mississippi speech. The plan emerged from cabinet review and bipartisan push, with Bevin and Bevin tied tensions in Paris, and a committee lead by Acheson and Marshall to win labor and industry support.
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Washington
Truman
Bilbo
Mississippi
Europe
White House
Cleveland
Miss
Dean Acheson
Senate
Henry Wallace
Russia
Army Navy
Edwin Nourse
Commerce Department
Tom Connally
Arthur Vandenberg
Nourse
Secretary of
Commerce Harriman
USA
Scotty Reston
The
New York Times
Army
Navy
Et al
Marshall
Vandenberg
United States
Dewey
Taft
Winchell On Broadway
In his forthcoming Let Em Eat Cheesecake Earl Wilson cites Hearst columnist Frank Conniff confiding to Westbrook Pegler how tough it is to obtain material. Pegler prods, Conniff replies I already wrote it. The piece notes Mil ton Berle’s TV rise and toontes about salaries on Mr Roberts and Burns goat earnings.
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Hearst
Frank Conniff
Westbrook Pegler
Elliott
Faye Roosevelt
Conniff
Pegler
Mr. Roberts
George Burns
Henry Fonda
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