North African Hard-Bitten Arab Prince Aims for Libyan Crown
Emir Sayyed Idris El Senussi, 61, emerges as a likely king of Cyrenaica and possibly a united Libia. Backed by Egypt and Arab states, Britain recognizes his Cyrenaican government and he seeks a broader throne with Arab League support, potentially uniting Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, and Fezzan.
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Stanley Swinton
Cairo
Emir
Sayyed Idris el Senussi
Cyrenaica
Egypt
Tripolitania
Britain
Eighth
Sir Sayyed
Libia
Fezzan
Italy
Libya
Emir Senussi
Abdullah
Trans-Jordan
Cyrenaican
Jaghboub
France
Tunisia
Turkey
Senussi
Germany
Sayed Omar
North Africa
Tobruk
Anthony Eden
London
Arab League
Jokes and musings fill a busy old newspaper page
A collage of quips and opinions covers politics health and society. Barkley jokes about farming 2500 acres while Franco digs at Spain. FDR Jr potential becomes presidency fodder with Canada annexation joking. A bath cure relaxes minds as a rail expert laments diesel replacing steam. A youth and a middle aged man worry worn joints. Municipal reform fever rises with aroused citizens then fades. An Ohio boy endures 12 hours in water off a dock.
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Ohio
Cheer in Labor Picture Amid Jobless Headlines
Washington notes show optimism with 36 million vacationing workers and 100000 new homes monthly as the government considers a 1000 loan to relocatable families. AFL CIO activity ranges from antirackets drives to anti Communist strategy at national unions and TV authority battles.
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Michigan City
AFL
Truman
CIO
CIO Food and Tobacco Workers
T H
CIO National Brain
William Z. Foster
New York
Don
N. Y
Foster
Joe Belsky
Meat Cutters Union
Harvard
Yale
Chicago
Teamsters
Alaska
Capitol
Franklin D. Roosevelt
House
Congress
Israel
Labor Federation
World Federation of Trade Union
Screen Publicist Guild
Tel Aviv
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
M-G-M
Cleveland
Hotel Hollenden
National Executive Board
John Lewis
Phil Murray
John L
National
anti-Commie
Sino-Russian bargaining hush up fight exposed
Washington dispatch reveals a covert push by the Soviet ambassador at Nanking for a nonaggression pact with China that could force Chiang Kai-shek to side with Moscow in a Russo-American war. The episode spanned Sept 1948 to spring 1949, with China wavering then accepting the pact only to have Russia back away as Communist forces gained.
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Washington
Ussr
State Department
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Russia
Nanking
Manchuria
White House
John Steelman
al Wedemeyer
War Plans Division
Pentagon
Steelman
Yangtze River
Nikolai Roschin
Roschin
Mao Tsetung
Kremlin
United States
Mao
George Marshall
Chiang Kaishek
Chiang
Canton
Moscow
Broadway Buzz and Books in the Spotlight
The Broadway scene runs constant chatter from Majestic and other venues. New editions and adaptations arrive this fall, including South Pacific on Sept 19 and Cry the Beloved Country by Maxwell Anderson with Kurt Keill.
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South Pacific
Majestic Theater
Maxwell Anderson
Kurt Keill
Lee Shubert
Atlantic
Philly
al Jolson
Tin Pan Alley
Decca
Metropolitan
Editor's Notebook Tax Gesture May Be Over Liberal
The piece notes counties may refuse or levy the new 30 cent county tax for roads and flood works starting 1951, with potential to raise over 12 million annually while state direct taxes shrink. It discusses political pressure, public pledge dynamics in primaries, and cautious voter sentiment amid a money squeeze. It also covers British visitors’ reactions to Lake Austin and the scenic value of Buchanan and Lake Travis as part of the Highland Lakes region.
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Lake
Austin
Bede Clifford
United States
Grand Coulee
Boulder
West
A. C. Critchley
Lake Austin
Central Texas
Buchanan
Travis
Lake Travis
Highland Lakes Area
Moonlight comes from the Sun and Earth reflections
Q and A explain the moon shines by reflected sunlight, either directly from the sun or dimly from sunlight reflected by the earth. Bertha Muzzy Bower, a female author, used the pseudonym B M Bower and was often mistaken for a man.
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B. M. Bower
R.L.C
A. Bertha Muzzy Bower
Sinclair-Cowan
Chip of the Flying
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Iron Horse
Hank Wallace
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Philip Murray
Ford
Murray
Big Steel
pro-Commie Farmer- Labor Party
Victor Reuther
Michigan Cio
pro-Commie
Buick
Flint
Pugnacious Teamsters
Dan Tobin
National Magazine
New Communist
New York Post Corp
Drew Pearson
George Yeh
Hu Ying-Ching
Leonard Irving
Missouri
W. Walton Butterworth
Butterworth
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Abraham Ribicoff
Connecticut
International Claims Commission
Foreign Affairs
John Kee
Virginia
Ribicoff
THE
Broadway Report
Time
Shirley Smith
U. of Mich
Michigan Quarterly Mag
Brandy Gibson
Hazard
Amy
Charley
Ray Bolger
Broadway Cinemansions
Columbus Circle
Runyon
Francis Cardinal Spellman
N.Y. Foundling Hospital
Satevepost
W. C. Fields
Alva Johnston
Music Hall
Helen Morgan
L.A
Eddie Foy Jr
Paul Douglas
Robert Ean Warren
Brad Crawford
N.Y. Times
Times Hall
By Herblock
F.W
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Texas Mail On
Texas Mail
Texas
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Press
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