Washington Nips Touring US Get Close Look At Our Methods
A 25 educator delegation and 14 Japanese Diet members visit Washington for a two week stay, observing American democracy under General MacArthur’s military government funding the trip. The visit, part of postwar exchanges, aims to import know how and allow Japanese officials to witness U.S. practices firsthand.
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Washington
NEA
Congress
Capital
State Department
United States
Japan
Douglas MacArthur
Paul Hoffman
US State Department
United Nations
New York
Foreign Office
Katsumi Ohno
Los Angeles
MacArthur
China
Japanese Visitors See Democracy Aims In Postwar Plan
A group of Japanese officials on U S tours signals Japan's push toward self rule and trade ties. They may seek consular roles after a peace treaty ends military government, while remaining cautious to avoid provocation and public disputes.
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Japan
United States
General MacArthur
Washington
South
New York
Detroit
Chicago
Quips on Government Aid and Domestic Life
A playful collage of maxims on aid, police, women, dogs, and need for money. It riffs on civic help, authority, home life, and the grind of daily existence with a wink at social norms and bread as sustenance.
Legislature Adopts Hardened Penalties And Public Works
The Texas Legislature finished a hurried session by enacting five criminal code bills increasing penalties for sex offenses and child luring, extending hospital and cancer research programs, enabling rural telephone cooperatives, and updating school fire escape rules. It also funded vigorous enforcement of unpaid franchise taxes, with 671 delinquent suits filed to revoke corporate charters if needed.
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Allan Shivers
Criminal Code Commission
Cencil Storey
Texas
Cancer Research Branch
University of Texas
Price Daniel
United States
Texas Tidelands
Truman backs labor housing push amid union power shifts
A housing bill aimed at middle income homes for labor unions moves toward passage with plans for up to 35,000 two bedroom homes and a national mortgage framework. The piece notes Truman's continued White House support, labor leaders seeking revisions to Taft Hartley, and investigations into subversive influence in federal agencies.
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Truman
White House
Congress
Finland
CIO
National Mortgage Corporation
Andy Jacobs
Rankin
Jacobs
FEPC
John L. Lewis
Ripps Mitchell income tax case reopened and indicted
The 1949 Ripps Mitchell income tax fraud case, involving Joe Mitchell and Sam Ripps of Mobile who allegedly profited from jewelry sales to Army post exchanges, was reopened by the Justice Department after prior “no prosecution” action. Indictments followed in Mobile weeks later as officials face political and legal scrutiny.
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Washington
Birmingham
Ala
Justice Department
Joe Mitchell
Sam Ripps
Mobile
Mitchell
Ripps
Ripps-Mitchell
Ben Leader
John Hill
Pearson
Hill
Winchell On Broadway and Saints & Sinners Musings
A column blends moral musings on temptation with Broadway gossip. Praise for unseen virtues contrasts with public shaming, while notes on Benny Fields Blossom Seeley Walter Hampden and Damon Runyon ideas mingle with a Broadway rumor stream and a Sugar Ray Robinson bout push.
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Benny Fields
Capitol Theater
Blossom Seeley
Palace
Walter Hampden
Velvet Glove
Betty Betz
Argentina
Evita
Barbara Billingsley
Aida Alvarez
Met
Kirby Stone 5
Vaudeo
Gene Fowler
Damon Runyon
Collier's
Gertrude Lawrence
Billy Graham
Runyon Fund Committee
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Texas House
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Vanate
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Taft- Hartley
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Meorynone Syndicate
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Drew Pearson
Council of Economic Advisers
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