Austin Tax Limits and Public Property Burden
Capitol city analysis contrasts Austin with Washington on tax limits. Public property remains non taxed, shifting burden to private property and growing needs. Federal presence boosts population and services, yet state funding should share school construction costs while idle city property should be removed from tax rolls.
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Austin
Washington
University of Texas
Austin School Board
Austin’s
National Capital City
Congress
District of Columbus
James E. Taylor
Senate
Gilmer-Aikin
Texas
Austin Plans Large Headquarters and Auditorium Complexes
Austin envisions three full block buildings to house a federal post office city auditorium and a state headquarters for about 100 organizations plus a private parking facility funded by private capital or city revenue. A 500000 square foot state headquarters with multiple halls would attract many associations and help secure large conventions as well as endow permanent tenants. Two thousand Red Cross workers rally Austinites urging renewed memberships highlighting disaster relief veterans health safety youth and international aid programs.
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Austin
Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs
Congress of Parents and Teachers
State Medical Association
Texas State Teachers Association
City Auditorium
No. 1
Red Cross
America
Congress
George C. Marshall
American Red Cross
Cross
United Nations
Carousel tale of Nazi escapee surgeon and wife
In Manhattan coffeehouses Continental refugees share stories of a Vienna surgeon and his nurse wife who fled the Nazis with their son. They rode a carousel to escape arrest, survived slave labor, and settled near Central Park, where the husband, now likely deranged, wanders with his wife guiding him.
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Manhattan
Mittel Europa
Central Park Zoo
Vienna
New York
Central Park
Otto
Billy Rose
answers and curious facts from a historical Q and A column
A 1948 Q and A feature answers reader questions on human chemical composition, a self styled East West pioneer Lord Dexter, a promotional book offer from The Austin American Information Bureau, and notes on the dollarbird and vivisection laws across states. The piece mixes science, biography, and legal trivia with light editorial commentary.
Washington Merry Go Round shifts to tax probes and senatorial showdowns
US attorneys move to prosecute income tax frauds after a wave of hold-up schemes by five NY agents. Dean Acheson faces Senate scrutiny over Alger Hiss links in a tense hearing. Truman resists civil rights concessions and White House bricks spark debate. Also notes on missionaries freed in Czechoslovakia and political bets in Congress.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
Internal Revenue
New York City
Senate
Dean Acheson
Senate Appropriations Committee
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Bridges
Alger Hiss
Acheson
Sen. Bridges
State Department
Hiss
Kenneth McKellar
Tennessee
Secy
Truman
Georgia
Dick Russell
Russell
White House
George Washington
Congressional
Owen Brewster
Maine
Glen Taylor
Idaho
GOP
Clare Boothe Luce
John Lodge
Connecticut
Lodge
Massachusetts
Wayne Morse
Morse
Gabrielson
Paul Hoffman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Churchill
the Bell Syndicate, Inc
Winchell On Broadway Exploring New York
A rapid tour of New York lore cites The Little Church Around the Corner, Harlem population hints, famous figures linked to sites, and quirky tidbits from Broadway detours to notable landmarks. It notes Trinity bronze doors, postal memorials, and city oddities from telegraph to skyscrapers.
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New York
29Th Street
Chinatown
Astor Family
Trinity Church
London
Rome
Paris
Vienna
Geneva
Harlem
Dallas
Exas
Swank Plaza
Sir Galahad
Seaman’s Church Institute
Counties Slip
South St
Barrow Street
Greenwich Village
Reason St
Tom Paine
Hudson
News
N.Y
Broadway
Grace Church
11Th St
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BY Raymond Brooks
Capitol
Driskill
Soo
Alamo
Texan
Commodore Perry
BY Billy Rose
Eye Street
N. M
Austin American
F. Oo. R
R. W. Gerard
Lord
Timothy Dex
Ter
Newburyport
Mass
Austin American Information Bureau
Washington, D. C
William A. Ganey
Internal Revenue Collection
Capital News
Potomac
Vogeler
Hungary
Ellis Briggs
Czechoslovakia
Stanley Abbott
Lehi
Utah
Alden Johnson
Idaho Falls
Stuyvesant Town
St 62Nd
Park & Lexington
Madeline Kudner
Ad Agency
Lower Manhattan Island
City Hall
Horace Greeley
Edgar Allan Poe
84Th
Nathan Hale
3Rd Avenue
66Th
1St Ave
Samual Morse
Audubon
156Th Street
Riverside Dr
Eire
Eamon de Valera
Chrysler
Holley Hotel
Washington Sq
Minetta Brook
Starrett-Lehigh
Govaress
The
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
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