Austin Voters Start Making Council Choice
Austin voters begin selecting five council members for the 1950–51 term with 17 candidates in the field. Absentee voting runs through March 31 and the election is set for April 4. Mayor Tom Miller plans to stay active in city affairs, while other stories cover spring training for the Milwaukee Brewers, the Rogers Hornsby baseball school coming to town, and water and infrastructure projects planned for North Austin.
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Austin American
Austin
Tom Miller
Miller
Rogers Hornsby
Hornsby
38Th Street
Kerbeyane
Guadalupe
Highland Park West
Lake Austin
Lower
Colorado River Authority
Commodore Perry
St. Mary’s Academy
Austin Theological Presbyterian Seminary
E. C. Bartholomew
Taylor Glass
Will T. Johnson
Leslie McKay
George W. Sandlin
Tomer Thornberry
Oswald G. Wolf
Utilities Division
City of
Discrediting Communist Power Plays Amid Labor Tensions
Victor Riesel surveys internal Soviet led Communist strategy led by Eugene Dennis Waldron to dissolve open party structures and operate via underground unions and fronts while factions clash under probes. He notes Truman era shifts, AFL political mobilization, and labor battles from New York to Massachusetts shaping a new political landscape.
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American Communist Party
Eugene Dennis
Frank Waldron
William Zebulon Foster
Dennis’ Okeh
Dennis Waldron
Dennis
Moscow
New York
Labor unrest and union activity across sectors in 1949
A collection of brief items notes shifts in labor power including anti Communist drives in Brooklyn unions and AFL Teacher charters removed from pro Communist locals. It mentions left wing CIO mergers on the West Coast and a spring upsurge in wage demands, plus a proposed youth employment exchange by auto unions and social notes on fashion and media remarks.
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Anna Louise Strong
Moscow
Marshall Tito
Brooklyn
Auto Workers
United Electical
AFL Teachers Union
Auto
Walter Reuther
New York Post Corp
Austin Rallies Behind Rayburn Dinner and Roads Plan
The Editor's Notebook notes Austin's support for a Jefferson Jackson Day dinner honoring Sam Rayburn with proceeds aiding the Democratic Party deficit. It praises Rayburn for steering projects to Central Texas and urges civic gratitude alongside a rural roads expansion backed by state and gas tax funding.
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Sam Rayburn
Tom Miller
Austin
Senate
House
McLellan
C. S. McLellan
Neveille Colson
Beauford Jester
Retirement Pay for 39 Ex Lawmakers Raises Ethical Questions
The column lists 39 former senators and congressmen drawing government retirement pay, with details on eligibility and amounts. It notes some have prison terms or other disqualifications, while others retain influence and wealth. The piece contrasts pension issues with rural telephone deficits and White House efforts to expand farm phone service.
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Washington
Congress
Andrew May
Kentucky
James Curley
Massachusetts
May
Curley
Truman
Boston
Minnesota
Harold Knutson
Colorado
Robert Rockwell
Michigan
Bartel Jonkman
Rockwell
Jonkman
South America
Joe Guffey
Pennsylvania
Burton Wheeler
Montana
James Tunnell
Delaware
Jim Mead
New York
George Radcliffe
Maryland
Peter Gerry
Rhode Island
Henrik Shipstead
Raymond Willis
Indiana
William Pittenger
Clarence Lea
California
Butler Hare
South Carolina
James Wolfenden
Fritz Lanham
Texas
Hatton Sumners
Herman Kopplemann
Connecticut
Malcolm Tarver
Georgia
William Thom
Ohio
John Folger
North Carolina
Edward McCowen
Louis Ludlow
George Gillie
C. Jasper Bell
Missouri
America
USA
State of the Union
White House
Agriculture Department
Broadway Buzz and TV Stars Spark Weekend Jest
Lucid snips from Winchell's column highlight Ray Bolger in Once in Love With Amy and Helen Forrest in I Don't See Me in Your Eyes Any More. Crazed cinema notes include a pinball trap for a villain in Caught and a Mitchum billboard for The Red Pony.
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Amy
Ray Bolger
Charley
Helen Forrest
47Th
Big Apple
Robert Mitchum
Danny Kaye
Era Mostel
Mister Berle
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Philadelphia
New York City
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Charlotte, N.C
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Akron Clivers
Davey Tree Expert Company
Union
Carey Williams
Axis Sally
Harry H. Vaughan
Nebraska
Harold Ickes
Ickes
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ple
Central
By Herblock
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Knutson
Mississippi
Iowa
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Subway
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Dan & Bradstreet
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3Rd Avenue
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Jean Arthur
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Switzerland
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Charles Laughton
Maxwell's
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