Mayor Making Austinites More Tax Conscious
Austin voters head to the polls to choose five city council members as Mayor Tom Miller nears his 16 year term end. The piece notes tax policy, a $2.4 million hospital and $2.6 million water and light revenue bond plan, and plans for commercial zoning on Lamar Boulevard and near the Interstate Highway as Austin grows.
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William J. Weeg
Austin American
Tom Miller
Austin
Pressler Street
Sixth
Lamar Boulevard
Times Change in a Distant Past Voice
A radio commentator extols a 90 minute housework limit while a bachelor tone colors the talk. A senator touts pay as you go government policy and Alaska and Hawaii push for statehood amid taxation with representation jokes. Dean Acheson is urged to reform striped pants diplomacy with pressing action.
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Dean Acheson
Pearson
State programs aim at threefold reform for crime and disease
The article outlines a sweeping legislative push to reform prison, mental health, and juvenile systems. It cites costs and projected declines in future needs as preventive measures target rehabilitation, better housing, and treatment for patients, offenders, and youths. It notes initial prison outlay of 4.6 million and long-term savings from preventive actions. It also reports on oil industry unitization disputes, with the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association leaning toward voluntary pooling and opposing compulsory measures that could undermine independent operators.
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Austin
Pioneer Airlines
Charles L. Krueger
Exchange Club
Air Line Pilots Association
Pioneer
Krueger
Panhandle
North Texas
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Houston
Uvalde
del Rio
Texas
Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association
Guy Warren
Labor Comrades Rise as Militant Core Emerges
A 1949 New York Post analysis portrays a disciplined 55,000 member Communist party ready to act on orders from abroad. It cites expulsions, a $1,000,000 fundraiser, and covert US labor talks with AFL CIO accords while noting labor unrest, theater funding schemes, and political shifts shaping postwar unions.
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Communist Party
Commie
Earl Browder
Congress
Washington
AFL
CIO
White House
State Department
Actors Equity
Joe Curran
CIO Sailors Union
Sailors’ Union
CIO Sailors’ Convention
CIO Cannery
Phil Murray
New York Post Corp
Pan Am congress lobby extends along its routes
Washington report details Pan American Airways using junkets and free travel for CAB officials amid six pending Civil Aeronautics Board cases. The piece notes allied political figures and the broader issue of travel subsidies and potential conflicts of interest.
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Pan Am Congress Lobby
Drew Pearson
Washington
Pan American AirWays
Pan American
Pan Am
Civil Aeronautics Board
Boeing
Oswald Ryan
CAB
Miami
Ryan
Warner Hord
William Cusick
Frank Crozier
William Andrews
Accident Investigation Bureau
Ed Slattery
Congress
Broadway Notes Mixed Reviews and Industry Gossip
Sidney Kingsley’s Detective Story draws lavish praise at Hudson Theater with Bellamy Mundy and McMahon stars. Flop-heavy season noted with over 30 failures costing backers $3,000,000. Other items cover El Paso Corridor of Mirrors and Woman Who Dared, plus backstage talk on Tales of the South Pacific and Hearst’s Jennie premiere. Pound quips about democracy.
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Sidney Kingsley
Hudson Theater
Kingsley
Ralph Bellamy
Meg Mundy
Horace McMahon
New York
Homicide
Bleecker Street
el Paso
John Payns
Gail Russell
Corridor of Mirrors
Eric Portman
Leland Hayward
Boston
William Roos
the Intelligentsia
W. R. Hearst
Jennie
Rivoli
Tin Pan Alley
Maria Rosa
Malia
May
Rosa
Rose
May Singhi Breen
Peter DeRose
England
Gracie Fields
Martin Block
Ezra Pound
Q and A on extreme cold canaries and electric chair
The piece asks why Verkhoyansk residents endure minus temperatures with tunnels and winter outdoor limits. It notes canaries warn of gas in coal mines. It cites New York’s 1888 law and 1890 Auburn Prison execution as first uses of electrocution. It identifies George Croly as the author of a line from Catiline's Reply.
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Verkhoyansk
Siberia
State of
New York
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By Herblock
New York Afl Electrical Workers Union
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Arkansas Building Project
Old Dixie Spirits
ABL
Struck Project
Super
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Joe Louis
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Dewey
Warren
Sidney Hillman
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LaFollette
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Merry
Truman
Mon Wallgren
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USA
Humphrey
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National Steel
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National City Bank of Cleveland
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Atlas Corporation
United Fruit
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Odlum
Jacqueline Cochran
The
Wasps
National Defense
Bob Hinckley
Commerce
Harry Hopkins
WPA
American Broadcasting Company
Hinckley
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Oregon
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Ohio
Bob Taft
Morse
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States
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Maine
John Townsend
Delaware
Taft
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Army Department
Germany
Acheson
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Selfridge
Mich
E. Kenneth Froslich
Air Force
Michigan
Homer Ferguson
Froslich
Selfridge Field
W. T. Hudnell
Canaries
William Kemmler
Auburn Prison
Catiline
Cicero
George Croly
Lear
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
United States
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