Austin In New Class A Baseball League Proposed
The SunHS Sunshine Camp campaign closed at $3 500 to fund six weeks of sunshine and health for 45 undernourished children in Austin. The Pioneers face major league farm shifts as minor leagues trim rosters starting Thursday.
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Be Kind to Big Business Week Proposed
A brief note defends business interests amid life struggles urging resilience and constant readiness to compete and survive. The piece frames commerce as a battleground requiring vigilance and adaptability.
Texas Campaign Plan Wins Again
The piece notes Lyndon Johnson pioneered using a helicopter in campaigns, this time aiding Gordon Persons who surged past Phillip Hamm in Alabama governor race and forced Hamm to skip a runoff. It also touches Hidalgo County tax remissions, state funding limits, and Texas Democrats awaiting Vice President Barkley’s Austin visit for a fundraising dinner to bolster campaigns in a close year.
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Texas
Lyndon Johnson
Alabama
Gordon Persons
James E. Folsom
Phillip J. Hamm
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Memphis
Hidalgo County
Hidalgo
Alben Barkley
Austin
Barkley Long
Undercover Fear and Labor Strife In Waterfront Unions
A CIO trial targets Bridges the alleged Cominform mole while anti Communist waterfront leaders endure harassment. NMU secretary Hedley Stone faces daily taunts from party loyalists as he commutes to work, revealing a pattern of intimidation within labor circles and the broader anti Communist crackdown at the docks.
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Washington
Arry Bridges
Cominform
America
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Justice Department
Bridges
Joseph Curran
Hedley Stone
National Maritime Union of Cio
New York
NMU
Stone
Union Hall Turmoil Moves from Decks to Street Riots
A hostile clash unfolds inside a New York union hall as Communist delegates harass Joe Curran and Hedley Stone with profanity and coins. Daily meetings fuel factional pressure. violence spills onto the street as tensions rise and discipline frays amid alleged graft and anti Communist operations.
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Origin of hooligan name and air humidity fact
The origin of the word hooligan is linked to an English comic song popular in lower class music halls in the late 19th or early 20th century describing the deeds of a rowdy family named Hooligan. Damp air weighs less than dry air because water vapor adds lighter gas to the atmosphere.
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Goethe
Mark Twain
Jimmy Cannon
Jonathan
Gulliver
Swift
John Keats
Balloon warfare, Soviet plots and political shifts in wartime notes
Washington columnist Drew Pearson reports on wartime censors hiding balloon plagued incursions into the United States, Soviet plans to build airstrips in China and varied geopolitical moves from Okinawa to Egypt. He notes shifts in U S policy and criticism of officials amid evolving Cold War tensions.
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Japan
Pacific Ocean
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Illinois
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Formosa
Pacific
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Okinawa
China
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East China Sea
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Joint Chiefs
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Southeast Asia
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Broadway Gossip and War of Titles at Warners
Times Square Tabletalk notes Pat Rooney Sr. battles Warners over Daughter of Rosie O’Grady, claims the composer gave him the rights. Yacovino at Sherry-Frontenac mails Runyon Fund $500. Various literary and cultural snippets follow, ending with AP republication rights statement.
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Times Square Tabletalk
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Warners
Rosie O'Grady
Yacovino
Sherry-Frontenac
Miami Beach
Runyon Fund
Tony Martins
Cyd Charisse
Bruce Cabot
Janet Shortell
Garden
Fanny Ward
Egypt
Farouk
King
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France
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Turkey
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State Department
Voice of America
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Acheson
Willis Smith
North Carolina
Senate
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Smith
North Carolina General Assembly
Madix Asphalt
Raleigh
General Assembly
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