51st Legislature Seeks Landmark Record For Texas History
The Texas 51st Legislature faces a historic term with major reforms in public education crime code election law and state wards care while debating tidelands oil rights. Advocates argue these changes could reshape taxation and state governance for generations.
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Austin American Capitol
Texas
House
Texas Public School Fund
Tidemark
Tidelands
San Jacinto
Editor's Notebook notes Board of Control cuts persist
The Board of Control loses duties as bills transfer administration of state hospitals, youth facilities, historical buildings, and prison design to new agencies. A Capitol Plan Commission and budget duties shift are debated while veterans credits gain tentative House support, with final action unlikely before adjournment.
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House
Senate
Youth Development Council
Centennial Commission
Prison Board
Capitol Plan Commission
State Auditor’s Department
Miller B. Walker
Beaumont
Benton and Horany
Texas
Job prospects shift as 5 million unemployed loom in 1949
Labor Department experts warn traditional fields will overcrowd and shrink job chances this summer with 5,000,000 unemployed expected. Skilled workers in engineering, teaching, nursing, and public service show strong demand, while many low skill roles remain tight or fading, and new industries offer hope for the next five years.
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Washington
FBI
Labor Department
New England
California
Northwest
New York Post Corp
Answers and Questions from a Civil War Era Quiz
A compilation of trivia covering debts imprisonment in 1830s, Will Rogers birthplace, federal pay recipients, dog food, GI Bill home purchases, Currier and Ives prints, skyscrapers in NYC, imperial beards, top milk producers, goodwill value, Crater Lake naming, US Canadian boundary, fish pain, Northwest Highway name, annual car scrappage, and champagne origins. Key figures include Will Rogers, Bridge Birch, Carnation Ormsby Madea Fayne, and Dom Pierre Perignon.
Truman Chides Barkley On Language Prowess
Washington gossip notes President Truman and Vice President Barkley banter at Acheson departure. The exchange includes Barkley’s French farewell and Truman chiding him over pronunciation. Also reports Acheson rebuking Warren Austin for defying Israel admission instructions at the UN.
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Barkley
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Acheson
Paris
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Henri Bonnet
Warren Austin
United Nations
State Department
Secv
Israel
United Nations Assembly
Lake Success
Austin
Vermont
Mr. Truman
Zatso
Evelyn Keyes
Runyon Fund
McGill University
Canada
Columbia
New York
Univ. of Chicago
U. of Chicago
Lisa Kirk
Kate
Atlantic Seaboard
Thye objects to across the board cuts in GOP budget move
In a closed Republican meeting Senator Ed Thye criticizes a 5 per cent across the board cut as wasteful and unfair arguing for itemized reductions. Senator Forrest Donnell backs the critique while Acheson faces questions about UN votes and policy.
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Minnesota
Ed Thvye
Thye
Appropriations Committee
Senate
Missouri
Forrest Donnell
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