Capital City Pace Set In Washington By Liz Carpenter
Washington visit recounts by Liz Carpenter detailing the Women of the Year awards dinner with Grandma Moses Eleanor Roosevelt Madeleine Carroll and Dorothy McCullough. President Truman and Secretary Brannan attend Blair House reception with the press club delegation amid light humor and chitchat about hair and cabinets.
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Liz Carpenter
Austin
Carpenter
Liz Sutherland
Tom Sutherland
Good Neighbor Commission
Sutherland
Women’s National Press Club
Grandma Moses
Eleanor Roosevelt
Madeleine Carroll
Dorothy McCullough
Portland
Ore
Mary Jane Ward
Liz
Press Club
Agriculture Brannan
Tom Clark
Les Carpenter
The
American Statesman
Homer Thornberry
United States Marine Band
Secret Service
Sec. Brannan
William O. Douglas
America
France
White House
Texas
Senate Hospital Bill Boosts Texas Building Program
The Senate approves over 22 million dollars for permanent hospital and eleemosynary construction as part of a sweeping state building program. A second major package of 62 million for hospitals and eleemosynary needs and 67 million for higher education includes a new medical branch, with funding to be certified by the comptroller before the governor acts. A deficit-avoidance plan, including possible tax increases or deferrals, is debated as lawmakers consider five major bills and possible adjournment strategies.
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Senate
Beauford Jester
Texas
Lamar Tech College
House
Ford Strike Tactics Stir Debate Over Speedup Effects
A 1949 New York Post piece portrays Ford plant union tactics aimed at pressuring Ford, portraying speedup as harming car quality. It links anti Ford actions to Soviet influence and Communist agitation while noting stern views on restraint and potential reform by leaders Walter Reuther and Henry Ford II.
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Ford
Young Henry
Strke
Auto Union
Walter Reuther
Reuther
Henry Ford II
New York City
Detroit
Commie
Soviet Union
Commies
Europe
Victor Reuther
Labor
America
Moscow
Ussr
Vologda
New York Post Corp
Hoover Honored as American People Rally Behind Youth School
The Voice of America highlighted how Americans donate to a J Edgar Hoover Juvenile Delinquency Foundation to build a school in his honor. A Texas preacher pledges yearly support of $10 with his family, while Hoover modestly doubts the need for a memorial to a living man.
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Drew Pearson
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Washington
State Department
Voice of America
Europe
J Edgar Hoover
United States
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover Foundation
Washington, DC
Waco
Texas
Arthur J. A. Koerner
Paul
Broadway Gossip and Nightlife Highlights
Broad essays on Milton Berle Joyce Mathews and Lisa Kirk plus notes from Broadway scenes. Mentions John Hersey Patricia Morison and Julie Wilson with a blend of show business chatter and odd tidbits.
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Broadway
Milton Berle
Joyce Mathews
Lola Montez
Mode Lovely
J. DiMaggio
Stratton
Music Hall
Queen Nazli
Egypt
Central Park
CBS
Wm. Paley
Teevee
John Hersey
Hiroshima
USA
Lisa Kirk
Kate
Bob Wells
Stamford
Patricia Morison
Lovely
Pat
Congressman from Mississippi proposed ban on women smoking in public
Questions and Answers recount HR 7252 by Congressman Paul Johnson to prohibit female smoking in the District of Columbia and to bar public places from allowing women to smoke with penalties. Other entries cover songs by J A Shubert, visa needs for England, Caspian Sea size, and mermaid origins.
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Paul Johnson
Mississippi
District of Columbia
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