Duval County Vote Controversy Spurs Redistricting Debate
Duval County election write in votes are voided stirring January legislative focus on redistricting and election law reforms. The uproar centers on Judge Sam Reams and Rep A J Vale races, with state officials noting antiquated laws and the need to adjust district lines after the 1950 census.
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Baliwick
Oast
Sam Reams
Brooks County
A. J. Vale
Starr
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Alice
Jim Wells County
George Parr
Hubert Sain
Halsey Wright
George Barr
Shine
Shineboy
Sam
Barr
Anti- Parr
South Texas
Parr
Jim Wells
Stevenson
Duval
Reams-Vale
John Ben Shepperd
Shepperd
Duvall
Texas Election Bureau
Petters
Farflung
Washington veterans of New Deal era meet on excess profits tax
Beardsley Rumis, Wilson Wyatt, and Leon Henderson reappear in the Statler Hotel Potomac Room to discuss proposed excess profits tax. Henderson and Wyatt, once heated opponents of big business, now act as economic consultant and legal counsel for the Business Committee on Emergency Corporate Taxation.
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Beardsley Rumi
Wilson W. Wyatt
Leon Henderson
Potomac
Statler Hotel
Beardsley Rum
New York
Wilson Wyatt
Henderson
OPA
NRA
Blue Eagle
Congress
Roosevelt
Louisville
Wyatt
Statler
Truman
Business Leaders Form Emergency Corporate Tax Committee
A coalition of business leaders formed the Business Committee on Emergency Corporate Taxation after summer meetings in New York to oppose an excess profits tax. They argued the government should raise funds by taxes but not through an excess profits levy, influenced by liberal figures like Ruml Henderson and Wyatt. President Truman drew large crowds at a press conference, while the committee tried to promote its pro business stance.
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New Stock Exchange
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Steelman
Paul Hoffman
Eric Johnston
Senate Armed Services Committee
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MacArthur
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Washington
Viking Press
James Forrestal
Democratic National Committee
Bill Doyle
Bell Syndicate
Robert Sterling
Hollywood
Wanda Hendrix
Dane Kean
M. O'Shra
Beri
Hatchick
Cafe Tokay
Hungary
K. V. Gaborne
Kate Murtah
Comedienne
R. Baker
Anna Rosenberg
See'y
Frances Perkins
Bob Savage
Ataleetic Records
Robert M. Kimbro
Army Air Corps
Case Society
Frank Costello
Dist
Edgar Anser Mowrer
Society For Prevention of
Penny Tax Proposals Shape Texas Fiscal Debate
The piece surveys potential tax shifts in Texas including a penny per gallon gasoline tax, a penny on the dollar sales tax on autos, and a possible gas tax extension. It notes effects on road funding schools and general revenues, and discusses how counties and transit users might be affected. It highlights implications under Colson Briscoe and Gilmer Aikin laws and the political debate ahead.
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Texas
Colson- Briscoe
Gilmer-Aikin
Origins of four in hand necktie and other Q and A
A quiz style set covers four in hand neckwear linked to four driver carriages, the seven seas listing major oceans, Star Chamber origins, moving eyes portraits in China and Europe, roughest seas near Antarctica, military dependent allowances, Japanese ambassadors Kurusu Nomura after Pearl Harbor, Whittier Snowbound context, proper buffalo usage, and Indian children IQ parity with white children.
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Europe
Kurusu
Nomura
United States
Pearl Harbor
A.B
Children’s Book booklet offer for young readers
Advertisement promotes a children's booklet titled The Children's Book with stories poems riddles and craft activities. Readers are asked to send 15 cents to Austin American Information Bureau Washington 5 for a copy.
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Austin American Information Bureau
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Washington
MacArthur Blamed for Whittling Demo Vote Tactics
Washington column notes two eye catching points from Truman's China statement. It claims MacArthur refused a similar line while the State Department pressed. It also discusses Nixon era style diplomacy in Peiping and tensions with Nehru over the delivery of the statement to Mao Tse tung.
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United States
China
State Department
General MacArthur
Canton
Truman
New Delhi
India
Lou Henderson
Nehru
Henderson
Mao Tsetung
Peiping
Sardar Panniker
Pentagon ham radio system test ends in bleeps and static
At a Pentagon ceremony the new global military radio network for pacerant communications failed to connect any aircraft or Fort Pepperell desk, producing only bleeps and static. Top defense leaders meet to trim the budget by about ten billion, now set at roughly forty five billion for the next two years.
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Defense Department
Pacereant Communications
Air
Finletter
North Atlantic
Lyman Whitten
Fort Pepperell
Newfoundland
Gen. Whitten
Defense
Truman
Newspaper Describes Audit Bureau Certification and AP Rights
The Austin American and The Austin Statesman are members of the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Associated Press grants exclusive rights to use its real news and AP dispatches printed in this newspaper.
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Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation, & National Organization
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Tirmirer
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