Huge Loophole In New Texas Marriage Law
The Texas premarital health exam law requires both parties to present medical certificates but allows a county judge to waive exams on proof of no public health risk. The exception may spark many requests and uncertainty for couples seeking licenses. A road-block incident on a new bridge shows enforcement challenges amid local maintenance. National Employ the Handicapped Week highlights notable figures overcoming disabilities and encourages inclusive hiring.
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Ian Morgan
Lake Austin Boulevard
West Lake Drive
A Trip Through Pressed-For-Time Modernity
A series of quips reflects on changing society from farm to factory, science dreams of sleepless generations, and the rise of political and family fame. The Eisenhower brothers and the Dionne quintuplets appear as contemporary touchstones in a world of redefined progress and fame.
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Eisenhower Brothers
North American
Dionne Quintuplets
Editors debate party registration law in Texas two party shift
The piece argues that the Democratic legislature backs a voter registration law forcing registrants to declare and stick with a party, aiming to curb GOP voting in Democratic primaries. It weighs effects on party strength, primaries, and potential general election consequences, noting urban advantages for Democrats and broader GOP mobilization.
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Texas
The Medallion Hunter of Lake Winnipeg
Pierre Montevilain, famed hunter of Manitoba, is haunted by a silver St Francis medallion given to his son. After a fawn dies under his hand, the father descends into killing, drinking, and superstition, until he dies of a stroke holding the talisman. The tale intertwines belief in souls moving to animals with a cursed emblem.
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Manitoba
Canada
Pierre Montevilain
Pierre
Lake
Winnipeg
Emilie d'Arbesine
Winnipegosis
Hudson Bay
St. Francis of Assisi
Francois
Emilie
Montevilain
St. Francis
St. Francis of
Arthur Watkins
Utah
Ralph Flanders
Vermont
Flanders
Watkins
Library of Congress
Answers and Questions from the Congressional Record
The compiled Q and A cover legislative days, the Peace Arch inscription in Blaine Washington, Lincoln’s last words, ROTC pay during college and camps, tomato fruit versus vegetable history, walnuts sold in shell vs meats, school blackboard and chalk advice, biblical lily of the fields, and presidents who lived to 75 or older.
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Department of Defense
Supreme Court
United States
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Martin van Buren
James Buchanan
Herbert Hoover
Patton’s Czechoslovakia drive linked to uranium control
A 1945 diary note and memoirs suggest General Patton’s Third Army reached Pilsen before the Red Army and may have delayed Soviet control of Czech uranium at Jachymov. The piece links withdrawals from Potsdam to Yalta agreements, notes Soviet extraterritorial rights, and mentions Masaryk, Benes, and the Benes government.
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Washington
George S. Patton
Truman
Russia
Patton
Third Army
Pilsen
Skoda
Czechoslovakia
Red Army
Berlin
Eisenhower
Potsdam
Yalta
Europe
Jachymov
Jachymovv
Moscow
Prague
Fierlinger
Germany
Roosevelt
Alger Hiss
State Department
Science on the Atomic Age and Policy Failures
Winchell on Broadway argues Roosevelt backed the wartime science push led by Vannevar Bush, detailing the 1940 to 1944 atom program and its $2 billion cost, noting Russia’s early know-how and critiquing Truman and Congress for lacking scientific counsel and reliance on the Atomic Energy Commission.
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Adam
Congress
Truman
National Science Foundation
Russia
Roosevelt
Vannevar Bush
Office of Scientific Research and Development
Pres. Roosevelt
Bush
Europe
Bush Organization
Unay
Joint Congressional Committee On Atomic Energy
Atomic Energy Commission
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Alec Templeton
Art Tatum
Pete Gray
Paul Robeson
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Austin American Information
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Blaine, Wash
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United Nations
New Attorney General
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Justice Department
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Howard McGrath
Democratic National Committee
McGrath
Democratic Party
Tom Clark
Alabama
Cecil Thrash
Rhode Island
Merry
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World Organization
Cuba
UN General Assembly
Havana
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General Assembly
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Acheson
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