Capital City Votes and Irregularities Stir Local Debate
In a lighthearted but pointed vignette about election irregularities, the piece notes a Latin American boy in San Diego saddened by his absent father who visits every two years to vote, reflecting on the longer pattern of political participation amid concerns in Duval Wells Zapata and broader local politics.
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Jim Wells
Jasper Bell
Missouri
President Truman
Congress
Virginia Russells
Virginia
Campaign chatter and political tensions in South Texas
The article surveys ongoing vote fraud investigations in three South Texas counties with competing narratives from Stevenson and Johnson camps. It notes delays, jurisdiction doubts, and strategic time-wasting concerns, plus reflections on Dewey and Truman campaign stances and Texas polling.
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Texas
Stevenson
Hartley Gears New Anti Communist Pledge Plan in Labor Fight
Rep Hartley reveals a proposed Taft Hartley amendment requiring all union policy makers and officers to sign non Communist affidavits. The move aims to bar Communist influence by preventing rehiring of expelled members in top union roles. Hartley predicts passage and targets mass picketing and dockyard violence with new liability for injurious conduct.
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Hartley
Washington
Congress
Charles Wilson
General Motors
Ben Fairless
U. S. Steel Corp
Henry Ford
Joint Labor Committee
Post Corporation
Election Calls for Extensive Vote in Austin Advisory
The Austin City Council plans an advisory election Tuesday to appoint the member with the highest votes for six months. Voters are urged to consider candidates who could win a full term next April, while officials note no public funds will be spent beyond the election.
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Austin
The Case Against Absolute Air Power and Bomb Dependence
The piece argues against reliance on air power and atomic bombs for victory, noting U S rearmament limits and dwindling World War II era strength. It questions air superiority without mass air forces, warns that bomb reliance could leave the United States vulnerable if atomic attacks fail or defenses hold.
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United States
Answers and facts from a midcentury Q and A page
The article presents brief Q and A items on US birth rates, blue versus olive drab Army uniforms with dates 1938 1943 and 1946, a silver bullet used by British for a Revolutionary War dispatch, Fort Ticonderoga relics, the UN headquarters flag circle containing 58 flags, how radio stations receive news from press associations, and DC tax assessment valuing the Value at about 26 million with land a major portion.
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Department of the Army
Dogs booklet offers quick guide for owners
Today’s booklet offer presents a 48 page guide titled Dogs. It covers selection feeding housebreaking grooming housing training breeding caring for sickness with authoritative advice and illustrations. Send 25 cents to Austin American Information Bureau 316 Eye Street N E Washington DC to order.
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United States
Austin American Information Bureau
Eye Street
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Washington, D. C
Dulles links to secret Bosch plant voting trust case
Washington notes reveal John Foster Dulles and his Sullivan and Cromwell firm involved in a 1940s scheme to cloak the Springfield Massachusetts American Bosch plant under Swedish ownership via Marcus Wallenberg. The plan used a voting trust and Provi dentia to control shares, with Dulles to name a successor if trustee Murnane died. The issue surfaces in federal court as the Wallenbergs testify and the government seeks testimony in a case tied to wartime German ownership and postwar disposition.
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George Murnane
John Foster Dulles
Delaware
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Murnane
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Sweden
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Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Senate
Winchell On Broadway and Other Broadway Buzz
A jumble of Hollywood and New York nightlife notes. Winthrop Rockefeller jokes at birth and cigar generosity surface amid film rights squabbles over Rope of Sand. Rex Ingram faces potential underage-probe, and Orson Welles Macbeth earns a Medal of Special Merit as gossip and fashion mingle with ad execs and socialites.
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Polyclinic Hospital
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Hal Wallis
Warners
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Venita Varden
Rex Ingram
Florida
Exec
Walton & O'Rourke
Parents Magazine
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Macbeth
Blue Barron
Serge Lifar
Paris
Moscow
Jerry Zerbe
Societicians
Raymond Rubicam
Reginald Clough
Ettie von Wurmbrand Stuppach
Clendennin Ryan
P. S
Jim
Morris Ernst
Harper's
Bob Sylvester
Broadway
Dan Topping
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Martha Cuneo
LaBelle Piaf
Marcel Cerdan
Paree
Pat” Dane
T. Dorsey
Mit
Ontario
Ackdelly
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Newspaper Association Credits and AP Sole Republish Rights
The Austin American and The Austin Statesman belong to the Audit Bureau of Circulation. The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to republish all local news and dispatched reports from these papers.
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