Penalties Trial Sparks Parole Plan in Travis County
A Texas court experiments with parole under Alcoholics Anonymous supervision for a man indicted on forgery and false gas tax returns and a second DWI case. The Austin defendant, father of seven, has shown sobriety thus far as officials weigh county welfare and potential penitentiary outcomes.
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Travis County
Austin
Alcoholics Anonymous
Aas
Raymond N. Hanks
Paul Holt
Polk Shelton
Corpus Christi
Hans
Hanks
Jack Roberts
Bob Long
State Comptroller’s
Corpus
Texas
American orators and flags and waves across headlines
The excerpt notes diverse figures around flag waving and figures like Vishinsky. It mentions a 60-year-old in Sudan attacking his grandfather, juvenile delinquency globally, rising demand for state and federal services, and concerns over paying for ordered goods. It also credits John L. Lewis for leadership in mining and notes shifts in focus toward Civil Rights over Civil Wrongs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sudan
Tax levy debate heats Texas as January decision looms
Texas lawmakers face a possible January move to impose an income tax though an official warns against it. The piece notes Texas has no income tax, sales tax, or use tax, contrasts with five other states, and argues against expanding state funding via consumer levies while praising Texas growth and industry.
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Marshall O. Bell
San Antonio
Texas
Bell
South Texas Chamber of Commerce
Austin Development Foundation
Business Week
Kansas
Maryland
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Labor leader John L Lewis under pressure over welfare fund
A sensational profile alleges John L Lewis authorized monthly 100000 welfare checks funded by coal taxes. It claims secrecy around recipients and ties to a personal relief system, with growing miner revolts and strife at White Sulphur Springs and Bluefield conferences. The piece notes trustees seek accounting while Lewis stalks for an exit.
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John L. Lewis
John Lewis
John L
Ezra van Horn
Senator Bridges
John
Lewis
Ohio
Cal
Livengood
Old John
White Sulphur Springs
Questions and Answers on History and Factoids
A compilation of brief Q and A items covering costs of enforcing Prohibition, explanations for the Red and Black Seas names, Le Havre wartime damage and restoration, best neon sign colors, Empire State Building opening date, origin of Hollywood name, diving platform and tank dimensions for fairs, and the Washington Monument’s perpendicular status.
Johnson as Defense Chief Powers Through Decisions
Washington report portrays Secretary of Defense Louie Johnson as a decisive administrator who has transformed the Joint Chiefs of Staff into a decision-making body. He holds regular sessions with the three service chiefs and his staff, imposing deadlines and pushing for clear policy outcomes. The piece notes his economy push, prior Army experience, and contrasts him with Forrestal and Halsey, while weaving in anecdotes about Senate figures and a broader postwar defense landscape.
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Washington
Louie Johnson
Johnson
Carl Vinson
House Armed Services Committee
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Louis Denfeld
Naval Operations
Hoyt Vandenberg
Air
Omar Bradley
Army
Symington
Francis Matthews
Navy
Gordon Grey
Joint Chiefs
Steve Early
Defense
Research and Development
Air Force
Secretary of Defense
Roosevelt
James Forrestal
Forrestal
Bull” Halsey
Richardson Board On Unification
Department
National Defense
Admiral Halsey
Broadway Curiosities From Winchell’s City Notebook
A rapid-fire tour of New York oddities and landmarks includes Sugar Hill, Times Square cops on duty, Wall Street nicknames, and the RCA Building lobby mural. It notes the Stork Club cash register, St. Patrick’s Cathedral size, and a chimpanzee tale at Central Park Zoo.
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Grand Central Station
RCA
Harlem
Swank
Sugar Hill
Deadwood
South Dakota
Empire State
42Nd Street
Nyc
Times Sq
Stork Club
Burg
Midtown
Metropolitan Opera House
Museum of Art
St. Anne's Church
Waldorf
Odd Monicker
New Yorker
2Nd Street
Preserved Fish
Rockefeller Plaza
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Gracie
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Bascom Giles
Senate
Giles
Congress
Lone Star
Vishinsky
The
Editors
Lee O’daniel
By Smith
BY Victor Riesel
Vin Coolidge
George Livengood
Pennsylvania
Welfare Fund
United Mine Workers
Bluefield
W. Va
Teapot Dome
Post-Hall Syndicate Inc
Bureau
Eye Street
N. E
Washington 2
D. C
Austin American Information
F.M.D
R.C.M. A
Red Sea
Black Sea
le Havre
D.lr. A
National Bureau of Standards
Empire State Building
V.E.R. A
Hollywood
Calif
T.W. A
Los Angeles
Horace Wilcox
Washington Monument
Washington, D. C
NMS
National Park Service
Secy
Drew Pearson
Adm
Halsey
Sens. ‘Olsen and Johnson
NBC
Ed Johnson
Colorado
Bill Knowland
California
Bourke Hickenlooper
Iowa
Sen. Johnson
Olsen and Johnson
Kentucky
Garrett Lee Withers
Withers
Bill Brennan
Blue Grass
Brennan
Merry
Russia
Peron
Argentina
Leland Lovett
Clyde Lewis
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
State Department
Ernest Gross
Warren Austin
United Nations
House Appropriations Committee
Jack McFall
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Jerome Park
Winston Churchill
Jennie Jerome
Wall
Chinatown School
3Rd Avenue
Coney Island
Central Park
Austin American
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
United States
Associated Press
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