Scalpers Latch Onto Potential Hotel Rooms At Football Party
A mixed page notes scalpers seeking to pair hotel rooms with tickets for Texas Rice games. Prices for on field seats reach 20 to 30 dollars while bootleg rooms prompt speculation of a floor bloc tactic. Local figures like Wright Stubbs and P L Nairn appear in brief anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Rice
University of Texas
Seventh
Congress
Austin
Driskill
Buddy
Inside Labor Labor Lefties May Get Own Organization
Victor Riesel surveys a rumored future federation of pro-Communist labor, detailing secret Cleveland talks, CIO rule conflicts, and potential expulsions. He predicts a split and new leftist unions forming if current leaders fail to expel communists, with a tense path ahead for U.S. labor politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Riesel
Federation of America
Cleveland
Hollenden
Labor Federation of the
CIO
United Electrical Workers (Us
America
Albert Fitzgerald
Harry Bridges
Maurice Travis
Phil Murray
Paris
Pipsqueak
Communists’ Trade Union Commission
Con
Ohio
Answers and Questions from the National Bureau of Standards
A 1920 compilation answers reader questions on governors and horses, bananas, eucalyptus versus sequoias, Sir Thomas More, the clown of the woods, water use per person, photostat copies of naturalization papers, phrase origins, coin initials, long baseball games, ship anchors and weights, work week trends, Ecuador origin, Palomino horse term, removing stamps from parachute silk, early US iron works, and defrosted refrigerator water for steam irons.
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S.J.F. A
National Bureau of Standards
Texas Amendment Aims to End Jury Trials for Lunacy Cases
The piece argues voters should approve a constitutional amendment to waive jury trials in lunacy cases and let the hospital head certify commitments. It notes safeguards, preserves jury rights on request, and highlights bene ts for humane treatment and reducing stigma, urging voter support in November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Texas Society For Mental Hygiene
Absenteeism, Diplomats Highlight 81st Congress Review
Washington critique notes absenteeism hindered pension and education bills for the 81st Congress. Drew Pearson cites dozens traveling abroad on so called surveys, with senators Bricker, Sparkman, McCarran and others listed. Truman weighs debt amortization while Contends education aid was blocked by Lesinski committee hostility.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
Congress
Mr. Truman
FDR
Senate
Scott Lucas
Europe
Bricker
Ohio
Flanders
Vermont
Frear
Delaware
Spark
Duty in the face of Soviet opposition on Broadway
El Winchell argues for unwavering duty in defending civil rights and free speech as he contrasts Judge Harold Medina's fair trials for Communist defendants with Captain John Crommelin's wartime leadership. He lauds Medina and Crommelin, warns against communism as a cancerous idea, and cites Cold War battles from courts to ships.
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New York
Stalin
Vespasien Palla
USA
Long Island
Anna Pauka
Romania
Palla
Antonescu
United States
I. G. Farben
Antonescue
United States District Court
John S. Crommelin
United States Navy
Moscow
Medina
Collier's
Crommelin
Paul Robeson
Capt. Crommelin
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Wright Stubbs
Mrs. Stubbs
Stubbs
Justice of the Peace
P. L. Nairn
Lyndon B. Johnson
Nairn
Coke Stevenson
Johnson
Alabama
Spain
Madrid
Pittsburgh
William Penn Hotel
Reuther
Auto Workers
Food and Tobacco Workers
Donald Henderson
Big City
Bureau
N. E
D.C
Stanford
California
Eadweard Muybridge
Australia
Victoria
Thomas More
Henry VIII
Catherine of Aragon
London Bridge
F. D
D. N.A
Croker
J. W. Croker
J. B. Longacre
Leon Cadore
Brooklyn Dodgers
Joe Oeschger
Boston Braves
J. A
Ecuador
Equator
Boston
Saugus River
Lynn
Mass
The
Nutbook
Justice American
By Smith
Louis N. Goldberg
Truman
Lesinski
Morgan Moulder
Missouri
John Lesinski
House Labor Committee
Moulder
House
Switzerland
Pauka
American Society of International Law
Dean Rusk
United Nations
FBI
Merry
MacArthur
State Department
China
Dewey
Jim Haggerty
John Foster Dulles
Oklahoma
Tom Steed
Steed
Acheson
Japan
General MacArthur
Nippon
Bell Syndicate
Tec
Canada
Communist Party
Labor-Progressive Party
Reds’ Party
Stalin & Co
Austin American
Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Press
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