Course of World Alliance Close to Chaos in West
Western strategy falters as effort to build a Western Union alliance unravels amid Anglo French talks and Churchill's calls for atomic options. Critics warn European powers cannot mobilize large armies, leaving the United States to bear most defense burdens as Franco Spanish plans prove risky.
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Winston Churchill
Chan Gurney
Franco Spain
Great Britain
France
Western Union
Churchill
Royal Air Force
Spain
Hitler
Franco
Germany
United States
Elbe
Rhine
Pyrenees
Cliche Meaning Question Echoed in Colloquial Muse
Fragmentary remarks critique urban law enforcement bias and Congress inaction for workers under Communist bosses. The piece contrasts university major trends with a snap course in sociology and ends with a quip by a colonel on the terms cliche, trite, and hackneyed.
Editor's Notebook on Farmers Prices and Red Cross Readiness
The piece argues farm prices will fall more sharply than consumer prices over five years, with producers facing declines and high costs for inputs while land values rise. It notes political limits on price supports and a cautious economic outlook for agriculture. It also describes the Red Cross disaster-relief mobilization in Austin as a model for broader readiness nationwide.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Washington
The
Red Cross
Austin
Travis County
Wallaceite and the Communist Tactics in the 1948 Campaign
Harold L. Ickes argues that communists back Wallace to misdirect liberal voters toward Dewey while seeking to split the Democratic Party. He contends Wallace is a front for Dewey’s real candidacy, aiming to defeat Truman and seize party machinery amid postwar turmoil.
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Harold L. Ickes
Wallace
Dewey
Truman
Mr. Dewey
Henry Wallace
Wallaceites aid reactionaries in Congress, not altering state races
The Wallace movement draws liberals to its fold but helps reactionaries win House and Senate seats. Some Wallace candidates were withdrawn to avoid helping foes, while others cannot withdraw under California law. The piece notes how Hollywood Bowl politics and cross filing influenced liberal candidates like Douglas and Holifield, and critics the Wallace campaign for harming liberal prospects nationwide.
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Mr. Wallace
Wallace
Illinois
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Chet Holifield
California
Congress
Beanie” Baldwin
Baldwin
Douglas
Holifield
New York Post Corp
Man Wins Record Questions and Answers Summary
A question set cites records by professional champions in England for one and two hand wins, plus a science Q A on sound and temperature. It notes Texas history with a brief war period, Omar Khayyam verse origins, American nation memberships, population density figures, shad catch value, and a Matterhorn ascent by Edward Whymper with fatalities. It lists living widows of former U.S. presidents.
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England
A. Cutler
A. Lewis
Jec A. Edward Whymper
J. A. Carrel
Washington Grain Lobby Exposed in Parity Price Fight
Chicago dispatch details how grain lobbies aligned with Argentine and French refugee interests influenced the 80th Congress. Provisions blocked new storage for grain bought at parity, shifting costs to farmers and raising prices via private brokers. The piece names Bunge, Continental Grain, Leval and Co. and figures like Slaughter, Walcott, Dirksen, Velde, and Curley Brooks, noting lobbying violations and political entanglements.
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Drew Pearson
Chicago
Middle West
Washington
Congress
Paul Hoffman
Commodity Credit Corporation
Europe
Bunge Corporation
Bunge
Argentina
Uruguay
Continental Grain Corporation
Park Avenue
Jules
Rene
Michel Fribourg
Louis Ullman
Lucien Lang
Leval and Company
Fernand Leval
Leopold Stern
Jacque Kayloff
North American Grain Export Association
National Grain Trade Council
Capitol Hill
Roger Slaughter
Kansas City
Truman
Slaughter
Jesse Walcott
Michigan
House Banking and Currency Committee
Justice Department
Northwestern Grain Export Association
Investigating the investigators on Broadway
Winchell surveys public probes and political watergate style misfires. He recalls 1931 communist subversion probes that yielded no convictions, stalled inquiries into Lewis and Davis, and McDowell’s flip on fascism claims. The Dies Committee files and Nazi membership lists linger unresolved.
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McDowell
unAmerican Activities Committee
America
Deep South
Far West
Texas
Chicago
Detroit
Philadelphia
MccDowell
USA
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