Texas Cares For Its Polio Victims At Warm Springs
Texas showcases support for polio victims at Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation Ottine near Gonzales and Luling. Since 1940 the center has seven buildings on 40 acres serving 110 patients with full rehabilitation facilities and local Texans oversee governance and funding.
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Texas
Warm Springs
William J. Weeg
Gonzales
Palmetto State Park
Austin
Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation
Jack Blackwell
Foundation
New York
American College of Surgeons
Paragraphs Simile In The Public Eye
A collage of stock phrases and wry observations on politics war media and society. The notes touch on Russia and the A bomb a six week army draft vitamins in service labor Taft Ohio and modern life with humor and caution. The voice laments labor disputes post conflict and a world wary of destruction.
UN moves toward armed force framework amid Russia veto dispute
The United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote to grant the body a voice in mobilizing UN forces, with plans for member states to field cooperative detachments ready for rapid action. Russia’s absence at the Security Council has shaped debate on military staff powers and veto dynamics. Massachusetts to launch FEPC redesign as Age Discrimination Act extends protections to workers over 45.
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United Nations
UN General Assembly
Assembly
Security Council
General Assembly
Mars Otherwise Pretty Picture by Smith sparks age bias debate
The piece criticizes discrimination against older workers and notes the Commission Against Discrimination pursuing negotiation and conciliation. It highlights Texas where contractors and insurers blame hiring and retention limits on age, yet the Texas Highway Commission funds its own workers compensation plan with safeguards to retain older workers, predating FEPC.
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Commission
Texas
Glib
Texas Highway Commission
FEPC
Cities Group Hears Bomb Defense Plan
William L. McGill Texas civilian defense coordinator spoke to the League of Texas Municipalities in San Antonio outlining pre disaster planning for atomic bombing. He noted Washington emphasis on dispersal of industries and 60,000 plus cities with estimated 300 billion dollars cost and described a metropolitan ribbon concept. He urged inventory of relief resources training for self protection and home care evacuation radiological monitoring and medical nursing services to cut casualties by about fifty percent.
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William L. McGill
Texas
League of Texas
San Antonio
Washington
McGill
Labor Spends $150000 Plus To Beat Taft
Victor Riesel reports on the Democratic labor bloc’s heavy spending to defeat Senator Taft in Ohio. Labor units plan about $150,000 in a larger battle, mobilizing unions, radio campaigns, and local organizers, with leaders stressing field organization over money. The piece also notes internal AFL CIO dynamics and broader political pressure in the Buckeye State.
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Taft
Victor Riesel
Washington
Ohio
John Lewis
Harry Truman
Democratic-Labor Coalition
White House
Democratic National Committee
Buckeye
Walter Reuther
AFL
Frank Edwards
Phil Pearl
Phil Murray
ABC
CIO
Joe Keenan
Answers and Trivia From an Old Quiz Column
Questions cover vice presidents Roman numerals shoo flies gamma burro and more. Answers identify Richard Mentor Johnson as a vice president not secured by Senate, explain V as a symbol, define gamma as one millionth of a gram, trace burro origins, describe snooker pool and the Sacred Cod hanging in Boston, with dates and figures where given.
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A. Richard Mentor Johnson
Senate
R.P. A
Paris
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Washington Merry-Go-Round claims on Hanley ouster bid
Washington Merry-Go-Round details a web of Wall Street pressure to push Lieutenant Governor Joe Hanley from the New York governor race in favor of Tom Dewey. It chronicles meetings involving Winthrop Aldrich and John D. Rockefeller Jr., Gannett leaders, and Scripps-Howard, plus a payoff plan to move Hanley to the Senate and later to the Thruway Commission, with Dewey’s role questioned and prior grand jury actions noted.
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Portland
Ore
New York
Dewey
Joe Hanley
Winthrop Aldrich
Chase National Bank
John D. Rockefeller Jr
Bar Harbor
Maine
Hanley
Washington
Tom Dewey
Chase Bank
John D. Rockefeller
Roy Howard
Scripps-Howard Newspapers
Frank Gannett
Gannett
Lake Ontario
Aldrich
Carl Hallenauer
Bausch and Lomb Optical Company
New York World-Telegram
Everaee Dewey
Wall Street Boys
Eegg
Kingsland Macy
Morman Gould
Gould Pump Company
United States Senate
Senate
Norman Gould
WMGR
Albany
Denly
New York Newsapers
Jim
Mead, Harmon, Lytell, Blackmore and Biff
Grand Jury
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Broadway Critics Clash Over Steinbeck and Revival Shows
Walter Winchell on Broadway surveys mixed reception to Steinbeck’s Burning Bright and Shaw’s Arms and the Man with Barbara Bel Geddes praised by some as a prose rhythm, while others dissent. Call Me Madam shocks critics with strong box, J Logan patches shows, Hilda Crane debut praised, Hanley letters mocked, and Showboat revived with debate on casting.
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Broadway
John Steinbeck
Barbara Bel Geddes
Coleman
G. B. Shaw
Atkinson
Madam
L. Hayward
Joshua Logan
Pan 18
Oracles
Paris
S. Raphaelson
Hilda Crane
Murdock
the Inquirer
Jessica Tandy
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Billy Strickman
Strickman
Miami
Phil Hanna
Auto Workers
Dia
Oregon
Red Cross
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Stockholm
N.Y.C
International Red Cross
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Asia Minor
Boston
John Rowe
Austin American
Louis N. Goldberg
Charles E. Green
Newspapers, Inc
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Financial Group
Drew Pearson
Big Money Boys
Walter Winchell
Lehman
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Ohimes
Alger Hiss
Hollywood
MGM
Charles Fredericks
Studio
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