City eyes five day week for workers year around
Austin city workers return to 8 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday with Saturday noon halt. Manager Guston Morgan cites 24 hour service needs and compares with private wage hours while noting a recent salary hike. The piece also urges improvements for Disch Field and safer pedestrian access on Barton Springs Road and lauds traffic officers for better post game flow and UT area signals.
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Guston Morgan
Shaugnessy
Ed Knebel
Austin Pioneers
Knebel
City of
Austin
Barton Springs
Barton Springs Road
Austin Draws Organization Offices in Long-Range Plan
The Austin Development Foundation lists about 75 organization headquarters in the capital, highlighting the city as a preferred home for educational, religious, civic and professional groups. Growth hinges on facilities for large conventions, a strong UT research and library base, and state government presence, with aim to attract more statewide associations and contribute culturally and economically.
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Austin
Austin Development Foundation
State Medical Association of Texas
Texas Press Association
National Association of Junior Colleges
Homer Garrison
International Association of Chiefs of Police
University of Texas
Meeting Fires Up Pro Communist CIO Controversy
In Manhattan 1500 pro Communist activists jeered Phil Murray at a conference aimed at autonomy and democracy in the CIO. Maurice Travis and Ewart Guinier led sharp attacks claiming Murray's policies aid industry and white supremacy, while Bella Dodd says the CP aims to split CIO.
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DY Viclar Kiesel
New York
Phil Murray
Manhattan Center
CIO
Chicago
Murray
Ku Klux Klan
Communist Party
Maurice Travis
Travis
Autonomy Committee
Fur
Communications Union
Public Workers, Food and Tobacco Workers
Electrical Workers
Marine Cooks and Stewards
Ewart Guinier
Public Workers
National Cio
Jim Carey
Industralists
Autonomy and Democracy
Bella Dodd
National Committee
CIO International
New York Post Corp
Interest on the national debt and telephones per capita
The President’s 1949 budget projects debt interest at 5.325 billion in 1949 and 5.45 billion in 1950. The average rate rose to 2.234 percent by May 1949. San Francisco leads with 44 telephones per 100, Washington 41, New York 29. Houseflies cannot bite. the biting flies resemble houseflies. The Cleveland Health Museum houses the Transparent Man exhibit.
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Brownsville
Missouri
Texas
York
L.L. A
San Francisco
Washington, D.C
New York
United States
Cleveland Health Museum
Eddie Buzzell
Hollywood
Lorraine Miller
Constance Dowling
Tennessee Williams
Count Carlo Castelli
Bill Dozier
Joan Fontaine
Bettye Avery
Lucky Luciano
Italy
Marta Toren
Vic Mature
Toren
Gay Orlova
Lucky
Vaughan and the Puppies Ruin Pearson's Vacation
Washington columnist Drew Pearson recounts a California trip disrupted by domestic mishaps and a high level political clash. General Harry Vaughan pressures for criminal libel action over Maragon disclosures, prompting a Justice Department FBI inquiry that ultimately drops the case.
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Vaughan
Maragon
Good General
Washington
Broadway Gossip Mix at Polo Grounds Night
Willard Marshall night at the Polo Grounds draws Jersey City officials headlined by Mayor John Kenny. Dillman shows off car choices for the Giants star while On Leong and Hip Sing talk opium and white drug trade in Chicago Chinatown history. Ed Wilcox’s Radio Row buzzes with film industry chatter and romances among stars and directors.
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Ray Dillman
Willard Marshall
Polo Grounds
Marshall
Marsha
Giants
Dillman
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Seattle
Levee
On Leongs
On Leong
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California
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Prosecution
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Justice Department
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Hoover
FBI
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Bell Syndicate, Inc
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Kenny
Frank Hague
Hudson
Hague
National Democratic Committee
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Aga Kahn
ED Wilcox
Radio Row
Joan Morgan
Hudson Faussett
Chisler
Joan
Faussett
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Rome
Alan Curtis
Lauren Bacall
Mary Martin
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