Capital City Planners Envision Beautiful Austin’s Future
William J. Weeg outlines Austin’s 25 year plan anchored by the Chamber slogan Where there is no vision. The piece highlights growth since 25 years past and outlines civic projects including a low water dam, a municipal auditorium at Butler Park, a Texas League home at Disch Field, new bridges across the Colorado River, and a freeway-level interregional bridge. It anticipates schools, university expansion, crosstown boulevards, rail relocations, and population growth beyond 200,000 within a decade.
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Austin Chamber of Commerce
Austin
Texas Capital City
Edwin Waller
Mirabeau B. Lamar
Republic of Texas
Colorado River
19Th Street
East Avenue
West Avenue
University of Texas
Jake
Taylor Glass
Butler Park
City Coliseum
Disch
Ed Knebel
Veterans Houses
South Austin
Guadalupe
Lavaca
South First Street
San Jacinto Street
Riverside Drive
Highway Department
Montopolis
Guadalupe Street
Barton Springs Road
Auditorium
Congress Avenue
South Congress
Greater Austin
Gregory
Lutheran Concordia College
Brazos
San Jacinto
Red River
Shoal Creek
Waller Creeks
Missouri Pacific
Suslov and the Cominform Threat Tied to AFL Agenda
The 1950 AFL convention in Houston discusses Nikolaevich Suslov as Stalin’s spy and chief of Cominform strategy. They warn of a planned Oct 15 action, a East German army move, and a Western response including a Greece Turkey Yugoslavia alliance and Mediterranean anti‑Communist actions.
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Nikolaevich Suslov
Josef Stalin
Stalin
Nikky Boy
Nikolaevich
High World Command
Peiping
China
Helsinki
Finland
East Berlin
AFL
Cominform
Suslov
Comintern
Communist International
East Germany
Brussels
Irving Brown
Paris
Qoet
Berlin
Mr. Truman
Greece
Turkey
Yugoslavia
Pierre Ferri-Pisani
State Department
Foreign Service
Army
Europe
Post-Hall Syndicate, Inc
Editor's Notebook on Election Law Defects and Civic Campaigns
The Editor examines Texas election law gaps in Massey v Brewster and the Fort Worth vacancy. It notes the need to rewrite the code to prevent future quirks, while praising St. David's Hospital fundraising in Austin and memorial endowments. It also covers Republican McDonald's veteran support aiding John C. White's Democratic upset.
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Massey Va
Brewster
Tarrant County
Fort Worth
Nning
Allan Shivers
Supreme Court
Austin
St. David's
Driskill Hotel
J. E. McDonald
John C. White
McDonald
GOP
White
Why is the Whipple House in Ipswich named Whipple
The Ipswich house is among the early English colonial constructions begun in 1638 by John Fawn. It was sold before completion to John Whipple, whose family occupied it for two centuries, and it now operates as a museum.
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New World
John Fawn
John Whipple
Home Doctor Book offer from American Information Bureau
Today’s booklet offer advertises the Home Doctor Book a practical guide designed to aid cooperation with physicians. It covers care of the sick diet infant care home medicines personal hygiene and other topics in alphabetical quick reference form. Forty pages available for 15 cents plus mail to Washington DC address.
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Austin
American Information Bureau
Fs Street
N.W
Washington
Congressman's Secret Payoffs Highlight Kickback Scheme
The article details Walter Brehm of Ohio using office payroll to skim funds via long running kickbacks from Mrs. Clara Soliday and later her son, exposing how staff salaries are taxpayers money. It also references other political scandals and President Truman comments on Lyndon Johnson.
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Walter Brehm
Millersville
Ohio
Brehm
Clara Soliday
Uncle Sam
Con- Gonness
Congress
Parnell Thomas
Congressman Wickersham
Oklahoma
FBI
Lehman
New York
Grehm
Ray Soliday
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Broadway Lights Roundup of New Plays and Box Office
Walter Winchell reports on Daphne Laureola advance sales at $125,000 despite mixed notices, and Music Box earnings of $3,000. Edith Piaf grosses $37,500 after taxes. scalpers double box-office fees for Sadler's Wells. Mentions Odets new play Guntry Girl, Black Chiffon, Season in the Sun, Bitter Rice, All About Eve and Glass Menagerie imminent, plus cinema notes and Hollywood chatter.
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New York
Broadway
Daphne Laureola
Edith Evans
London
Music Box
South Pacific
Edith Piaf
Paris
Versailles
Met
Sadler's Wells Ballet
Clifford Odets
Paul Kelly
Uta Hagen
Odets
Boston Sentinels
the Sun
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Holland
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St. David's Hospital
Austin District Dental Society
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Whipple
Ipswich
Mass
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F. B Morrison
Cornell University
United States
America
Athens
Sparta
Troy
Austin American
Louis N. Goldberg
Newspapers, Inc
Seventh and
Colorado Streets
Texas
the American Statesman
New Jersey
Victor Wickersham
Barkley
Yolande Berbeze
Mobile
Ala
Retter Milt Berliner
Scrippsoward Press
Senate
Scott Lucas
Lucas
Louey Johnson
Hubert E. Howard
Howard
Lyndon
Munitions Board
Lyndon Johnson
Heaven and Earth
Akron
Johnson and Truman
Johnson
Truman
Acheson
Walter Winchell
Silvana Mangano
Lissen
D. Dailey
Brable
Glass Menagerie
David Harding
Phono
Barbital
Malik
Steenco
Hollywood Chiefs
Sunset Boulevard
Hollywood
Butch Jenkins
Moccambe
Toni Arden
Copacabana
Vera Ellen
Rita Hayworth
Gilda
Anita Ellis
Bette Davis
CORR
Petal
Perro Corr
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Austin Statesman
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Associated Press
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