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Austin American

Location

Austin, Texas, United States of America

Date

Sep 28, 1950

Page

4

Little Woman Question Darkens Nelson Texas Visit

The piece notes President Shivers honored Nelson with honorary citizenship amid talk of rent control. It highlights Nelson's anti democracy stance and prior lobbying work with the National Association of Real Estate Boards. The author asks what Mrs Nelson said when Nelson asserted women should not vote.

Herbert A. Nelson Texas Real Estate Association Nelson Wisconsin Washington, D. C Allan Shivers Sally Rand AFL William Green National Association of Real Estate Boards Washington Post The New York Times House Select Committee On Lobbying Activities T. K. Maenner Omaha Neb NAM Real Estate Association Washington Lobby Committee Texas New Realtors’ Lobby Committee

Labor’s Global Reach And Internal Strife Exposed

A 1980 Post-Hal Syndicate report details AFL CIO funding of a Manila Communist union HQ, state department involvement, and use of labor leaders to influence politics. It cites Meany and Green, a push toward a Labor Party, and tensions inside the AFL CIO including mergers and anti communist sentiment.

State Department Philippines Manila Central Labor Organization AFL CIO Workers and Peasants School Jefferson School

TI&E program ramped up to boost Korea era morale

The Army expands Troop Information and Education to push morale and combat readiness for Korea. It aims to raise education levels and provide policy briefs via Armed Forces Radio, Stars and Stripes, and the Armed Forces Talk. Front line polls guide answers on questions about Korea and UN troops, with pre combat briefing now standard.

TIXE Armed Forces Radio Stars and Stripes Armed Forces Talk Secretary of Defense Korea Formosa Philippines Yugoslavia Indo-China Iran United Nations 38Th Parallel Japan

Nine Questions and Answers on Diverse Topics

A compilation of brief Q and A items covering Pepys diary span from 1660 to 1689, Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University, polio derivation from Greek, smoke jumpers and forest fire parachute use, seed business origins in Philadelphia 1784, and Braille literacy among U S blind population, with various authors and dates.

Pepys

Truman condemns wire tapping at Cabinet meeting

Washington politics note details Truman telling his Cabinet to end wire tapping after J Edgar Hoover and others reportedly tapping lines. The president warns against violations of freedom and dignity, while other Washington rumors swirl about Stassen, Halleck, and party politics.

Truman Washington Defense Louis Johnson Johnson Loney J. Edgar Hoover Howard McGrath Mr. Hoover Hoover Lecy Senator Brewster Maine

Indiana District Race Heats Up Between Halleck and Beck

Indiana voters in the second district watch a farm candidate, Dale Beck of Young America, challenge Congressman Charlie Halleck a former GOP majority leader. Beck campaigns on representing “one of us” in a district long represented by Republicans. Beck, 52, farms 475 acres with three Marine veteran sons and runs against Halleck, who has shifted to a more modest car and faces private polling suggesting a tight contest.

Ken Wherry Senate Bob Taft Wherry Albion Beverage Small Business Committee Indiana Jenner George Marshall Beverage Margaret Smith Maine Bob Nebraska Alfred Kohlberg China National Farmers’ Union Styles Bridges New Hampshire Sen. Bridges Bridges Wesley Powell Beck Halleck Hobart Creighton GOP Edward A. Rumely du Pont House Rumely Congress House Lobby Committee Washington

Walter Winchell on Broadway and showbiz notes collage

A dense digest of Broadway gossip and media buzz. Mentions Walter Winchell, Elsie Hinckley, Yvonne Adair and Patrice Wymore in marriages bets and theater chatter. Highlights Inchon headlines boosting ticket sales, new Madison Square Garden, and Gloria Swanson’s comeback value.

A. L. Alexanders Elsie Hinckley Virgin Islands Yvonne Adair Columbia Pictures Inchon Madison Square Garden Robert S. Allen Patrice Wymore Errol Flynn al White Warners

Local AP News Bureau Note on Copyright Use

The Associated Press states exclusive rights to local news printed in this newspaper and for republication from AP dispatches. This notice clarifies use of AP material and rights reserved by the AP.

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