Taft Gets Green Light For Senate Floor Leader Role
President Eisenhower signals support for Taft to seek the Senate Republican floor leadership after Taft's outburst over Durkin. Taft had denounced Durkin’s appointment as labor secretary, but Eisenhower aides indicate readiness to back Taft, aiming to avoid dissension at the start of the new administration.
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Senate
White House
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Congress
Martin P. Durkin
GOP
Eisenhower Meets With Present Danger Group Aides
President-elect Eisenhower holds a two hour session at Columbia University with four cabinet hopefuls and about 50 Present Danger officials led by Harvard’s James B. Conant. Dulles Stassen Donovan Voorhees attended plus Brownell and Kyes representing defense posts. FBI background checks proceed on cabinet appointees.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
James B. Conant
Harvard University
John Foster Dulles
Harold E. Stassen
William J
Wild Bill) Donovan
Office of Strategic Services
Tracy S. Voorhees
Herbert Brownell
Roger M. Kyes
Defense
Kyes
Charles E. Wilson
Dulles
Stassen
Brownell
Columbia University
Temple University
British Arm Superior to U S Prosthesis Says Ex GI Leader
Harold Russell a Natick Mass veteran and Amvets founder says the British artificial arm is about 25 percent better than the U S VA device. After returning from a World Veterans Federation meeting in London he urged Amvers to press the VA to adopt the British arm.
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Veterans Administration
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World Veterans Federation
London
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Pope's Peace Plea Stated Wednesday
Vatican City plans the Pope Pius XII Christmas message to broadcast in 24 languages. It is his 14th annual plea for peace and will be delivered in Italian at 11 a.m. local time with translations starting in English and continuing every 45 minutes. The report also notes that about 60 percent of the earth's crust is silica.
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Nine Cuban naval officers freed from prison under house arrest
The Cuban Navy says nine retired officers accused of plotting an armed revolt against Batista have been released from military prison but remain under house arrest. They will face trial later by a Navy court. The group, including three top commanders, had been dismissed after Batista’s overthrow. A separate New York arms cache raid is not linked, officials say, though a $4 million effort to arm opponents was admitted. Prio Socarras denies knowledge of the plot.
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Miami
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Grateful GIs Host Germans for Christmas Dinner
Thousands of Germans and American GIs join in a postwar Christmas gesture as German families invite soldiers to share holiday meals. American troops fund dinners in Army mess halls and support needy German children with parties, gifts, and coal distributions across Wiesbaden Bremerhaven Wuerzburg and Frankfurt areas.
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Army
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Wiesbaden
Bremerhaven
Wuerzburg
American Women's Club Cat Frankfurt
Charging Deer Knock Austin From Road
A large stag led a charge of 25 deer against an automobile on a forest road north of London. The car, an Austin 7, rolled over an embankment injuring two occupants, Mr. and Mrs. William Thomas Coe.
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Epping Forest
England
London
Wiliam Thomas Coe
Jacqueline Auriol Breaks Speed Mark Over 100 Kilometer Course
Jacqueline Auriol daughter-in-law of the French President flew a French jet fighter and broke her own women's speed record on a closed 100 kilometer course. Her average was 534.375 miles per hour, beating her May 1951 mark of 511.360 mph.
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France
Jacqueline Auriol
AWOL Airmen Plead Guilty in Shooting
Two AWOL airmen from Rapid City Air Force Base pleaded guilty to attempted murder of Arizona Patrolman T. K. Wootan and assault with a deadly weapon in Bisbee Arizona. Clifford Davies of Indianapolis and George Sullivan of Cincinnati, both 22, were sentenced to 20 to 30 years for attempted murder and 8 to 10 years for assault, to run concurrently. Sullivan did the shooting during the liquor store holdup escape.
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Arizona
Superior Court
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Clifford Davies
Indianapolis
George Sullivan
Cincinnati
Rapid City Air Force Base
Weaver
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Fugitives Surrender After Five Day Manhunt
Judge hears remorseful statements from Davies and another man after a search plane shooting. both suspects admit guilt as Greg Hathaway, highway patrol superintendent, files assault charge. The pair were captured in a rocky desert area outside town by a sheriff's posse on Saturday, ending a five day manhunt.
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Highway Patrol
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Armada of 132 Vessels Attacked England in 1588
A historical note states that the Spanish Armada that attacked England in 1588 consisted of 132 ships.
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