Reform Agenda for Texas Insurance Scrutiny Proposed by Council
A Texas Legislative Council plan calls for a broad review of insurance operations and laws with Lt. Gov. Ben Ramsey urging cooperation from all insurers. The effort targets company solvency, reform of insurance statutes, and stronger protections for policyholders as campaigns heat up around state races and regulatory scrutiny expands.
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Austin
Texas
Council
Vern Sanford
Gpi
Texas Ig
Texas Legislative Council
A. W. Worthy
Wwrdh
Ben Ramsey
Banas
Bounty Insurance
Ypus
Worthy
Resorda
George T. Hinson
Mineola
C. T. Johnson
Agatin
Hinson
Johnson
Sun slants on stock booms and Texan vacation aim
A column compares stock gains from 1929 to 1939 showing Humble and other oil shares climbing, then pivots to a Texans should vacation within state rule urging ten inside-state trips. Notes Marble Falls tourism brochures from Lake Buchanan and Lake Travis via W H Callaway, jokes about Dr. Duke’s stomping grounds now flooded, and thanks to readers for kind postcards. Also pokes fun at newsprint shortages and Nelson McElrny’s standing ovations at a chamber convention.
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Felenids
Texas
Lone Star
W. H. Callaway
Marble Falls
Lake Buchanan
Lake Travis
Lake Avastin
Wits
County Starte
Falls County
Beattie’s Skid Row Find Yields Questionable Bills
A man on Beattie’s Skid Row discovers a battered suitcase containing 31,600 hundred dollar bills. He sells some to a neighborhood cigar shop for a nickel each, changes one bill at a bank for $100 in smaller notes, and shares the tale as buyers vanish. The finder laments being broke before and after the discovery, recalling a past stock market boom that produced “millionaires” overnight.
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Beattie
Skid Row
Lenders and Luxuries After the Stock Crash
By Erich Brandeis the piece recalls a market crash turning many into paupers within a day. It notes frantic fear in cities, wives expanding wardrobes, and the social scramble to adjust to sudden poverty while a Seattle Skid Row figure shrugs at wealth. A friend jokes that money isn’t everything and one suit suffices.
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New York
Seattle
At & Nickel
Bugs Bar
Anna Maria Alberghetti Seeks Date Amid Hollywood Streak
Hollywood gossip notes Anna Maria Alberghetti now 18 years old and a grown-up beauty. Once a child star in Italy, she left Paramount a year ago to pursue cinema, nightclubs, and concerts. She guards her date life, insists on parental curfews, and plans to blend Italy’s discipline with American independence while steering toward opera. Her wealth includes a Paramount trust and $100,000 for property, with $120,000 earned in a 17-week year. She hopes a date with Eddie Fisher via Pier Angeli and plans to tour Las Vegas and opera stages.
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Anna Maria Alberghetti
Italy
Paramount
Studio
Anna Maria
Anna Marie
Pier Angeli
Eddie Fisher
Vic DaMone
Dick Conting
Las Vegas
Plaster City
You’re Telling Me And The Cheesy Chicken Souffle
A satirical note mocks a cheese chicken souffle as infuriating to cheese lovers and chicken fans. Pravda criticizes Vera Paneva for not aligning with current norms. The piece hints at past leadership and a long wait for discovery at Exyn’s Great Pyramid.
Eisenhowers Eager To Complete Farm Home Near Gettysburg
White House gossip says President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower plan to occupy their farm home near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania after renovations finish late summer or early fall. They visit Camp David on weekends and have made at least one secret Sunday trip to check progress. The old 180 year old house will feature a den with a fireplace and large beams saved from the original, reused in the new paneling.
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White House
John L. Cutter
Washington
Eisenhower
Sager
Gettysburg
Camp David
Gettysburg Battlefield
Eisenhowers plan farmhouse redo and Beecher Falls gift
The article recalls the Eisenhowers moving into a new farm home after almost 40 years of married life on military posts and later stays. Mrs Mamie Eisenhower will oversee interior work, with the grey green color theme and a maple chest gift from Beecher Falls Vermont as a notable highlight.
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Hisenhowers
New York
Eisenhower
Columbia University
France
NATO
White House
Eisenhowers
Beecher Falls
Oppenheimer Saga and Sperry Decrees Stir 1942 Case
Washington column recalls 1942 plea deal dropping a Sperry prosecution over secret exchanges with Germany Japan and Fascist Italy. It notes J Robert Oppenheimer being judged loyal yet a security risk while Sperry tied to contracts with Askenia Werke Japan Mitsu Bussan Italy and others.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
Tom Morgan
Sperry Corp
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Dhuilder
Tor Morgang
Pearl Herbor
United States
Justice Department
Germany
Italy
Tuatice Department
Dr. Oppenheimer
Perry
U.S. Army
Navy
Sperry
Askenia-Werke-Aktiengenel
Hhalf
Mitsu Bussan Kaisha
Japan
la Filotecnica
Societa Anonima
Strat
Manchuria
Henry L. Stimson
League of Nations
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Hitler
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Universiy of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Stockton
State Highway Commission
Exea
Ronda
Commission
BE. H. Thornton Jr
Allan Bbiv
Ara
Ralph Yarborough
J. J. Holmes
Rio Grande Valley
National Cio
Shivers
CIO
Holmes
Aska
Korea
Adlai Stevenson
Rhivers
Braanhower
Jsaua
Stevenson
Tidelands
Shivera
Brewster
Few Brewster
Taxa Supreme Court
Franklin Spears
San Antonio
William B. Carlson
Robert B. Keenan
Gladewater
Alfred M. Scott
Civil Appeals
Williams
Texarkana Court of Civil Appeals
Otto H. Atchlay
Mat Davis
Civil Appeals Courts
Ceed Alvin Lane
George Sandlin
Wallace Savage
Congress
Texas’ Parks
Gordon K. Shearer
State Cparke Board
Shearer
L. L. (Tex) Colbert
Chrysler Corporation
Xercines
University of Texas
Colbert
Times Square
United
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Seaboard
Toman Ua
By Fred Hartman
Marble Faila
Callaway
Herbert Duke
Dr. Duke
Anthony
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Gertrude Bar Circle
Central Baptist Church
Alabama
Nelson McElrny
Baytown
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Goammerce
Nelson
Stock Exchange
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Hollywood
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Man Gareth
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William Ritt
Moscow
Pravda
Vera Panéva
Times
Verna
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Boy Scouts of America
Exyn
Great Pyramid
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Mave Vecqp
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George VI of
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Alexis Smith
Folke of Fame
Humboldt, & Oak
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Senate un-American Activities Committee
Trina
New Bern
N.C
Daughters of the American Revolution
War Finance Committee
DAR
Washington, D. C
Mamea
Robert Sill
Jesus
Constantinople
St. Jerome
Karl EB. Mundt
Gertrude S. Carravier
Oppenheimer
Committee
Ray Jenking
INS
Jack Lotto
Lotto
Waa
Roy
Jenkings
U. S
Indo-China
Defense Department
National Security Council
Wilson
Philippines
Thailand
Far Want
Ned
Nehru
Geneva
Krishna Menon
Russia
Molotov
Reda
Molotey
Hanoi
Washington Pipeline
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
McCarthy
Jenner
Indiana
Republican National Committee
Nixon
Lanrel
Navarre
Marshal Juin
MacArthur
Juin
Gentral Valluys
Pentagon
Willie
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Leonard Sa
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