Editorial: Tax and budget plan from CED proposal
A non profit Committee for Economic Development plan urges spending cuts of 6 billion and tax boosts totaling 10 billion in 1952. It favors tighter credit and a national savings initiative, with specific tax hikes on individuals and corporations, plus a new five percent retail excise tax. The plan also calls closing tax loopholes and curbing inflation while protecting production growth.
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Committee For Economic Development
CED
Success Secrets By Elmer Wheeler Boosting work joy over toil
The piece discusses making work feel less like a burden by choosing to enjoy tasks. Mrs Edison once urged her husband to vacation but he returned to lab, showing passion for work. The author notes many treat work as dull and heroic, suggesting fun at work diminishes effort.
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Thomas Edison
Edison
Fish stories and a magistrate’s quip in today’s column
The column riffs on assorted local fish tales and light anecdotes. A Connecticut fisheries probe into a mass herring find clashes with a ferry refit to the Gulf shrimp fleet. A Brockton widower nicknamed the Wolf of Brockton ends with a judge’s remark, and a fashion note forecasts pastel hats for men.
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Black Rock
Kefauver Committee
Connecticut Department of Fisheries and Game
Park City
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Long Island
Gulf of Mexico
Brockton
Massachusetts
Wolf of
Baytown council blamed for oil drill zoning chaos
Sun Slams By Fred Hartman critiques Baytown to profit from a 3500 fee for drilling permits and city mismanagement. He faulted council overreach and vague rules, urged hiring an oil expert, and urged adherence to the charter while criticizing lengthy debates and missed facts.
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Baytown
Texas Railroad Commission
Ita
Ervin Flowers
Baytown Sun Subscription Rates and Publishing Details
The Baytown Sun listing shows Baytown Texas, Pearce and Ashbel, with editorial and advertising staff names and subscription prices by carrier and mail. Rates include monthly and yearly options, with all mail subscriptions payable in advance and a national representative listed. It notes entry as second-class matter at Baytown Post Office under Congress act of March 3, 1870.
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Baytown Sun
Pearce and Ashbel
Baytown
Texas
Fred Hartman
Punligher Syd & Gould
Essseess
Beulah Mae Jackson
Warren Edwards
Esucen
Armed Services
Yeass Daily Press League
Postoffice
Congress
Washington Dispatch exposes fake photo scheme for $3 million contracts
The piece reviews a Mississippi led fraud using phony letterhead and a fake factory image to win defense contracts. It notes House Armed Services sub committee probes, debates with Marshall, Rankin obstruction, veterans' pleas, and a Kefauver era liquor distillers report kept secret.
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Robert & Allen
Washington
Millard Tydings
Maryland
Allen
Mississippi
House Armed Services
F. Edward Hebert
Louisiana
Jackson
New Orleans
Reviewing Stand: Anybody Can Be Genius At Modern Painting
Henry McLemore recalls discovering artistic genius after visiting the Museum of Modern Art. He compares a Brancusi torso to a child’s doodle and recalls Picasso’s Still Life in Charcoal and Pasted Newspaper as pivotal moments prompting his lifelong belief in his own talent.
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Henry McLemore
Owas
Museum of Modern Art
Constantin Brancasi
Mama
Pablo Picasso
Picasso
Gino Severini
Max Ernst
Nightingale
Paul Klee
Mr. Niro
Kasmin Malevich
Chestnut Hill
Massachusetts
Middlesex County
Massachusetts House of Representatives
United States Senate
Henry Cabot Lodge
Artists and a Quick Marriage Joke Spark Newsroom Mayhem
A minister quick wedding scene ends with a $50 tip as a couple explains they are “double worked.” The piece shifts to an art column about Gino Severini and other modern artists, riffing on Picasso and abstract works, ending with a humorous aside about the author’s own drawing limits.
Big Four Ministers Meet Slay Court Rules Out Witnesses
Five years ago today the headlines recount a ministers meeting and a court ruling excluding American witnesses in the Mikhailovitch case. The OPA announced spare stamp No 10 would be available July 2 for five pounds of canning sugar. Mrs Paul Pickel departed for a three week vacation in San Antonio.
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Mikhailovitch
OPA
Paul Pickel
San Antonio
Elisha Perkins born in Norwich born 240 years ago
This Day in History marks Elisha Perkins the physician famed for his Perkins method who was born in Norwich Connecticut His work drew endorsements from scientists and thousands of patients and inspired a Perkinsian Institute in London featuring secretly molded metal plates placed on patients backs.
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Fune
Elisha Perkins
Norwich
Connecticut
Perkinsian Institute
London
Rita Khan Aly Khan divorce talks stall over trust fund
Paris report on Rita Hayworth and Aly Khan negotiations shows Aly balking at a million dollar trust for Princess Yasmin as Rita’s attorney Bartley Crum probes custody and possible damages. Crum says no written demand exists and Aly’s side hints at demands in Europe while Joan Fontaine and others surface in the tangled public romance.
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Earl Wilson
Paris
Rita
Aly
Aga Khen
Princess Yasmine
Bartley Crum
Columbia Pictures
Yasmine
Crum
Joan Fontaine
Champs Elysee
Arc de Triomphe
Atlantic
Israel
Joana Fontaine
Charles Torem
Bob Hope
Joan
France
Yasmi
Paree
Dames
America
Truman
MacArthur
Bermuda
Rite
Abe Latsfoge
Tig Ir
Dorris
Betauss
Abe
Thas
Fontaine
Pstsk
England
Grab Bag Of Easy Knowledge From Central Press
A mixed trivia feature compiling quick questions and answers on old events and figures. Questions cover gas terminology, literary wars, flags, origins of England, and elephant habitats, followed by a Today in History style recap and celebrity snippets from early 20th century sources.
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Memphis
Tennessee
Elmer Wheeler
Anneeler
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New Mexico
Monte Christo
Sun
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Byzicdig
Washington Dispatch
I+ jeged corporation
Defense
Marshall
Joss
Anna Rosenberg
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Marguerite Church
Ilinois
Korea
Pentagon
John Rankin D. Mississipp
House Veterans Affairs Committee
Penkin
Rankin
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
Capitol
Aim
Gya
Legions
Senate
Hquor Distillers
Howard T. Tones
Estes Kefauver
MeLemora
By Bennett Cerf
LEC Guild
Hollywood
Bel-Air
Mary Blossom
Lee High School
Fort Crockett
Aly and
His Papa
Balka
Larue
Don Ce
Eckstine
Edbins
Mgr
Kirk
Lindr
Geis
Mayer
Tom Berle
Vera
Europe
John Perona
Jear
Bridgehampins
el Morocco
Wes Josford
Mike Todd
Jack
Tlamie
Joey Adams
Earl
Bret
Herbert Hoover
Charles Curtis
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Maine
Mississippi River
Louis Joliet
Jacques Marquette
Bas
Chiesa
Charlie Murray
Tao
Tom Browns
Boddy Clarky Allie
Philadelphia Athlet Pert
Ana Rodelphia
Phillies
Pitenet
Sné Ralphaetor
Africa
Leve Prett
Polly Moran
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