Tax cheats worry IRS amid manpower shortages in 1953
The Baytown Sun reports Internal Revenue Service officials warn of rising tax avoidance as enforcement staff shrink. In 1953 Eisenhower’s first year the IRS had 18,000 agents versus 19,900 in 1947, hindering case investigations and prompting officials to note that every dollar spent on enforcement could yield 15 to 30 dollars in recovered taxes. Public trust sagged amid recent scandals and suspected waste.
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Baytown Sur
Washington
Themen
Truman
Roosevelt
Terman
Eisenhower
Internal Revenue Service
Ervin
Lake
Minnesota
the Sun
Arson and social slights spark a Florida jail tale
A prominent lumberman's wife in Tampa, spurred by social snubbing, mailed 21 arsenic tainted fudge gifts to her husband's Bible class members. All 24 recipients fell ill. she confessed and awaits trial facing possible imprisonment up to 50 years and a $50,000 fine. The column muses on gendered social pressures.
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Tampa
Florida
Sheree North Becomes Fox Newest Blonde Star in Hollywood
Hollywood dish center Sheree North discloses she posed for a cover of a nudists magazine in a bikini not nude, and debuts as Fox’s fresh star. She discusses hair tests, Marilyn Monroe comparisons, and her drive through Fox finishing school while dating Aly Khan.
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Sheree North
Fox
Marilyn Monrney
Marilyn
Sheree
Bing Cready
20Th Century-Fox
Worth
Batty Hutton
Hazel Flagg
Hollywood
Bartlett
Prince Aly Khan
Egypt
Gene Tierney
20Th Century Fox
Gene
Paris
Rita Hayworth
Bringe
Europe
Aly
Pakistan
South America
Monte Carlo
George Chasen
Fran
Ray Stark
Aly Khan
Miss Tierney
Purge Rumors Rise Over Mao and Red China Shadow
News analysts weigh whether Mao Tse Tung is ill or dead as Peiping radio and party rhetoric hint at stronger unity and a possible purge. Liu Shao Chi may be Mao’s stand in, with Malenkov as a parallel. Health rumors swirl amid Geneva conference expectations and leadership speculation.
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PHL Newsom
United Press
Red China
Mag Tse Tung
Peiping Radio
Red
Josef Stalin
Lenin
Stalin
Moscow
Peiping
Uni
Communist Party of the
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Mao
P. F. Yugin
Red Army
Chu Teh
Liu Shao-Chi
Communist Party Central Committee
Georgi Malenkov
Walch
Malenkov
China
Kiangsi
Shensi
Chiang Kai Shek
Brief Vignettes From The Edison Era And More
A collage of quirky quotes and anecdotes features Thomas Edison testing job applicants with unexpected questions while a candidate lands a job after humorously claiming never to have played craps. The piece also notes Judge Wallace on legal fees, Kronkhite’s vitality remedy, early Newport feminism figures, Sam Goldsmith’s traditional wife, and Eddy Fisher’s playful wolf definition.
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Thomas A. Edison
Mr. Edison
Jim Wallace
History Pop Quiz From a Faded Newspaper Clipping
A readable collage asks trivia questions about presidents Turkish leadership and Gandhi, names a Nazi beer hall putsch leader, notes birthday commemorations, and hints at a future outlook with scattered biographical clues including a brigadier general and an orchestra conductor.
Washington advisers clash over appeasement of McCarthy
Washington gossip piece details rival White House camps pro and anti McCarthy with figures like General Slick Persons Jack Martin Gerald Morgan and Sherman Adams. It notes Nixon and Republican chiefs steering strategy while outside papers and RNC voices press Ike for a firm stand.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
Dwight Eisenhower
White House
Joe McCarthy
General Slick Persons
Jack Martin
Taft
Gerald Morgan
Nixon
McCarthy
Roy Cohn
Bob Cutler
Boston Banker
Max Rabb
Bernard Shanley
C. J. Jackson
Fortune Magazine
Sherman Adams
Jim Hagerty
Republican National Committee
Ike
GOP
Eisenhower
New York Times
New York Herald Tribune
Washington Post
The
Knight
Halls
Len Hall
Hall
Senate
Joe
Aim
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Enhower
George
Joseph R. McCarthy
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Walter Robertson
House Appropriations Committee
Robertson
United States
William Christian
British-American Tobacco Company
Shanghai
Christian
Scotland
Willig Reeves
Baytown
Willi D. Reeves
East Side
Willie Reeves
Willie
Elso
Reeves
Lawless
W. H. Lawless
Zorvin
Ervin Lawless
By Fred Hartman
Judge Wilson
Sun
Glenn W. Wilson
Cedar Bayou
By Erich Brandeis
Gulf of Mexico
Margo Brown
Blese
Aline Mosby
iToday
Bennet Cerf
Newport
H. P. Belmont
Sam Goldsmith
Eddy Fisher
Central Press
Turkey
Martin van Buren
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mohandas K. Gandhi
India
Dominican Republic
Giigebatenly Foundation
Thomas Fuller
Monitor
Hampton Roads
Virginia
Munich
Bavaria
Erich Ludendorf
Adolf Hitler
Victoria Sackville-West
Sheridan Downey
California
Carl Furillo
New York
Department of the Interior
Euless
Strasbourg
Alsace - Lorraine
Starasbourg
Berlin
Wilhelm Furtwangler
Leipzig
Philharmonic Symphony Society of
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Gtese
teHe
United Sates Army
Schenectady, N
Cela Bayar
Dureh
Trujillo
Telford Taylor
Charles Munich
Nash Motors
Hudson
Juliang
Netherlands
United Auto Workers
CTO
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Santa Perrone
Reuther
Perrone
Democrats
Saudi Arabia
Smad al Saud
U.S
Red Lake
Thursday
Thor
Thunder
Leonard Sansome
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