Truman Begins Busiest Four Years Inauguration Era
The piece surveys Truman starting a demanding tenure amid foreign and domestic pressures, the lavish inauguration, and the push to fund armament expansion while Congress grapples with campaign pledges and policy. It notes monkey transport chaos and a GOP Senate test where six Democrats joined Republicans on an innocence exemption vote, angering Democratic leaders.
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Bevin's Palestine stance shifts as Bevin signs peace talks
British Foreign Secretary Bevin appears to ease on Palestine tense standoff, signaling openness to releasing fighting-age Jewish immigrants from Cyprus and backing peace talks between Israelis and Egyptians at Rhodes. Observers call this a deliberate move toward peace amid Britain and U.S. concerns about the Middle East crisis.
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Tax Bill Is Rabbit Stew To Congressman Doughton
Washington DC reports Rep. Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, the elder statesman of the house, faces a new wartime peacetime budget fight as Congress considers the largest peacetime budget yet. The veteran lawmaker, a horse trader and banker by trade, has long shaped fiscal policy from the Ways and Means Committee chair. He warns that the six billion dollar tax plan and social security provisions will undergo tight scrutiny as opponents promise deep spending cuts while Doughton returns to his Carolina roots after session.
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Army curbs on GI marriages to Germans sparks concern
The army tightens rules on marriages between American GIs and German women. Officials fear some German women use marriage to flee occupied Germany for the United States. The policy aims to shield draftees headed to Germany and curb potential exposure of new soldiers to postwar relationships.
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Best Voices in 1948 Named by New York Operators
The nation’s top telephone voices for 1948 were chosen by New York telephone operators. Honorees include Mrs. Heanor Roosevelt and Ted Collins for sincerity, Joe DiMaggio and Mrs. Alfred Gynne Vanderbilt for courtesy, Aida Hayworth and Richard Ney for sensuous expression, and James Ferrer and Sister Elizabeth Kenny for expressiveness.
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Ignitible liquids cautioned as home fire hazards
Ignitible liquids are fire hazards when stored in the home. Large amounts should be kept in underground tanks away from structures. Small quantities may be stored safely in steel gas or oil cans.
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