U N Moves for Disarmament and Trade Expansion
Western Newspaper Union analysis notes U N push toward disarmament with a plan to report armed forces by January 1 and include home forces. Russia backs an international commission to supervise disarmament but veto concerns loom in the security council. World co operatives seek broader trade expansion, and a quiz on occupation policy is mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. N
Scions
Russia
United Nations
U. S
Britain
Security Council
World Co-ops and Rent Control Controversy Across Nations
The article notes growth of global co operatives illustrated by the International Trading agency in London serving 85 million members across 31 countries. It contrasts European co operatives with U S agriculture and cites co op share of business in Sweden Britain and Denmark. It also covers U S military occupation economic chaos and rent control opposition led by Dallas landlord activists including Gold Star mother Mrs Frank Morris and veterans Joe Blann and Capt John Lowery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
International Trading Agency
London
U. S
Sweden
Great Britain
Denmark
Germany
Frank Morris
Dallas
Texas
Morris
Abed
Joe H. Blann
OPA
John R. Lowery
Surplus Goods and Postwar Economic Talks
Senator Byrd cites a committee study showing the government earned only about a third of domestic sales and a fifth of foreign sales from surplus material, with billions disposed of for under two. Att Gen Clark warns U S attorneys to curb veterans fronts for property theft amid indictments of buyers aiding falsified claims. World trade blueprint talks in London aim at full employment and balanced exchange, while British diet shifts report higher milk and vegetables and lower meat and eggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sen
Harry Byrd
Dem
Senate-House Committee
Byrd
State Department
Tom C. Clark
U. S
Clark
Los Celes
Russia
London
Great Britain
Christmas Customs From Many Lands Across Eras
Early Christians did not fix December 25 as Christmas until the fourth century when Pope Gregory V adopted it to rival the winter solstice festival. Pagan rites blended with Christian celebrate, yielding varied nativity plays and Santa Claus traditions across Europe and the Americas.
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Gregory V
Europe
Italy
France
Spain
Rome
Christ
Norway
Britain
St. Nicholas
Myra
Santa Claus
Germany
Bertha
Switzerland
North Pole
Greece
Serbia
Romania
Balkan States
United States
Co op Trade Expands Into Private Goods Distribution
National Co operatives Inc with about 1.3 million members plans volume purchases of refrigerators radios and household appliances from private industry for resale to co op patrons. International agency aims to build exchange based trade with currency constrained war torn countries. Senate war investigating committee kills inquiry into U S occupation forces in Germany despite criticism from committee counsel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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National Co-operatives, Inc
Byrnes
Vandenberg
Connally
Senate War Investigating Committee
U.S
Germany
George Meader
War and
State Departments
Reich
Northwestern dean backs women physicians against prejudice
Dr J Roscoe Miller dean of the medical school Northwestern university advocates re educating the public to remove prejudice against women doctors. He asserts there is no valid reason for reluctance to consult a woman physician and that she is fully as qualified as men to practice medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Roscoe Miller
Medical School
Northwestern University
Sugar: Urge Control and Production Boost in 1947
The sugar committee of the food industry council urges continuation of controls and increased production in the United States Europe and the Philippines to ensure supplies for industrial and domestic users in 1947. They warn lifting controls would cause sharp price rises and shortages. They favor stock controls to raise industrial and domestic allotments and foresee higher beet output with the government boosting guarantee payments by one dollar a ton over the 1946 average. On a Europe tour Senator Wherry advises France to cut expenditures balance the budget and end price controls black markets and shortages. He says French farmers must reduce payrolls and military outlays and boost enterprise with fair taxation to restore balance as money value falls.
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U. S
Europe
Philippines
Sugar Committee
The
Food Industry Council
Council
Wherry
Republican Party
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