Dirksen Not a true strategist in Eisenhower plan
In a critical take on Republican strategy, the piece argues Senator Dirksen may be a gifted orator but not a genuine political strategist. It warns Summerfield to keep Dirksen off the high level strategy board to avoid undermining Taft and Eisenhower, urging him to remain a spellbinder and campaign speaker instead.
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Summerfield
Dewey
Eisenhower
Senator Dirksen
Illinois
Thomas E. Dewey
Dirksen
G.O.P
Congressman Dirksen
Midlands
Tom Dewey
New York
Chicago
Taft
Stevenson
Alec
Red Cross responds to Cold War propaganda on wartime conduct
The Red Cross rebutted Communist attacks on its neutrality and on germ warfare claims, presenting WWII-era evidence that Reds hindered aid to prisoners in North Korea and noting U.S. push for neutral investigation. The piece argues the U.N. and U.S. should exploit the propaganda focus now.
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Aring
Communists
Russia
China
North Korea
International Red Cross
U.N
Red Cross
United States
U.S
No Convention and Adlai Stevenson Nomination View
The piece argues conventions produced strong nominees with Stevenson a key example. It suggests nationwide primaries might have failed to nominate Stevenson, as he impressed convention delegates early and his nomination stemmed from that impression rather than primaries. It notes Democrats lacked a fixed plan yet embraced the ablest candidate through the convention process.
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Adlai Stevenson
Time for politicians to go fishing and regroup
In the wake of conventions the piece urges a temporary respite from politics. It imagines candidates posing in outdoorsy outfits to win votes while party strategists plan how to sell nominees. It concludes ordinary citizens can escape to remote areas and reflect on Chicago happenings.
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So-andso
Chicago
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Local officials named for Des Moines tin can drive plan
Mr Robert Vilach, ten years in Linn county civil defense, is to attend a Des Moines meeting with plans for a tin can collection campaign. Mrs Florence Kerr, former Grinnell English teacher, named assistant commissioner of the Works Progress Administration in Washington. Removal of a sand barge from the Cedar River bridge piers in Cedar Rapids completed after a day’s work with the barge dragged upstream and tied to a tree. Banner Howard of Cedar Rapids elected treasurer of the American Napropathic Association in Chicago. Nine Cedar Rapids officer reserve corps members ordered to Camp Dodge. Cedar Rapids Apids Motoring Association reorganized with John Burianek president. Miss Helen Dix returns to Cedar Rapids to manage Lyman’s millinery store.
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Linn County Civil Defense Organization
Frank Hahn
Des Moines
Florence §. Kerr
Grinnell College
Marshalltown
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Washington
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Cedar River
Cedar Rapids
Banner Howard
American Napropathic Association
Chicago
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Camp Dodge
Richard S. Miller
Dan J. Morris
L. D. Burkhalter, Jr
Everett O. Ball
Robert L. Shannon
Donald C. Sloan
Robert O. Burrows
Wallace F. Snyder
John Sherman Greene
Cedar Rap
Apids Motoring Association
John Burianek
R. E. Choate
Karl Rehnberg
S. N. Martin
Helen Dix
California
Lyman
Twin-birth reports ease reader worries about childlessness
Dr William Brady shares readers' confirmation that boy girl twins can both become parents, easing concerns about fertility in twin combinations. He notes humorous reader mail, cautions about lead poisoning from hair dyes, and discusses name pronunciation brady variants with anecdotes.
McCarran Report Links IPR to Subversive Activity
The McCarran committee findings connect the Institute of Pacific Relations to subversive influence via a small core of officials and heavy foundation funding. It cites close ties with the state department, possible Communist sway in China policy, and calls for probes into foundations, Alger Hiss, and charitable donations shaping U.S. policy. President Truman resisted sharing crucial data, hampering the inquiry.
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Sokolsky
McCarran Committee
Alfred Kohlberg
McCarran
IPR
State Department
Institute of Pacific Relations
United States
China
Treasury Department
Alger Hiss
Bugs Baer Reflects On Quarts And Pints Of History
The piece blends nostalgia with political history from silent film era to postwar diplomacy. It evokes Woodrow Wilson era diplomacy, the League of Nations, and UN origins as a metaphorical tale. It uses playful phrases about misjudgments and forecasts.
Realignment unlikely as two-party system endures
David Lawrence argues that despite potential intra party splits, realignment won't produce a third party. He notes state laws hinder new-party ballot access, so Democrats and Republicans remain, with internal shifts in leadership and policy. The piece traces 1928 to 1952 machinery captures by Roosevelts and error, and predicts 1952 outcomes hinge on Stevenson and Eisenhower.
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Ashington
South
North
Democratic
Republican
New Deal
Roosevelt
Distasteful Genealogist Job Ends With Electric Chair Truth
A genealogist grimly recalls a woman hiring him to trace her family tree and discovers a relative was executed by electric chair in America. A friend jokes the man held a chair of applied electricity at a U.S. public institution.
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America
Thick Skins Before Congress Investigators Should Not Be
A Christian Science Monitor note compares an elephant’s tough hide shaved by a keeper with the thick skin some witnesses show before congressional investigating committees. The remark frames expectations for fortitude in public testimony and accountability.
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Congressional
Christian Science Monitor
Russians Use Summer Turbulence as Election War Tactics
Drew Pearson argues Moscow uses the heated U.S. election season to advance aims abroad. He cites a reported hydrogen bomb test, Iran turning Communist, and East German rearmament as Kremlin moves. He warns Britain France and Europe risk upheaval affecting U.S. unity against Communism.
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U.S.A
Europe
United States
Moscow
Iran
State Department
Iraq
Arabia
Egypt
Suez Canal
East Germany
West Germany
Red Army
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