GOP Fails To Embrace Harold Stassen Open Forums
Republican National Chairman Carroll Reece rejected Harold Stassen's offer to hand over open forums to the national committee. Stassen started the forums last year to generate policy ideas and they have drawn support and shown success in stimulating public issue interest. The piece questions whether the party values member input and predicts the real test will be whether the committee adopts or rejects forum ideas.
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Carroll Reece
Harold Stassen
National Committee
Stassen
Reece
Republican Open Forums
Republican National Committee
Truman
Senate
Lucius Clay
Germany
United States
Progres sive Citizens of America Emerges as Potential Third Party
The group unites liberal factions under one banner amid a rising third party movement. It includes the National Citizens Political Action Committee and the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts Sciences and Professions as part of a broader liberal coalition seen by some as reshaping US party politics.
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Progressive Citizens of America
National Citizens Political Action Committee
Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions
America
Henry A. Wallace
Man-Who-Had-the-Least-to-Occupy-His-Mind of the Year
The piece lampoons Richard McLaughlin of Cleveland for measuring toothpaste in a tube to reveal six feet seven inches of content. It mocks the futility of such questions and jokes about the ripple effects on daily thinking.
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Richard McLaughlin
Cleveland
Carpenter
McLaughlin
Russia
Daily Worker
Progressives and the two party system in U S history
The passage argues that the two party system persists despite third party movements. It notes Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 Progressive splinter vote and its impact, with Wilson's victory, yet warns that third parties rarely win electoral votes. It suggests lasting influence comes from influencing major parties rather than long term third party success.
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Teddy Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Hair and masculinity in a hairless age, a Bingay column
Malcolm Bingay ponders a Northwestern professor Herbert Rattner and the old link between hair and strength. He notes uncertainty about the doctor's own hair but argues baldness has long been tied to vigor and symbolizes masculine status in history and legend.
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Herbert Rattner
Northwestern University
Rattner
Delilah
Samson
Alexander the Great
Baldness and vanity in ancient and modern glare
A columnist argues baldness is a harmless vanity, citing Martial and biblical anecdotes. He compares toupees to costumes in Hollywood and notes sham hair hides a man’s manhood, urging honest acceptance over mockery and deception.
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Martial
Marimus
Phoebus
Two-Party Survival in View of Long-Running Struggles
A political column argues the election year lingers with party friction. It laments long Democrat advantages and Republican dominance, notes shifts in leadership, and urges adherence to a two party system through continued engagement and reform.
Reds Hold Public Communist Meeting at National Press Club
About 300 attendees, evenly split white and Black, gathered at the National Press Club to mark the 29th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. The event featured a New York CP speaker, calls for socialism, and a fundraiser with mixed reactions from the crowd.
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District of Columbia Communist Party
National Press Club
CP National Committee
New York
Portal to Portal pay suits threaten labor relation harmony
David Lawrence Dio argues the CIO push for portal to portal wage claims will fuel friction between management and labor. He notes courts will decide what counts as working time, with potential negative effects on union credibility and potential federal action to curb feather bedding and lastingly sour relations.
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YU Albington
CIO
Mt. Clemens
Supreme Court
Congress
AFL
Plight of Overstocked Women’s Wear Industry in 1946
In 1946 the overstocked women's wear sector illustrates the collapse of price control after the OPA battle. Stores show surplus stock, demand plummets, and needle trades face widespread job losses while small businessmen fear future costs. The piece traces policy battles and profits in steel, cotton, and broader postwar inflation dynamics.
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OPA
Pearson
USA
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Hisory
What CRI Means And Why It Should Be Considered Contagious
Dr Brady explains CRI or common respiratory infection covers illnesses from coryza to pneumonia and notes it is most contagious at onset. He urges using the term CRI to warn others and criticizes calling it a cold. He cites Franklin’s views on contagion and shared air as historical context.
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Coryza
Benjamin Franklin
Peavey
Franklin
Benjamin Rush
Congress
Europe
Sen
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Germany
U.S.A
Morse
Brien McMahon
Senate
Sensational Inquiry Could Hurt Us in Germany
Marquis Childs warns that a $300 million request to cover occupation deficits in Germany Austria Japan and Korea tests postwar U S resolve. He notes occupation instability troop age indiscipline and the Meader report controversy while urging prudent long term plans and bipartisan restraint.
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Germany
Ashington
Congress
War Department
Austria
Japan
Korea
Senate
Defense Investigating Committee
Ger
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