Real Estate Lobby Probe Divides Taft and Bricker
Washington AP President Truman urged Congress to probe real estate lobbyists amid sharp bipartisan reactions. Bricker denounced the move as political demagoguery while Taft offered to back a broad inquiry. Sparkman urged sweeping lobbying investigations and Creedon promised evenhanded rent control administration.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Bricker
Ohio
Sen
Taft
Arthur W. Binns
National Home and Property Owners Foundation
Herbert A. Nelson
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Sen. Sparkman
D-Ala
G.O.P
Sparkman
Frank R. Creedon
Downtown group promotes traffic safety via lapel pins
Los Angeles report says the Downtown Business Men's Association sponsors a traffic safety campaign asking safety minded men and women to wear safety pins on their lapels or dresses as a symbolic gesture.
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Los Angeles
Downtown
Business Men’s Association
Forty five new volumes at the public library
The public library will release forty five new books on Saturday including Witchcraft in England by Christina Hole and How to Become a Policeman by J C Chi Otis. Other titles cover history science crafts and fiction from authors like Sherwood Eddy Arthur Miller and Lillian Hellman.
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Public Library
England
Christina Hole
Robert Wicks
R. J. Clinchy
Sherwood _Eddy
Ezekiel Mordecai
C. M. Wilson
Wesley McCune
J. C. Chiotis
U. Chicago
H. P. Richter
John J. Smith
Henry Lent
Drake
G. E. Manley
Margaret Pratt
R. W. Kerr
Andrew Dragunas
Michael Estrin
W. C. Pryor
Keith Henney
Avenir le Heart
K. B. Taft
Agnes Flannery
Christopher Blake
Moss. Hart
Lillian Hellman
Robert Louis Stevenson
Harriet Hinsdale
Arthur Miller
Irwin Edman
Arthur Loveridge
Ernie Pyle
Howard Odum
Arkansas
Marguerite Lyon
Homer Cray
Colorado
Writers’ Program
Alaska
J. B. Caldwell
Enchanted Isles
Ainslie Conway
R. M. Jones
Ruth Fox
Sir Samuel
Notable Names in a 20th Century US History Capsule
A compact list of figures spanning political writers and social critics. Hoare Underground to Palestine and I. F. Stone appear alongside Walter Hard and Townsend Scudder. Names like Michael Blankfort, Mark Twain in Nevada, Effie Mack, and Elsie Singmaster mark a tapestry of journalism, politics, and literature from Concord to Connecticut River.
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Hoare
Palestine
I. F. Stone
Connecticut River
Walter Hard
Concord
American Town
Townsend Scudder
Big Yankee
Carlson
The
Raiders
Michael Blankfort
Mark Twain
Nevada
Effie Mack
Cecil Driver
Thaddeus Stevens
Elsie Singmaster
Public Blamed in Car Profiteering Across Nation
United Press reports automobile dealers blame the public for profiteering in new cars with prices near 50 percent above factory cost. Dealers say they cannot curb the practice without public cooperation as law enforcement is largely powerless. Some new car firms refuse to sell to used car dealers while private sellers move cars to secondhand lots. In Chicago an individual appeared on seven dealer lists and resold new cars to used lots.
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Chicago
Many More Go Off Job In Shipyards
The CIO shipyard strike expanded to nearly all east and Gulf coast yards halting work on about 175 vessels. About 90,000 to 100,000 workers joined, with 20,000 to 50,000 more affected. Wage demands include 13 cents an hour raise, better classifications, and six holidays. A Cam en shipyard settlement halted a 500 worker walkout.
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New York
CIO
East
Gulf
John Green
CIO Industrial Union of Marine and Ship Builders
Charles Leone
Conemators
John H. Mathis
Camen
Air Forces Mark Fortieth Anniversary In Iowa And Nebraska
All army connected flying units in Iowa and eastern Nebraska are alerted to participate in Air Force day marking the fortieth anniversary of the AAF. The event is set for Tuesday.
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Iowa
Nebraska
AAF
Air forces celebrate 40 years in Midwest events
President Truman proclaims Aug 1 as a commemorative day. The Second Air Force in Omaha confirms ceremonies across Omaha, Sioux City, Des Moines, and Lincoln from Aug 1 to 3. National coordination by the Air Force Association, with military support from the Second Air Force, units in 12 Midwest states, the air national guard, and the Iowa Eastern Nebraska district recruiting office. The Army Air Forces began in 1907 with one officer and two enlisted men. today postwar AAF counts 300000 personnel and 25000 aircraft.
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Truman
Second Air Force
Omaha
Sioux City
Des Moines
Lincoln
Air Force Association
Midwestern
Air National Guard
Iowa- Eastern
Nebraska
Fifth Army
Army Air Forces
AAF
Riots in Calcutta Leave Dozens Dead and Wounded
Unofficial reports from Calcutta indicate 12 to 15 people killed and about 50 wounded in religious rioting on Monday. The figures arrive amid ongoing unrest in the city.
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India
Calcutta
Little Flower Fiorello LaGuardia Denies Milwaukee Invite
Milwaukee officials invited former New York Mayor LaGuardia to speak for the fall program. He replied that if he was an expensive speaker he would want $1,000, adding that for that money they could get better speakers, and the invitation was signed.
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Milwaukee
Town Hall
New York
LaGuardia
Little Flower
Washington Earns Notch as Less-Than-Three-Quarters Paradise
Washington reports show federal bureaus with fewer women than men, altering the capital’s bachelor image. The Tuesday figures indicate a gender imbalance in hiring within federal agencies.
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Washington
Commercial Zoning on First Avenue E Sought
City council heard M R DeMoss petition to rezone 2811 First Avenue SE from B residential to C commercial. It urged rezoning of the entire block between Twenty eighth and Twenty-ninth streets citing a chicken hatchery and a grocery on the block. Petition referred to city plan commission.
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M R DeMoss
First Avenue SE
Twenty Eighth
Twenty-ninth Streets
Twenty-eighth Street
Twenty-ninth Street
Jcity Plan Commission
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