Guess-Who Will Be 48 Presidential Choices
An editorial surveys potential Republican candidates for the 1948 race. It weighs Taft Bricker Stassen Dewey Warren Vandenberg and Saltonstall, notes Solid South sentiment toward Truman, and cites a Floridan who would vote GOP if offered a candidate like Warren or Stassen.
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Truman
Henry Wallace
Roosevelt
Sen
Taft
Bricker J
Ohio
Gov. Stassen
Minnesota
Gov
Dewey
New York
Gov. Warren
California
Vandenberg
Michigan
Sen. Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Solid South
Herbert Hoover
al Smith
Warren
Washington
Public Servants Resent Recordings Of Their Calls
The piece argues lawmakers resent telephonic recordings used in probes such as Rep May’s role with an Illinois munitions supplier. Speaker Rayburn and Leader Martin condemn the practice as mean, noting Congress serves the public and must be transparent about public business.
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Dee
Rep
May
Illinois
Rayburn
Texas
Martin
Massachusetts
Photographers Seek Courtroom Access Rights
The American Society of Newspaper Editors backed a National Press Photographers Association push to allow courtroom cameras. Judges commonly bar photographers during trials citing court decorum, but advances in discreet filming challenge old limits. The piece argues press freedom includes photographers and cites war crime trials as evidence.
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American Society of Newspaper Editors
National Press Photographers’ Association
Weighing Worries Against Greater Disasters
Quillen argues ignorance is bliss but warns of catastrophic risks from meteors volcanoes and ice ages. He cites Siberian and Alaskan events and imagines dust circling the globe reducing sun heat. He laments economic wages tax issues and hypocritical policy while urging calm faith.
Out of the Past Opportunity to Statesmen and Chemists
A reflective aphorism from Suckling contrasts political and scientific practice as the last degree of heat that perfects all work, presenting a measured view of progress across fields.
Authorities Not Children To Blame For High School Strike
Paul Mallon argues that failure lies with adult authority not students. A public junior high faces a class leader who cheats, then resists graduation after a test reversal. He suggests a strong truancy enforcement and clear legal responsibility to end student strikes.
Authority must back the law in schools to curb student strikes
The speaker argues adults set standards, not children, and that youths lack moral or legal standing to strike. They blame deficient authority rather than students or parents, urging a return of lawful authority in schools to prevent chaos and domination by immature minds.
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Truman
Ooe
President calls for more work nationwide
The President states the nation needs work and more work, reflecting concerns shared by many. The remark signals a push for employment and economic activity amid ongoing issues.
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Anthon Herald
Kentucky Leaders Guide OPA Seat-Two Compromise Plan
Kentuckians Paul Porter and Alben Barkley craft a compromise OPA bill to salvage price control amid a fractured Senate. Porter’s tact and Barkley’s weary leadership converge as they restore a Taft amendment in a form close to its author’s intent, aiming to avert a presidential embarrassment.
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Kentucky
OPA
Truman
Paul Porter
Alben Barkley
Porter
Barkley
Senate
Ohio
Truman veto brief boosts Taft in 1948 race
The Truman veto of price and wage controls is seen as boosting Senator Taft of Ohio as a potential 1948 Republican nominee. The piece argues liberal and conservative factions clash over OPA policy, with labor, CIO-PAC, and protectionist forces influencing the race and signaling market tensions ahead of a possible Taft victory.
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Ashington
Sen. Taft
Ohio
Truman
Taft
Cio-Pac
Sen
Vandenberg
Gov
Bricker
Hay fever remedies and medical advice dated notes
Dr Brads personal health column offers dietary measures to fortify against hay fever with calcium vitamin D and potassium vitamin C while noting homeopathic and medicinal options. It includes patient inquiries about goiter altitude sickness and a youth’s embarrassment and ends with a garbled personal plea.
Raisins and Raisin Bread Sparks OPA Debate
The article jokes about the OPA drawing lines on raisins in bread and kitchen ethics. It mocks the national tribunal’s stance and uses humorous analogies about kittens, clocks, ladders, and moonlight to question rationing rules.
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OPA
National Tribunal
Future Worry as Atomic Bombs Rise
Arkansas Gazette notes that with the atomic bomb came a new dominant concern about the future. The piece questions whether there will be any future at all and reflects on existential anxiety in the nuclear era.
Truman Puts Veto Power on Good Men in Government
Missouri political influence blocks qualified appointees as Truman struggles to staff the government. Parten declines a combined full employment and budget post amid Missouri veto fears. Veterans housing schemes face cost pressures as Erskine pushes floating dorms via surplus river boats.
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Missouri Gang
Truman
Washington
Ju Fred
Gael Brueen
Tom Clark
Bob Hannegan
Sullivan
Parten
John Snyder
Patton
Snyder
Texas
United Nations
Gromyko
Mr. Truman
Gen. Erskine
Maritime Commission
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Siberia
North Carolina
Alaska
Minsula
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Scandinavia
George Clark
Paul Mallon
Marquis Childs
Childs
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Lawrence
Democratic Party
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Chester Bowles
Secretary of Agriculture
Bowles
Wherry
Wherrys
Robert Wason
Wm. Brady
Pike's Peak Or Bust
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pike’s Peak
Pike
T.W.H
Bugs” Baer
Arkansas Gazette
Drew Pearson
J. R. Parten
Texas University Board of Regents
Tru
Sam Ray=e
Gen. Graves Erskine
Labor Department
N. R. de Mexico
Building Reporter
Howard Carpenter, Jr
New York State Association of Real Estate Boards
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