Showdown On Tax Cuts And Labor Policy Debate
Washington weighs two major bills on labor and tax cuts after months of work. President Truman may veto one or both, risking legislative action in this session and shaping the year election fortunes. Iowa pioneers would praise funding for a statewide scholarship to educate future leaders and sustain education amid financial hardship.
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Ereereet & Be
White House
Washington
Congress
Truman
Marconi
Enators
Taft and
Bricker
Cleveland
General Motors
Reynolds Metals
G.i.’S
Hot Springs
Ark
The Plaza Path Proposal Sparks sidewalk rethink
A Cedar Rapids editorial questions sidewalks and suggests delaying new paths until public patterns reveal the preferred routes. The author visits the Plaza, notes worn shortcuts, and ponders laying sidewalks over popular routes to reflect public choice. The piece ends with a consideration of whether laws should adapt to unpopular designs.
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Cedar Rapids
Memorial Committee Considers Education Scholarships for Iowa
Governor Blue has appointed a three member committee to plan use of 197 585 from sold commemorative 50 cent pieces for Iowa s 100th birthday. Local proposals urge funding annual scholarships for talented Iowa high school and college students to advance studies and cultivate future leaders in arts sciences and public life.
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Overnor Blue
Iowa
Statehouse
Shakespeare
Lincoln
Beethoven
Nightingale
Einstein
Time to overhaul the federal tax system and end patchwork excises
The piece argues Congress must replace the current hodgepodge of excise taxes with a coherent overall system. It criticizes half a century of ad hoc levies and urges the House Ways and Means Committee to craft a fair, understandable structure, reducing regressive, burdensome taxes. It notes Treasury Secretary Snyder calls for reexamination and warns against continuing piecemeal tax policy.
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Congress
Treasury Snyder
House
Ways and Means
Knutson
Minnesota
House Committee
Bugs Baer on Pens and Character in Paper Sigs
The speaker laments calibrating character to signature due to drift and mood. He recalls finding a post office pen in a hospital and the trouble of blotting. George Rector owned his best borrowed pen with green ink and dignity, a tool that writes well only in temperate zones.
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George Rector
George
Canfield
Cannon
Only work and production can lift Europe from crisis
George E. Sokolski argues Europe’s dollar shortage stems from a goods shortage, not money, and urges private enterprise, barter caution, and increased output. He critiques Britain’s socialist push, notes sterling to dollar conversions, and warns that Empire preference and wartime trading distortions hinder recovery.
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York
Europe
The
International Trade Organization
Geneva
Russia
Great Britain
British Commonwealth of Nations
ITO
Chicago Huskies Baseball Team Suspended After Protest
The University of Chicago baseball team was suspended from further competition and the coach discharged after a game with Minnesota. Chicago used one player in center field and had another bat for him during the contest. The incident prompted the action.
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University of Chicago
Minnesota
Chicago Nine
Informal column notes mix fishing lore with letters
A writer jokes about answering a friendly magazine editor note during a strike and shares sly fishing trip promises around Clear Lake. He riffs on minnows and the old lake lore, then recounts a clipping bureau sting and a Chicago wardrobe find.
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Clear Lake
Morever
Turks balk at American aid that threatens sovereignty
Inonu pressed the state department against U S aid that would impinge Turkish sovereignty. The Varlik tax wartime policy hit non Muslims hard, with thousands jailed and property seized as 30,000 Jews and Christians faced concentration camps. Roosevelt’s 1945 visit spurred release of Varlik prisoners.
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Ashington
Inonu
State Department
Turkey
U. S
Varlik
Baltimore and Boston Musings on Brahms Requiem
A critic notes the Boston reception of Brahms Requiem contrasted with Baltimore where the city staged all 700 Brahms compositions. The piece evokes a past Boston suggestion to post Exit signs at music halls. The tone now is lighter with a sighing, plaintive resignation.
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Christian Science Monitor
Brahms
Requiem
Boston
Baltimore
Music Hall
Japan's Occupation Under MacArthur Faces Hurdles Ahead
Amid MacArthur's success in demilitarization and reform, a vast unfinished agenda remains in Japan. Reforms and democracy take hold slowly as occupation authorities and Japanese adapt through education and supervision, with two intertwined military and political efforts guiding postwar recovery.
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MacArthur
Japan
A. T. Steele
Ace
New York Tribune, Inc
KYO
Douglas MacArthur
United States
8Th Army
Robert L. Eichelberger
General MacArthur
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