Churchill Calls for Anglo American Clout to Check Russia
The Fulton speech signals strong international realignment as Churchill urges a show of military strength to deter Soviet expansion. He argues the bomb may back diplomacy, while critics in London and Washington assess how to deploy power. The piece also reviews a congressional reform plan to modernize Congress with fewer committees, higher salaries, and larger staff, plus a call for lawmakers to publicly take stands on vital issues.
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Joint committee on organization of congress performs workmanlike task
The joint house senate committee on organization of congress faced doubt about its recommendations yet delivered a solid, workmanlike performance. The result stands as a notable contrast to current congressional trends despite anticipated resistance to some proposals.
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Easy Choice AS THIS on wage referendum proposal at GM
General Motors executives have not accepted a union plan for a secret ballot vote among workers on an 18 percent wage increase. Union leaders would agree if the company pledges to respect the vote and allows a presidential arbitrator to settle remaining disputes after a possible return to work. The piece notes voters may favor accepting the offer to secure arbitration potential gains.
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Cedar Rapids Board Prepares for Emergency Trailer Housing
The Cedar Rapids board of education directed its president to write to the mayor about considering crowded elementary school conditions when locating 80 trailers from the Federal Public Housing Authority. The aim is to ease future schooling needs for families moving into the trailers by placing them near available school space rather than in overcrowded zones.
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Cedar Rapids
Test of a Leader's Wisdom Is When All Others Lose Heads
Robert Quillen argues that during boom times some bankers lose their heads and panic in crises, foreclosing and denying loans. He recalls 1929 lessons, notes insured deposits, and warns a new boom may test today’s bankers and leadership. He cites a village banker who hid assets and invested in bonds amid warning signs.
Out of the Past Penntary of Kindness Motto
Quote about secret virtue and anonymous good deeds attributed to Lamb. Reflects a sentiment on hidden benevolence discovered by chance. Short personal reflection woven into a historical newspaper snippet style.
By Bugs Baer Yalta hints mocked as vows and games
A satirical piece mocks postwar diplomacy calling Yalta gossip and secret deals. It argues for repudiation of insinuations and demands that future agreements be signed to avoid vague understandings. It likens diplomats to players at a card table and urges clear treaties.
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Truman Could Use More Aides Like Wyatt
The Chicago National Association of Home Builders banquet heard Housing Expeditor Wilson Wyatt defend low cost housing for veterans amid hostile audeince. Wyatt outlined incentive payments to producers who raise output, and builders later reversed course to back his plan. Wyatt noted as undersecretary Ed Pauley’s appointment neared, Maj. Gen. John Hilldring moved to assistant secretary of state for occupied areas, shaping civilian governance in Germany and Japan, with Hilldring praised as honest and capable. The piece ends noting the Allies’ Spain pressure remains the most astonishing current issue.
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Churchill Echoes Past in Kremlin Readings and War Talk
Marquis Childs notes Churchill's Missouri speech echoes prewar anti Soviet rhetoric, urging United States Britain alliance while warning that fighting communism with arms alone risks compromising home prosperity. He cites wartime notes showing missed German agent warnings and Franco sympathies.
Barbiturate cautions and health tips from Dr Brady
Dr Brady warns against home barbiturate use and improper storage. He cautions that excess doses can cause disorientation, injury, and misdiagnosis of nervous weakness, urging strict prescription control and patient-specific quantities. He notes few pathologies from proper medical use but stresses age 40 avoidance without physician approval.
GOP Is Tired of Having New Dealers Choose Its Candidates
George E. Sokols ky argues that New Deal columnists and commentators attempt to pick Republican presidential contenders over the years. He contends they favored Willkie and Dewey at times while opposing Bricker and Taft, now backing Harold Stassen, Lodge, and others, and pushes the view that Bricker leads among prospective candidates as Dewey must win New York in 1948. The piece notes the local basis of elections and warns of CIO PAC opposition in 1946.
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New York
Wendell Willkie
Tom Dewey
Robert A. Taft
Mr. Willkie
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Willkie
John W. Bricker
Dewey
Harold Stassen
Arthur Vandenberg
Stassen
Henry Cabot Lodge
New Deal
Ohio
He Who Pays Washta Journal Editorial
The President and Congress push price changes in opposing directions yet the consumer bears the ultimate burden. The piece argues that political maneuvering obscures true cost and accountability, urging readers to scrutinize policy impacts on everyday prices.
Medical publicist ponders balance in dark stairway scene
In Detroit News coverage a Chicago medical publicist is questioned about how to address a loss of balance in darkness and the challenge of explaining it to a woman at the top of the stairs. The exchange hints at safety concerns and social dynamics in domestic settings.
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Chicago
Democrats Indict Pauley Over Oil Lands Case
WILIEINGTON The Democratic party in the Senate faces a vote that could smear President Roosevelt or vindicate those who smeared him. Edwin Pauley, Democratic national treasurer, is accused of raising 300000 from California oil interests used in the 1944 campaign to influence a federal oil lands suit. If proven, the case would implicate Pauley and raise questions about Roosevelt's conduct in delaying the suit.
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