Brooklyn Girl Learns English In Brooklynese To Standard Speech
Florence Spiegelman of Brooklyn learns to speak standard English under Prof. Earl Ryan on a WNEW radio program. She faced laughter in Boston after a Brooklynese misstep and now trains to drop the Brooklyn twang, with lessons focusing on correct pronunciation and enunciation.
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Claire Cox
New York
Florence Spiegelman
Florence
Brooklyn
Flatbush
Earl Ryan
Keokuk
Walla Walla
Manhattan
Ryan
Earl
Pernt
WNEW
A.” Ryan
Soviet Recognizes North Korea Government
Seoul reports Pyongyang radio announced Moscow will exchange ambassadors and establish diplomatic ties with the North Korean regime. President Rhee condemned the move as unfriendly and a violation of U.N. Korea resolutions, while Seoul accused Moscow of backing a puppet government.
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Seoul
INS
Pyongyang
Syngman Rhee
United Nations
Dr. Rhee
Russia
Chang Taik Sang
North Korea
Berlin Crisis Speech Foresees Soviet Expansion Recede
Gen. Lucius Clay said a firm Western stand in Berlin could break Soviet domination in Eastern Europe. He told British delegates that denying the Soviet bloc access to food shown the blockade was a starvation measure and urged continuance of the airlift to sustain freedom in Berlin and push back communist influence.
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Berlin
Lucius Clay
Europe
Germany
Clay
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Red
Soviet Union
Italy
France
Finland
Western Europe
County to shift road maintenance to city study
Linn county will abandon maintenance on old Marion road in north Cedar Rapids and refer the plan to City Engineer Frank Young and the street department for study. County aims to discontinue upkeep from Thirty-fifth Street NE to Jesse Wilson Road as residences rise. A similar Jp street SW decision remains under city review.
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Linn County
Old Marion Road
North
Cedar Rapids
Frank Young
Thirty-fifth Street
Jesse Wilson
Jpstreet SW
Iity
Hope credits 80th Congress with long range farm program
Rep. Clifford R. Hope says the 80th Congress enacted the first long range farm program. He praised price supports, the Commodity Credit Corporation, foot and mouth disease and insect control, rural electrification, roads, and reclamation. He criticized Democratic attacks as unfounded while addressing the National Federation of Republican Women's Clubs in St Paul before Dewey's visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope
National Federation of Republican Women’s Clubs
Thomas E. Dewey
G.O.P
Congress
Commodity Credit Corporation
G.O.P. Congress
Democratic
Truman
Dexter
Iowa
Hobbies At A L Hobby Show Opens At YMCA Keen Teen Rooms
The Allied Industrial League Hobby show opens Saturday at 1 pm in the Keen Teen rooms of the YMCA. About 29 exhibitors present hobbies through 9 pm including airplanes stamp and coin collections wood carvings rugs sculpture antique clocks figurines and paintings.
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Allied Industrial League
Y.M.C.A
Auto ownership totals exceed thirty million in 1947
The U S Public Roads Administration estimates there were 30 545 000 privately owned automobiles in the United States by end of 1947.
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U. S. Public Roads Administration
U. S
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A.L
Roosevelt Sky Grill
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