Senators for Life Proposed for ex Presidents
A long time advocate promotes Senate life membership for former Presidents with $12,500 yearly pay, a $2,500 tax free expense allowance, floor seating, an office, and assistants. The plan, supported by President Truman and Senate leaders, aims at better government and is backed by Rep. Canfield and similar bills in the House.
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Sen. Brewster
Maine
Congress
Senate
America
Hoover
Truman
Sen. Taft
Rep
Canfield
New Jersey
Read This From Mrs Stuhldreher On Football Fans
A The Saturday Evening Post piece by Mrs Harry Stuhldreher wife of Wisconsin football coach urges fans to stay committed despite recent losses. She stresses steady support, sportsmanship, and understanding game struggles as essential lessons for every follower.
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Harry Stuhldreher
Saturday Evening Post
Stuhldreher
Wisconsin
Right Response? Dewey Sees Bitter Campaign Ahead
Tos Dewey predicts the opposition will escalate vituperation and abuse in the final campaign week while urging supporters to refrain from retaliation. He hopes the public can unite after the election without scars, praising good sportsmanship though questions linger on its psychological effect.
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Tos Dewey
It's Still the Exceptional Couple Who Let Money Separate Them
A reader letter from Dad comments on money in marriage, contrasting frugal, cooperative couples with spends and quarrels. He cites modern pairs who plan together, share finances, and support aims like education, urging brides to be practical and ambitious. Stalin is mentioned and a hunting quip ends the fragment.
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Louise
America
Quillen
Bill
Copernicus
Out of the Past Must Not Bliss Create
A reflective line on the paradox of happiness and greatness. The text emphasizes that the truly great are marked by unhappiness, not bliss, echoing a solitary meditation attributed to a Young author.
Modern family life and love in radio era musings
A reflective piece ponders whether modern kids are spoiled by abundance, the persistence of first loves, female mate choices, Russian poker precocity, bluff nerves, and the lure of easy shortcuts and promises of effortless results through science.
Wade's Wit: A light mix of politics and sport wit
Wade notes the soap ad omits the box and candidates use offhand lines. He mocks baseball managers being dropped and wonders about Stan Harris's release by the Yankees for good behavior. Punch suggests avoiding wasps, and a Dixie editor seeks contacts on Georgian and French turmoil. A statistician cites Americans spend about 200 dollars yearly on crime, with a snide millinery remark ending the sketch.
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Stan Harris
N.Y. Yankees
Music of the spheres and science push the limits
By Malcolm Bingay a column arguing that cosmic noise and musical harmony emerge from ordered motion. He cites Pythagoras, Browne, Einstein, Job and Menzel to defend science, notes instruments like the Abrams box as frauds turned real, and predicts future energy breakthroughs from sun vibrations and vacuum ideas.
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Cornell University
Pythagoras
Menzel
Mars
Venus
United Nations
Vishinsky
Thomas Browne
Midwest Farmers Learn Lobbyists Hard Way
Drew Pearson reports farmers in the Midwest fault big Washington lobbies for grain price declines. He names three grain firms and associates behind efforts, cites storage limits in the Commodity Credit Charter, and notes political maneuvering around civil rights filibusters and Chicago politics.
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Middlewest
Washington
Slaughter
Jesse Walcott
Michigan
House Banking and Currency Committee
Nurse Training Racket and Call for Shorter Programs
A reader laments discriminatory nurse training admissions and explains how some hospitals offer only board and laundry while requiring income from home. She argues for affordable two year programs admitting applicants with two years of high school credits, criticizing costly, exclusive training paths.
New Pattern Emerges in South After Election
Stewart Alsop analyzes political shifts in Alabama and Georgia after the Dixiecrat revolt. In Alabama, a divide between Senator Hill and Dixiecrat Dixon hints at a possible postwar two party dynamic, while Georgia’s rising Republican activity undercuts conservative Democratic strength and could push the South toward northern party alignment. The era of a strict one party South seems endangered.
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Stewart Alsop
South
Ontgomery
Ala
Alabama
Georgia
Frank Dixon
Hunt
Drems
Hill
Dixon
Joseph
J. Strom Thurmond
Democratic Party
Dixie
Congress
Her
Talmad
Talmadge
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
By Bugs Baer Even John L Pays Taxes
The column jokes about John L. Lewis paying taxes after a high salary, mocking political figures and a luxury lifestyle of a top union organizer. It suggests tax timing around March fifteenth and implies government overreach as a public chase ends with a circular track metaphor.
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Bugs Baer
John L
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