A Thought For Today Reflections On Joy And Virtue
A thoughtful maxim notes that a man's joy and strength come from what he habitually contemplates and desires. The measure of his love reveals the root of virtue and tests human worth.
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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1950
Page
6
Propaganda dangers and the fight for free thought
A discussion of propaganda from Washington to Goebbels and McCarthy, highlighting how rulers misuse information to control minds. The piece lauds free speech and the press as counterdevices and urges Americans to seek truth, resist tyranny, and support the United Nations and Marshall Plan to curb Soviet influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Hitler
Stalin
Russia
Karl Marx
United States
Joseph McCarthy
State Department
Freedom of press and speech endure in free society
A proclamation extols freedom of speech and the press as essential to a healthy republic. It cautions that deceit prompts sharp public backlash, underscoring the obligation to protect open discourse and the press as pillars of liberty.
Unknown Benefactors in Card Games History and Legacy
The late C Graham Baker, a Hollywood motion picture writer and producer, is noted as co inventor of gin rummy. His father Elwood T Baker is often credited, though family members say the son contributed equally. Gin rummy and Canasta have reshaped games, threatening bridge, while the Bakers and whist creators enriched American leisure, though their names fade from common memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Graham Baker
Recorders of History
Hollywood
Elwood T. Baker
Arena Theater in the Round Opens on Broadway Stage
America by Inez Robb reports Broadway’s Arena Theater in the Round in the Edison Hotel ballroom. A 14 by 18 foot stage sits amid four-sided seating with no curtain, luminous floor markings, and front-row actors joining the audience for an intimate revival of The Show-Off. Critics watched from close proximity as actors faced the risqué visibility and the first-night jitters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ous
Broadway
Arena Theater
Actors Equity
John Chapman
Dallas
Atlanta
Hollywood
Seattle
Rmind
Cockpit
Edison Hotel
George Kelly
Fisher Home
Two-Dollar Debt Returns On Golf Course Tale
On the Line by Bob Considine recalls a celebrity golf tourney anecdote about a two dollar loan from 1940. The donor and borrower reminisce amid social echoes of old desks and newspaper pasts while the moment spirals into a broader reflection on debts, memory, and social pressure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Considine
York
Army-Navy Cauntry Club
Cadillac
Detroit
Golly
Washington Post
Washington Times-Herald
New York
Post
The
Times-Herald
Inter-Corporation
Hke
Mr. Rheingold
Mike Flynn
Mike
Herbert Hoover
Walter Johnson
Coffeyville
Education aid politics and school crowding issues
Washington columnist Drew Pearson outlines Congressman Graham Barden's plan to push a federal aid to education bill with or without parochial school aid, noting uncertain House passage. He cites severe school overcrowding in San Antonio and Virginia, Oklahoma firetraps near an Air Force runway, and critiques of State Department figures Acheson and McMahon amid broader labor policy tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drew Pearson
the Gazette
Ashington
Graham Barden
North Carolina
House Labor and Education Committee
Barden
Cardinal Spellman
Congressraat Lesinski
Michigan
Labor and Education Committee
Lesinski
San Antonio
Virginia
Oklahoma
Midwest City
Okla
Air Force
Connecticut
Acheson
Brien McMahon
McMahon
Rosemary
Alice
Washington
IdeMahon
Episcopalian of
Homer Cummings
Roosevelt
Cummings
Bishop Acheson
State Department
Capitol Hill
New York Times
Arthur Krock
Truman
Maranis Childs
Childs
Synthetic rubber lowers heat buildup for car tires
CHICAGO A synthetic rubber that can be used for the body of automobile tires without building up heat has been achieved. University of Illinois chemist Dr. Carl Shipp Marvel, awarded the Willard Gibbs medal, announced the development made from butadiene and styrene using a sodium catalyst. The new rubber shows the lowest heat buildup of any synthetic and is approximately equal to natural rubber in this property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Far East
Carl Shipp Marvel
University of Illinois
Willard Gibbs
American Chemical Society
Crigter’s Post-War Slogan Echoes in Chips City Letter
A brief unsigned note from J. R. B. Crigter of Chips City addresses the postwar spirit, referencing the idea that success may require persistence and adaptation after wartime efforts. The message uses a informal tone and a quip about trying again.
Explosive Labor Front Clash Shocks Tennessee Plant
The Morristown rayon plant strike escalates as dynamite blasts damage homes and National Guard tanks surround union offices. Union leaders allege police and guardsmen beat a striker, while officials deny it. Gov. Brown proposes pressure on the company and arbitration talks continue amid calls for peaceable labor relations laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Motors
Charles Wilson
CIO
Auto Union
Walter Reuther
Tennessee
American Enka Co
Morristown
Tenn
National Guard
Buffalo
Lightning defense for houses and Meridian Day question
The piece notes the National Bureau of Standards guidance for lightning protection using a well grounded metal mast near a structure, with two or more poles possible, though residential use is rare due to unsightly tall poles. It also answers the international Date Line question as Meridian Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Bureau of Standards
Reclaiming Spoil Banks In West Virginia Farmland
West Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station and the State Department of Mines lead reclamation of strip mined lands in northern communities turning them into pastures and meadows. Since 1943 pioneers refined soils into Type A Type B and Type C spoil and found liming and delaying seeding on Type A yields recovery. Grasses such as orchard grass red top and tell meadow oat grass prosper, while tree species like black locust prove reliable for reclamation with conifers including short leaf pine and red pine showing promise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
West Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station
State Department of Mines
Fairmont Times
Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler on Eleanor Roosevelt
A political essay argues Republicans and Democrats are confused and factions within both parties seek advantage. It criticizes Eleanor Roosevelt, Clare Luce, and various figures for pushing civil rights and social programs, while warning of Soviet influence and partisan manipulation in American democracy.
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Westbrook Pegler
Eleanor Hboosevelt
California
New England
Clare Luce
Canor
Lodge
Tobey
Vandenberg
Salian
Stall
Aiken
Ives
Byrd
Robertson
Ruseril
George. McKellar
Hill
Smathers
Triman
Deep South
States Rights
North
Taft
Truman
Tom Dewey
Cosmopolitan
Franky
Waldorf
Luce
United Stas
Russia
la Luce
Eleanor
Europe
United States
United Nations General Assembly
Human Rights Commission
Clare
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Alger Hiss
Hanns
Harry Bridges
Irene Brawurder
Lash
Louis Adamic
William Galimor
Roosevelt
Pegler
Stalin
Eleanor the Grea
Hevertheless
Political party prospects in 1952 discussed
Baering Down By abtour "Bugs" Baer notes the slim chances of a third party in 1952, mocks candidates like Henry Wallace, Dewey, and the Dixiecrats, and jokes about party lineups, ferry service, and speculative nominating battles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Wallace
Maiter
Ska
Dixiecrats
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