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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1947
Page
6
A clipped newspaper page from June 24 1947 carries a Thought For Today by Hugh Pentecost about money and values. It notes the Associated Press rights and publication placeholders for Charleston West Virginia. The snippet reflects typical 1940s newspaper boilerplate and a moral message.
A block of text contrasts spending and saving, warns against alcohol, praises thinking and free speech, and critiques communism and totalitarianism. It argues that real progress comes from thinking, describes Russia’s failures, and laments modern quarrels while urging individuals to form their own conclusions. It ends with a quip about inward argument leading nowhere.
The article notes Franco as life chief of Spain without a king, reflecting the enduring belief in hereditary right. It compares Hungary under regent Horthy, emphasizing a ruler without royal blood would provoke unrest. It ends with a warning against American deference to shadow leaders and party bosses.
The piece argues recession fears fade due to exports and foreign poverty, with imports sustained by public subsidies. It proposes the Wagner-Ellender-Taft housing bill as a crude, ready prop to steady life at home and support heavy goods sales if imports falter, while noting it won’t solve housing alone. It questions risking planlessness for shelter and growth.
On the Line recalls Bugsy Siegel’s infamous rise through crime linked to Las Vegas ventures and Hollywood circles. It notes his associations with Leo Durocher and press figures, his high profile salons, and his eventual violent demise. The piece frames his era as broader than one life, touching on organized crime’s reach into hotels, gambling, and media.
Washington Merry-Go-Round reports on Truman and Stalin joking about U S Marshal Fred Canfield of Kansas City during Potsdam tea, a tale highlighting frictions over awards and status. It also traces Dewey's fence on Taft-Hartley and AFL labor pressure shaping Republican farming policy and Senate hurdles to restoring soil conservation amid farm cuts.
Intercepted note dated June 24 1947 from Gov Clarence W Meadows at the State House City urges welcome for the Legislature and Senate to a safer more progressive capital city, signing off as Clarence Meadows.
Senator Raber and F Wagner rail against Republican budget cuts, price controls and housing programs, arguing unions bolster democracy and national production. They claim current policy shields managerial power while excluding many workers from labor protections and election rights.
Senator Wagner criticizes labor policy foes and urges veto of a restrictive bill. He argues there is no labor crisis, warns of economic collapse if liberalism retreats, and calls to implement broad federal programs, strengthen housing health care education and social security, and to prevent the 1948 Maximum Employment Act from failing. History favors liberal leadership for prosperity and peace.
Reader questions span pet care on long car trips and historical trivia. A veterinarian guidance suggests calming animals with sedation and dietary checks before travel. The exchange then pivots to obscure monuments, cenotaph meanings, and residency rules for World War II veterans under homestead laws, ending with irrigation leadership of India and the United States.
A reader letter condemns coal miners as uneducated and doomed while praising some with high ambitions. It argues miners face fatalism from environment, demands justice for workers, and criticizes the Spy Senuts campaign for funds to expand their program, warning against communist influence in a Boy Scout troop.
Dayton Ohio News surveys Herbert Hoover in 1920 as a presidential hopeful. It contrasts his Belgian relief days with a fatigued outlook, arguing Americans must rise to the task of shaping peace and facing future costs, implying Hoover’s leadership may fall short.
In Fair Enough from NEW YORK on June 23, the piece critiques political journalism and its blind spots. It argues reporters, courthouse sages, and editors misjudge figures like Henry Wallace and Truman, aided by formulaic phrases and self interest. The author traces media credulity from Ray Clapper to Alcoholics Anonymous founders, calling for skepticism of editorial narratives and political expediency.
Artone Baer riffs on congressional testimony and party tax stances era style. He recalls presidents Harding Hoover and Coolidge and critiques Republicans for not taxing enough while envisioning a taxless administration as a comic ideal.
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