City faces alleged $7.5 million utility income loss
Forum speaker Councilman Albert D. Cash told a Progressive Citizens' Committee audience that Cincinnati loses about 714 million dollars yearly by not owning the gas and electric utility. He accused Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co. of spending heavily to defeat municipal ownership and cited wire tapping during the anti-ownership campaign. The discussion surfaced calls for an investigation into municipal ownership to protect city income and competitiveness. Andre Carson moderated with academic counterpoints from Ben O. Stoner.
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Cincinnati
Albert D. Cash
Progressive Citizens’ Committee
Charterite
Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co
Cash
Ellis
Ben O. Stoner
Lands Services
Stoner
Ft. Thomas
Columbia Gas & Electric Co
Andre Carson
AFL
And The Blind Shall Lead Ohio Motto Suggested
The piece argues Ohio should adopt a state motto as the blind shall lead, citing pensions for the aged at 29.60 dollars versus 30 for prisoners, weak mental health funding, crowded mental hospitals, 30 000 mental cases waiting, crime headlines, and low unemployment benefits compared to national standards.
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Ohio
Fight On Taft FEPC Measure Urges Senate Stand
NAACP hails Senate committee approval of S 101 Chavez Aiken Permanent FEPC bill and opposes compromise. Pepper seeks a Taft FEPC study commission substitute that would weaken protections, with NAACP urging Senators to support FEPC and resist weakening amendments.
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Washington
NAACP
Senate Education and Labor Committee
Claude Pepper
Fla
Leslie Perry
Washington Bureau
Pepper
Senate
FEPC
Ohio inmate TB rates spur housing hospital plan
Tuberculosis is 13 times more prevalent among inmates of Ohio penal and mental institutions than in the general population, underscoring the push for better housing and state hospitalization.
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Ohio
News Press Fears National Affairs Committee Plan
The Wall Street Journal argues that a National Affairs Committee to enroll newspapers and broadcasters to counter PACs would threaten press independence and objectivity. It cautions such a ramping of business group influence could hamper news usefulness and create a united lobbying front with chambers and manufacturers.
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Wall Street Journal of
New York
Wall Street Journal
The
NAC
Chamber of Commerce
National Association of Manufacturers
Taft Helps Guild Win Radio Award
Free Speech the radio forum of the Newspaper Guild of New York won first prize in the American exhibition of educational radio programs at Ohio State University. The award covered the entire series broadcast weekly on WMCA and highlighted the February 27 program on Will the 60 Million Job Plan Work with Sen. Joseph C. OMAhoneY and Sen. Robert A. Taft speaking for the affirmative and negative respectively.
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Columbus
Newspaper Guild of New York
CIO
Ohio State University
WMCA
Joseph C. O’mahoney
Wyo
Robert A. Taft
Voting Record Keys Truman Thinking
Truman’s Senate record shows votes on major New Deal and wartime measures from 1935 through 1945. Highlights include support for the Wagner Act and Social Security in 1935, veterans bonus and TVA expansion in 1936 1937, civil rights and anti-lynching debates, and ongoing reciprocity trade acts. As vice president in 1945 he broke a tie to defeat a plan limiting postwar lend lease under war contracts.
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Washington
Harry S. Truman
U. S
Missouri
TVA
Hugo Black
Supreme Court
CCC
Truman
Senate
Lendlease
FDR
Armen
Wallace Approves Small Business Aid Plan Magna Carta Claim
Secretary Wallace endorses a Small Business Advisory Committee report calling for a broad program of assistance. It urges studies on how government and individual small businesses can improve competition taxation finance and consumer impact. Wallace calls it a Magna Carta for the small businessman and promises action within Department of Commerce resources.
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Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Department of Commerce
Good Schools For All The American Myth
The CIO Outlook reports in May that U S educational opportunity is uneven with a 60 to 1 gap. It cites 1.7 million children in underfunded classrooms under $600 yearly, Mississippi worst, and 69 percent of those in southern states being Negro. It urges federal aid, noting wealthier states spend more per classroom and democracy’s future depends on improving funding.
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Washington
America
CIO Research and Education Department
U.S
Mississippi
New York
Federal aid to education urged for equal opportunity
The article argues that a decent education requires federal assistance to ensure equal opportunity. It emphasizes that passage of a federal aid to education bill is vital to support schools especially in areas most capable of backing quality education.
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Raba
Graphets Institute
Forum
Fred Thomas
Ohio State Penitentiary
Union
PAC
Taft
Guild
Radio
NVA
Connally
Smith-Connally
CIO Studies
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