Congress TV Election Year Looms Over Truman Program
The piece notes Congress faces a homeward tilt in an election year, with talk of liberalizing old age security, housing aid, education funds, and tax changes. It cites Truman’s barnstorm, 1950 legislative expectations, and past election-year revenue trends while flagging hurdles on housing cooperatives and parochial school issues.
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Congress
Truman
Congres
Korea
National Science Foundation
Uils
Tru
Twenty Years Ago In Jourinal Files March 29 1930
Reports show a surge in jail lodging with 177 lodgers this month amid unemployment. Local events include Rebekah Lodge decorations at the Franklin armory, and a Temple Ministress chorus directed by James H. Wright with Billy Myers as end man. John Blatt of Corry Amusement Co. bid in a Rex Confectionery Shop bankruptcy sale. A birthday party honored Miss Jane Mulheirn with 20 youths assembling at Risie Jones’s home. Snow hampers Junior High baseball practice. The first stock market met under a tree in 68 Wall Street, and the U S Bureau of Land Management notes 116 million acres unsurveyed in continental U S.
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John A. Blatt
Corry Amusement Company
Rex
Grand Theatres
G. H. Gordon
Cleveland Police Probe Story Of Earl Bennett Veteran
Cleveland police investigate a claim by a 102 year old man who says he is Samuel Bennett a Civil War veteran from Montana He collapsed from a heart attack in a Greyhound station while arriving from Rochester Pa He received last rites at Kimab Charity Hospital and in Rochester prior incidents are mentioned The man speaks of giving his possessions away to the Red Cross and the Boy Scouts amid daydream references to a million dollars and red tape phrases from 18th century England.
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DY Associbiemffeee
Cleveland
Montana
Police
Samuuel Bennett
Rochester
Kimab Charity Hospital
John P. Gregan
Bennett
Clevenne
Congress and Roosevelt clash over conscription in election years
The passage notes that Congress weakened and enacted the Selective Service bill amid election year politics. It details a repeat pattern of popular but not unpopular legislation in 1948, including tax cuts, farm aid, rent control, veterans' benefits, housing aid, and trade and Displaced Persons measures, while anti-poll tax efforts failed amid a Southern filibuster. It also contrasts broader administration demands with Republican success and tracks session lengths from 1946 to 1949 and prewar years.
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Congress
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Truman
Republican Congress
How's Your I. Q. A Clipped Memory Challenge
A newspaper style quiz asks ten questions with scores from 1 to 10. It directs readers to the Classified Page for answers and hints at memory improvement through daily practice. It includes questions on capitals, shared traits, baseball nicknames, solar rotation, biblical references, composers, Stone Mountain location, a corrupted phrase, and a naval officer who opened Japan to commerce.
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Montpelier
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Vermont
Maine
Pica
Diamond
Griffs
Senators
Stone Mountain
Japan
Million Dollars For Dream Life Says Hal Boyle
Hal Boyle muses on the fantasy of a million dollars, recalling 30 years of daydreams from childhood through adulthood. He recalls imagining heroic acts, buying a horse, charming a crush, Monte Carlo fantasies, yachts, and a Riviera fashion of wealth, and notes that as an adult he now wonders what to do with such money and the ethics of spending.
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Hal Boyle
New York
America
Hollywood
Tom Mix
Hopalong Cassidy
Tom
Tony
Milion
Hope
Harold
Agatha
Monte Carlo
Riviera
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Associated Press
Cory
Jourisl Files
Rappersburg
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Nole
Anna Gallagher
Noble
Lady Franklin
Rebekah Lodge
Franklin
James H. Wright
the Temple
Billy Myers
Ma Sons
Jane Mulheirn
Risie Jones
West Pleasant Street
Miss Mulheir
Wall Street
New York City
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
U. S
England
Alvin Bennett
Alvin Bennetts
Lieut
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Scnrational Mou Sandran
Sandran
Sabdran, Meerdink’s Home Furnishings
W. Main & Spring Sts
Fogle Lumber CO
Franklin St
Corry, Pa
Katherine
Center St
Prescription
Carl Gifford
John Spera
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