Willkie’s Enduring Influence Remains In Public Memory
A 1946 item notes Wendell Willkie alive in memory after his 1940 nomination and 1944 death. It recalls his vigorous campaign, unity ideals, opposition to discrimination, and ongoing influence through the Willkie Memorial House in New York preserving his ideas as a national asset.
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James M. Cox
John W. Davis
Alf M. Landon
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Willie
New York
Along Broadway Barometer Rumors and Society Gossip
UNO News plans and political whispers sweep Broadway as figures like Jock Whitney and Norman Chandler are tied to the venture. Rudy and socialites orbit theaters, clubs, and European estates while promises of reform, lectures, and showbiz drama ripple through Manhattan and beyond.
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Broadway Barometer
UNO News
Marshall Field
Jock Whitney
Michael Straight
Norman Chandler
Will Rogers
Herb Shriner
Greenwich
Conn
UNO
Stoian Gavrilovic
Gavrilovic
West 30S
San Juan Hill
Lincoln School Sur State Department
Willie Bioff
Rio de Janeiro
Senate atomic energy debate scorns Groves plan
Marquis Childs critiques Groves testimony before the Senate atomic energy committee. He argues the military should not control peacetime atomic power and urges a civilian controlled commission with balanced bipartisan sponsorship to avoid turning atomic energy into a perpetual weapon. He warns Congress must act quickly to prevent a military monopoly.
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Washington
Marquis Childs
Senate Atomic Energy Committee
Leslie R. Groves
Groves
West Pointer
Army
United States
Senate
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Truman
McMahon
Senate Atomic Committee
Congress
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Two House foes plot joint campaign cost cuts in 1948
In a lighthearted lobby chat, Rep Clarence Brown and Rep Vito Marcantonio proposed a mutual plan to slash campaign spending. Each would attack the other in the opposite district with harsh labels to secure reelection.
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Washington
House
Inter-state Commerce Committee
Clarence, Brown
Blanchester
Ohio
Vito Marcantonio
New York City
Brown
Vito
Poe
Marcantonio
Underwear crisis sparks Senate hearing and quonset hut housing
Frederick C. Othman reports on a congressional hearing where the Underwear Institute of America founder Roy J. Chaney pleads with Sen. John H. Bankhead over OPA rules impacting cotton drawers. The exchange features Chaney displaying his personal drawers and critiquing postwar production shortages. The piece ends noting a Quonset hut may be next in American housing trends.
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Washington
Union Salt Industry
Sen
John H. Bankhead
Ala
Sen. Bankhead
Roy J. Chaney
The
Underwear Institute of America
Chaney
Agriculture
OPA
Senate
Sen Bankhead
Wnll
Paws
Sen Bankheal
Intelligentsia and French art under new regime echo Hitler
Dorothy Thompson warns the French Communist party's new line links art to the nation and imitates Nazi icon worship. Picasso joins the effort to paint leaders Thorez and Cachin, with reproductions used to surveil households and align artists with mass politics.
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Hitler
Picasso
Communist Party
Pignon
Fougeron
Thorez
Duclos
Cachin
Paiate
France
Soviet Union
Delacroix
Degas
Renoir
Toulouse- Lautrec
van Gogh
Cezanne
M. Thorex
Ziegler
Fuehrer
Health Advice On Stammering And Hearing Loss
Dr Barton argues stammering is a nervous habit treatable by speech correction schools and home practice. He notes most stammering isn’t caused by the speech apparatus, but by self consciousness and sometimes unseen hearing loss in early childhood. Hearing testing in first-year students could reveal undetected loss, guiding correction.
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New Orleans
Broadway
Seventh Ave
Carnival
Georgie Sotherns
Big Moe
Tattle
Swing Street
Nicky
Russia will not rush troops from Tran despite accord
Russia shows no hurry to pull Soviet troops from Tran amid an international pact. Britain and the U S expect Tehran backed withdrawal pace, hinging on talks with Iranian premier Ahmed Ghavam Es Sultaneh in Moscow. The outcome rests on Ghavams agreement and possible future access to the Persian Gulf.
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Russia
Tran
Ruama
Soviet Union
Moscow
Ahmed Ghavam Es Sultaneh
United States
Britain
James ¥. Byrnes
New York
Byrnes
General Assembly
Security Council
Ahmed Ghavam
Persian Gulf
Orto genarian couple wed in Lebanon church ceremony
Edward and wife Turner describe their romance after a Christian church ceremony in Lebanon. The Orto genarian pair plan a Beattie honeymoon before returning to Lebanon life.
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Lebanon
Ore
Wwegina
Edward Turner
Beattia
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