Health insurance lobby card threatens lawmakers stance
The AMA lobby hones a postcard threatening vote retaliation against members supporting federal health insurance. Doctors fill in family votes to oppose compulsory health coverage, with Florida senator Claude Pepper receiving hundreds of cards. Some cards mailed to President Truman. some senders fear doctors and nurses. Similar e cards also circulate with Florida insurance salesmen.
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Washington
American Medical Association
Congress
Claude Pepper
Florida
Truman
Pepper
The Best Part Will Be The End
The best part of the Hiss-Chambers puzzle will be the end. The American sense of fair play is giving time and space to both sides as to who is lying. One or both men are in the toils of the law, and the end will reveal the truth.
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Hiss
Chambers
DAV seeks Morgan County WWII dead names for monument
The Wheeler Brown Hendrix chapter of Disabled American Veterans urges all Morgan County families to submit World War II dead names for a courthouse lawn monument. Deadline is Saturday July 9. Ensure your loved one is formally recorded or risk missing the recognition.
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Wheeler-Brown-Hendrix Chapter
Disabled American Veterans
Morgan County
DAV
Court House Lawn
Margaret Mitchell Denies Facts In Digest Article
A Southern Newspaper bulletin reports Margaret Mitchell denying a Reader's Digest piece claiming Ashley Wilkes dies at Gettysburg and timelines in Gone With The Wind clash with history. Mitchell demands correction and legal review while critiquing Digest for Asheville TVA coverage.
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Wilkes
Bulletin
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
Margaret Mitchell
Reader's Digest
Just Out
Clemmie R. Galloway
Melanie
Gettysburg
Atlanta
Ashley Wilkes
Old Soldiers wait for room at National Home in Washington
Five hundred aged veterans, survivors of wars, are on a waiting list for the National Soldiers' Home in Washington where space is full. They have $33,000,000 in trust for expansion, but the Treasury holds it and Congress has not acted. The Budget Bureau opposes releasing $16,700,000 to expand the home, slowing help while the list grows.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury Department
Congress
Budget Bureau
Life Magazine
Mac
Jean Paul Sartre
Biddy
T. S. Eliot
America
Harvard University
Inside Story of Bendix Strike Threat to Berlin Airlift
The Bendix strike in South Bend Indiana involving under six thousand workers brought the Berlin airlift close to grounding. Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington convened Malcolm Ferguson and Walter Reuther for an all night session in Washington after pushing both sides to negotiate. Reuther urged settlement saying with labor and management talent, if it cannot be settled then it should not be. Ferguson was brought in to join negotiations.
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Berlin
Bendix
South Bend
Ind
Air Force
Pentagon
Stuart Symington
Malcolm Ferguson
Washington
Detroit
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
Symington
Reuther
Ferguson
Don’t Do These Things Says Arlier Davidson
Living Today by Arlier Davidson presents six cautions for readers. It urges understanding youth, respecting old ways, valuing effort in marriage, pacing life goals, pursuing individual success, and applying the Golden Rule to influence others.
Negotiators End Long Strike After Democratic Process
Reuther and Ferguson met secretly to settle a protracted strike with Labor Secretary arbiter John Gibson assisting. After nearly 24 hours of talks and a burst of humor that broke the ice, they reached an agreement, praised as a triumph for democratic processes enabling continued Air Force defense.
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Reuther
Air Force
Ferguson
John Gibson
Symington
Pentagon
President praises Rep Mike Kirwan for public power push
President Truman hailed Ohio Democrat Mike Kirwan as one of Congresss ablest legislators. Mansfield of Montana relayed that the Interior Department public power and reclamation bill would face a tough Senate fight. Kirwan steered the bill through subcommittee and full committee to passage over private power lobby opposition.
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Mike Kirwan
Ohio
Mike
Mansfield
Montana
Interior Department
Public Power
Kirwan
House
Senate
Truman
Congress
As Pegler Sees It on Harold Ickes and Ruth Gruber
In a column from New York July 7, Harold Ickes downplays Ruth Gruber the Alaska Railroad writer paid 6000 dollars yearly plus per diem for magazine pieces. The piece notes Gruber’s claimed communist links, her Arctic travels, and connections to Soviet officials, with digressions on her education and blurred loyalties.
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Harold Ickes
Ruth Gruber
Alaska Railroad
Judith Coplon
Miss Coplon
Gruber
F. A. Garanin
Washington
Ickes
Ruth
Human Rights Division
United Nations
Anti-Defamation League
Tion
Soviet Arctic
Arctik
Bolshevich
Igarka
New York Herald Tribune
Jed .Johnson
Oklahoma
Soviet Russia
Committee On Appropriations
Johnson
Department of Interior
Miss Gruber
New Yorker
University of Cologne
Brooklyn
New York U
Mt. Holyoke
Harvard
Wisconsin
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Explorer
William Stevenson
North Dakota
Cranks
Moscow
Otto Pulievich Schmidt
Ralph Barnes
New York Tribune
Arctic
Hanns Eisler
Eleanor Roosevelt
State Department
Herald Tribune
The
Damon Runyon
William A. Curley
Journal-American
Runyon
Vassya
Highbrow or Lowbrow Says Boyle Prefers Nobrow
Hal Boyle explores the highbrow middlebrow and lowbrow cultural divide in Manhattan. He notes society’s indifference to class labels while lampooning snobbery over dining, drinks, and tastes. He declares himself a no brow, choosing no fixed allegiance.
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Boyle
Government’s new public housing plan envisions 810000 units
The plan finances public housing through loans up to 1.5 billion and grants totaling 12.32 billion over 40 years. Local authorities build, run, and rent, with federal oversight on plans and rent levels. Grants rise to 308 million annually at most, backing private contractors to bridge cost gaps for low rent families.
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Washington
James Marlow
Congress
Democratic convention ballots ease McAdoo loss on 83rd vote
Two years ago today July 1 1924 delegates released from promises and pledges. McAdoo loses over 50 votes on the 83rd ballot while the unit rule remains unaffected. Other candidates Smith Davis Underwood and eleven others still active. Lorain relief appeal by city mayors. wartime amusements tax cut prompts theater price drop. Coolidge Jr ill at Walter Reed. Mayo Clinic study planned. local Mothers club meeting and Fourth of July service attendance despite rain.
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McAdoo
Smith
Davis
Underwood
Birmingham diet study compares Southern intake with other cities
A federal survey of 150 Birmingham families examines summer food purchases and consumption to compare regional eating habits with San Francisco Buffalo Minneapolis St Paul. Last winter Birmingham spent $21.67 weekly on food, 37 percent of income, below San Francisco at $28.76 and 32 percent. Birmingham uses more fresh vegetables grains fats and sugars while Northern cities rely more on milk fruit and preserved foods. The Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, USDA sponsors the study.
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Birmingham
Ala
Federal
San Francisco
Buffalo
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Tragedy Strikes Goodwater Athlete In Truck Crash
Cleburn Eugene Ogden, 17 year old high school athlete and son of Goodwater police chief, died yesterday when a truck overturned near Goodwater Alabama.
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Ala
P —Cleburn
Eugene Ogden
Here
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