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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1954
Page
4
Stevenson Describes Republicans With Many Wings Phrase
Adlai Stevenson criticizes the Republican Party noting its internal fights and factions. He quips that the party has more wings than a boardinghouse chicken, highlighting perceived disorder within GOP ranks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adlai Stevenson
Republican Party
Stevenson
Abernethy Seeks Alabama Governor Nomination
The Talladega Daily Home editor Tom Abernethy accepts the Republican nomination to challenge Jim Folsom in November. Analysts note Alabama hasn’t elected a Republican statewide since Reconstruction, a shift Abernethy vows will end one party rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Abernethy
Talladega Daily Home
Jim Folsom
Tom
Alabama
University Board adopts unanimous resolution on Supreme Court segregation ruling
The University of Alabama Board of Trustees endorses a spring resolution by Dr. O C Carmichael stating the May 17 decision will be studied and accepted in time. It emphasizes patience intelligence and unity across the University to address coeducation and racial policy within the historic tradition and law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. C. Carmichael
Supreme Court
University of Alabama Board of Trustees
University of Alabama
University
Supreme Court of the United States
Wero Aghout
Aning
Dr. Bunche
Ralph Bunche
Sen
Maybank
GOP
Dag Hammarskjold
United Nations
Eisenhower
Bunche
White House
Haile Selassie
Philip Jessup
Columbia
Senate Republicans
Channing Tobias
Un-American Activities Committee
Washington Cheer for Haile Selassie Highlights Cold War Tensions
The piece recalls Washington greeting Emperor Haile Selassie with broad sympathy for Africa’s underdog while linking reactions to U S political shifts. It notes Selassie’s Addis Ababa altitude and a sultry reception that left him faint, contrasts past honors from leaders with Hoover’s photo gift, and ties reactions to McCarthy era debates and foundation influence on policy. It also mentions Bunche loyalty probes, UN appointments, and debates over H-bombs versus A-bombs and McLeod’s possible State Department role.
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Washington
Constitution Ave
Marie
Romania
Hoover
Turkey
Ike
Africa
Judah
Addis Ababa
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Addison E. Southard
England
France
Herbert Hoover
Selassie
Arthur Sweetzer
United Nations
Edgar Mowrer
Rockefellers
Carroll Reece
Tennessee
Rockefeller Foundation
Moscow
Fords
Ford
Country
Poetry Uplifts Life Through Selective Reading
Living Today by Arlie B. Davidson extols poetry as a soul reflection and life enhancer. It claims poetry comforts sorrow, strengthens the weak, and inspires hope, urging readers to choose wisely and memorize a stanza daily as a path to renewed meaning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Living Today
Arlie B. Davidson
Margaret Sa
Population shifts in New York and aphid growth math
New York state population rose 10 percent from 1940 to 1950 while those aged 65 plus grew 39.3 percent. A single aphid multiplying without deaths could yield progeny equal to 156 followed by 22 zeros in one season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York State
The Income Tax Trade in New York Opinion
Pegler reviews Frank Chodorov's The Income Tax Root of All Evil in Devin Adair edition. He argues 16th Amendment power erodes state autonomy, taxes citizen earnings, and supports ending income tax to restore local government values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frank Chodorov
Devin Adair
J. Bracken Lee
Utah
Eisenhower
Gov. Lee
Ask Overfriendly Boss For Raise Secretary Advises
A undercover interview with Patricia Porter prompts discussion on how to handle an overly friendly boss. Secretaries offer humor and intent as they suggest strategies from asking for a raise to impractical measures, ending with a cynically framed suggestion to marry the boss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owceworker
Patricia Porter
The
Boston Traveler
Utah selects sea gull as state bird after 1848 cricket plague
Landlocked Utah designates the sea gull as its state bird recalling a 1848 swarm that saved crops from a cricket infestation. The historic flight is cited as the emblem of resilience and agricultural protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utah
Batchelor Signs Anti-Red Oath in Texas
Cpl. Claude Batchelor 22 of Kermit Texas signed a non-Communist affidavit at Fort Sam Houston post prison. The move clears about 4000 dollars in back pay, part to fund his defense and part to bring Kyoto Batchelor his Japanese wife from Tokyo where she stays with family while he faces possible court martial for allegedly collaborating with the enemy as a prisoner of war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
U. S
Korea
Claude Batchelor
Kermit, Tex
Fort Sam Houston
Post Prison
Batchelor
Joel Westbrook
Kyoto
Tokyo
Army
Bethel WSCS Elects Mrs Marley Puckett Recording Secretary
Ten members and one visitor attended the Bethel Methodist Church WSCS meeting held at the church. Mrs Marley Puckett was elected recording secretary to fill a vacancy. The program included a devotional, remarks on time management, and readings from the Methodist Woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WSCS
Bethel Methodist Church
J. D. Shadix
L. R. Meherg
Marley_ Puckett
Shadix
Puckett
Robert Woodard
Methodist Woman Magazine
Wilma Moore
Ruby Hall
Barbary Apes of Gibraltar Said to Be Europe’s Only Wild Monkeys
Scientists note that the Barbary macaques inhabiting Gibraltar are the sole wild primates running free in Europe, distinguishing the region's fauna from others on the continent.
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Gibraltar
Europe
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