Boy Scouts to Aid National Get Out The Vote Drive
The Boy Scouts will assist in a nationwide November effort to boost voter participation. The piece notes voter apathy after a double primary and suggests reasons including party pledge restrictions and electoral alignment debates. Blount County reports a single absentee vote registered for $240.
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Boy Scouts
State Democratic Executive Committee
National Democratic Party
Alabama
Dixie
Blount County
Look About You And The Hospital Need In Decatur
The city faces growing hospital demands as Decatur General Hospital must expand soon for both white and Negro patients. Tuscaloosa plans a new 240 bed, eight story facility and is 82 percent complete, illustrating the scale of regional medical expansion.
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Decatur
Tuscaloosa
Decatur General Hospital
South angered by Republican stance on TVA and industry
The piece argues the South feels ignored by Republicans amid TVA success. It claims Lodge and Taft opposed steam units for TVA, blaming them for continuing sectional tensions and misleading North and East about Southern industrial shift. It urges Truman and Democrats to carry the nation forward.
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Tva
Congress
Senator Lodge
Senator Taft
Erie Canal
New York Harbor
Lodge
Taft
South
Harry Truman
Eisenhower's Abilene speech sparks White House jibe
President Truman quips about General Eisenhower's political debut after Ike’s Abilene blast. He praises Johnstons' aid program and jokes that Eisenhower believes birth control could solve global problems. Trumpet line hints at Democratic edge in Massachusetts.
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Washington
White House
Eisenhower
Ike
Eric Johnston
Truman
Johnston
Asia
Africa
Boston
Democratic Party
Massachusetts
Old Comrades Watch Ike in Abilene Speech
In the Pentagon Ike drew praise and concern from wartime colleagues who fear a military man entering politics. A Marshall sequence sped Ike toward command, a pivotal moment that set him on the path to national prominence and the presidency.
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Pentagon
Eisenhower
Abilene
MacArthur
China
George Marshall
Marshall
O. K
MacArthur Marshall Clash Highlights Abilene Briefing
In Abilene, aging comrades recall Ike criticizing U S China policy. Gen Marshall had shaped the policy as ambassador to China, then carried it out as secretary of state, and opposed MacArthur’s approach as defense chief, urging restraint on funding and arming Chinese nationalists and Formosa.
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Marshall
Abilene
Ike
U. S China
Gen. Marshall
China
Formosa
Patience as Key to Success Says ARLIE B DAVIDSON
Living Today advises patience as essential for meaningful achievement. It argues that failures decline when patience is a core virtue, requiring poise control and sacrifice, with endurance through setbacks and delayed rewards.
Ike and Marshall amid Abilene clash over MacArthur
The piece recalls old ties among Eisenhower Marshall and MacArthur. It notes Marshall backed Truman’s firing of MacArthur, while Eisenhower might have reappointed MacArthur if he became president. It mentions McCarthy’s 60 000 word Senate attack on Marshall and Ike’s refusal to engage in personalities.
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Chiang Kai-Shek
Ike
Marshall
MacArthur
Truman
Abilene
Eisenhower
Pentagon
Gen. Marshall
Senate
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Loss of China overlooked by wartime strategy leaders
Wartime planners knew that competition among theater commanders for scarce guns and materiel helped precipitate the mismanagement of China aid. Eisenhower and Churchill clashed over resources while Chiang Kai-shek pleaded for weapons and supplies, and Marshall urged more China support amid Europe’s needs.
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Eisenhower
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Washington
Churchill
MacArthur
Pacific
China-Burma-India
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Kai-Shek
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Ike
Winston Churchill
Gen. Marshall
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al Wedemeyer
Marshall
Kuala Lumpur Policing Debunks Rumor of Submarine Influx
Police headquarters reject a Kuala Lumpur Chinese paper report claiming Russian submarines landing Communist agents and arms on the Malayan coast from Hainan. The denial labels the story untrue and cites lack of evidence.
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Kuala Lumpur
Hainan
Malayan
Flynn and Murray accused CIO leaders of crime and power
The piece portrays Timothy Flynn as a west coast CIO official tied to violence and criminal history, linked to Philip Murray. It criticizes the CIO for wielding immense power to induce strikes and boycotts, and questions loyalty and actions of CIO leaders including Bridges and Quill in a storm of political accusation.
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Philip Murray
CIO
Timothy Flynn
Murray
Pacific Coast
Brother Flynn
Harry Bridges
James J. McElroy
New York Association of Catholic Trade Unionists
Brother McElroy
White House
Roosevelt
Inglewood
Bridges
Tim Flynn
West Coast
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Truman
Moody
Supreme Court
Flynn
New York
Mike Quill
Quill
New York Cio
Lincoln and a booming lawyer meet in a tale of boats and wit
A humorous mix of Lincoln's early-lawyer days with a loud rival, a keel-boat memory from Sangamon River days, and a joke about a steamboat that whistles and stops. The piece shifts to HAL BOYLE reflections on children and wonder, Nina’s questions, and the need for encyclopedias.
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Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Sangamon
Hal Boyle
New York
Nina
Love is a game never called on account of darkness
The dialogue quips about love and daily life while a trivia section notes Patrick Henry’s true ancestry and faith. It states Henry was of Scotch Welsh and French Huguenot descent, baptized Anglican, and remained Protestant Episcopal.
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Patrick Henry
Virginia “Forest
Curious Classroom Banter and Rural Debt Humor
A playful 1920s vignette shows a teacher inventor and a pupil with quips about showers for grooms. A farm scene unfolds with a church fundraiser collector pressing a stubborn Rastus Jones who owes many in town. A city banker and a farmer exchange lines about hired help and bank vice presidents in a rural setting.
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Rastus Jones
Psychiatrist Charges Patient for Advice Then Refuses
A comic exchange centers on a psychiatrist billing twenty five dollars for advice that the patient declines to accept. The punchline notes the patient rejects the offered guidance.
Marble from St. Pauls Cathedral gifted to churches
Marble from the old East End reredos is offered to churches worldwide as a symbol of fellowship with the Cathedral Church of London. More than 50 churches in Britain and abroad have received pieces, including in the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, South Africa, and in Tonga and Fiji. The marble comes from the removed reredos in the reconstruction of the bombed cathedral, where the American Memorial Chapel will stand behind the new High Altar. The chapel, funded by Britons largely through pennies, will house the handwritten Roll of Honor with 28,000 U.S. servicemen who died in the British Isles.
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London
St. Paul's Cathedral
Britain
United States
Australia
Canada
Germany
South Africa
Tonga
Fiji
South Pacific
U.S
British Isles
First passenger elevator believed installed in New York
A historical note posits that the first passenger elevator was installed in New York in 1857 marking an early milestone in urban lift technology.
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New York
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