Senate tweaks FEPC name but old tensions stay strong
AP reports Republicans can count on Mrs Adlai Stevenson to back the GOP regardless of nominees including Governor Stevenson. Georgia says its Chicago convention delegation must stay sober, while Alabama Journal notes loyalty to Russell and sobriety as delegation criteria. Dothan Eagle flags TV spectacle of inebriated delegates harming state image.
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Associated Press
Adlai Stevenson
GOP
Stevenson
Georgia
Alabama Journal
Russell
Dothan
One Good and One Bad The Cotton Outlook Improves
The column notes weather favors cotton with hot days and nights, while corn suffers. Farm editor and agent agree hot nights support cotton, hot days aid harvest prospects, and the outlook promises a top harvest in many years.
Day By Day Accident Box Score Prompts Public Safety Push
The piece urges Governor Persons to push a day by day accident box score in Alabama papers. It cites The Alabama Journal front page showing yesterday’s accidents 27 vs 16 year ago, injuries 20 vs 8, deaths 2 vs none, and property damage $10,575 vs $6,525 to illustrate the call for plain facts to boost driving care statewide.
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Alabama
Highway Patrol
Montgomery
Alabama Journal of Monday
Decatur Seeks Big City Improvements On Streets and Facilities
The Decatur city drive to modernize continues with street paving, an airfield completion, a new hospital addition, and expanding school facilities. Officials estimate the total cost near 2,000,000 dollars, with taxpayers bearing the funding load as the city pursues steady growth and progress.
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Decatur
Decatur General Hospital
Eisenhower and Texas delegates feud shapes 1948 race
In a tangled look at the Ike Eisenhower bid, Senator Duff presses in Texas against Boss Zweifel as Jack Porter seeks support. Porter's Houston role and Ike's tidelands oil letter further polarize Texas regulars, exposing rifts and long-standing factions among Republicans ahead of Chicago.
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Washington
Geneal Eisenhower
Texas
Ike
Guy Gabrielson
Jack Porter
Houston
Gabrielson
Henry Zweifel
Porter
Zweifel
Duff
Pennsylvania
Eisenhower
John G. Bennett
Rochester
Bennett
Chicago
Tidelands
Campaign Slogans And Nursing Bills Highlight 1960 Nightly News
Les Claypool mocks Kefauver slogan while Averell Harriman’s wife eyed for a tribute. Oklahoma Representative Victor Wickersham faces taxpayer funded mailouts. Congresswoman Bolton introduces a 5 million dollar nurse training bill amid a nursing shortage. College graduates land top jobs with record openings and salaries.
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Les Claypool
Los Angeles Daily News
Kefauver
Nancy
Tennessee
Averell Harriman
Ave
Oklahoma
Victor Wickersham
Wickersham
Bolton
Ohio
Living Today by Arlie B Davidson Practical self help guidance
A1980s style self help column by Arlie B Davidson urges readers to shed inner burdens and adopt a month long plan. It lists five steps including stop dwelling on personal wrongs, live in the present, help others daily, seek counsel, and trust in God for courage. The tone is motivational and prescriptive.
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Davidson
Senator Saltonstall Warns of Military Budget Cut
Senator Saltonstall disclosed that the economy bloc plans to slash five billion dollars from military appropriations at a private luncheon with Assistant Secretary Charles Coolidge. General Bradley urged the Senate Armed Services Committee to attend a Pentagon luncheon Friday, warning that Russia’s buildup threatens global balance and that cuts would be dangerous.
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Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Charles Coolidge
General Bradley
Senate Armed Services Committee
Pentagon
Russia
Congress in Turmoil as Amendment Aims to End Controls
Congress faces a volatile session with a Dixiecrat Republican coalition likely to advance a Barden amendment wiping out controls on strategic materials. Administration forces appear whipped amid absenteeism and low prestige. Knowland weighs California VP bid, Taft and Eisenhower eye him. Congress blocks $30,000 for a gold star mothers’ pilgrimage to France, a sign of costly junkets.
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Barden
North Carolina
House
Truman
St. Paul
House of Representatives
Congress
Taft
Eisenhower
Knowland
California
Warren
Congressional Appropriations Committees
France
Bradley refutes Chiang invasion talk in closed senate session
General Omar Bradley tells the Senate Armed Services Committee that Chiang Kai-Shek’s forces cannot invade the Chinese mainland without American ships and troops. He says Nationalist troops are ill prepared, with Chiang’s navy unable to land more than a thousand on the coast, and he labels them barefooted and demoralized amid Korea stalemate.
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Senate Armed Services Committee
Omar Bradley
Chiang Kai-Shek
Formosa
Chiang
Bradley
China
Knowland
California
Korea
Ernie Pyle's Retreat Becomes Albuquerque Library
HAL BOYLE notes Ernie Pyle's white cottage in Albuquerque, built as a travel refuge, now a city library with 10 000 books. The former journalist’s memory draws visitors, and his former guest room will become a children’s reading area. He is remembered for his links to Indiana roots and a life of travel ending at 44.
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Hal Boyle
Albuquerque
N. M
Ernie Pyle
Ernie
Indiana
Jerry
Honolulu
Mt. Taylor
London
Ernest Taylor Pyle
Chiang's Army Aid Urged for Formosa Defense
Bradley argued Chiang Kai shek needs all soldiers for Formosa defense and that For mosa holds greater strategic value than Korea. Knowland conceded national troops in Korea may be impossible now but should be a long range objective.
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Chiang
Bradley
Formosa
Korea
Knowland
Connally Meets Match In Heated Senat e Debate
Democratic Senator Tom Connally of Texas and Republican Senator Geo Aiken of Vermont clash in a fiery exchange over the St Lawrence Seaway. Aiken accuses Connally of dictatorial rule while Connally quips his geography is poor and questions Aiken’s fairness as committee chairmanship.
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Connally
Tom Connally
Texas
Geo. Aiken
Vermont
Aiken
St. Lawrence Seaway
Julus
New Hampshire
Rio Grande River
Eisenhower Berlin Decision Questioned in Pegler Column
Pegler argues Eisenhower lacked authority to decide Berlin strategy and criticizes Roosevelt and wartime policy toward Soviet Russia. He cites Eisenhower’s notes on withdrawing from the Elbe, the Berlin objective, and a New York bar association speech, framing the retreat as a strategic error with lasting national impact.
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Franklin D. Pegler Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
Eisenhower
General Eisenhower
Kevin McCann
Defiance College of
Berlin
McCann
Virginius Dabney
Times Dispatch
Richmond
Elbe River
Dabney
Europe
Perma Books
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Otant
Elbe
Roosevelt
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Germany
Prague
Association of the Bar of the City of
New York
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Association
Mr. Roosevelt
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