Alabama highway 31 needs modern rebuilding and sales drive
The piece argues U S 31 through Alabama is underdeveloped and dangerous, hampering tourism and commerce. It urges Governor Jim Folsom to back a full reconstruction to attract tourists, support hotels in Sheffield, and enable wartime logistics, noting regional rivalries and political context. It cites potential federal interest if the highway is upgraded.
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Alabama
Alabama Highway Department
Decature
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Mobile
Folsom
Cullman
New York
Illinois
Indiana
Mississippi
Georgia
U. S. 31
State Highway Department
U. S
Birmingham
U.S. 31
Southern Republicans blamed for silent response to Luce attack
They Missed Alabama Journal criticizes Southern delegates to the Philadelphia convention for not defending the region against Clare Booth Luce. The Decatur Daily agrees the South was maligned and that Republicans offered no public objection. The piece urges stronger regional defense of Southern conditions.
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South
Washington
As Pegler Sees it on Dewey and Roosevelt clash
The piece rails at the 1944 Philadelphia GOP convention, portraying Dewey as a strong prosecutor and Roosevelt foes as rotten. It claims tax returns and Treasury records will be exposed, targets Roosevelt aides, and mocks press figures while describing the crowd’s heat and crowd dynamics at the rally.
Legion Commander Will Address State Meeting in Capital
National commander James F. O Neil of Manchester New Hampshire is added to the speaker list for the annual American Legion convention in Montgomery Alabama He will speak on the convention's second day session July 5 parade follows the opening events and a night program is planned O Neil is on leave as Manchester police chief and the announcement was made by M H Potter the general convention chairman
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Washington
Camden
B. C
Clarence Budington Kelland
Arizona
Keltland
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Ala
James F. O’neil
Manchester
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O'Neil
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Hollywood
Kim Sigler
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Sigler
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MacArthur
Tokyo
Martin
Joe Martin
Eva
Taft
Roy Haines
Brewster
Haines
Governor Green
Illinois
Chicago ‘Tribune
Don Maxwell
Ed Reticker
Big Bill Hutcheson
Carpenters Union
Congress
Crusade for Children Aims to Feed Starving World Kids
The Crusade for Children unites 26 humanitarian groups to raise 60 million dollars for worldwide hunger relief. UNAC plans to allocate 21 million to feed millions of children across 45 countries, with the rest distributed to 25 American aid groups including churches and labor relief bodies. By March 1, 1948, the International Children's Emergency Fund was feeding 4 million children, while the 25 agencies supported programs for 3.5 million more.
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America
United Nations Appeal For Children
United States Secretary of States
Department of Agriculture
UNAC
Friends and Unitarians
International Children’s Emergency Fund
Transport Lines Reflect Growth Enjoyed by City
Growth in Decatur traffic is shown by rising figures across local transport lines. J J Hardwick of Louisville and Nashville declined to comment on reports that Ellenen saw its highest May tonnage in Decatur history. All lines reportedly enjoy healthy increases in business.
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Decatur
J. J. Hardwick
Louisville and Nashville Set Road Company
Decaturn
Portlands Housing Fight and Vanport Fallout
The piece reports on Portland and Vanport’s housing crisis after the 1948 flood, criticizing the Port land Housing Authority linked to real estate interests and its failure to deliver low cost permanent public housing. It notes calls for resignations and cites the broader political fallout and race related protests at the GOP convention.
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Washington
Congress
Portland Housing Authority
Vanport
Oregon
Earl Riley
Portland
Riley
Housing Authority
Guilds Lake
Montgomery Ward
Herkeptndde
Oregon Apartment House Owners Association
Richard Steiner
1St Unitarian Church
Kenneth Kraemer
American Veterans Comittee
Portland Meadows
Wallace on the Commies Private U S Communist Ties
Henry Wallace offers a private estimate of communist operations in the United States. He doubts a direct Moscow line and says J Edgar Hoover has many agents in the Communist Party. Wallace remarks Americans cannot distinguish party members from FBI informants.
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Henry Wallace
Moscow
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Communist Party
FBI
Wallace
Notable sightings at Warwick Hotel shake up Philadelphia politics
Photographs capture Bea Lodge Luce embracing her former congressional colleague Frank Keefe of Wisconsin at the Warwick hotel. Keefe declines a repeat pose, citing his marriage. General MacArthur’s headquarters show a chaotic heap of letters and telegrams in the suite.
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Clare Boothe Luce
Frank Keefe
Wisconsin
Warwick Hotel
Keefe
General MacArthur
Labor Hates Taft Backstage GOP Convention
Labor leaders John L. Lewis and Big Bill Hutcheson moved behind the scenes at the Philadelphia GOP convention. Lewis pressed influence from a Bellevue-Stratford hotel suite while Hutcheson, long a Republican ally, campaigned against Taft citing the Taft Hartley Act. Hutcheson warned Taft cannot win big-city states and Ohio if nominated.
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Big Bill Hutcheson
AFL Carpenters’ Union
Lewis
Philadelphia
Bellevue-Stratford
Big Bill Hutcherson
Frutcheson
Hutcheson
Taft
Truman
Ohio
Republican urged to drop democracy term in GOP rhetoric
West Virginia Congressman Hubert Ellis asks Republicans to stop calling the United States a democracy arguing it helps the Democratic Party. He urges using republic and republican to describe the government and nation.
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West Virginia
Hubert Ellis
United States
Democracy
Democratic Party
Ellis
GOP
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