Alabama Democrats Power Pair in Senate Spotlight
The article highlights Senators Lister Hill and John Sparkman, Alabama's strategic pairing on key committees. It notes their roles on Appropriations, Public Works, Banking and Currency, and Public Welfare, with influence on river development, farm programs, housing, urban needs, and small business support.
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Hill
Appropriations Committee
Alabama
Sparkman
Public Works
Labor and Public Welfare
Hill-Sparkman
Appropriations
Coosa-Alabama
Joint Economic Committee
Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Trade Commission
Antitrust Division
Justice Department
Banking and Currency Committee
One More Push in Morgan County Red Cross Drive
The Red Cross membership campaign in Morgan County is about 90 percent complete. The remaining ten percent hinges on large contributors, small-industry employees, and rural communities doing their parts to finish the drive successfully.
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Red Cross
Morgan County
Ambitious Marshall Plan amendment sparks caution on aid
The Marshall plan amendment would bar aid to aggressor nations that block peace efforts by the Security Council, a move opposed by the State Department. Drew Pearson recalls past peace attempts by Kellogg and Hughes, and contrasts with Japanese aggression in Manchuria and Bolivia-Paraguay early 20th century.
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Washington
Senate
United States
Security Council
United Netizens
State Department
Dutch East Indies
U.S
U. S
Chaco
Pan American Union
Calvin Coolidge
White House
Frank B. Kellogg
South America
Bolivia
Paraguay
Republican Party
Charles Evans Hughes
Kellogg
Hughes
Washbreinn
Dinen
Defense Forrestal
Kellogg's
Mussolini’s Ethiopian invasion tests League sanctions
In 1935 Mussolini’s fascist forces struck Ethiopia. The League of Nations imposed economic sanctions but exempted oil, crippling Italy’s naval and air power. President Roosevelt’s era frames the response as the world weighs action versus real leverage.
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Mussolini
Ethiopia
Franklin Roosevelt
Manchuria
League of Nations
League
Italy
Living Today how to be tactful in daily relations
The article lays out four tactful guidelines for getting along with others. It advocates respecting others rights and feelings, helping them save face, highlighting their good qualities, and using persuasion step by step only when certain you are right.
As Pegler Sees It Warns of C. I. O. Organizing Threat
Pegler argues the C. I. O. campaign in the South could mimic 1937 riots with imported goons and mob violence. He cites Kalamazoo Shakespeare goons, a Texas City fear tale, and warns against lax law enforcement and masking. He notes potential lynching analogies and updates Truman anti-lynching proposals.
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C. I O
Michigan
Ohio
Truman
South
Department of Justice
Ku Klux Klan
Kalamazoo
Clare Hoffman
House Committee On Labor
Shakespeare
Allen
Consuella Evans
Miss Evans
Judy Smalley
Texas City
Tex
Les Bennett
Galveston News
Mr. Bennet
Struck Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation
America
Audie Murphy faces film success after war heroism
Sideglance reports Audie Murphy, the most decorated American GI, preparing for a leading film role in Bad Boy. He recounts wartime feats from Sicily to the Colmar pocket, his meeting with Jimmy Cagney, and his postwar rise aided by Cagney Nolan Gleason and others. His memoir To Hell And Back is a best seller.
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INS
Sideglance
Audie Murphy
Texas
Variety Club
West Point
Jimmy Cagney
Hollywood
Actors’ Laboratory
Boys
Truman
Washington
Farmersville
Tex
Cagney
Lioyd Nolan
Jimmy Gleason
Murphy
Henry Holt and Co
Diplomats Allow Mussolini Oil Despite Italian Aggression
The text notes that Italian tanks could not move and that despite aggression, diplomats let Mussolini obtain oil. It argues that full scale European war was inevitable and cites Hitler and a claimed secret deal between Standard Oil of New Jersey and I G Farben to withhold synthetic rubber patents from the American public after Pearl Harbor.
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Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Standard Oil
New Jersey
I. G. Farben
Pearl Harbor
History Repeats Scene 4 Washington Oil Lobbyists Reappear
The piece portrays the oil lobby in Washington influencing policy on Dutch East Indies oil through Standard Vacuum and Standard of New Jersey. It argues the State Department publicly condemns Dutch actions while privately tolerating or enabling policies like cutting Marshall Plan aid. It suggests a shift from wartime diplomacy to partisan inertia, predicting repeat patterns with powerful oil interests.
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Washington
State Department
Dutch East Indies
Standard Vacuum
Tech
United Nations
Henry L. Stimson
Frank B. Kellogg
Muscle Shoals travel drives hotel premiums and local caution
The news notes rising hotel prices due to developments at Muscle Shoals. It reports a burglary risk after a maid vacated hours earlier, a merchant Thorson injured by a gasoline fire, and local residents planning trips to Birmingham. It also mentions pneumonia affecting Martha Jane Love and theater listings at Princess Theatre.
April Guests and Friday Thirteen Gatherings
April guests visit Mrs. C. V. Dupont and sister Miss Sabin Dupont. Mrs. BB Lees of Birmingham visits Mrs. F. F. Tidwell. Friday Thirteen is entertained by Mrs. Jack Smiley at Mrs. C. B. Elliot’s home.
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C. V. Dupont
Sabin Dupont
BB. Lees
Birming
F. F. Tidwell
Jack Smiley
C. B. Elliot
Court Reporters Need Not Fear Loss of Places
In Montgomery on March 22 Alabama Attorney General Albert Carmichael ruled that mechanical recorders may not be used to take testimony before a grand jury unless the recorder aids the reporter in preparing official records. He supported county purchases of recording equipment to boost efficiency. The opinion was requested by Jackson County Circuit Solicitor John B. Tally.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Albert Carmichael
John B. Tally
Jackson County
State to create permanent record of investments
Montgomery March 22 Gov Folsom orders the Department of Finance to establish and maintain a permanent record of all investments. Finance Director Bill Drinkard said the move, immediate in effect, complies with state law and will augment the bond and security records housed in the treasurer's office.
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Montgomery
Gov. Folsom
Department of Finance
Bill Drinkard
Drinkard
IC4A Outdoor Track Champs Set for Randalls Island May 28
The IC4A outdoor track championships will be decided at Randalls Island in New York City on May 28.
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Ran Gall's Island
New York City
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