Decatur Morgan County race and TVA issues rise in Alabama voting
The editorial protests and advocates across Morgan County urging voters to back candidates in the June 4 primary. It links airfield projects Pryor Field TVA debates and local industry plans to the broader theme of sound conditions and absentee ballot reform.
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Board of Revenue
Morgan County
Decatur
Athens
Morgan
Limestone
Pryor Field
South
Alabama
Wise Precautions Praised By Morgan County Doctors
The Daily applauds the Morgan county medical staff for moving quickly to curb polio spread. No cases reported locally yet, but Lauderdale county has 16 cases nearby, and the doctors’ proactive program after a Wednesday meeting earns public thanks.
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Morgan’ County
Morgan County
Lauderdale County
Morgan Couny
Memorial Day origins split North and South observed differently
A historic note traces Memorial Day as North May 30 observance and South Decoration Day on April 26. It recalls Columbus Mississippi women decorating Civil War graves eighty years ago and tells how federal offices once tried April observance in Atlanta, leaving a funny result. The piece notes a movement toward honoring all war dead, with regional traditions enduring.
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Columbus
Miss
Dixie
Congress
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New Deal
South
Roosevelt era labor foes confront union power
Westbrook Pegler warns that Roosevelt Wagner act and union bosses threaten constitutional government. He cites Hatton Sumners and John Lewis, Tobin, Hillman, and Morgenthau, criticizing draft law overreach, seizure of properties, and unions ignoring laws as they finance political power. He predicts unions may elect leaders to shield their authority.
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Hatton Sumners
Dallas
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Supreme Court
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Whitney
Tobin
Teamsters
Hillman
Truman
Summers
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Labor Relations Board
White House
Henry Morgenthau
the Treasury
Bonds Sold in Montgomery for 1.18 Million
On May 31 the state sold 1,178,000 in old bonded debt to First National Bank of Mobile for 1,507,429, a premium of 329,429. Twenty bidders participated and the bid spread was 80,000 between high and low offers.
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Montgomery
First National Bank of Mobile
Hearing Slated on Unfair Labor Practices at Avondale Mills
A National Labor Relations Board examiner will open hearings in Alexander City on Monday into charges of unfair labor practices against Avondale Mills Lac.
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Alexander City
Ala
National Labor Relations Board
Avondale Mills Lac
Power and unions threaten rights in US history debate
A political column argues unions’ power undermines justice, likening it to Hitler and Roosevelt, and warns excesses could spark self destruction. It calls for restoring common fairness, enforcing laws, and reasserting democracy with responsibilities shared by unions, government, and citizens.
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Hitler
Napoleon
Caesar
Supreme Court
Congress
Moone's Emerald Oil Promises Quick Relief for Eczema
The ad touts Moone's Emerald Oil as a decades proven remedy for eczema and skin itching. It claims fast relief and faster healing with an unconditional money back guarantee, urging readers to buy from local druggists CADDELL DRUG CO and GOIDEL'S DRUG STORE.
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Moone
Nature
Caddell Drug CO
Goidel
I Years Ago Today Ike Kuhn Sees Twin Cities Baseball Pride
Ike Kuhn from Nashville visits his two stores and watches local baseball, praising the Twin Cities team. Harold Gray of Sheffield spent the weekend with relatives. A fire from a gasoline stove caused minor damage at E. E. Speer’s home. Hughes and Tidwell advertise 25 Palm Beach suits at seven fifty. M. C. Woodard returned home from Ardmore after visiting friends. Wooster Stinson, Albany Gun Club member, tied for high in a Birmingham qualifying shoot and earned a spot on Alabama’s national team for Atlanta. M. T. Smith flies in from Scottsboro to Hartselle.
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Nashville
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Twin Cities
Harold Gray
Sheffield
E. E. Speer
Grant Street
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M. C. Woodard
Ardmore
Wooster Stinson
Albany Gun Club
Birmingham
Alabama
Atlanta
Scottsboro
Hartselle
Kiss thief at gunpoint in Oakland
Police hunt a man who robbed 18 year old Mildred Gramm at night in Oakland after threatening to kill her unless she kissed him. The suspect demanded money but she said she had none before complying.
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Oakland
Calif
Mildred Gramm
Unions warned of election influence and economic strain
The piece argues that unions spending vast sums could sway an election and later push up wages and privileges beyond affordability, risking inflation and a slide toward dictatorship as a necessary measure to preserve living standards.
Walter Winchell On Broadway Credits and 1946 Musicals
The note lists Walter Winchell On Broadway credits for 1946 from Daily publications. It mentions Leave It to the Girls via Mutual and Sattee nights. It cites tunes I Got Up with the Lark and Irv Berlin’s Wonderful from Annie Get Your Gun.
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Walter Winchell
Lark
Irv Berlin
Silhouettes and Gossip Across Midtown Nightlife Lights
A lively collage from Times Square and midtown circles recounts Mary Livingstone Port land Hoffa at the Embassy and Ingrid Bergman at the Riviera. Celebrities mingle at Sardi's and the Stork with jokes and whispered romances as society and show business blur in a brisk Midtown vignette.
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Times
Vih
Fannie Hurst
Vienna
Dorothy Lamour
Summer theatre rebound and stars tied to New York area scene
Main St. Ticker notes Freddie Bart holomew and wife as imag ing while Adolph Green and Allyn McLerie join Summerger. Quincy Howe's novelist sister Helen Howe becomes Mrs Reggie Allen. Army buys ABCs 9 55 pm spot with H Wismer on sports chat. Summer theatres rebound postwar, about 78 in region. many are phonies and offer $500 apprenticeships with no room and board.
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Main St
Freddie Bartholomew
Adolph Green
Allyn McLerie
Quincy Howe
Helen Howe
Reggie Allen
Col'm
Col’m
Broadway Ballad Fragments on Drink and Dreadful Style
A humorous verse by Tom Weatherly mocks men chasing riddles and new drinks while wasting time and money. It laments parsnips as a metaphor for endless struggles and pokes fun at fashionably short skirts and bow legged gais in a playful, clipped style.
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Tom Weatherly
Sounds in the Night at the ABC news room reviews
A batch of wry quotes from patrons and performers at Pelham Heath Inn the Carnival Gilmore’s Latin Quarter and more. The remarks lampoon celebrities emcees and society figures with caustic wit and sharp humor.
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ABC News
Truman
Whitney
Johnston
Trutth
Pelham Heath Inn
Gilmore's
Latin Quarter
Striparelli
Ed Cavanaugh
Singapore
Coq Rouge
Who
Re Row
Manhattan Murals and City Scenes on Swing Street
A vivid slice of daytime Manhattan life notes Swing Street 52nd as drab yet bustling. The candy store rider delivers by horse drawn cart amid Midtown traffic. A one legged war veteran dances a rhumba near Ha vana Madrid while Saks Fifth Avenue staff and a East 17th Realty Office show notices in many languages. A Tremont Avenue Bronx theatre marquee hints at film titles.
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Havana-Madrid
Saks Fifth
Tremont Avenue
Bronx
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