Eisenhower Manila Talk Champions Independence and Freedom
President Eisenhower addressed the Philippine Congress praising new nations and warning against cultural conformity for aid. He argued communism is colonialism today, urged constructive nationalism, and stressed that nations may choose varied political systems while sharing common U S values of self rule and opportunity. He urged Americans to support diverse paths and reject coercive alignment with communism while upholding human dignity and individual choice.
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Eisenhower
Manila
Philippine Congress
United States
America
Japan
Hospitals Are for Statts Not for Comfort or Sick
A blistering social critique of hospitals mocks their priorities, food, and staff. The author decries hospital life as torture for patients, catalogs poor meals, rude nurses, chaotic schedules, and peacocking staff, while joking about death rules and hospital culture.
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Floss Nightingale
Marilyn Monroe
Devil's Island
Congo
Belsen
Buchenwald
Blue Cross
New Orleans
Orderlies
Pure Mills Hotel
Africa
Lansboroughs host relatives from Binghamton this week
Mr and Mrs John Lansborough of 921 Pennell St entertain Mrs Landsboroughs brother and family from Binghamton NY including Mr and Mrs Russell Freize Roger Russell Beverly Nancy and Jackie during the week. Also visiting are Mrs G Natman Alexander and son Jerry and mother Mrs Horace I Kaufman of 1402 Siegel St who plan a summer at their Rehob cottage. John T D Howard donated a volume to Delaware County Historical Society library.
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John Lansborough
Pennell St
Allen T. Huggins
Ridley Ave
New York
George $. Mitchell Jr
Madison St
Worthy Maron
Chester
Order of the Eastern Star
Philadelphia
Grand Chapter of Pennsylvania
OES
Julian de Prophetis
3Rd
Pusey Streets
Stone Harbor
John TD. Howard
Charles Palmer
Delaware County Historical Society
Small
Pennsylvania
The
Historical Society
Vacation Costs Skewing The Cost Of Living Index
Sylvia Porter argues that vacation spending, recreation, medical care, and home upkeep are undervalued in the government consumer price index. She notes rising leisure time, credit plans, and car ownership push holiday costs beyond 1950 ideas, urging a revised, expanded index.
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U.S
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Ewan Clague
BLS
Congress
Cincinnati
Tam
Kennedy Seeks Labor Backing Against Stevenson
New York report on Jack Kennedy’s strategy to win labor and liberal support amid Stevenson attacks. Kennedy and Arthur Goldberg led a breakfast with prominent New York labor leaders to stress Kennedy’s pro labor stance and oppose Stevensonian emotionalism. Key attendees included Alex Rose Charles Zimmerman Ray Corbett and Louis Hollander, among others.
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New York
John Kennedy
Carlyle
Lyndon Johnson
Carmine DeSapio
Jack Kennedy
Stevenson
Democratic Party
Adlai Stevenson
Sen
Jack
Massachusetts
Washington
Kennedy and Company
Arthur Goldberg
Afl-Cio
Goldberg
Kennedy
Golfberg
Hatters
Alex Rose
Ladies Garment Workers
Charles Zimmerman
Blannhe of
Liberal Party
Auto Union
Charles Kerrigan
Aflcio
Ray Corbett
Louis Hollander
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Joseph Molony
United Steel Workers
Buffaloy
Arthur Harckham
Building Service
Moe Jushewitz
Central Labor Council of
Nixon
Labor
Landrum- Griffin
U2 Spy Plane Jitters Stir Soviet Drills and Cuba Rhetoric
The Allen-Scott Report notes increased Soviet civil defense drills at the Volga command post in response to U-2 penetrations. Khrushchev attended drills, with comprehensive exercises simulating large scale US attacks. Castro faces U.S. sugar market pressure as Cuba looks to dump sugar, prompting warnings to the UN and potential Cuba migration mentions.
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Robert S. Allen
Paul Scott
Washington
Russia
Volga River
Moscow
Khrushchev
Kremlin
NATO
Commie
Fidel Castro
Reds
U. S
State Department
Iron Curtain
United Nations
Henry Cabot Ledge
Cuba
Castro
Narticos
Mexico
Adolfo Lopez Mateos
Corticos
Rockefeller Nixon challenge could reshape both parties
Peter Edson argues Rockefeller’s push for Nixon to state clear positions could force the GOP to offer new ideas and prevent a mere succession. He suggests a Stevenson challenge might similarly energize the Democratic side, potentially shaping 1960 conventions and candidate leadership.
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Washington
Nelson Rockefeller
Chicago
New York
Nixon
Adlai Stevenson
Rockefeller
Stevensor
Kennedy
Eosenhower
Stevenson
Truman
Democratic
Lyndon Johnson
Democratic Party
Quiz Bits The last composition Haydn played before death
Haydn, as Vienna endured bombardment, was led to the piano and played his own hymn to the Emperor with sacred respect and intense expression shortly before he died. Other questions cover Latin American languages, the Alaskan brown bear as the largest land flesh eater, early alfalfa cultivation in Persia, Christmas trees in America linked to Augustin Rani in Wooster 1847, and the first rail road station opening in Baltimore Maryland.
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Haydn
Vienna
America
Wooster
Ohio
Vo Young
Augustin- Rani
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Robert C. Ruark
Nea
Sylvia Porter
Victor Riflel
Allen-Scott Report
Red China
U.N
Maria Amadeo
Israel
Adolf Eichmann
Argentina
da Torrente
Telice
de Torrente
Peter Edson
Rocky
Latin America
Persia
Ballimore
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