Belated FBI retirement benefit amendment under review
The proposed change would let FBI agents with at least twenty years of service retire with full benefits though current law requires thirty five years and age sixty. The Commercial Appeal argues most agents are young and few would qualify, noting about 3,100 agents exist and only about 20 would be affected.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Congress
Commercial Appeal
Memphis
Tennessee
FBI
Retailer Caught Between High Costs and Consumer Price Pressures
Analysis argues retailers bear little blame for rising food prices. It notes wholesale costs, farmer prices, and taxes drive final costs while store profits stay under one cent per dollar of sales. Retailers focus on cutting operating costs to absorb increases. The piece urges public understanding of the retailer’s constrained position.
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Hmit
DeMille Attacks Labor Despotism and Closed Shop Policy
Cecil B. DeMille urges federal lawmakers to abolish the closed shop terming it a union tyranny that leaves workers starving and dependent on relief. He argues against secondary boycotts portal-to-portal pay and collective bargaining limits while warning that the closed shop concentrates power in unions and harms individual workers.
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Cecil B. DeMille
Senate
House
Moscow
Marshall
America
Planned State leads to despotism warns Atlantic essay
The Atlantic Monthly essay by Francis and Katharine Drake argues that planned economies risk despotism by gaining control of coal power finance and land while restricting individual rights and forcing union allegiance. It warns that good intentions can pave the way to loss of liberty and urges American readers to remember history.
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Atlantic Monthly
Francis
Katharine Drake
Britain
Trade Union Congress
United States
Truman Proposes Principles for Foreign Aid Policy
The article discusses a landmark speech by President Truman on March 12 outlining clear and basic foreign policy principles. It notes possible changes in particulars such as Greece and Turkey aid but asserts the core ideals will endure, with Senator Vandenberg’s approval highlighted as bipartisan support.
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United States
Truman
Greece
Turkey
Vandenberg
United States and Russia Face a Dividing World Order
The piece argues that Britain fades as a world power while the United States and Soviet Russia emerge as the two dominant forces. It lauds Secretary Marshall, notes tensions at Moscow, and stresses a firm, unified stance to preserve peace despite risks, with broad public support in resisting Soviet aims.
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England
France
Europe
United States
Soviet Russia
Truman
Russia
Congress
Greece
Turkey
Soviet Union
Dardanelles
Middle East
Marshall
John Foster Dulles
Moscow
Winston Churchill
Yugoslavia
Gallup
Darid
Hayride Nostalgia Offers River Town Pleasure
Buddy Richards runs a revival hayride with a team of horses and straw-bedded rack taking up to thirty adults for fifty cents each. Rides depart from Town Hall several times weekly, proceed along the river, and include a stop for a beer at Shoreside Tavern.
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Buddy
Town Hall
Shoreside Tavern
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