Knowland Takes Senate GOP Leader Post Amid Opposition
Vice President Nixon backed California Senator William F. Knowland whose late push secured unanimous election as Senate Republican floor leader. Taft had designated Knowland acting leader. critics feared overwork and questioned fit versus Taft's legacy while Bridges opposed immediate vote. Homer Ferguson moved to head Policy Committee. Republicans prepare for forthcoming battles.
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Nixon
William F. Knowland
Senate
Knowland
Taft
New Hampshire
Senator Styles
Ing. Michigan
Homer Ferguson
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Urgency of Bonds for Schools and Mental Hospitals
North Carolinians vote on Oct. 3 on 50 million for schools and 22 million for state mental hospitals. Gov Umstead names John Harden and Brandon Hodges to lead the campaign, urging strong support as time tightens and a strong vote is needed to attract bond buyers.
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Umstead
John Harden
Greensboro
Brandon Hodges
Asheville
Tempus
Scott
Tupik trap in Korea foretold by Soviet press
United Nations and United States push for a country wide Korean election under UN supervision while Soviets claim Korea must settle its own internal unity. AP analyst William L. Ryan warns Moscow aims to future divide Korea as leverage for power, calling it a Tupik tactic to force U.S. withdrawal before unification.
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Korea
William L. Ryan
Associated Press
Izvestia
Japan
Far East
Germany
United Nations
United States
U.N
North Korea
Ist
Rumania
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
China
Hongkong
Formosa
Tokyo
Acs
Congressional Reforms Move Slowly Amid Patchwork Efforts
Peter Edson notes reform of congressional machinery has been piecemeal and hampered by slipshod treatment. He cites lack of a modern personnel system and overburdened judiciary committees as key shortfalls in the 1946 reorganization debate.
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Washington
Congress
George B. Galloway
Legislative Reference
Library of Congress
Peanut levy talks cast in statewide referendums
Public meetings across 19 peanut counties discuss a proposed 1 cent per 100 pounds levy to fund peanut research and marketing. The article compares the plan to the tobacco program and notes expected support amid other Oct 3 bond votes for state schools and mental hospitals.
Woman Reimburses State For Family Welfare Benefit
Mrs. F D Whitmore of Pitman New Jersey sent a check for 89250 to the Georgia State Welfare Department. The Fulton County Welfare Department had paid that exact amount in old age benefits to her father while she and her husband could not support him. Although legal, she returned the money as a civic duty. The act is praised as a mark of citizen obligation.
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F. D. Whitmore
Pitman
N. J
High Point Seeks VHF Channel Six Despite FCC Rejection
The High Point effort to obtain a VHF Channel Six to rival Greensboro and Winston-Salem faced a setback as the FCC rejected the local application for Channel Six. Proposals to liberalize the allocation plan persist amid congressional protests and regional denial of VHF service.
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High Point
Greensboro
Winston-Salem
FCC
Congress
Roanoke
Channel Six
Law Restores US Flag Primacy Over UN Banner
George Sokols ky argues Public Law 107 upholds the U S flag as supreme within the United States and territories while UN flags may fly only at their headquarters. He links nationalism to globalism and urges strong pro American sentiment amid international shifts.
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Congress
United Nations
New York City
United
United States
Berkshires
American Ag
de Gasperi
Italy
Kremlin
Quotes on Korea and peace from world leaders
A collection of statements attributed to figures including Secretary of Defense Wilson Secretary of State Dulles Casey Stengel and Winston Churchill. The quotes discuss troop withdrawal in Korea battlefield strategy mobilization for peace and assessment of the police action against Communist aggression.
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Korea
Secretary of Defense
Wilson
Dulles
St. Patrick Tasemay
Amherst
Mass
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Maine
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Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
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