In Self Defense We Must Save China
The piece argues for continued American aid to Madame Chiang Kai-shek and China, endorsing a plan to appoint General MacArthur ambassador and supervise aid to curb Soviet backed Communists. It asserts aid now prevents a Soviet takeover and urges timely repayment and limited U.S. involvement.
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China
Chiang Kai-shek
United States
Truman
Marshall
State Department
America
Madame Chiang
Soviet Russia
MacArthur
Occidental
General MacArthur
Marshal Chiang
United Nations
Russia
Asia
Judge Williams Says Liquor Law Enforcement Depends on Public Demand
North Carolina Superior Court Judge Clawson Williams advocates that liquor laws can be enforced only if citizens demand enforcement. He notes widespread violations exist where officials act only to the extent the public supports action, arguing enforcement hinges on public will.
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Clawson Williams
North Carolina Superior Court
Judge Williams
Williams
Rocky Cop
Farm production costs outpace rising farm prices
State College figures show farm prices rose 20 percent from 1946 to 1947 while costs climbed 22 percent. In eight months of this year prices advanced 7 percent but costs rose 14 percent, leaving farmers earning less net income than industrial workers despite higher gross earnings.
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State College
Farm readers weigh costs in complex farm income math
Lynn Nisbet notes the need to add cost calculations to farm income, citing a farmer with land and two sons. One brother earns wages while the other crops tobacco. accounting shows farm income hinges on more than sales receipts, including labor, fertilizer, machinery wear, and other costs.
Forrestal calls services to work out unification plans in the White House
Defense Secretary Forrestal orders the three armed services to settle their differences on legislation in his office rather than going to Congress. The move aims to foster real unity in the unification program, though Congress could still subpoena officers to testify on favored theories. The call seeks to align national defense goals over service promotion.
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Defense
Forrestal
Armed Services
Congress
Congressional
Bruce Catton
Washington
Commerce
Charles Sawyer
Catton
War Production Board
Sawyer
The Mad House The Mad House
A column satirizes Claude Wickard and Harold Knutson over REA plant location in Minnesota. It jokes about a Democratic inaugural ball with $10 tickets, $1000 boxes, gala events, and inflated fundraising to boost Democratic funds post election.
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Washington
Claude Wickard
Claude
Minnesota
Elk River
Anoka
Harold Knutson
REA
Rep
Knutson
Ways A Means
Congress
Wickard
Fred Marshall
Food and agriculture work shapes world peace says Truman
Dr. Morris Fishbein cites the UN FAO in arguing future peace depends on food, contrasting sports and pastimes budgets with medical care, and asserting individual planning is as crucial as government planning in a democracy.
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Truman
United States
Morris Fishbein
Journal of the American Medical Association
Hoover collects compliments after Philadelphia speech
Hoover catalogs congratulatory letters and telegrams from allies and rivals, including Democratic President Truman. The column notes changes in political appointments, ECA debates in Congress over Marshall Plan aid, Catton’s resignation, Pearson becoming UN Security Council president, and stalled discussions on national health insurance with Murray to chair key hearings.
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Hoover
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Lester B
Mike) Pearson
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Juan A. Bramuglia
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Ives
New York
Morse
Oregon
Aiken
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Illinois
Humphries
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Times Change and Front Page Romance in a 1948 Gossip Page
A collage of Hollywood and political scoops features Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck intimates, Liz Dern, and other stars. Reports touch on diplomats, art, and magazine layouts, with notes on MacArthur tojo, taxes on Amos n Andy, and a December seaside poem by Carl Sandburg.
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Robert Taylor
Barbara Stanwyck
Iran
Ann Miller
Lenore Danker
L. B. Mayer
MGM
Paul Whiteman
Margo
J. Franklin
Douglas Dghtr Sharman
Marquess de Milford
Renough
Abner
Capps
Trygve
United Nations
Arturo Rodzinski
Yurrop
Detroit
N. Y. Phil
MacArthur
Tojo
Gen. Clay
Ilse Koch
Henry Luce
Pix Mag
Chicago
Charlie Fishetti
al Capone
Bottles
Ralph
Market and media ramblings from a wartime columnist
The column surveys stock outlook with liquor sector dips and tax selling, praises 20th Century Fox and American Broadcasting, notes Runyon Fund upcoming fellowships and cancer research grants, jokes about celebrities and Broadway signs, and teases British royal baby secrecy. It mixes satire with market noise and entertainment blurbs.
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20Th Century-Fox
American Broadcasting Company
Washington bureaucrats shift from New Dealers to loyal Democrats
A year ago Washington officials were loyal Democrats few admitted being New Dealers. They claimed nonpartisan technician roles for civil service and cited Republican appointments. Now they are all New Dealers as political winds change with the times and presidential prospects.
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Trusvell
Francis Myers
Terry Richardson
H'wood
Elliott V. Bell
Washington
D.d
Carol Crane
Steve
Carlos Valdez
Mink Farms
Howevm
D. Worth Clark
Chiang
T. V. Soong
Chiang Kai-she
Dewey
December Reflections on Time and Lost Christmases
W. A. Bivins recounts nostalgic memories of weaving and spinning, contrasts old handwork with modern power looms, and notes December brings both joy and poignant losses. He recalls November rainfall, poet Henry Longfellow, and personal family tragedies from wartime and travel.
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High Point
Aunt Jo
Yuletide
J. P. Molen
Greensboro
Thomas Hood
England
Smething
Henry W. Longfellow
New England
Evangeline
Elsie Venner
France
Fragmented Crossword Clue List Brings Several Definitions
A scrambled puzzle compile lists across multiple clues from snorting peer to exclamation. Entries include British peer Brazilian scholars and musical terms plus chemical symbols and abbreviations. The dense grid mixes birds verbs adjectives and nouns with historical titles and island names.
Reims Origins Tied to Remi Tribe Name
The French city Reims was the capital of the Remi tribe before Roman conquest, and its name derives from that tribe. Britannica notes a 5000 year old backgammon like game as long standing human pastime.
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Reims
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