Odessa Elevator Girl Echoes in Kerr Scott Clash
The piece recalls Kerr Scott as governor elect clashing with state officials over firings including Charles Flack and Vance Baise. It notes legal limits, possible legislative moves, and warns against public wrangling while urging prudent governance and informed counsel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Z. Flack
State Utilities Commission
Kerr Scott
Scott
Broughton
Bulwinkle
Vance Baise
Highway Commission
The
Utilities Commission
Raleigh
Commission
Baise
State Highway Commission
Budget Bureau
Charlie Flack
Flack
Gov
Board of Building and Grounds
Odessa
Christmas Seals Drive Aids Tuberculosis Fight In Guilford
Chairman Charles Mendenhall reports High Point sales of tuberculosis Christmas seals are about one third of last year. Most funds stay local to Guilford county for the sanatorium and health department, with portions for state and national needs. The piece urges immediate buying and generous use of seals to fund curing and prevention efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Mendenhall
High Point
Guilford County
Senatorium
Greensboro
America
Truman targets business caution and racing crowd satire
The column surveys President Truman's post election stance on business controls, suggesting a cautious, history-minded approach. It recounts a New York Thoroughbred Racing Association dinner where George E. Allen lampooned politicians and described a tense exchange about licensing and taxes, ending with a note on Senate chamber remodeling plans.
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Thoroughbred Racing Association
New York
George E. Allen
White House
Allen
Ashley T. Cole
New York State Racing Commission
Mr. Cole
Mr. Allen
Congress
Mississippi
Greece
Cliff Nazarro
Washington
Bob Hannegan
Democratic National Committee
Bob
Paul Porter
Federal Communications Commission
Hannegan
Leadership myths and mass conformity in postwar politics
George Sokolsky discusses how leaders gain power and how public opinion shifts with the crowd. He cites Hitler, Churchill, Truman, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, warning that repeated lines create false ideas and that decisive issues like China’s fate demand action beyond partisan slogans.
Ruhr questions continue to haunt postwar policy
Washington weighs how to use the Ruhr basin, Germanys key coal, coke, steel and chemicals hub, for peace under the Marshall Plan. Berlin to Korea shows failures of international control, while Germanys future ownership and German-led management face French, British, and Benelux opposition and De Gaulle political tactics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nea
Pittsburgh
Germany
Ruhr
Rhode Island
Rhine Valley
Luxemburg
United Nations
United States
Europe
Berlin
Korea
London
Britain
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Charles de Gaulle
Benelux
Hitler
Farm Talk Turns To Weather And Hard Winters
The speaker recalls farm life and toil, reflecting on moonshining and corn surplus. He contrasts farm life with city concerns and worries about distribution of corn and Christmas shortages. The discussion notes the paradox of more corn bread yet greater misery if surplus is sold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunua
Miosi
Santa Claus
Country Town Echoes of Childhood on Main Street
reminiscences describe a bygone country town with a courthouse, jail, cemetery as park, gardens for sustenance, and sledding from old buggies. contrasts with modernity and recalls Christmas traditions, simple joys, and a collage of quotes from public figures and notes on postwar commentary.
Curious Animals and Terms Revisited
A jumble of notes explains that sheep can endure water lack longer than camels, Hara-kiri translates to happy dispatch, over 400 people write daily to the British broadcasting company, dolphins are mammals like porpoises, and sawdust sinks while wood floats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
British Broadcasting Company
Aguwer te Previous Pussie Cinema Star
A crossword style fill in puzzle from a newspaper page lists clues across and down including actors, foods, and symbols. Answers reference days and places, with entries like Moors Rodent near and goddess of infatuation in a dense word puzzle.
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Democratic Party
George Dixon
Truman
Missouri
Anoway
Capitol Hill
Senate Chamber
George Sokolsky
Eugene Kogon
Buchenwald
Kogon
Winston Churchill
Sir Stafford Cripps
God
Arthur Stratter
Mr. Truman
Chiang Ki-shek
Madame Chiang
China
Russia
Stalin
Edson
W. A. Bivins
Moscow
Joe
Oracle Joe
Drew Pearson
Chiang Kai-shek
George C. Marshall
George VI
Buckingham Palace
Elizabeth
North Carolina
G. Bromley Oxnam
Franco
Spain
Nan
Marlene Dietrich
Elizabeth Bentley
Robert J. Blakely
St. Louis Star-Times
Robert M. Hutchins
University of Chicago
Western Pacific
Adm
Charles M. Cooke, Jr
U. S. Navy
Waldo Lemon
Cincinnati
John Nance Garner
Richard Morrow -Tait
Aviatrix
Clare Boothe Luce
Formosa
Aguwer
Cinema Star
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