Drunken Driving Law Faces Elasticity Proposal
In Mecklenburg Superior Court a drunken driving case ended with a not guilty verdict. Judge Frank Armstrong urged the need to reconsider North Carolina’s mandatory license revocation, arguing for flexible reform to increase convictions of clearly guilty drivers and improve law effectiveness.
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Mecklenburg Superior Court
Frank Armstrong
Associated Press
North Carolina
State Parole Commission
What Is the Truth About Korea War News
A reader critiques conflicting front page reports from the Enterprise about United Nations air losses in Korea. The Washington dateline claims heavy UN losses and high enemy replacements, while Korea reports recount Saberjets versus MiGs. The piece questions accuracy and seeks the truth amid political timing.
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United States
Washington
United Nations
Korea
U.S
U.N
Republicans Should Choose Compromise Senate Leader in 1952
The piece argues the GOP should select a new Senate minority leader who acts as a spokesman for all GOP senators, not a factional representative. It cautions against a leader who aligns with any presidential candidate, urging a neutral, broad-based floor leader for the 1952 political year.
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Senate
GOF
Wherry
Truman calls sermon a dinger in Key West clash
The president mocks language purists after telling Navy chaplain his Florida Sunday sermon was a dinger. Speculation swirls that the term comes from humdinger. Critics say garish garb and sloppy caps set a lax tone for the President's Florida trip.
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Truman
Key West
Dinger
Florida
The Mad House You Can't Get a Baby From FBI
FBI director Hoover ignores odd boy request for a baby while a Midwest child seeks a gift to Chester Bowles now U S ambassador to India The piece also notes Bowles past roles and how to mail gifts and political dispatches with cautions about legality plus a Navy Undersecretary quote and Ohio congressman Bender's weekly question from the era.
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FBI
Bowles
Heaven
Earth
Chester Bowles
United States
India
Connecticut
OPA
U.S
Douglas Bennet
Mr. Bennet
Ambassador Bowles
New Delhi
U. S
Ratendome Road
Dept. of State
Washington
D.C
Infiltration of Communism in Scarsdale Schools Debate
The piece rails against Communist influence in American education, citing Scarsdale Woman's Club as example. It quotes University of California President Sproul on freedom and the danger of a Communist philosophy shaping schooling. It praises local clubs while warning of liberalism aiding communism.
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Scarsdale
New York
Benjamin Schultz
Robert G. Sproul
University of California
Communist Party
Big City
Giladys F. Carroll
Park Avenue
Vno
Sproul
Quotes From Leaders On Elections And Alliances
A collection of brief quotes spans topics from General EisenHower and the Republican nomination to Yugoslavia arms aid and border smuggling. Includes remarks by Sen. Taft and Canadian MP A Wesley Stuart, noting price differences and Arab leader interactions with the Soviet Union.
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General Eisenhower
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Soviet Union
Reb
Jacob K. Javits
RNY
Hollywood gossip and power shifts swirl in Wartime NY era
Walter Winchell reports on Franchot Tone Florabel Muir Hollywood industry jitters. Gable divorce news A bomb April. Zachary Scott slugout at 5th Ave hotel. Merle Miller Eleanor Green split. Hitchcock daughter wedding Boston. Mickey Rooney circle bets Virginia DeLuce. Brenda Frazier Norma Ferguson merger chatter. Quicksilver romances span Dowling Shaw and more. Political probes, tax woes, and industry intrigue pepper the page.
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Florabel Muir
Hollywood
Tone
Florabel
Gable
Zachary Scott
The
Star
5Th Ave
Merle Miller
Time
Eleanor Green
Farrar-Straus
Alfred Hitchcock
Bekays
John Huston
Pearl Bailey
Bill
Eleanor
Billy Rose
Washington Whoever Is President, Geo. Allen Has an 'In'
George Edward Allen, known as the White House Jester, is noted as the single best guesser of 1952 presidential candidates. A persuasive, well-connected insider, he circles Truman, Vinson, Eisenhower, Taft, and other top Democrats, serving as confidant, adviser, and social facilitator across parties.
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Washington
Sen. George
Georgia
ECA
Truman
Frank Nathan
Midtown
O'Dwyer
Murder, Inc
Stalin
Geo. Allen
NEA
United States
George Edward Allen
George Allen
White House
Allen
Alen
Vinson
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Penn
Milton Eisenhower
Milton
Department of Agriculture
Dwight
London
Roosevelt
Ike
Mrs. Allen
Harry Butcher
Butcher
Claridge’s
Sen
Taft
Hill and Knowlton
RFC
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George Dixon
Navy
Francis Whitehair
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National Press Club
George H. Bender
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George Sokolsky
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Canada
A. Wesley Stuart
Walter Winchell
George S$. Kaufman
Deghir Anne
Hisband
David Orrick
Philip Coolidge
Athens
Gem” DeLappe
Robert Patten
Mary Soares
Kathryn Grayson
Thrash J. Johnston
J. Lee
Mahin
Gloria Brooks
Ki Sermit Kegley
John Butler
Muriel Bentley
Judy Garland
Doris Sands
Gilded Cage Ensemble
Billy Walker
Ty Cobb
Fdr
Cairo
Paris
Glenn McCarthy
Houston
Texas
Johnny Meyers
Col. J. H. Rosenbaum
O.S.S
Hoffman Bank
Zurich
Switzerland
McCarthy
Meyers
Standard Oil
United Artists
L. B. Mayer
Dept. of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission
Mayer
MGM
Janet Sayre
Sugar Hill
Joe Louis
Yoshida
Judith Coplon
Gubitchev
Brenda Frazier
Miami Beach
Charles Boyers
D. Sewells
Tallulah
Harold
New Yorker Mag
Ross
J. P. Ryan
Shelley Winters
Ed Cunningham
Yank
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Jo McLaughlin
St. Patrick's
Ralph Reden
Ethel Reed
Eva Gabor
Jack
Seabrook
Signe Hasso
Peter Edson
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