Editors Vote MacArthur Top Story for 1951
Editors named General Douglas MacArthur's removal and return as the era’s biggest story, detailing the April 11 message, Ridgway’s succession, and public controversy. Other top ten items included Korea war progress and truce talks, Rome/Britain’s Churchill, mob scandals via TV hearings, and NATO buildup.
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New York
Army
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
United States
Allied Powers
United Nations Command
Far East
U. S. Army Far East
Matthew B. Ridgway
Truman
Associated Press
MacArthur
Congress
Heartbreak Ridge
James M. Hanley
Seattle
Top ten AP stories of ten years war era list
The annual AP editors ten year wrap highlights dominate stories across 1941 to 1950 including Pearl Harbor D Day Normandy invasion Truman election Korea war Rhine a bomb tests and state actions. It notes key events such as U S defense programs Atlantic Charter U S ships sunk and Japan surrenders along with political and social upheavals shaping the decade.
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U. S
Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
North Atantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Associated Press
Pearl Harbor
Reuben James
Russia
iLend-Lease
Hess
England
U. S. Army
Dodgers
North Africa
Pacific
Japan
Tokyo
Rickenbacker
Dieppe
Germany
Italy
Mussolini
Oakes
Atlantic
Normandy
Roosevelt
Philip
Pine
Hitler
OPA
Nuernberg
Suzanne Degnan
St. Louis
Texas City
Europe
India
Elizabeth
Berlin
Israel
Gandhi
China
Kasenkina
Babe Sue
Noronic
Kathy Fiscus
Church
GOP
Sen. McCarthy
Alger Hiss
Dr. Sander
Brinks
Boston
Quotations From 1951 Scene on Peace Freedom and War
A survey of notable remarks during the era features President Truman on peace and freedom, Tito on guarding land, Nehru on avoiding war, Baruch on deterence and costs, Kefauver on officials and citizens, Taft and MacArthur on policy, Bradley on military plan alignment, and Wilson on future strength, reflecting postwar tension.
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Truman
of the Union
Congress
Sen
Tom Connally
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
India
Nehru
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Bernard M. Baruch
Estes Kefauver
Publc
Lewis B. Fuller
Julius Caesar
Robert A. Taft
Douglas MacArthur
James F. Byrnes
South
Frank Castella
Wefauver Committee
Omar N. Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
United States
MacArthur
Charles E. Wilson
Malayan Firms Invited to Chicago International Trade Fair
Malayan exporters and manufacturers were invited to participate in the Chicago International Trade Fair next March. The invitation was announced by Joseph H. Rogainick, American Consul and chief of the Economic Section at the American Consulate General in Singapore.
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Singapore
Joseph H. Rogainick
MacArthur Named 1951 Man of the Year in AP Poll
General Douglas MacArthur is voted Man of the Year 1951 by AP editors, leading Dwight Eisenhower and others in a nationwide year end poll. The piece notes his wartime roles, dismissal by President Truman, and potential presidential prospects, with category picks for Woman of the Year Marguerite Higgins and other leaders in foreign affairs science and labor.
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Douglas Macarthur
Associated Press
MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Marcuetite Higgins
John Foster Dulles
Max Theiler
Charles E. Wilson
Philip Murray
Thor Heyerdahl
Mario Lanza
Leo Durocher
United Nations Forces
Japan
Truman
Murray
Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Steel Workers Union
CIO
Pacific
James Jones
Conrad Richter
Caruso
Lanza
Rodgers ‘and Hammerstein
Little Voice
Judy Garland
New York Giants
New York Yankees
Durocher
Brooklyn Dodgers
Joe Walcott
Marguerite Higgins
New York Herald-Tribune
Korea
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Middle East
Iran
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Suez Canal
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Panama Canal
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D. Roosevelt
United Nations
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Edward McMillan
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