Willis Smith Emerging as North Carolina Senate Contender
The piece argues Willis Smith of Raleigh is likely to announce a run for the U S Senate and believe he will be nominated and elected. Smith, Duke University trustee president, ex American Bar Association president, has broad support among farmers and urban voters and may sideline Graham or Reynolds in the first primary. The column predicts possible Truman appointment for Graham if Smith wins and notes a May deadline.
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Graham
Reynolds
Willis Smith
Raleigh
House of Representatives
Duke University
American Bar Association
Scott
Smith
Everett Jordan
Brannan
Ballentine
Johnson
Albright
Harry Truman
Frank Graham
Atomic Eagery Commission
Carolina
General Assembly
Trustees of
Spencer
Chapel Hill
Congress
Republican Congress
Anderson
Senate
New Mexico
Charles F. Brannan
George Aiken
Vermont
Senator Thomas
Oklahoma
Lustron Fiasco Signals End of Bold Prefab Housing Push
The Re construction Finance Corporation moves to foreclose on Lustron Corporation after a $37.5 million loan aimed at mass producing all steel homes. Officials fear a $30 million loss as the dream collapses, despite government backing and promises of a dramatic housing cost breakthrough.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Lustron Corporation
RFC
Columbus, C
Truman
Wilson Wyatt
Washington
Lustron Company
Columbus
Lustron
Government Spending Under Truman and Roosevelt Compared
The piece compares U S government outlays across eras from Washington to Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman. It notes Roosevelt’s wartime and postwar spending far exceeded earlier totals and that the 1950 51 budget allocates a large share to wars. It argues such expenditures affect national economic survival and urges scrutiny by Mr Truman.
Traditions and politics echo through postwar reflections
A wide column weaves together remarks on a placard bearing Vote for Churchill, a bank embezzlement case, and John L. Lewis's call to miners. It muses on Harvard to Trinity traditions, Mrs Cornelia Spencer’s influence, and ghosts of campus life, then shifts to national finance, veterans' subsidies, and President Truman.
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Associated Press
Churchill
Jackson
Ohio
John L. Lewis
Webb
Lewis
Shakespeare
Macbeth
Rockville Centre
N. Y
Long Island
Cornelia Spencer
Jane Love
Cambridge
Mass
Trinity College
Durham
Old Trinity
Randolph County
Billy Goat
Saidae
Barbs on Night Life and March of Dimes Appeal
The column jokes about nightlife and a March of Dimes appeal while noting Indiana towns seek to bar dogs from food dispensing areas. The light review muses on happiness and enjoying disliked things.
Washington potato politics cost taxpayers half a billion
Washington potato politics escalate toll on taxpayers as Brannan proposes dumping 25 million bushels to save on transportation, blamed on Gore-Anderson farm bill changes. History traces cost from 1942 parity supports to current subsidies, with Congress and secretaries alternately shaping policy and outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
NEA
Truman
Congress
Department of Agriculture
Charles F. Brannan
Clinton B. Anderson
Congressional Committees On Agriculture
Anderson
Secretary of Agriculture
Broadway Gossip and Stage News Mix in Post Meridiem
New York theater notes show Dorothy Mackaill’s ex groom and Yvonne Adair marrying after a late day ceremony. Lee Grant quits Detective Story for All You Need Is One Good Break amid Broadway chatter and upcoming concerts and television debates.
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Dorothy Mackaill
H. Patterson
Yvonne Adair
Lee Grant
20Th Century-Fox
Zimbalist
Philly
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George Sokolsky
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George Washington
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Great Britain
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Yale
Princeton
Cornelia Phillis Spencer
University of Nort
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Joseph Conrad
Veterans’ Administration
Veterans’ Organization
Anti-Saloon League
March of Dimes
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Shirley Booth
Sidney Blackmer
Garland
New Haven
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Sentinel
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Times
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Miss Bergman
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LaCalvet
Willie
Noel
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A. Godfrey
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Rufus
Rastus
Johnson Brown
My Lady Love
Elena Nikolaidi
Columbia
Miner
J. Benny
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Fuchs
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Gov't
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Nuremburg
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J. S
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Symington
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Rankin
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Gwan
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Aga Khan
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