House appropriations cut state and federal agency budgets
The House appropriations committee trimmed 417 168 from President Truman's request for State Justice Commerce departments and federal courts for the new fiscal year starting July 1. States cuts ranged from eight percent for State to five percent for the Federal judiciary, with Justice largely spared.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
State, Justice and Commerce Departments
Commerce Department
Justice Department
House
Voice of America
Justice
FBI
Anti-Trust
Commerce
Federal Judiciary
State Department
Department
Congress Hears Claim on Soviet Spy Operations
Congress aired a claim that Soviet spies used a wartime pipeline to the Roosevelt era through a high state department official. An OSS official alleged a telegram to Chungking reached Moscow before Washington’s release, while the State Department denied the charge and described the informant’s account as mistaken.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
State Department
China
Moscow
House ‘Appropriations Committee
Department
Franklin D. Roosevelt
U. S
X-7
X-6
London
Tehran
X-8
OSS
Chungking
Lman
X- 8
No. 52
Weather summary for Charlotte and metropolitan area
North Carolina sees partly cloudy mild conditions with a brief cloud cover in Charlotte. Official weather records show 24 hour temperature readings and rainfall amounts across multiple cities including Charlotte Evansville and Detroit with varied figures.
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North Carolina
Betarday
Charlotte
Weath
Denver
Detroit
Evansville
Benes Keeps Presidency as Communist Cabinet Takes Office
Prague reports President Eduard Benes swore in a Communist dominated cabinet led by Premier Klement Gottwald, despite warning of "evil results." The president voiced no further comment, while wartime veterans challenged the old guard and pressed for their exclusion from government duties.
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Prague
Eduard Benes
Klement Gottwald
Benes
Hradcany Palace
Gottwald
Hitler
Legionnaires
Josef David
David
David Long
Democrats Face Farm Price Support Decision After Year End
Washington notes that the Democratic administration urged Congress to extend price supports for key crops beyond December 31. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson told Capper and Hope that new legislation is needed, as existing law sets supports at 90 percent parity through year end and provides limited backing for crops after January 1.
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Washington
Republican Congress
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson
Senator Capper
Rep. Hope
Kansas
Senate
House Agriculture
Housing program to step up construction slated
Senator McCarthy presented a draft bill to the housing committee proposing a government program costing about 1 billion dollars over five years. It aims to build 1.5 million new homes annually, with incentives for rentals to low income families and tax exemptions for investors. Local aid and depreciation benefits are included to attract private construction.
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Washington
Congressional
McCarthy
R-Wis
House-Senate Housing Committee
Adultery Charged By Auto Racer In Divorce Action
Sir Malcolm Campbell won a divorce in London on grounds of adultery by his third wife with French count Andre Louise de La Salle. He stated he found them together in an apartment with a detective report describing a partly dressed wife and the count in the bathroom during a June visit.
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London
Sir Malcolm Campbell
Andre Louise de la Salle
Campbell
de la Salle
Malcolm
Postoffice Suspends Money Orders to Palestine
New York February 27 Postmaster Albert Goldman announced money order service from the United States to Palestine will be suspended at midnight Sunday. The action was taken on the request of the Palestine administration. He did not elaborate.
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New York
Albert Goldman
United States
Palestine
Palestine Administration
Mine Owners Seek Answer To Demands
Washington February 27 mine owners seek a reply to John L. Lewis pension proposal for a $100 month pension to coal diggers 60 years old with 20 years work. The plan would raise fund contributions beyond current 10 cent per ton royalty and risks a new contract crisis as April 1 pacts end. Lewis and the United Mine Workers push the welfare fund while operators warn of higher costs and a possible early termination.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Miners’ Welfare and Retirement Fund
Thomas E. Murray
Ezra T. van Horn
van Horn
Fea
Saas
UMW
Florida
Rators
Russia Marks The 100th Anniversary Of The Communist Manifesto
Moscow observes the hundredth anniversary with front-page tributes in major papers. Trade union organ Trad notes growth from about 300 communists to 20 million members, while Red Star asserts Communism has spread across open spaces and that war is decided by people. The manifesto, authored by Marx and Engels, appeared in February 1848.
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Moscow
Russia
Trad
Communist Party
Red Star
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Two Republicans Urge Greece Turkey Military Aid Merger
Senate heads consider adding 275 million dollars in military aid to Greece and Turkey as Secretary Marshall warns against American weariness in the Mediterranean. Taft and Bridges press for quick action citing Cold War pressures and Russian expansion.
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Congress
China
Marshall
Greece
Turkey
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Bridgesman
Appropriations Committee
Cac Aia
Defaul Marshall
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Czech
Confess
Europe
United States
UAW Sues Over Taft-Hartley Spending Ban
The CIO United Auto Workers file a federal suit challenging the Taft Hartley act ban on union political spending. It seeks a declaratory judgment that the provision violates free speech and asks for an injunction to stop prosecutions of UAW leaders. The suit signals active union participation in the 1948 campaign.
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Washington
CIO
United Auto Workers
Justice Rtment
Eevee
UAW
Philip Murray
Walter Reuther
Emil Mazey
Clark
Reuther
Two Killed In Plane Crash Near Gatesville
A training aircraft crashed near Gatesville today killing two Maryland flyers. Coroner J. W identified the victims as James H. Aldridge 36 the pilot and David Bradshaw Jr 22 a passenger. Aldridge had taken off from Easton Maryland in an Army trainer plane.
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Gatesville
Here
Maryland
Gates County
J. W i
James H. Aldridge
David Bradshaw, Jr
Aldridge
Eastern Shore State Hospital
Cambridge
Easton
Lawyers and businessman seek Wayne County State Senate nomination
Goldsboro reports N. W. Outlaw and W. H. Elliott will run for State Senate from Wayne County. Thomas O Berry, current state senator for three terms, announces he will not seek renomination.
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Goldsboro
N. W. Outlaw
W. H. Elliott
State Senate
Wayne County
Thomas O’berry
Senate
Senate adopts anti-poll tax bill despite calls for hearings
A Senate rules subcommittee approved anti-poll tax legislation in Washington despite Senator Stennis of Mississippi pressing for hearings. The measure would let voters in federal elections decide payment of state poll taxes, part of President Truman's civil rights program. The House had already passed the bill, with Senate action likely to limit debate and end filibuster efforts. Georgia Senator George signaled a possible party realignment as southern Democrats resist the leadership.
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Washington
Senate
Truman
House
Stennis
D-Miss
Myers
D-Pa
Congress
Jenner
Brooks Bill
Brooks
George
Democratic Party
Tax Rules For Long Form 1947 Income Returns
Washington Feb. 27 James Marlow explains long form use for 1947 returns. People earning $5,000+ may take a $500 standard deduction or itemize. those under $5,000 must itemize. The article walks through exemptions, credits, and calculating tax on a sample family.
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James Marlow Washington
Internal Revenue Collector
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