Budget and Bricker fight mark Capitol news second year
Washington reports an Erie amendment clash over curbing presidential treaty powers and Eisenhower's fiscal 1955 budget totaling 1,182 pages. Debates on defense funding, tax revision, and farm surpluses frame a tense congressional week as leaders clash on policy and balance.
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Roger D. Greene
Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Congress
Rayburn
D-Tex
GOP
Capitol Hill
State of the Union
Durham Ministers Gather for 17th NC Council Meeting
About 408 ministers and lay members from across North Carolina attend the two day North Carolina Council of Churches meeting in Durham. Sessions are at First Presbyterian Church with a closing luncheon at St. Philips Episcopal Church. Speakers include Dr Harold Case and Mrs Harold Brinig with reports from Oscar Merritt and others. officers elected Wednesday and three Unsers honored.
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North Carolina Council of Churches
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Morton R. Kurtz
Oscar K. Merritt
Mount Airy
World Order
Cleveland
Ohio
FE. L. Hillman
Siler City
T. S. Newbold
Rocky Mount
Department of United Church Women
Kelsey Regen
Council
Cooperative Christian Movement
R. W. Barnwell
Burlington
John R. Cunni
Davidson College
Stanley C. Harrell
First Congregational Church of
Welcoming 14,000 Anti-Communist POWs in Formosa Arrival
Crowds cheered as 14 000 former Chinese Red soldiers arrived in Formosa refusing to return to communism after capture in Korea. Flights carried 29 stretcher cases with more arriving aboard C4s and Skymasters under U S Navy escort. Notables including Chiang Ching-kuo's wife and Taipeh officials joined the reception as nurses led the first march ashore.
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USS. Air Force Cod
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Okinawa
Freedom
Inchon
Korea
U.S. Navy
Yang Ming-chiang
Rungnan
China
Szechwan
Formosan
Chiang Ching-kuo
Inlaw
O. K. Yui
Formosa
Wu San-lien
Ella Moorer
Mount Willing
Ala
Edith M. Bond
Panama City
Fla
Government to abolish Bengal Regulation Act in Pakistan
The government announced the repeal of the British era Bengal Regulation Act of 1918 which allowed imprisonment without trial. The move comes amid broader Indian independence movements led by Mahatma Gandhi. The report notes a comparison to whalebone whales, but provides no further context.
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Karachi
Pakistan
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Joe Martin Revives Egghead Label In Political Address
Philadelphia January 23 House Speaker Joseph W Martin Jr argues that left wing eggheads are trying to push the country into hard times for political reasons He cites a Philadelphia Real Estate Board audience and contends an attack on his policy is an attack on the nation
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Joe Martin
Egghead
Philadelphia
House
Joseph W. Martin Jr
Philadelphia Real Estate Board
Massachusetts Republican
Martin
Esac
Occean
Churchill plans and return rumors loom in British politics
British and US observers weigh potential outcomes as Churchill aging and health fuel retirement speculation. Eden seen as successor, with talks of elder statesman or Lords role. Monckton and Woolton drift on retirement, while Osborne cites May timing. The Standard urges Churchill to stay, praising his crisis leadership.
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Eden
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Walter Monckton
Woolton
Conservative Party
Monckton
Labor
Labor Ministry
London Evening Standard
Lord Beaverbrook
Standard
Hero Reunites With Long Lost Mother After Rescue
Atlanta dispatch reports Lt. Cmdr. J. B. Eisner was rescued from a flaming plane near Cham bley Georgia last Sunday by Naval Reservists led by C. C. Gossett. A long-separated mother in Fillmore California and a son with a decades‑long search are united by a letter and a Stockton newspaper item about the rescue.
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C. C. Gossett
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Chamblee
Tenn
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Dennett
Mexico
Fillmore
Calif
Gossett
Stockton
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