MacArthur Speech Spurs Debate Over Trumanism and Southern Democrats
The keynote at the Republican National Convention drew praise for its clarity and factual charge yet avoided a Truman-for-president mood. The speech blamed the Truman administration for blunders and crimes, urged Southerners to reclaim Jefferson and Jackson era ideals, and warned of centralized power and a threatened liberal republic.
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Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Congress
America
Truman
General MacArthur
South
Jefferson
Jackson
Republic
United States
Supreme Court
Cause or Effect in Brown Class of 1942 Waistlines Earning Power
A Brown University survey of the class of 1942 notes graduates with larger waistlines tend to have higher earnings. The piece ponders whether sociable big-waist individuals earned more due to personality or if higher income allowed better eating.
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Brown University
Charlotte
N.C
Russians claim to settle creation questions in USSR science push
The Moscow radio asserts that in the USSR party and government foster advanced science and basic laws on the origin of stars and the sun will be evolved soon. It cites Russian claims that they invented radio and other technologies and may even rewrite Genesis.
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Moscow
U.S.S.R
Atlanta Journal
Congress panel gazes at risque magazines during probe
A House special committee on broadcasting topics gathers to inspect sexual periodicals in a dramatic session. Rep. Ezekiel Gathings frowns at a busty cover while Rep. Katharine St. George comments approvingly, as the panel weighs what to censor.
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Washington
Capitol
Special
House
W.C.T.U
Ezekiel Gathings
Arkansas
Getti
Zeke
Katharine St. George
Tuxedo Park
N. Y
Byrnes on POW policy and postwar repatriation debates
James Byrnes describes U S handling of German and Italian prisoners after World War II. He notes resistance from employers and Allied nations over repatriation, details Soviet use of prisoners, and cites postwar agreements aiming to finish repatriation by end of 1948.
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James Byrnes
South Carolina
Byrnes
United States
Germany
Eisenhower
United States Army
Patterson
Russia
France
Tocal Repu
Politi
Soviet Union
Ukraine
Moscow
Council of Foreign Ministers
London
Molotov
Panmunjom
Battle of Battles and Gantt remembered in column notes
The piece reflects on a Coca-Cola versus Pepsi clash at Chicago conventions and honors R B Gantt of High Point as a builder with a strong ethics record. It also touches on Beatrice Cobb and a Greensboro News list of “loveliest things” and ends with a light note about a mistaken identity and a church choir joke.
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Coca- Cola
Pepsi-Cola
Pepsi People
Conrad Hilton
International Amphitheatre
Ree
Coca
Pepsi
James A. Farley
Coca-Cola Company
Atlanta
Pepsi-Cola Company
New York
New Bern
N.C
MR. Gantt
R. B. Gantt
Memorial Hospital
Jim
Mary
Farm price policy sparks battle at 1952 conventions
Washington dispatch outlines the clash over farm price supports as Republicans and Democrats weigh 90 percent parity against a flexible plan. It notes opposition within party ranks, Brannan's defense, and hints at Ike's stance tied to McKinley’s program.
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Chicago
NEA
Allan Kline
American Farm Bureau Federation
George Aiken
Vermont
House of Representatives
Kline
Congress
Farm Bureau
James G. Patton
Farmers’ Union
Charles F. Brannan
Democratic Party
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Kefauver
Florida
Stevenson
Illinois
Averell Harriman
Truman
Wall Street Journal Dispatch
Taft
Robert A. Taft
Senator Taft
Senator Aiken
Eisenhower
Milton S. Eisenhower
Department of Agriculture
Henry Wallace
Ike
Harold L. McKinley
St. Ansgar
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