Truman Era Upends GOP Plans and Foreign Policy Shakeup
The piece argues Harry S. Truman reshapes U S politics by curbing Roosevelt era excesses and guiding the GOP to adapt. It predicts postwar policy shifts including tariff and UN commitments, a Truman Byrnes State Department purge, and cuts to taxes and the public debt while criticising figures like MacLeish and Rockefeller.
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Truman.Byrnes
United States
Truman
Byrnes
Achibald MacLeish
Nelson Rockefeller
Peace Keeping Police Powers For President
Two Republican senators forecast congressional approval for the president to exercise peace keeping police powers at his discretion. They say the foreign relations committee report on the UN charter points toward ratification and supports delegating voting on force use to the American representative. Congress would retain war declaration power.
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Congress
World Security Council
United Nations
Vandenberg
Michigan
Millikin
Colorado
Foreign Relations Committee
San Francisco
U. S
Reprieve for Monkeys in Medellin Exile Ordered
Four monkeys in City Park were spared from death and sent into exile after the city council voted death for the pets over fears of tuberculosis. The Animal Rescue League argued no crime warranted execution and the council released them to the jungles north of Medellin.
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Medellin
Columbia
Animal Rescue League
Here
Radio Schedule Highlights July 17 194? Eastern War Time
A detailed hourly listing of radio programming across networks with shows, serials, news casts, and performances. Notable items include Tom Mix serials, Dick Haymes Show, Ginny Simms guest, and Norman Corwin Half Hour, with shifts and repeats across CBS ABC and NBC channels.
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Farrei
Seriai
Abe Tom Mix Betlal
Abe Quincy Howe
Cbs
Walter Kiernan
Ave
Sly Moore
Jack Crereen
Mibs
Lowell Thomas
Charlie Chan
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Tom Mix
Como
Ted Husing
Cles
Abe Fulton Lewis, Jr
Abe Danny O'Neill
Raymond Swing
Dick Haymes
Jack Bailey
Arthur Hale
Kaitenborn
Ginny Simms
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Sky
Abe Frank
Ms East
Don Gardiner
Abe
Judy
Norman Corwin
Guy Lombardo
Abe Gabriel Heatter
Victor Borge
Abe Sydney Moadey
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Funeral services for J E Cassell former Concord principal
Concord notes funeral services will be held in Christiansburg Virginia for J Eris Cassell former Concord High School principal. He died Sunday at a Bluefield West Virginia hospital and was a Davidson College graduate who served as a principal in Lenoir Gastonia and Concord and was a life member of the National Education Association.
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J. Eris Cassell
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Christiansburg
Bluefield
W. Va
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Lenoir
Gastonia
National Education Association
Solar heating unit warms Boulder residence at Colorado lab
University of Colorado engineers installed a rooftop solar unit on Dr Lois home delivering about one third gas fuel savings in a trial. The 40 by 1 1/2 foot vox like box uses glass layers to trap heat and automatic controls switch to gas when clouds dim sun. Researchers aim to store solar heat for cloudy days and shed light on a future all solar home.
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Monument to Chicken and Fish Proposed in Chattanooga
Chattanooga resident J. B. Collins seeks WWII memorial statues of a chicken and a fish. He argues these two staples prevent health problems from belt buckle rubbing and keep teeth from becoming obsolete, claiming cattle have failed to provide enough meat.
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Housewife Turns In 2381 Empty Bottles
An Albany housewife won a beverage bottle reclamation title by sending 2381 quart bottles to Dobier Brewing. The driver nearly fainted upon delivery of the seven ton cache stored in a bedroom. The pickup and nationwide bottle return campaign yielded 119.05 dollars in deposits.
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N. Y
INS
Dobier Brewing Company
Secretary Anderson Foresees Prolonged Food Shortages
In a radio address Secretary of Agriculture Anderson warned Americans to expect shortages of meats fats oils sugar and dairy through much of 1945 and into 1946. He said production improvements will take time and urged measures to curb black markets and trim nonessential demands while seeking extra supplies from abroad.
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Washington
Anderson
South America
The Ring Found After 23 Years at Kraus Farm
In Hays Kansas a missing wedding ring hidden for 23 years was located by Mrs Ralph Bemis Jr while pulling a weed at the Kraus family home southwest of Hays. The ring had been in the garden root of a weed near the poultry barn.
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Carl Kraus
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Ralph Bemis, Jr
Parets
Russian Tolstoy daughter joins Middlebury Russian school
Marie Tolstoy, daughter of Leo Tolstoy, is appointed to the newly inaugurated Russian school at Middlebury College. She arrived in the United States in 1924 to take up the position.
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INS
Middlebury College
Marie Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Miss Tolstoy
United States
University of Pennsylvania coach warns on track slump
Lawson Robertson veteran track mentor at the University of Pennsylvania says American athletic supremacy may be slipping as college track coaches face serious problems in developing athletes in field events. The Philadelphia dateline notes his warning amid concerns over track and field performance.
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Philadelphia
Lawson Robertson
University of Pennssylvania
Robertson
School for soldier-railroaders aids line on Southern during WWII
The record notes a free school for soldier-railroaders along the 200 mile Southern main line between New and the surrounding area. It states that graduates served overseas and added notable chapters to military railroading on World War II battlefronts.
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Southern
New
Southern Railway System
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