Legislature Speaker Sees Early Adjournment Likely
Speaker Frank Taylor signals the legislature may finish in early April as conservatives block tax hikes and keep spending near the budget commission’s stance with schools as the major exception. He notes improved liberal momentum but expects adjournment if opposition to higher expenditures persists.
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Frank Taylor
State House of Representatives
Taylor
Budget Commission
Scott
Labor Leaders Withdraw From Mobilization Agencies
Top U S labor leaders withdraw from mobilization bodies in a dispute over wage controls price ceilings and manpower policy. The disagreement centers on a 10 percent wage hike limit and cost of living protections while urging faster wage price stabilization to protect war effort. Union officials fault the price control system and demand a more inclusive mobilization, warning delayed resolution could damage national defense.
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U. S
United Labor Policy Committee
America
Eric Johnston
Wage Stabilization Board
OPA
Charles F. Wilson
Defense
Wilson
Congress
Soviet Threat Seen as Desperate Kremlin Drive
David Dallin argues in The New Soviet Empire that Soviet aggression masks a crumbling regime. He portrays Moscow’s push for a world empire as an attempt to shore up internal weakness and sustain an aura of invincibility. Edmund Stevens notes widespread disillusionment with communism among Russians by age 35.
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Fortune Magazine
David Dallin
Kremlin
Dallin
Moscow
Soviet Union
Edmund Stevens
Christian Science Monitor
Russia
President Truman's Florida Getaway Provokes Arctic Wit
A humorous wartime era column jokes about President Truman's arthritis slowing him, while the author envies sun soaked Key West and Sugar Loaf Key retreat. It describes travel details, quirky local characters, and a playful wish to be elsewhere during winter as the piece riffs on Florida’s tropical escape.
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Washington
Key West
Florida Keys
Wodu
Florida
Sugar Loaf Key
Sugar Loaf
Knox
Jim” Julian
Nates
Eddie
A Noble Life and a Candid View on Learning
The piece honors Mr. Denny Sr 79 of North Carolina born and raised in the Atlantic states whose life as salesman executive churchman and benefactor left a positive mark in the city He supported Brenty Presbyterian Church and offered a model of cautious risk taking and moral leadership. It also touches on reflections about mortality and public figures including Roosevelt and Mussolini and quotes on life as a vapor.
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MR. Denny
George V. Denny, Sr
North Caroline
Atlantic
Denny
Brenty Presbyterian Church
George Wafer ‘Thornbury
Benito Mussolini
Theodore Roosevelt
Quotes on science and Korea war aims by T. Compton
"We have always underrated Asian science." Compton says scientists were good before the war and likely better now. He insists every soldier must know the U.S. is in Korea to decide where the next major war will be fought, whether in the United States or elsewhere.
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Ie T. Compton
Korea
United States
Formosa aid debates and grain plans draw mixed reaction
A radio audience clash over a postwar talk signals public interest in defense production and stabilization. Ambassador Cooper reports rapid European recovery and rearmament, while Formosa funding and India grain aid loom large. The piece notes congressional hearings on troop deployments and the Marshall Plan style grain loan, with specifics on India's 150 million dollar program and counter fund mechanisms.
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Joe Louis
Wilson
Chester Bowles
Gukke
OPA
West Europe
John Sherman Cooper
Kentucky
State Department
United Nations
Europe
Secretary of State
Dean Acheson W
Senate
Armed Services
U. S
Ary Acheson
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
Marshall
India
Congress
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Cold war critique on peace movements and Kremlin aims
A veteran British journalist argues that peace committees and movements serve Kremlinist aims to ease empire-building, turning away from genuine peace toward influence and control. He warns the liberal tradition defends free thought and law against state domination.
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