ICC Freight Rate Ruling Seen as Southern Victory
The interstate commerce commission abolished class rate differentials between southern southwestern and western territories and the eastern official territory. The decision aims to end discrimination that favored the east and could boost southern industrial and agricultural development. Governor J M Broughton of North Carolina analysis lauds the ruling as a major southern victory with long term economic impact. The measure is viewed as a turning point in freight policy, potentially transforming regional growth and industry relocation.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Virginia
Ohio River
St. Louis
America
Rocky Mountains
East
New England
J. M. Broughton
North Carolina
South
Broughton
North Carolina tobacco tax harms southern finances
The speaker argues that tobacco taxes, higher in the south, reflect postwar discrimination. He contends NC pays a large share of federal taxes due to cigarette sales, despite the region's economic inequities. He urges Congress to note that the Civil War era inequities persist.
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North Carolina
Union
Internal Revenue
Michigan
Capitol Square Sow of a New State Board Delay
Cap itol observers expect the conservation and development board still unnamed for days as Governor Cherry weighs a wide range of interests and statutory term limits. The delay hampers the department with May term expirations and pending interstate relations and staffing needs.
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C&d
Board of Conservation and Development
Cherry
Trial sermons and selection for mental hygiene post
Governor Cherry pushes a swift choice for general superintendent as the present board resists binding successors. The state board of hospital control arranged for five candidates to visit as potential leaders, echoing a trial sermon process. The medical advisory commission named five, leaving final selection to the board.
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State Board of Hospial Control
Medical Advisory Commission
I Want to Be a Customer and War Reflections
Mrs. B D Thompson laments wartime excuses for service slackness and praises a Post article on customer perspectives. Jeff Pierce recalls a past fishing trip from Morehead with companions posing with a big catch in a photo album.
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B. D. Thompson
Jeff Pierce
Morehead
Politicians and returning servicemen figure in local remarks
The piece recalls Libby Ward sought publicity with a fisherman’s catch, Jack Hartley’s homecoming from a German prison and gas ration talk, Lathelis Clifton’s barther-in-law’s discharge, and Woodrow Ison with Hargrove Ballentine debating diplomacy and openness in the world.
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Jack Hartley
Ration Board
Truman uses practical politics in TVA nomination clash
The piece argues President Truman navigated a Senate fight over David Lilienthal's TVA reappointment. Senators Stewart and McKellar, foes of Lilienthal, publicly opposed him yet accepted the president’s choice, saying they like Truman and would vote against confirmation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Truman
David Lilienthal
Tennessee Valley Authority
Kenneth McKellar
Stewart
Tennesee
TVA
Lilienthal
Lilianthal
Sen
Sen. McKellar
Senate
Fragmented Germany Faces Postwar Vacuum and Power Play
The analysis describes Germany after defeat as divided into multiple zones, lacking a functioning government and collapsing economy. It notes Allied influence in parts, with few coherent leadership options left, and mentions exiled leaders and potential opposition tied to Moscow.
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Germany
Bismarck
Hitler
Italy
Japan
Spain
Argentina
Europe
Russia
Moscow
Stalingrad
Wilhelm Pieck
Friedrich von Paulus
Germany and Europe After The German Question
The author argues no comparable power in the US or UK and frames Germany as economically and personally bankrupt. He envisions a postwar solution a European state chosen by Germans themselves with safeguards against militarism, warning that division could fuel underground Nazi and militarist movements. He notes Germany’s geographic heart leads to conflict if not cooperative, citing Germany’s paradoxical blend of cultural achievement and authoritarian longings.
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United States
Great Britain
Germany
France
Ruhr
Russia
Europe
Ropean
Goethe
Schiller
Heine
Beethoven
Mutual
America
Cecil Brown
CBS
Norman Corwin
Colyum
Eisenhower
Thyssen
von Papen
State Dept
Robert Murphy
Darlan
Gov't
Berlin
Edits and echoes of Broadway glory in Gwynne column wrap
Edith Gwynne recaps Hollywood s dinner with the Earl Wilsons and stars Faye Emerson Betty Hutton Ida Lupino and more. She quips about original epigrams and cites Ed Kennedy s war scoop plus rumors from editorial rooms and forthcoming books and shows.
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Intelligentsia
Edith
H'wood
Gwynne
Earl Wilsons
Faye Emerson
Betty Hutton
Ida Lupino
F. Sinatra
la Gwynne
Dewey Buttons
Lois Andrews
George Jessel
Jessel
Ed Kennedy
J Y Starr
Alan Hynd
Goering
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National Relirve
Lexington Ave
Congress
Capitol Square
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Libby’ Ward
Raleigh News and Observer
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Woodrow Ison
Hargrove Ballentine
Missouri
Jack Stinnett
George Sokolsky
Winchell
George S. Kaufman
Kaufman
Bill Robinson
Paul Muni
Monty Woolley
la Guerra Gaucha
Frank Kingdon
Henry’ Wallace
the Readers Press
Wallace
Johannes Steel
Holt
Simon & Schuster
A. L. Langley
Whit House
Huey Long
N. Brandwynne
E. W. Howe
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N. Lewis
Wm, Mallory
Edmond Rostand
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