Dulles Lehman race previews 1950 campaigns
The New York contest between Herbert Lehman and John Foster Dulles is a national yardstick for the 1950 elections. The duel centers on the welfare state, Fair Deal policy, and the balance of liberty versus government programs, with national figures visiting to help their cause.
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Herbert H. Lehman
UNRRA
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Dewey
Wagner
Senate
Lehman
Mr. Dulles
Truman
New York
Congress
Barkley
Labor Tobin
McGrath
New York City
Upstate
France in the Wings De Gaulle Poised for Power
France awaits a likely general election as Bidault’s three party coalition forms a fragile government. De Gaulle remains a looming option, hoping for broad power if his rightist faction gains control of Parliament.
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Georges Bidault
France
Bidault
Popular Republican Movement
MRP
Jules Moch
Rene Mayer
Charles de Gaulle
DeGaulle
Free French
Trial of former Rep J Par nell Thomas opens in Washington
Dates list events from November 7 to November 11 noting trial of former Representative J Par nell Thomas on government defrauding charges in Washington as Election Day and Armistice Day related observances are scheduled by groups including American Legion and U S Marine Corps.
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Rep. J. Parnell Thomas
Washington
U.S. Marine Corps
CIO Convention in Cleveland Targets Leftists and Steel Strike
At the CIO convention in Cleveland Murray pushes to purge Communist influence from leadership and bar totalitarian members. Bethlehem Steel offers a non contributory pension plan starting at 100 dollars monthly, signaling a rare voluntary settlement amid the steel strike impacting auto production.
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Congress of Industrial Organizations
CIO
Cleveland
Philip Murray
Steelworkers Union
Murray
Steelworkers
United Electrical Workers
U.E. and
Farm Equipment and Metal Workers
Bethelhem Steel Corp
Bethlehem
United Front
U.S. Steel
Bethelhem
Hormones Show Promise Against Cancers and Arthritis
Sloan Kettering Institute and Memorial Cancer Center researchers report two hormones, acid and cortisone, may shrink cancers and ease arthritis and rheumatic fever. In trials, patients improved while on hormones, but tumors enlarged after stopping treatment.
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Sloan-Kettering Institute
Memorial Cancer Center
New York
American Cancer Society
Pasteur
Two English Authors Win Prizes At Opposite Ages
Winston Churchill, 75, wins The London Sunday Times prize worth 1000 pounds for volumes of his memoirs The Gathering Storm and Their Finest Hour. Axel d Etter, a young author of The Exciting Forest, gains publication for his fantasy story. Clifford Bax notes the boy author’s claim of original French to English translation.
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Winston Churchill
London Sunday Times
Churchill
Axel d’Etter
Clifford Bax
Quotations on Freedom Religion from Truman and Heuss
President Truman says freedom requires work and faith to sustain religion as a living force. President Heuss predicts Berlin will again become the capital of Germany and that day will come.
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President Truman
Theodore Heuss
Germany
Berlin
Two Deadly 1947 Airline Crashes Amid Weather and Miscommunication
Aerial travel records show 12.6 billion passenger miles in 1947 with a safety rate of 21.184 million miles per fatality. In recent weeks two major crashes occurred: Air France flight from Paris to New York hit a mountain in the Azores killing 48. Eastern Airlines and a Bolivian fighter collided near Washington National Airport, 55 dead.
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Air France
Paris
New York
Azores
Eastern Airlines
Washington
U.S
Coca Cola Becomes Symbol in Soviet Italian Propaganda
In Rome Soviet propagandists addressed 8000 Italian Communists in Russian, eliciting instant reaction to two words Coca Cola. Translation of Alexender Fadeyev remarks questions Soviet influence over Italy and its access to air fields and exports, using Coca Cola as a vivid example.
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Rome
Alexander Fadeyev
Fadeyev
Italy
Soviet Union
Labor Wins Lords Reform For December Enactment
The Labour majority in the House of Commons pushed through a bill limiting Lords veto power for the third time in two years. This reform cuts the Lords delaying time from two years to one and aims to speed nationalization of the iron and steel industries, with the measure set to become law in December. Prime Minister Attlee and Home Secretary James Chuter Ede argued the move advances equality and democracy.
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House of Commons
House of Lords
Britain
Lords
Commons
U. S. Senate
Home
James Chuter Ede
Labor Party
Ede
Attlee
Edward R. Stettinius Jr Dies of Heart Attack
Edward R. Stettinius Jr a former U S Secretary of State and Lend Lease director died of a heart attack at his sister s Greenwich Connecticut home. Admiral Forrest Sherman named to succeed Louis E Denfeld as Chief of Naval Operations amid unification policy tensions. Dutch and Indonesian officials sign a provisional constitution for the United States of Indonesia as negotiations continue in The Hague since August 22.
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Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
U.S
United Nations
Greenwich, Conn
Juan Trippe
Forrest P. Sherman
U.S. Mediterranean
Louis E. Denfeld
United States of Indonesia
the Hague
Not for Sale Money Not All at Jefferson Military College
Jefferson Military College a small prep school near Natchez founded in 1802 refused a $50 million endowment with race and religious conditions. The trustees stood firm against excluding students or faculty by race and against a reduced board control. A $5,000 gift arrived to cover a bank note, while nationwide praise poured in for preserving non sectarian, non discriminatory education.
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Jefferson Military College
Washington, Miss
Natchez
Jefferson Davis
Juster
George W. Armstrong
States Rights
Armstrong
Clared
Gerald L. K. Smith
Texas
Jefferson Board of Trustees
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Harrison, Mich
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