The Battle Over Beer in Guilford County
The High Point Enterprise notes a county wide beer and wine referendum is likely, with the Allied Church League leading petitions and the Guilford County Retail Beer Dealers Association opposing. It calls for tolerant, respectful debate, recognizing honest disagreement on prohibition vs control.
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Guilford County
Allied Church League
Greensboro
High Point
Guilford
North Carolina
Curley of Boston Loses Bid for Fifth Mayor Term
Boston voters end the political career of James Michael Curley at age 74 with a defeat in the mayoral race. The veteran Democrat had four mayoral wins and four losses, plus stints in Congress and two jail terms, the latest for mail fraud in 1947.
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Boston
James Michael Curley
Curley
Massachusetts
New Navy Chief Sherman Moves to Smooth Pentagon Waters
Admiral Forrest Sherman, the new Chief of Naval Operations, signals effort to ease Pentagon tensions. He permits Capt. John Crommelin to return to active duty after Crommelin’s earlier suspension over a confidential navy letter.
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Adm
Forrest Sherman
Naval Operations
Pentagon
John Crommelin
Navy
Patter graphics and quips from a curious week
A collection of wry maxims on progress skepticism and invention. The piece riffs on fools as teachers, progress toward annihilation, and the idea of boasting about noise powered motors. It ends with a small note about a Northwestern University student fined two dollars for feeding a meter to avoid a parking charge.
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Northwestern University
Patrick
These Days The United States Abandoned Isolationism
The text discusses the return from isolationist policy in U S history. It cites George Washington and John Quincy Adams warning that joining other powers or causes would drag the country into endless wars and remove it from its own liberty. It frames isolationism as core to American tradition and warns against becoming a global dictator.
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George Washington
John Quincy Adams
United States
Adams
United
Japan
China
Russia
Kennan
Franco
Spain
Chiang Kai-shek
Israel
ASA
Lend Lease
Teheran
Yalta
United Nations
ERP
ECA
North Atlantic Alliance
Comment on Kennan and policy shift to hard line
George F. Kennan, famed as the brains of the State Department and Mr X of Foreign Affairs, has long shaped policy. He spoke before the Academy of Political Science and answered John Quincy Adams as of today on the matter of ending appeasement toward Soviet Russia.
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George F. Kennan
State Department
Russia
Academy of Political Science
John Quincy Adams
Tastes On Books for Adults And Children
A discussion of reading tastes for adults and children, praising libraries as starting points for arts and sciences. It cites James Thurber and James Hilton, notes declining reliance on dime novels, and outlines children's books and ways to entice young readers with varied formats and colorful editions. The piece also touches on postwar foreign policy debates and the need to understand aid patterns and global threats.
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Caesar
Cassius
Brutus
Julius Caesar
Francis Bacon
Chicago
James T. Thurber
Mr. Chips
James Hilton
Page gossip notes reveal celebrity gossip and industry shifts
A dense column sketches Bernard Baruch rumor mill with Ruth Pratt and Petro Elser, mentions Faye Emerson, Estelle Taylor, Virginia Leigh, Muir kinship, and Earl Brown political moves. It cites Shirley Temple, Kay Thompson, and Runyon Fund tickets, plus theatre and music industry tidbits and notable social matches.
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Man About Town
B. Baruch
Ruth Pratt
Wall
M. Muir
Horace Brown
Quentin Reynolds
Joan
F&. Howard
Iris Mountbatten
Washington relations between management and men
Washington relations between management and men reports on Lieutenant Toland’s will directing 40 percent of his estate to improve employer employee relations in the U S. NAM adds 16000 for two research projects on workplace communication led by Dr Paul Pigors at MIT.
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Washington
NEA
Iwo Jima
Benjamin Rush Toland
U. S
National Association of Manufacturers
NAM
Paul Pigors
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Benjamin Toland
Ben Toland
St. Paul's
Yale
Phi Beta Kappa
Toland
Pigors
Dr. Pigers
CIO
AFL
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TER
Matthews
Crommelin
Sherman
Patter Graphics
Temptation
George Sokolsky
W. A. Bivins
Phyllis McGinley
New York Times Book Review
Irvin S. Cobb
Tom Brown
Daniel Boone
King Arthur
His
Round Table
Robin Hood
Lincoln
David Copperfield
Apollo
Jamestown
Fred Flagler
Dorothy
New York
Bernard Baruch
Walter Winchell
Earl Brown
Harlem
Life
Jackie Robinson
Ben Davis
Earl
Marcantonio
FE. Roosevelt
Greenwich Village
Park Sheraton
Kay Thompson
Mayfair Room
Boheme
Miami Beach
Versailles
F. Warren
Rosemary Williamson
Trave
M. Berle
Strand
Berl
Wottaboggin
Spex
Runyon Fund
Roney Plaza Cabana Club
X. Bloomberg
Billy Rolfe
Paulette Goddard
Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl
Hitler
Amour
Wendy Burden
Walter Sohier
Sylvia Morrill
Retty Dghtr
Minnesota Univ Proxy
Tom Hudson
Armando
Geo. W. Os
Texas
Armstrong
Sam
Hap Arnold
David Arnolds
Jean Simmons
Eglin Field
Fla
Countess de Mille
France
Bob Kim
Tres-Gay
Ana Pavwker
Tania
Ghorghe Bratescu
Maeterlinck
Franz Josef
Infanta Blanca
Italy
Wilhelmina
British West Indies
Medico
Caribbean
Virgin Islands
the Post
Mark Sherwin
Ned Schuyler
Henry Wallace
Mike
Irving Berlin
Pete Feller
Howard Cullman
Show Biz
Billy Rose
Paul Robeson
Peter Edson
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