Eisenhower Cautions Against Another White Case Fiasco
President Eisenhower signals he will not risk a repeat of the White case in next year's campaign. He accepts executive responsibility to purge Communists from government and urges action over political implication. Public view of the Brownell Chicago speech and GOP missteps highlights party disarray and the need for disciplined political strategy.
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Eisenhower
Harry Dexter White
Brownell
Chicago
Mr. Truman
House
Senate
Republican National Committee
South Carolina
Jimmy Byrnes
Congressional
McCarthys
Executive Branch
Truman
White
Decline and fall of the Washington briefcase
George Dixon laments the briefcase as a symbol of bureaucracy once a sign of trust now viewed with suspicion. He notes shops selling reduced briefcases on F Street and recalls figures like Perle Mesta, Theron Caudle, and Harry Vaughan in a critique of security culture and status symbols.
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Washington
Keister
Royal Academy
F Street
Dow
Perle Mesta
Boston University suspends Prof Maurice Halperin amid spy ring links
Boston University suspends Maurice Halperin, former head of Latin American Studies, after an FBI report cited him as a one time member of a Soviet espionage ring. The action reverses a prior ruling. Halperin previously refused to answer Senate Internal Security Subcommittee questions. Attorney General Brownell named him among those involved in the spy operation.
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Boston University
Maurice Halperin
FBI
Congressional
Senate
Jenner
Internal Security
Brownell
Halperin
Still Fast Growth Slows in Third Quarter 1953
The third quarter 1953 record shows U.S. output at a 369 billion dollar annual rate, down 3.4 billion from the prior quarter. An administration economist notes the pace has slowed from roaring to still fast, around 90 to 95 miles per hour.
Medical costs and socialized medicine echoes in US debate
Dr. Ulrich Redd Bryner argues the American public could spark compulsory health insurance by medical bankruptcies and calls for a mix of affordable private plans and restrained doctor pricing to deter government controlled care. His Britain visit informs the view that Parliament created the NHS under social pressure from the people.
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Ulrich Redd Bryner
American Academy of General Practice
Britain
Bryner
United States
Letters to the Editor on Truman publicity and nominations
The letters criticize Truman’s publicity as nauseating and undignified while praising his opponents briefly. A second letter argues for improving the presidential nomination system, urging better delegates and a balanced mix of leaders, farmers, and businesspeople while defending the convention system and warning against its erosion.
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the Enterprise
Harry Truman
America
Nemane
France
Revocation of Justice of the Peace Post in Craven County
Governor Umstead revokes the commission of Justice of the Peace John G. Lamb in Craven County using executive power. The piece discusses JP appointment rules, methods of removal, and historical governance policies from Bickett to Umstead, noting the varying standards and the high stakes of JP authority.
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Commission of Justice of the Peace
John G. Lamb
Craven County
Umstead
Justices of the Peace
General Assembly
Superior Court
Chandelier feature at St George church and local trades
Forrest Cates develops a Sunday feature on the new chandelier at St George Greek Orthodox church while Bill Pappas wins Czech glass rights in the Southeast. The Guilford county home Thanksgiving dinner plans are outlined by Sam W. Davis as 200 inmates await a community feast. Rhythmaires from High Point gain votes on Ted Mack's TV show as excitement builds for a possible return.
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St. George
Forrest Cates
Bill Pappas
Bill
Forrest
Sam W. Davis
Guilford County
High Point
Rhythmaires
Ted Mack
High Point Exchange Club
Naomi Love
Bill Ferguson
Herman Goodin
Exchange Club
George Gibbardt
Mr. Mack
White's Dead and the Case for Live Subversives
George Sokolsky argues that Harry Dexter White and a wider Harold Ware Cells network shaped U S policy since 1934. He contends White was a secondary insider, urges public hearings for living conspirators, and denounces cover ups around Fort Monmouth Partidge McKee and Hiss.
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America
Harry Dexter White
White
Harold Ware
John Abt
Nathan Witt
Victor Perlo
Nathan Gregory Silvermaster
Lauchlin Currie
Harold Glasser
Charles Kramer
George Silverman
Michael Lee
Solomon Adler
Henry Collins, Jr
Frank Coe
Michael Greenberg
United States Treasury
the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Fred Vinson
John Snyder
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Heister
Theron Lamar Caudle
Harry H. Vaughan
The
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Einstein
Kingsport
Tenn
Lamar
Malenkov
Dulles
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Ellaville
Sun
S. E. Tucker
Capitol Square
Lynn Nisbet
Bickett
Broughton
Democratic Party
Supreme Court
Squire
Holt McPherson
Nathan Ayers
YMCA
William J. Grady
National Council of Ymca
Jess Washburn
Gulf
English and
Lindsay Streets
George Sokolsky
Vaudevillians
William A. Wirt
Gary
Indiana
Roosevelt
Kerensky
Wirt
Alger Hiss
Fort Monmouth
Army
Stevens
Joe McCarthy
Richard C. Partridge
Samuel McKee, Jr
G-2
United States Army
General Partridge
McCarthy Committee
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