Swell Dream of a Joint Party Nomination
The Salisbury Post urges a Democratic Republican coalition to nominate a single candidate for president, praising a heroic figure and proposing General Eisenhour as closest to the ideal. The piece notes such a fusion is unlikely and mocks the dream as utopian. It also critiques North Carolina tourism, calling for better roads, hotels, and especially food, to attract visitors.
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Salisbury Post
United States
White House
Truman
Dewey
Taft
Stassen
Vandenberg
Warren
California
Post
General Eisenhour
General Marshall
MacArthur
Eisenhour
Governor Cherry Urges NC Resorts to Improve For Tourists
Governor R. Gregg Cherry told the State Board of Conservation and Development that North Carolina must improve appearances, services, food, fair prices, and recreation to compete with other regions. He noted mountains, coastline, and seasonal resorts but cited lack of good dining, comfortable lodging, and man-made facilities as a loss to pocketbooks and urged innkeepers cafes and chambers of commerce to act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Virginia
Richmond
Washington
R. Gregg Cherry
State Board of Conservation and Development
Rockies
America
Sandhills
Mother Nature
Chambers of Commerce
City manager plan eyed for Winston-Salem election
An editorial and editorials from Life Richmond Times-Dispatch Roanoke Times cite council manager forms as modern urban practice. Winston-Salem voters face a November 4 special election on adopting the form and hiring a city manager.
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Winston-Salem Journal
Winston-Salem
Life Magazine
Cincinnati
Cambridge
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Roanoke Times
Virginia
The Mad House Comedy and Political Banter
Washington column recounts a New York cellar comedy trio Jack White Pat Harrington and Frankie Hyers who mocked patrons including Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. The piece contrasts cheap insults with costly UN and world-bank aid and notes Gov. Mon Wallgren's Senate bid maneuvers in Washington with Warren Magnuson.
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Washington
Jack White
Pat Harrington
Frankie Hyers
Manhattan
52Nd St
New York
Mr. Hyers
Brooklyn
Mon Wallgren
Truman
Senate
Warren Magnuson
Toa W Wallgren
Wallgren
California
Edwin Pauley
Army
Pauley
Leslie Biffle
Democratic Policy Committee
Biffle
War and peace debated as world tensions rise
Senator Styles Bridges warns that Soviet aggression could erase past wartime sacrifices unless stopped. Maj Gen Beightler, War Personnel Board president, notes two opposing ideologies threaten peace in the atomic age. The piece recalls Boston’s 1856 trolley start when fares met public protest after free rides.
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America
Sen
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Robert S. Beightler
War Personnel Board
Boston
Traffic Accidents Reported In Greensboro News
The Greensboro News details two traffic incidents from the prior day. Miss Virginia McDade, Stratford college student, injured when a college car overturned after a football game near Yanceyville. R M Leonard, 50, a policeman, struck after midnight by a car in Greensboro, with multiple injuries and blood transfusions.
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Greensboro
Virginia McDade
Stratford College
Virginia
R. M. Leonard
Woman's College
Thomas L. Bobbitte
Bobbitte
Leonard
St. Leo's Hospital
The Luckman plan and diet talk in These Days
George Sokolsky critiques the Luckman committee push for voluntary rationing to free grain for export. He mocks calorie cutting while defending meat and beer, condemns importing European grain for beer, and argues American production should not subsidize British or Czechoslovak interests.
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Luckman Committee
Luckman
Mr. Luckman
Europe
America
Huckster
Czechoslovakia
United States
Great Britain
Pilsener
Soviet Russia
Winchells Renotice and Hollywood Nonsense Mix
Collected items note Winchell's renotice in Bridgeport alleging desertion, gossip on Georgia Gibbs and James Van Heusen, NBC alley excitement, Bob Hope producer incident, and illist Strub in New York. Various society vignettes include FDR letters, Maddom Filagstad protest, Suzette Morros with Jimmy Ritz, and other celebrity tidbits.
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Molotov
Esther Carp
L. Seligman
Bridgeport
Fdr
Duell, Sloan and Pearce
E. Roosevelt
American Veterans’ Committee
Chicago
Filagstad
Chums
Suzette Morros
Jimmy Ritz
Bros
Bert Henderson
Col. D. Patty
Hallowe'en
John L. Lewis
Entertainer Scandals And Notables Stir reader Letters
A jumble of gossip notes and society names spans divorces and marriages, theater execs, and public figures from New York to Miami. Names include Anne Callaghan, M. F. Stein, Sam Hoffenstein, Nancy Humphries, Paul Mellon, and Rachel Lambert Lloyd among others, with comments on weddings, elopements, and industry layoffs.
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al Newhousers
Andrew Mellon
Paul
Rachel Lambert Lloyd
Nancy Humphries
Miami
Rome
Richard Allman
U. N. Exec
Refusal to Trade With Iron Curtain Nations
A speaker denounces buying goods from behind the iron curtain. The statement rejects importing caviar or Pilsner beer from Russia and criticizes the Soviet regime while defending direct U S charity distribution to the hungry. The speaker contrasts dieting on calories with any other plan.
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United States
Russia
Stalin
Chairman Hints at Taft Peat Legislation in Labor Panel
Committee Chairman of the House Labor committee is pictured and noted for aiding Senator Taft on peat legislation. The crossword style clues indicate various related terms across horizontal and vertical entries, including measures, places, and common nouns.
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House Labor Committee
Taft
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High Point
C. W. Bates
State
Associated Press
G. Bromley Oxnam
Methodist Church
Charlotte
U. S
George Sokolsky
Winchell
Bob Ruark
Lee
Roberto
Vishinsky
Gae Hess
Mahood Taher
Jack Heinz
Pickle
Jane Ewing Jenney
Barbizon Model Agency
Paddy
Iran
Lydia Pinkham
Howard Johnson
James Gleasons
Sante Fe
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Harriet van Horne
Esscort
van Horne
Olive Borden
Hollywood
Ann Pennington
Jack
Kriendler
Irving Asher
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Bank of England
Britain
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Ohio
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Robert Goldstein
Broadway
James Harrington
A.P. Photogger
Wallander
Maribel Vinson
Guy
Owen
Las Vegas
Stow
Janey Donad
Anne Callaghan
B'way
M. F. Stein
la Astor
Duchess of Windsor
Princess Elizabeth
Bricker
Hawkes
New Jersey
Dept. of Justice
Nat'l Assn
Grand Jury
al Smith Memorial Foundation
Conover
Cutie Hanna Jones
Ed Luckenbach
Lux
Sam Hoffenstein
Joe Marr
N. Y
Evern
Joe Jeffers
Satdee
California Gazette
MGM
Johnny Meyer
Christopher Wells McCormick
Okla
Theatre Guild
Jackson J. Holtz
Holtz and Rose
Nat'l Council of
Beverly
Hills
H'wood
Kato Patac
Geo. Tator
Roxy
Hitler
Watt
James Watt
Abraham Lincoln
Illinois
Vandalia
Springfield
Ampere
Andre Marie Ampere
Wisconsin City
Missouri
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