Wake Forest Campus Groundbreaking Draws Broad Backing
A large Wake Forest College groundbreaking in Winston-Salem drew Together New Dealers and Republicans, Truman praising the college and denouncing Russia. Bank president Bob Hanes and insurer Howard Holderness among anti Trumanites applauded. The event cost roughly a hundred thousand dollars and ran smoothly despite a late start due to a magneto issue on President Truman’s Independence plane. State police and Secret Service secured the scene with brief formal speeches from Wake Forest, UNC, and others.
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Howard Holderness
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Jones portrays Roosevelt and Truman in Fifty Billion Dollars
The book by Jesse Jones attacks FDR's motives and argues he used wartime powers to stay in office while praising some achievements. It questions Truman’s fitness, predicts a mixed historical view, and notes White House reporters' poll suggesting a likely bid for re election. Summary reflects a critical, era tone with named figures Roosevelt Jones Truman and other references.
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Winston-Salem
Cow Milking Contest Has Political Flair at State Fair
North Carolina State Fair hosts a cow milking contest between Governor Kerr Scott and Commissioner L Y Ballentine. The outcome hinges on the cows and judges, with playful banter about udder expertise and Ballentine’s “Stag” nickname. A light note on government staffing and clergy etiquette closes the piece.
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Kerr Scott
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Pass the Biscuits Pappy Roils Texas Crowd
Former Senator W Lee O Daniel lampoons the RFC while raising hopes of easy money. He urges Texans to write him for loans, mockingly inviting households, farmers and social workers to reveal needs to the RFC. A Dean quip about atomic test dots ends the piece.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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Pappy
Texas
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RFC
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Rights and duties in a democratic state on change
Corliss Lamont argues freedom includes the right to advocate revolution and the right to oppose it. He insists schools, taxes, and loyalty oaths shape public life, and that lawful barriers, courts, and legislatures preserve traditional order while permitting peaceful or violent means to defend society.
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Quotes and quotes from public figures form a press note
The excerpt quotes Gen Douglas MacArthur criticizing the State Department as acting like a prime minister, Betty Hutton on parenting methods, Betty Hutton on parenting methods, and Sen Walter F George arguing against continued economic aid to Europe citing reduced postwar production capacity.
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Douglas MacArthur
Europe
Walter F. George
Strikes Slow U S Defense Output Amid Wage Tensions
The Washington Key Industry report shows August new strikes at 425 matched July, with idle man-days rising to 1.75 million. Major actions hit Brown and Sharpe, Wright Aeronautical, Douglas, Caterpillar, U S Producers, and Paducah and Dana plants, signaling a broad labor disruption affecting weapons and aerospace programs and prompting wage stabilization concerns.
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AFL
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Calif
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Peoria
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Wage Stabilization Board
Atomic Energy
Paducah
Dana
Ind
William Green
AEC
CIO
San Francisco
Defense
George C. Marshall
Truman
Defense Department
Clayton Fritchey
New Orleans
Marines Boot Training Shown In Life Magazine
A Life Magazine report portrays marine recruits at Parris Island from arrival to boot completion or unfitness. A tough drill instructor dishes punishment and demands strict obedience as recruits learn discipline and readiness for Korea or Europe amid a bustling early Cold War era.
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