Protests over Truman Vatican ambassador role spark controversy
Bruce Jolly in the Greensboro Daily News argues the General Mark Clark appointment to the Vatican provoked Protestant and Communist protests. The piece suggests a simpler approach: appoint a representative to the Vatican as Roosevelt did, preserving anti Communist unity without broad religious offense. It criticizes the clash as unnecessary and potentially aiding the communists.
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Mark Clark
United States
Vatican
Soviet Russia
Truman
Roosevelt
Bruce Jolly
Greensboro Daily News
Mark W. Clark
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Myron C. Taylor
U. S
Taylor
America
Russia
Refusal of New York port dockers jeopardizes Korea war cargo
An editorial condemns a wildcat strike by New York stevedores halting loading of military equipment bound for Korea. It argues the action endangers national safety, urges the government to use emergency powers to force workers back to work, noting past wartime port walkouts.
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New York
Korea
J.A.L
Snide and Sneaky Truman Reappoints Jessup By Recess Appointment
The Senate blocked Philip Jessup's US delegation post to the United Nations but President Truman reappointed him via a recess appointment after adjournment. The move sparked charges of constitutional overreach, asserting the executive bypassed Senate powers and mocked constitutional balance.
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Senate
Philip Jessup
United States
General Assembly of the United Nations
Jessup
Truman
Washington
Doctrines of Error Admission in Washington
Arthur Krock of the New York Times cites a "doctrine of the non-admission of error" in which top government officials rarely admit mistakes. He notes that even solid policy is often marred by concealed minor failings, a pattern not limited to the administration but visible on Capitol Hill as well.
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United States
Vatican
Senate
Truman
Arthur Krock
New York Times
Washington
Krock
Capitol Hill
Mystery over $170,000 grant and a phantom Mr. Davis
In Washington a tongue in cheek exchange centers on a $170,000 federal funds grant. Congressman Clarence Cannon cites a nameless Mr. Davis as the beneficiary, leaving Michigan officials puzzled about any real figure behind the grant. The piece weaves political gaffes, fund raising humor, and a tease about identity.
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Clarence Cannon
Missouri
Houseations Committee
Cannon Committee
Michigan
Homer Ferguson
Great Lakes
Ferguson
Clarence
Cannon
Sclon
Mr. Davis
Mr. Ferguson
Davis
MacArthur Emerges as Key Leader in Republican Shift
The article argues General MacArthur has become the ideological leader of the Republican Party, uniting rank and file and many Democrats behind a new platform. It contends his Miami speech clarified issues, sidelined Eisenhower and Dewey, and makes opposition to his principles dangerous for Taft and other rivals.
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Douglas MacArthur
Moral MacArthur
Miami
General MacArthur
Lodge
Saltonstall
Ives
Duff
Morse
MacArthur
Harry Truman
George Marshall
Dean Acheson
American Legion
Taft
General Eisenhower
Thomas E. Dewey
Ly Party
Eisenhower
Wayne Morse
Winston Churchill
Wendell Willkie
Vandenberg
John Foster Dulles
Thomasey
Dewey
Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Robert A. Taft
Marshall
Acheson
Dea
Fragmented political quotes and public figure remarks
Readable fragments quote Heath Gracie on milk and youth, debate about Taft candidacy for governor versus president, Bricker and Kefauver criticism of crime inquiry, and a Soviet writer’s Rassadin remark. The passage stitches scattered opinions from U S public discourse.
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Charles Taft
Ohio
Taft
Tafts
Joan W. Bricker
Kefauver
U. S
Rassadin
Boyle Faces RFC Inquiry Over Eight Thousand Fee Claim
Washington inquiry questions Boyle about an $8000 fee tied to RFC loan dealings with Litheford. Boyle asserts only $1250 in legal fees were earned from Feb 1 to Apr 20, 1949 as he shifted to full-time work for the Democratic National Committee and left law practice.
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Reconstruction Finance
Ation
Boyle
RFC
Litheford
Democratic National Committee
The
National Committee
Max Siskind
Siskind
Litteford
Mufflers and Ambassadors in Hi Po Column Scrape
A humorous Hi Po column recounts a professor joked about a hot Ford lacking a muffler drawing campus police attention. The piece contrasts truck and car exhausts, notes North Carolina muffler laws, and touches on clergymen critiquing Truman’s Vatican ambassador pick with calls for church state separation.
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Hi-Po
High Point
Essor
North Carolina
Quotes and voices on politics and weather from wartime era
A collage of remarks from figures like George Meany Sen Styles Bridges and Rep Robert Kean on topics from poverty to communism to weather. Mentions of India’s power politics and Western Europe defense under NATO frame the era’s global concerns.
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Nehru
India
Sen. Styles Bridges
N.H
Europe
Soviet Union
Sen Brien McMahon
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British Columbia
Kenneth Mea
Ee Wee
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Liaquat Ali Khan
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McKellar
Royce Powell
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Emery
Childrens Hospital
Republican Party
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G. H. Heath-Gracie
Birmingham
England
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St. Louis Post Dispatch
Theodore C. Link
Lithoford
Leverette Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Eisermower
Warren
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GOP
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Arkansas
Bill Boyle
W. A. Bivins
Joseph McCarthy
Frank Ogburn
Ce Bt
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Catholic U. of America
Clint Youle
Robert W. Kean
N. J
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Georgia
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