Counterpart Funds Explained and Aimed at Public Credit
A column argues that counterpart funds from Marshall Plan aid are used to finance a French waterway project and laments the lack of credit to Americans. It contrasts the St Lawrence project cost with over $46 billion in postwar foreign aid, urging taxpayers to question surplus counterpart funds and the public understanding of aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
United States
Lake Geneva
Switzerland
Mediterranean
St. Lawrence Waterway
St Lawrence Project
Lac
Noise From Bellflower Airport Angers Residents
A Bellflower resident writes editor complaining about daily airplane noise from Bellflower Airport. They claim planes take off near their home from 6 4. m to dark year-round, causing ongoing disturbance for nearly seven years. The writer contrasts actions of police versus sheriff and notes petitions filed before and after airport operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KE. M
Bellflower
Riment
Sheriff's Office
U.S. Responsibility for World Government Urges Peace
The piece urges the United States to lead in promoting world federal government and a world police force. It calls Congress to back HCR 64 and to elect leaders who support world governance, arguing moral leadership is needed for global action and a world constitution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
United States
Congress
Old Guard Waterloo in 52 Primaries Faces Kefauver Ike
Washington debates the 1952 presidential race as voters repudiate professional politicians led by Truman and Taft. Kefauver tops Dem contests and Eisenhower leads Republicans, while Stevenson and Douglas remain potential nominees. Trumanism and party machines face scrutiny amid calls for reform and courtship of Kefauver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Sen. Tattue
Estes Kefauver
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
Paul H. Douglas
Ilinois
Old Guard
Napoleon
Harry S. Truman
Boston
New York
Chicago
Kansas City
Virginia
Tennessee
Burr Powell Harrison
Winchester
Len. Byrd
Arthur Godfrey
Kefauver
Steel price fix push blocked by Arnall in White House
DREW PEARSON reports that cabinet members favored a moderate steel price rise to fund a wage increase, but Ellis Arnall the price administrator opposed the plan warning it could wreck the country. He insisted any rise would require a new price administrator, backed by Roger Putnam. The piece covers court injunctions, oil negotiations, and political pressure shaping labor disputes in 1950s Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Pearson
Defense Lovett
John Steelman
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Georgia
Ellis Arnall
Arnall
White House
Roger Putnam
Springfield
Mass
Court of Appeals
Justice Department
Philip Perlmen
Holmes Baldridge
Sawyer
Truman
Phil Murray
O. A
Jack) Knight
CIO Oil Workers
Smith
Virginia
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Congress
Standard
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Town Meeting
Independent
Ray Tucker
Waterloo
Sen. Taft
Gen
Eisenhower
Taft
Capitol Hill
Supreme Court
St. Louis
Owen J. Roberts
Teapot Dome
John W. Snyder
Secretary of the Treasury
RFC
Nixon
Alger Hiss
Snyder
McGrath
Harry H. Vaughan
Donald S. Dawson
Wallace H. Grahanm
Drew Pearson
Arnail
Standard Qi
Standard Oil of
Indiana
Contiental
Phillips Petroleum
Pan-Am Southern Oil
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