Taft and Dewey battle for Southern delegates at Philadelphia
In Philadelphia the fight over Southern GOP delegates heats up as Taft and Dewey vie for influence. The Taft notebook lists Florida Mississippi and Oregon delegates with notes on loyalties, favors, and possible switches, highlighting a broader pattern of bargaining that could shape the next Republican presidential nominating outcome.
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Philadelphia
Senate
Herbert Leicover
Ben Davis
Georgia
Hoover
Perry Howard
Mississippi
Rush Holland
Harry Dougherty
South
Taft
John E. Jackson
Louisiana
Cincinnati
Dewey
United States
Senator
Florida
Hattie J. James
Myrtle Ave
Jacksonville
Garrison
Joe
Negro Elks of
3Rd District
E. B Goode
Wright St
Pensacola
Wesley E. Garrison
Miami
Phila
Sth
Jeane E. D'Agostino
Wisteria Ave
Orlando
Stassen
Alex Akerman Jr
Orange Ave
R. T
Robert Tat
Dor Stassen
Oregon
Spider Webs and Spinning from Uncle Ray
Nature notes describe spider silk, its ultra light thread, and how garden spiders spin square and spiral webs. Spiders may produce up to 60 feet of thread in a day and renew webs daily, sometimes eating old webs to reclaim material. Tomorrow a free illustrated leaflet on ancient Rome will be mailed to readers who request it.
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Uncle Ray
Rome
Farmers' Field Work Is Now Up To Schedule
Harrisburg reports PA farm activity and plant growth rode on fair weather during the week ending June 8. growers say field work is on schedule with fruit trees sprayed for disease and insects. apples set poor while peaches look promising. early strawberries move to market, vegetables grow well, cabbage and lettuce harvest began, wheat and barley show some disease, corn largely planted with some replanting, oats nearly seeded, and cashew pistachio noted as poison ivy relatives.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Department of Agriculture
Small Car Makers Gamble On Success In U S Market
Nine small cars priced from 100 to 1600 dollars are reviewed in Science Illustrated. King Midget from Athens Ohio offers 75 to 90 mpg and up to 45 mph. Renault and Austin are the costly foreign options at about 1200 and 1600 dollars. Seven U S manufacturers bet millions on a market for smaller cars, while experts weigh consumer desire, costs of living, terrain needs, taxes, and optimal car size.
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New York
Science
U. S
Athens
Ohio
Renault
France
Austin
Britain
The
Economist
Israel Waging Scientific War Led by Dr Weizmann
New York story reports Israel's scientific war against the Palestine desert led by Dr Chaim Weizmann president of Israel and head of the Weizmann Institute of Science. The institute seeks crops that thrive in salty desert soil, commercial products from those crops, and water management to dilute salinity. Castor bean and carob tree cited as promising.
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Ha'iganah
Israel
United States
Britain
Science Illustrated
Dr. Weizmann
New York
N. Y
Palestine Desert
Science
Chaim Weizmann
Weizmann, Institute of Science
Stitute
Palestine
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Germany
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Indiana
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