Congress pushes bill to curb Supreme Court powers
Congress moves fast with the Senate taking up a broad bill to curb Supreme Court powers while the House debates minerals legislation. Key items include foreign aid, a 288 billion dollar debt limit, and subsidy measures for mining. The Jenner-Butler bill follows a Supreme Court ruling on police arraignments.
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House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
United States
Senate Judiciary Committee
Eisenhower Urges Obedience to Federal Court Orders on School Integration
President Eisenhower declared all Americans must obey federal court orders in the school integration dispute and that states have a duty to enforce them. He avoided detailing his view on integration, stressing the duty to uphold court decrees and to curb unlawful forces, referencing his Little Rock actions.
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Eisenhower
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Eisenhower Differing Over Three Bills Cannot Join Same Camp
President Eisenhower said he cannot place himself in the same political camp as any Congress member who opposes the three major bills on reciprocal trade foreign aid and defense. He indicated he may campaign but has no fixed plans. He praised Benson's farm policy and declined to expand the National Security Council.
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Eisenhower
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Benson
Harry Truman
Truman
National Security Council
Security Council
Minneapolis Nearing Major League Baseball Franchise
Minneapolis officials press toward securing a major league franchise as Gerald Moore of the Metropolitan Sports Arena Commission names the first week of September to sign with an as yet unnamed club. He notes no definite commitment exists, with negotiations ongoing with the Washington Senators and speculation about the Cleveland Indians moving here.
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Washington Senators
Cleveland Indians
Senators
Barbara Is Alice In Dairyland Hostess Named
Nineteen year-old Barbara Haslow of Chili was chosen in Milwaukee as Alice in Dairyland Wisconsin official hostess for the next year.
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Milwaukee
Barbara Haslow
Alice In Dairyland
Wisconsin
France Backs Western Plan On Mideast Settlement At U N
Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville urged the emergency U N General Assembly to back Dag Hammarskjold and let him pursue arrangements to ease tension. The West seeks a two thirds vote for a plan to hand the Middle East problem to the secretary general. Dulles met Latin American representatives and said the U S will not keep troops in Lebanon.
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France
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U.N. General Assembly
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Jordan
United States
U.N
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Hammarskjold
Dulles
Pacifico Montero de Vargas
Paraguay
General Assembly
David and Goliath meet again in combat in Surrey
In Surrey a 1200 pound bull named Goliath charged the playing field at Slyfield Green terrorizing 16 children as 4 year old David Butter, a 43 pound boy, stood his ground with a stick. The bull fled after repeated strikes and was later slated for slaughter nearby.
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Goliath
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Slyfield Green
Surrey
Harriman Smear Claims Stir Senate Probes
Washington AP A 300 pound ex convict and Teamster official Robert Baker challenged Senate investigators accusing them of smearing Gov Averell Harriman of New York. His ex wife Mollie and Ruth Brougher testified Baker linked to Harriman while Baker invoked his own past crimes including a jail term for killing Joe Penner’s duck.
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Barney) Baker
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Anthony Hintz
Eddie
Cockered) Dunn
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Groundwork for Summit A Test System Accord
Eisenhower hailed tentative East West scientific agreement to police a nuclear test ban as groundwork for a potential summit. Geneva talks aim to set up about 200 monitoring stations worldwide with land and sea assets, though financing UN sponsorship and inspector powers remain unresolved.
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Washington
Eisenhower
State Department
Striking threat looms as C N W faces walkout
The Chicago and North Western Railway faces a Thursday strike by the Order of Railroad Telegraphers affecting eight states. 1,600 telegraph and station workers oppose elimination of 123 one man stations in Iowa and South Dakota, amid cutbacks approved by public service commissions.
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Faubus Plans Meeting With Little Rock School Board
Gov. Orval Faubus and three Arkansas legislative leaders will meet the Little Rock School Board to discuss integration. If the board does not act to forestall Sept. 2 return of Negro pupils to Central High, a special legislative session is likely.
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Supreme Court
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Industrial council weighs incorporation and land sale in La Crosse
La Crosse County Industrial Development Council president N E Schulze urged the finance committee to set tentative dates for incorporation. The Common Council signaled it would sell city land on Indian Hill, with an appraisal board to value the property. Officials from the Milwaukee Road and North Western favored the plan. Burlington Road proposed an appraisal by the La Crosse Realty Board. The council took no action on university traffic study proposals and discussed possible state studies with Mathias and Prairie du Chien.
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la Crosse County
Indian Hill
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la Crosse
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Grant County
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