Legion Aids Children With Wide Range Of Support
The American Legion Child Welfare Commission outlines a 30 year effort delivering more than 125 million dollars in emergency aid to veterans children. It highlights food clothing and medical care, promotes mental health focus for 1956, vitaminas, and calls for expanded research training and modern state laws to aid mentally retarded children.
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Child Welfare Commission of
The
American Legion
Legion
the Legion
Child Welfare Commission
Legion’s
First Yule in Wisconsin 1665 Mass by Pere Allouez
State Historical Society notes the 1665 Christmas Mass by French missionary Pere Allouez in a bark chapel on Chequamegon Bay. He was welcomed by 800 armed Indians from seven villages who brought sick children for baptism and a gift of baptized children.
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State Historical Society
Wisconsin
Claude Allouez
Chequamegon Bay
Ashland
Washburn
Pere Allouez
Allouez
Australians reject socialist stance in decisive election
The Australian general vote shows Prime Minister Robert Menzies with a large coalition majority. The campaign centered on anti-Communist lines as the Labor and Socialist Labor groups faced losses amid revelations of Soviet influence. Evatt's leadership weakened while conservatives gained seats, reflecting a worldwide shift toward anti-Communist policy.
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Robert Menzies
Lawrence
Vladimir Petrov
Australia
Socialist Labor Party
Herbert Evatt
Evatt
Molotov
Moscow
Petrov
Labor
United States
Soviet Union
Red China
Washington
America
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Democratic Party
Eisenhower
Henings
New Zealand
Great Britain
Menzies
New York Herald Tribune, Inc
Roark on the Sea Aboard the M V Australia
Robert C Roark reflects on life at sea aboard the M V Australia describing the ship as beyond boredom a space of liberty and endless stories. He notes the crew’s pride in work the vast scale of operations and the pull of maritime solitude.
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Robert C. Roark
M. V
Australia
W. Somerset Maugham
Palestine
San Francisco
Deanna Durbin
United Feature Syndicate
Sunset at Sea Amid Busy Cruise Entertainment
A narrator describes a luxury liner where passengers are preoccupied with bingo and vanity activities. The ship offers deck tennis, horse racing, egg smearing at the equator, fancy dress balls, and a constant push to distract from loss of communication including television.
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Indian Ocean
Boston
South Station
Broadway
Trumpets From Montparnasse by Robert Gibbings
Literary guidepost praises artist-traveler Robert Gibbings for a charming Europe itinerary from Paris to Venice to London and back to Paris. The review highlights his text and illustrations, notes a Paris studio on Ile Saint Louis, and leans on his genial witty mentor voice.
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Montparnasse
Robert Gibbings
Dutton
Gibbings
Wye
Seine
Swee Thames
Europe
Paris
la Rochelle
Venice
London
Positano
Italy
France
Robin Hood
Napoleon
Ulysses
Ile St.-Louis
Baudelaire
Gautier
Daumier
Balzac
Portraits by James No Watch or Clock
Poem argues against a timepiece as a constant ticking reminder of being behind schedule. The speaker prefers to keep his own record of minutes and leave time accounting to God, warning that wealth and status can create social distance.
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Field Enterprises, Inc
White House Christmas Gifts Screened for Dignitaries
Secret Service and the White House mail room screen mass Christmas presents to the president with X ray checks before opening. Perishables go to ice basements or charities while many gifts go to orphans and worthy groups. Embassies protest participation in a commercial Washington tree lighting event. Two Harmon trophies set records for long airship flight by Navy Captain Eppes and Marine Lt Col Coleman, with lengthy speaker introductions by Admiral Rosendahl.
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Secret Service
White House
Eisenhower
Tice
Harmon
Navy
Marion H. Eppes
James F. Coleman
Adm
Charles E. Rosendahl
Thomas S. Combs
Georgia Senate Race Set Between George and Talmadge
The Georgia U.S. Senate race pits 78-year-old incumbent Walter F. George against Herman Talmadge, 42, with both facing endorsements from economic groups and tensions over taxes, schools, and foreign policy. George has broad bipartisan support and global stature, while Talmadge wields strong local organization and ties to state politics.
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Washington
Georgia
William C. Lankford
House of Representatives
Lankford
National
U.S. Senate
Walter F. George
Herman Talmadge
Herman
Gene” Talmadge
George
Senate
Russia
Geneva
Executive Branch
Congress
Finance Committee
Foreign Relations Committee
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Voters debate nationwide primary as 1956 scene unfolds
Political scientists weigh direct voter voice in selecting presidential nominees. In 1956 only 19 states plus DC and Alaska hold primaries with varied formats. Stevens on Kefauver face off in few primaries. conventions still decide final nominations. Knowland and others wait on Eisenhower.
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District of Columbia
Alaska
Chicago
San Francisco
Adlai Stevenson
Sen. Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Sen
Knowland
California
Eisenhower
Christmas Tales From The Past In La Crosse Tribune Snippets
Ten years ago guest plans in Jacksonville for Christmas as Rev Dale prepares to head the Lutheran Church of Canada in Saskatoon. Twenty and thirty year recaps note students home for holidays and family visits. Forty years ago family returns from Milwaukee and Los Angeles with a Munich revue anecdote about Gretchen’s age and a mother’s talk.
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Gerald J. Prom
Jacksonville
Fla
Prom
George IE. Hicks
Prospect St
Junior Luther League
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Mars A. Dale
Dale
Saskatoon
Canada
Lutheran Church of Canada
Jean Arline Batcheller
A. H. Batcheller
George St
Graceland College
Lamont
Iowa
Louis J. Prucha
S. 4Th St
Louise Oxenham
Chicago
Munich Revue
Gretchen
Cosmopolitan Rooming Ad Highlights Mixed Tenants
A Cambridge rooming house ad touts a cosmopolitan mix with tenants described as 1 Aussie, 1 Limey, 2 Americans, and a Texan. The line appears on the MIT Observer bulletin board, illustrating student housing diversity.
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M.I.T. Observer
Cambridge
Mass
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Che la Crosse Tribune
Burgess
R. L. Bangsberg
Washington News Notebook
Washington Monument Grounds
Thomas L. Stokes
Ak We
Stokes
James Marlow
the World Today
Marlow
Kefauver
Stevenson
la Crosse Tribune
Joseph Boschard
Lake Wales
Howard Wartinbee
Lucan Miller
William Burgess
Myron Welch
Leland Palmer
Don Mullen
University of Wisconsin At Madison
Christine Esperseth
Milwaukee
C. Esperseth
S. 18Th St
M. A. Northam
Elizabeth Whipple
Los Angeles
Cosmopolitan
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