Free Greece government announced by Communists in Greece
Mark R. Byers writes that during Christmas a Greek Free Government under Soviet auspices was announced. The move is seen as a gesture to undermine the Greek monarchy and US aid to Greece and Turkey. The piece notes guerrilla activity in northern Greece and Turkey’s recent end of martial law amid rising Near East tensions.
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Europe
Visiades
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Greece
Turkey
Near East
Passage From Ecclesiastes Appears On Page
A Bible verse from Ecclesiastes 1 4 appears on the page with the line One generation passeth away and another generation cometh but the earth abideth forever.
Homecoming From Italy Returns Troop Sea Lift
The USS Admiral Sims carried the last American occupation troops from Italy to New York. It sailed from Leghorn with 97 officers and 1,356 enlisted men, the final units from armored divisions air force squadrons and naval forces. The evacuation beat the Dec 15 deadline by eight hours and forty five minutes. The next day Soviet forces announced a withdrawal from Bulgaria under a Bulgarian pact.
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U. S
Italy
Churchill
France
Sicily
Anzio
Cassino
Admiral Sims
New York
Leghorn
Bulgaria
Hearings on the Marshall Plan Aim to Inform Voters
Senator Vandenberg calls for hearings by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to test the Marshall plan’s soundness and administration. The article warns the invited leaders may merely rubber stamp administration proposals, urging a balanced, informative inquiry to educate the public and uncover weaknesses.
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Vandenberg
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Truman
Truman Aims To Cut Taxes In 1948 Campaign
President Truman enters the 1948 race as the Democratic nominee while facing voter demand for lower income taxes. The piece argues tax relief at home should precede relief abroad, cites ongoing inflation from high government spending, subsidies, and public works, and predicts Congress will push tax reductions though a Truman veto remains possible.
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Europe
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Critics See Limited Impact in Republican Inflation Bill
The piece argues the Republican anti inflation bill sent to President Truman will likely accomplish little. It notes the plan relies on voluntary industry agreements, existing price controls, and moral pressure, with only modest added powers over exports and transportation.
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Chicago Daily News
Truman
Agriculture Department
Hard to Spell Correctly Sun Prairie Star Countryman
Wisconsin schoolboy must master Nagawicka Wegauwega Nekoosa Menomonee Falls Menomonie in daily spelling challenge as readers laugh at tough town names in the area.
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N. Y
Wisconsin
Nagawicka
Wegauwega
Nekoosa
Menomonee Falls
Menomonie
Russian Worker Vs American Wages Under 48-Hour Week
A 1950s NEA analysis compares a Moscow factory foreman and a Russian worker on a 48-hour pay. It details what each could buy, showing American wages bought far more, with contrasts in food, clothing, radios, soap, and vodka. The piece relies on deflationary data and a fixed 8 rubles per dollar rate.
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New York
NEA
Moscow
Joe Russki
Minsk
Kremlin
U.S
Public Sees 1947 News Top Stories
A nationwide survey shows high cost of living and the Russian American relations as the top stories of 1947. Other leading items include the Marshall Plan, Taft-Hartley, Palestine partition, Hollywood communism inquiry, and labor law disputes.
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Europe
Palestine
Hollywood
House Committee On UN
Institute of Representative Voters
John L. Lewis
Texas City
Texas
Hughes-Meyers
Trivia answers from The Haskin Service Q and A
Reader questions cover grebes on rafts college desegregation and Roosevelts Chicago campus population eight as lucky number and Pythagorean link dam water releases Arab league population portmanteau word. Includes dates and facts from The La Crosse Tribune Information Bureau correspondence.
Up spirits and TVA dams in historic naval Q&A
In the British navy the boatswain pipes Up spirits once daily and serves half a gill of grog to each man. The U S navy does not use this call. The Tennessee Valley Authority has built 16 major dams on the Tennessee and its tributaries, and has acquired five previously built dams in the valley.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee
How To Tell Fortunes Fortune Telling booklet overview and ordering
A La Crosse Tribune Information Bureau notice offers a booklet titled Fortune Telling. It describes reading fortunes by stars lines dreams cards tea leaves coffee grounds and signs omens and superstitions. Price fifteen cents postpaid with coupon included for Washington DC address.
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Eye St. O. N. E
Wassail or Hymnal How to Ring In the New Year
Frank Tripp contrasts New Year celebrations from pubs wassail bowls to Watch Night Services. He notes varied observances across cultures, jokes about resolutions, and recalls staying up for service with his mother. He urges personal choice without burden on others and wishes readers a Happy New Year.
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General Features Corp
CIO Reaches Pact With Five Malt Firms Over Holidays
Milwaukee CIO Brewery Workers' Local 9 reports an agreement with Kurth Malting Co Froedtert Grain and Malting Zinn Malting Riebs Co and Daniel D Weschler & Sons providing seven paid holidays a year including general election day for about 400 workers. The contract retroactive to Nov 1 1947 runs two years with wage clause reopening after Nov 1 1948.
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Milwaukee
Erwin Finley
CIO Brewery Workers’ Union
Finley
Kurth Malting Co
Froedtert Grain and Malting Co., Inc
Zinn Malting Co
Riebs Co
Daniel D. Weschler & Sons, Inc
Snow Queen Candidate Photo Deadline and Coronation Set
Snow queen hopefuls are urged to submit photographic proofs at Ellickson Studio to ensure return for reprint and Hollywood judging. The queen and court will be revealed at the coronation ball on Wednesday January 21 at the VFW dance hall. The Junior Chamber of Commerce committee oversees the contest, and the queen will win a five day free trip to the St Paul winter carnival.
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la Crosse
Ellickson
Hollywood
VFW
Junior Chamber of Commerce
St. Paul
MacArthur Considered for Wisconsin GOP Nomination
Wisconsin Republicans report a letter from Courtney Whitney at MacArthur headquarters implying the general would accept the GOP nomination if tendered. Activists push a MacArthur slate of pledged delegates for the April presidential preference primary with former Gov La Follette and veteran Progressive figures backing him as a favorite son candidate.
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Wis
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Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
MacArthur
Courtney Whitney
Philadelphia
Robert R. McCormick
Chicago
Orient
Philip F. la Follette
la Follette Progressive Party
Sign Italian Constitution Signed by Italian Leaders in Rome
President Enrico De Nicola signed the Italian republic constitution in the Palazzo Giustiniani library. Umberto Terracini and Alcide De Gasperi added their signatures as government members attended. Communists mobilized nationwide amid ongoing violence and strikes targetting De Gasperi's centrist government.
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Enrico de Nicola
Palazzo Giustiniani
de Nicola
Umberto Terracini
Constituent Assembly
Alcide de Gasperi
Ludovico D’aragona
Italy
de Gasperi
Aviation funding trimmed but still high under plan
President Truman has reduced the military services new aircraft request to about 1.5 trillion? dollars for the next fiscal year while aviation needs may still exceed this year's appropriation by at least 65 percent. Congressional air policy board expects further cuts once coordinated defense expands. Iowa leads the nation in popcorn production with Indiana second.
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Truman
Congressional Air Policy
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