Two Ways To Get A New Election
Analysis of Britain's hung postwar government explains two routes to change power. The article notes a potential dismissal by the king if Labour resigns to seek a new election and the possibility of Churchill forming a temporary government if he gains Commons support. It contrasts Labour's 46 percent vote share with the 48 percent in 1945 and cites U.S. voting norms.
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House of Commons
Attlee
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Commons
Britain
America
Greater Home and Food Exposition planned in Coulee region
A Place To Go outlines the first annual Greater Home and Food exposition organized by the Junior Chamber of Commerce with local businessmen. Displays cover appliances, furniture, radios, paints, and kitchen items across VFW booths. Martha Logan will headline daily lectures and demonstrations, with stage shows each afternoon and two evening programs, including a rural audience focus Friday.
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A Crosse
Chamber of Commerce
Coulee Region
VFW
Martha Logan
Miss Logan
Don McNeil
War Heroes And Politics In American Presidency
The piece notes a historic link between military fame and presidential nominations, citing Washington, Jackson, Harrison, Taylor, Grant, and Theodore Roosevelt, with several losing candidates also generals. It contrasts earlier norms with the postwar era and posits Eisenhower as a potential exception at age 62 in two years.
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Eig
Our Republic
Washington
Jackson
Harrison
Taylor
Grant
Theodore Roosevelt
Cass
Scott
Fremont
McClellan
Hancock
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Measure Aims to Expand Cotton Acreage and Restrictions
Congress poised to pass a bill with the president's signature to raise cotton acreage by 1,150,000 acres to a total of 22,150,000 this season. The plan also boosts peanut acreage and withholds price supports for 1951 potato growers unless they implement production quotas. Hardship cases traced to uneven allotments under the 1949 cotton quota law.
Bridge between front office and shop under free enterprise
The piece argues private owners must inform workers to sustain free enterprise. It warns management misperceptions alienate labor, urges honest wage, profit, and investment education, and calls for a bridge linking executives and shop floors to preserve economic freedom. It cites Eisenhower on freedom and urges facts, posters, and open discussion.
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Washington, D. C
Census reshapes Congress with 14 seats shift
Edson's Washington Notebook reports 14 congressional seats move from 11 states to seven others. States losing seats include New York, Pennsylvania and nine others. gains go to California, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Oregon, Texas and Washington. The shift favors the West and North loses four seats while the South drops six. The new apportionment will apply to the 83rd Congress elected in 1952.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Arkansas
Georgia
Illinois
Kentucky
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Tennessee
California
Florida
Indiana
Michigan
Oregon
Texas
Washington
South
John Wyngaard examines rising state government costs
A Wisconsin panel reports that state budgets grew sharply in the last decade, with spending up about 150 percent since 1939 while state aid to localities and educational services more than doubled. Substantial subsidies from state treasuries fuel ongoing growth.
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Madison
Wis
Picayune
Minnesota
Wisconsin
North Dakota
Council of State Governments
Washington Merry-Go-Round urges private peace makers
Drew Pearson notes a flood of public ideas to win the peace and press leadership from government. He cites West Virginia plans blocked by the State Department and presents proposals from citizens and businesses to promote peace initiatives behind the Iron Curtain.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
Iron Curtain
Russia
State Department
West Virginia
Francis J. Colligan
Exchange of Persons
Chamber of Commerce
McCarthy Charges Singled Out Soviet Spy in State Dept
Senator McCarthy accuses a senior State Department official of being the top Soviet espionage agent in the United States. The FBI has shown the subcommittee some file material. Truman’s decision to release more remains pending. Historical note recalls Washington and Monroe stances on executive access to personal government files.
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Washington
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Marlow
Truman
Congress
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Senator Tydings
Maryland
Mr. Truman
FBI
Subcommittee
McGrath
Congressional Committees
George Washington
House of Representatives
U. S
Great Britain
House
Monroe
U. S. Navy
Pacific
Ten Years Ago Today Sanitary Sewer Feasibility Talk
From the La Crosse Tribune pages a 10 year look notes Mayor J J Verehota to appoint a special committee with the Onalaska council to discuss linking La Crosse sewer lines rather than building a new treatment plant. It also lists Loyola Chicago high school players and staff for a national Catholic tournament.
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J. J. Verehota
Common Council
Onalaska
la Crosse
Dick Beggs
John Pritz
Aquinas High School
Loyola Gymnasium
Chicago
Steve Pavela
Wen Dvorak
Ray McConaghy
Joe Snyder
Bob Roesler
Howie Ploof
Jerry Sciborski
Jack O'Toole
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W. T. Burgess
R. L. Bangsberg
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Washington Notebook
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Air Force
Navy
Defense
Louis Johnson
University of Virginia
Joe Stalin
David Demarest Lloyd
White House
New York Communist Daily Worker
Chicago Tribune
John Wyngaard
Capitol Dome
F. W. Danner
Akron
Ohio
United States
Leo O. Hanley
Fisherville
Mass
Voice of America
Politburo
Roy T. Granger
Nevada City
Calif
Irwin Jally
Dallas
Montgomery-Ward
Sears, Roebuck
The
Bel Syndicate, Inc
James Marlow
LaCrosse Tribune
Shell Oil Co
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co
Alfred W. Lawson
Lawson Airplane Manufacturing Co
Milwaukee
Nick Streff
Ralph C. Weeks
F. W. Fries
Northern Western Leaf Tobacco Co
Mormon Coulee Road
Seventh Street
Bradish
Sorensen
James Day
Board of Public Works
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