Journeyman Recognition Marks Trades Skill in La Crosse
The La Crosse Building Trades Council and the Associated Builders of La Crosse will honor 29 young men on September 26 in public ceremonies that mark the transition from apprenticeship to journeyman across eight trades. The event, the first of its kind locally, aims to become an annual graduation-like recognition highlighting completed training and on-the-job mastery under journeymen guidance.
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Lacrosse
la Crosse Building Trades Council
Associated Builders of la Crosse
Scenic Association drives Wisconsin highway push from La Crosse
The Southwest Wisconsin Scenic Association, now including La Crosse County, plans a 1950 gathering in La Crosse October 12 with Governor Rennebohm and Joseph Mercedes of the Wisconsin Tourist Bureau. The event aims to push for modern highways to connect scenic beauty with travel routes across seven counties and attract over 300 attendees.
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Southwest
Wisconsin
la Crosse
Rennebohm
Ent
Joseph Mercedes
Wisconsin Tourist Bureau
F. H. Aiken
la Crosse County
Wisconsin Recorders’ Association
Milwaukee
Navy Panic Over Secret Photo In Washington Cocktail Lounge
In the Pentagon a minor panic arose as navy intelligence officers mistook a secret aerial view of Washington for a sensitive image. The 48 000 foot shot hung as a mural in a cocktail lounge after being enlarged by a local owner who had received it from a navy member. The episode highlights muddled secrecy and public display of supposedly confidential material.
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Pentagon
Navy
Washington
Norman A. Bomze
Washington Case
Air Force
National Geographic Magazine
Common Practice In Art Of Politics In Washington
Washington notes reveal how campaign contributions from business interests connected to government contracts reflect longstanding political behavior. The piece argues such money influences presidents and policy, urging a ban on private political contributions and a large public election fund to end donor entanglements with officeholders.
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Washington
Vaughan
White House
Truman
Dewey
House Armed Services Committee
House Committee
Mr. Truman
Louis Johnson
Report From Around Town
PAT BROWN visits Minneapolis and joins a Labor Day picnic in Waterloo Park where a softball game mocks pitching conventions and Pat scores the apparent winning run. A 28 foot Northern States Power Co sign is removed for replacement with neon, and several lighthearted local vignettes close the item.
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Pat Brown
Colleen
Ireland
Minneapolis
Rosemary Hackner
Waterloo Park
Pat
Fifth Avenue
Northern States Power Co
La Follette’s Democratic comeback talk stirs Wisconsin politics
In Madison rumors circle about former Senator Robert M. La Follette seeking a 1950 Democratic Senate bid to oppose Republican Wiley. Though La Follette has cryptically denied comments, allies in Washington and younger Progressives push the idea as a political possibility, not a certainty, given his health and current income.
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Madison
Wis
Robert M. LaFollette
LaFollette
Wyngaard
Wiley
White House
Democratic National Committee
la Follette
Senate
Washington
Wisconsin
New Democratic Organization
National Capital
Statism Critics Clash Across Party Lines in Press Column
James Marlow notes politicians from Truman to Eisenhower and Byrnes debate statism. Byrnes warned of statism while Republicans push against federal power. Truman frames it as scare rhetoric. Dictionary definition suggests statism is belief in government within a republic, causing reader confusion.
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Washington
Truman
Gen
Eisenhower
James F. Byrnes
Bridges, Pepper and
Capehart
Bridges
New Hampshire
Byrnes
Indiana
Pepper
Florida
St. Louis
America
Pittsburgh
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Barkley Marriage Question Guides Capitol Social Buzz
Washington society weighs whether Vice President Alben Barkley will marry Mrs. Carlton Hadley of St. Louis. At a Barkley daughter’s party, daughter Mrs. Douglas MacArthur defers to her sister about the hostess question, while Mrs. Max Truitt attends White House events as Barkley’s hostess.
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Washington
Hadley
Sis
Max Truitt
Father
Ten Years Ago Pederson Takes La Crosse Pastors Post
Dr. Carl O. Pederson longtime Elk Mound Lutheran pastor has accepted a call to lead Trinity Lutheran in La Crosse and Our Savior's in Onalaska. He and Mrs. Pederson moved to 1011 Sill Street on September 1.
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Carl O. Pederson
Elk Mound
Trinity Lutheran Church
la Crosse
Our Savior’s Lutheran Church
Onalaska
Pederson
Sill Street
Congo Players
Harriet Beckus
Blaine Emilson
Dorothy Hagemann
Anna Goodland
Chicago
Neenah High School
Arthur C. Denney
la Crosse High School
la Crosse Normal School
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Stansley
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Justinger’s
Buck
Windy City
Hines Veteran's Hospital
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Capitol Dome
James Marlow
the Nation Today
Statism
On Byrnes
Drew Pearson
Capitol Society
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Stafford Cripps
Bevin
Britain
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Canada
U. S
Cripps
State Department
Dean Acheson
Congress
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Snyder
John Snyder
England
Pound
Asia
Bell Syndicate, Inc
LaCrosse Tribune
Homer Cole
Northwest Airways
Air Mail
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