Today in History Highlights From July to 1958 Events
The column recalls key events: 1908 Bonaparte created a special agents force precursor to the FBI, 1775 Franklin named Postmaster General, 1788 New York ratified the Constitution, 1945 Churchill resigns after Tory defeat, 1947 Truman signs National Security Act, 1952 Eva Peron dies in Buenos Aires, 1958 Charles is named Prince of Wales by Queen Elizabeth II with investiture later.
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U.S
Charles J. Bonaparte
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Benjamin Franklin
New York
Argentina
Eva Peron
Buenos Aires
Britain
Prince Charles
Prince of Wales
Queen Elizabeth II
June new home sales slip amid housing slowdown
The Commerce Department reports new single family home sales fell 0.6 percent in June to a 530,000 annual rate, less than expected and May revised up. Still, sales are down 33.2 percent from a year ago, signaling a deep housing slump easing only gradually.
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Commerce Department
Oil price drop shocks gas pumps easing fears of peak $4
Oil's two week nosedive signals lower pump costs as national average nears $4 per gallon. Labor Day may bring 25 cent decline, with AAA noting fading demand. Analysts warn momentum points to further declines while tensions in Iran Nigeria and the Middle East loom.
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New York
United States
AAA
Geoff Sundstrom
Sundstrom
New York Mercantile Exchange
Jim Ritterbusch
Ritterbusch and Associates
Ing
Auto Club Aaa
Oil Price Information Service
Wright Express
Iran
West
Addison Armstrong
Tradition Energy
Nigeria
Middle East
Poland bars DNA tests on Chopin heart in Warsaw church
Polish Culture Ministry rejects removing Chopin heart from Holy Cross Church for DNA testing to confirm cause of death. Officials say disturbing the relic is unjustified. experts debate feasibility and value of results. The heart has rested in alcohol since 1849, last examined during WWII.
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Poland
Chopin
Warsaw
Frederic Chopin
Holy Cross Church
France
Culture Ministry
Iwona Radziszewska
Associated Press
Frederic Chopin Institute
Grzegorz Michalski
Michal Witt
Tadeusz Dobosz
Contact information for Journal-World staff and departments
The Lawrence Journal-World provides office and news center addresses in Lawrence Kansas with phone lines for local news city government county government Kansas University Lawrence schools business sports arts and entertainment letters to the editor obituaries and photo reprints plus an outside Lawrence toll free contact.
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Ljworld
Kansas University
Lawrence
Editors listed and contact details for Lawrence Journal-World staff
The Lawrence Journal-World provides contact lines for key editors including Dennis Anderson managing editor Caroline Trowbridge assignment director Ann Gardner editorial page editor Tom Keegan sports editor Jon Niccum entertainment editor and Terry Rombeck features and special sections editor with phone numbers and email addresses.
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Dennis Anderson
Danderson
Ljworld
Caroline Trowbridge
Drowbridge
Jworld
Ann Gardner
Agardner
Tom Keegan
Tkeegan
Jon Niccum
News Partners and Subscriptions Contact Details
News Partners 6News provides Cody Howard contact details and Mediaphormedia representation. Subscription lines give 6News phone numbers for billing delivery and redelivery guarantees with in-town service.
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Cody Howard
Howard
Sunflowerbroadband
Mediaphormedia
Dan Cox
Dcox
Jworld.com
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Winston Churchill
Labour Party
Clement Attlee
President Truman
Washington, DC
Serbia
Karadzic
Fridday
Radovan Karadzic
War Crimes Court
Hague
Netherlands
Sveta Vujacic
Srebrenica
Europe
Zimbabwe
Bush
Robert Mugabe
Mugabe
Southern African Development Community
African Union
United Nations
California
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Schwarzenegger
Milwaukee
Keith Walendowski
Walendowski
Denis Percy
Laura Hunt
San Diego
Hunt
Vanessa Gera
LMH
Journal-World
N.H
News Partners
Chris Bell
Tony Berg
Ljworld.com
Kansas
Eusports.com
Jayhawk Sports
ConnectCare
Www
Lmh.org
AWPF
G&iki
Maine
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