Taft’s Struggle Against Odds in Three Bids for Top Post
United Press outlines Robert Alphonso Taft’s repeated political defeats and health battle. Taft opposed Roosevelt and Truman, lost presidential bids to Willkie and Dewey, and finally ceded Senate leadership to Knowland amid a failing health crisis. His career showed steadfast anti New Deal stance and friction with fellow Republicans.
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Robert Alphonso Taft
United States
Taft
Republican Party
Republican
Wendell L. Willkie
Wall Street
Sen
John W. Bricker
Bricker
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Dewey
Roosevelt
Harry Ss. Truman
White House
William Howard Taft
Senate
Washington
House
Ohio
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Middle West
South
Southwest
East
Eisenhower
Minnesota
Harold E. Stassen
Knowland
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
R. Alphonso Taft
Truman
Harry Truman
Armed Services
Chicago
William E. Knowland
California
New York Hospital
Willkie
Sales Tax Taper Signals Slower Oklahoma Sales
Oklahoma City reports the Tax Commission shows a leveling off in sales tax receipts. June totals reach 3,565,298 dollars, up 30,027 from June 1952, with Tulsa County’s 47,000 rise keeping a last year level. Drought blamed for slow business. Delaware County down 40 percent, Carter County up 35 percent.
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Oklahoma City
Tax Commission
Tulsa County
Delaware County
Carter County
Robber Suspect Seen By Woman
A Dallas woman reported seeing one of two suspects in the $30,000 Shepps dairy robbery with a money box that morning. Capt. P. B. Leach said the box was carried by a 37 year old Amarillo ex convict. The Amarillo man and a Dallas man are jailed as suspects. The woman said $5,000 was given to an Oklahoma City lawyer connected to a case at Brownfield, Texas, who denied knowledge of the money.
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Dallas
Shepps
P. B. Leach
Amarillo
Leach
Oklahoma City
Brownfield
Tex
Funeral Rites for Five Weeks Old Thomason Son
Funeral services for Gary Robert Thomason five weeks old son of Mr and Mrs Robert Thomason will be held at 1030 Saturday at the 8th and Lee Church of Christ. The infant died Thursday evening in a local hospital after a birth illness. Pastor Allen B Harper will conduct the service with burial in Highland cemetery. Becker Funeral home in charge. Survivors include the parents paternal grandparents S E Thomason and Mrs. Thomason 619 E and maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs O H Curry 1315 C.
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Gary Robert Thomason
Robert Charles Thomason
8Th and Lee Church of Christ
Thomason
Allen B. Harper
Highland Cemetery
Becker Funeral Home
S. E. Thomason
O. H. Curry
Mundt Criticizes British China Trade Policy
Senator Mundt denounced what he called blood traffic by British traders with Red China and urged another foreign aid cut to Britain. He cited London’s claim that Britain will export nearly 10 million dollars of non strategic goods to China, with traders seeking to balance a war edge. The British Board of Trade declined to comment.
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Washington
Sen. Mundt
R-Sd
Britain
Mundt
London
China
British Board of Trade
Mississippi to Purge Non Democrats in Session
The Mississippi Democratic Executive Committee plans to purge non Democrats in the upcoming November special session. Chairman Tom Tubb said the group will seek legislation to oust members who actively supported President Eisenhower last November. The faction allied with the lily white Republicans and Mississippians for Eisenhower to back Eisenhower friendly candidates.
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Jackson, Miss
Mississippi
Democratic Executive Committee
Tom Tubb
Eget
Eisenhower
GOP
American Unpaid Debts Reach Staggering Total
New York reports a surge in overall debt across private, public and corporate sectors. Private debt has doubled in six years while the federal debt exceeds 2721/2 billion dollars. state and local debt tops 27 billion. corporate debt around 200 billion. individual debt near 150 billion. The article notes rising costs, mortgage obligations, and ongoing debate over lifting the debt ceiling amid a fragile wave of prosperity.
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New York
Congress
U. S. Treasury
Woman Denies Cache Bar Theft
A Lawton woman, Mrs. W. M. Cook, 38, pleaded innocent to grand larceny after bail was set at 1500 dollars for the theft of about 50 dollars from a Cache tavern. Two men linked to the robbery face charges. preliminary hearing set for August 18. one has burglary and murder convictions.
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W. M. Cook
Justice of the Peace
Marvin Cameron
Manville Redman
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