House Upholds Film Red Probe and New Hearings Planned
The House, by a large vote, sustained the committee on un American activities contempt citations against 10 Hollywood figures. The panel plans resumed hearings on suspected Communist propaganda in films and may bring further prosecutions.
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Ashington
A.P
Committee On un-American Activities
Hollywood
Martin
United States
Thomas
Iothers
Tihat
Albert Maltz
Alyah Bassie
Lester Cole
Ring Uardner Jr
John Howard Liawson
Samuel Ornitz
Dalton Trumbo
Edward Dmytryk
Herbert Bloerman
Adrian Scott
Y the
Tommittee
Communist Party
Morris Fay
U.S
District of Columbia
Congress
Europe
Furniture Sales Signal Strong U.S. Demand in American Home Goods
Lawrence J. Whiting president of the American Furniture Mart reported that sales and production in America's home goods reached an all time high, indicating robust demand in the furniture market. The statement came from Chicago amid ongoing industry optimism about holiday demand and growth in home furnishing sectors.
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Chicago
Lawrence J. Whiting
American Furniture Mart
America
Underground factory plan deemed faulty in wartime study
Army experts reject underground dispersal as reliable. The Robinson report says airpower and atomic energy are vital to war production and that underground or dispersed industry cannot solve transportation or mass production issues. Germany’s prewar underground efforts failed before 1942, the study notes.
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Ajashington
G.F. ‘Robingin Anserted
Robinson
Germany
West
Russia
National Security Resources Board
Kenneth C. Royall
Army
Actor Ralph Bellamy Divorces Ethel Smith in Idaho
In GOODING Idaho on November 25 actor Ralph Bellamy filed for divorce from his wife Ethel Smith alleging desertion. The case marks a separation announced amid their marriage in the film industry.
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Gooding
Idaho
Ralph Bellamy
Ethel Smith
Britain faces mixed news as Big Four talks loom
British papers highlight both gains and strains in 1946 welfare and industry as housing output and coal supply rise while food worries grow. Strachey warns potato stocks and future rationing depend on a national census, Banana shipments spoil and a new national assistance bill passes in the Commons signaling a shift from the old poor law.
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John Strachey
Kingston
Jamaica
Strachey
House of Commons
Aneurin Bevan
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