De Valera’s Ireland reshapes economy and politics
The article profiles Eamon de Valera's long influence in Ireland since 1932, noting his role in shifting from famine-era neglect to agricultural and rural industry reform. It highlights grain and sugar beet production boosts, land tillage expansion, and the establishment of local industries, claiming improved prosperity and reduced hunger while facing regional resistance from cattle interests.
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Eire
Eamon de Valera
Fianna Fail
New Republic
Dublin
de Valera
Ireland
Ia Gaunt College
Boland’s Mill
Republic
League of Nations Assembly
America
Britain
Washington
Eyiie
England
Isie
Middletown Journal Subscription Rates and Bible Verse
Subscription rates list weekly and yearly prices for Middletown Journal and Sunday News Journal by carrier and mail across trading areas and outside regions. The notice concludes with a Bible verse from I Corinthians 1:18.
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Evening MidDletown Journal
Sunday
News Journal
Tradin
Evening
Middletown Journal
U.S.A
Grandmother Snubbed by Child’s Careful Curiosity
A local grandmother recalls a playful exchange with her granddaughter who asks about her marriage, followed by a humorous remark when the child assumes the grandmother’s husband is dangerous. The piece notes how newspapers used as floor protection become a point of curiosity for a young social observer at a church funeral and a party.
Truman Civil Rights Message Calls for New Safeguards
President Truman urges Congress to enact laws protecting basic freedoms including equal treatment, thought, worship, and opportunities. He cautions a gap between ideals and practice, urging education alongside laws to curb bigotry while warning against political opposition. He contrasts anti freedom actions abroad with USA efforts at home.
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Truman
Congress
Mr. Truman
Republic
Russia
Household electrical gear priced for the average home
The piece notes editor J Louis Albert offers two price estimates for full home equipment from coffee to washing machines. A basic setup costs 2274 16 with table TV dishwasher and waste disposer massager and blender. A deluxe total reaches 8356 23 including clock electric piano and smart controls.
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J. Louis Albert
Sand Avery
Albert
Mr. Albert
Worry Clinic Case Highlights Flora B 19 Described as Extremely Shy
Dr George W Crane analyzes Flora B a 19 year old described as dangerously shy and socially dependent. Her parents dominance and lack of independence are cited as factors in emotional retardation. Flora failed at a secretary job and avoids social activities while seeking comfort at home.
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Flora
Raising Well Rounded Children Flooded With Socialize Play
Advice urges parents to cultivate money sense and social skills in children. Emphasizes having multiple children or adopting, sending them to school, inviting friends, and attending Sunday school, circuses, and zoos to prevent emotional retardation and feeblemindedness.
Washington Letter Opens Diplomatic Season With Fete
Jane Eads reports on a quiet diplomatic season kickoff in Washington as Ambassador and Mme Henri Bonnet hosted about 1,000 capital figures at the French embassy. The event emphasized simple fare of turkeys and hors d oeuvres, with Mme Bonnet noting champagne would channel dollars to French needs, while whiskey keeps funds domestic.
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Washington
Mme
Henri Bonnet
France
Wees Bidault
Mme. Bonnet
Mme. Bidault
Council of Resistance
San Francisco
Monsieur Bidault
Mme Bidault
Suzanne Borel
Legation
Paris
One Word Led To Another in War and Diplomacy
Arthur Bugs Baer notes war as diplomacy broken down, with Erasmus and Osymandyas used as examples. The essay darkly links price epidemics, self serving diplomats, and war as sport. Ramopolis, the Bactrian envoy, defies orders, triggering conquest in a tale of ancient diplomacy.
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Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Bob Taft
Erasmus
Osymandyas
Egypt
Bactria
Ramopolis
Ramapolis
Bronx
Osymand
Taft
St. Cain
Reflections at a Funeral Stir Thoughts on Life and Time
Erich Brandeis writes from a church funeral about reflections on mortality. He cites Mme Bidault’s rise in diplomacy, then muses on billions of lives, humility, and the fragility of daily concerns as humanity contemplates vast time. He urges living in the moment while acknowledging doubt and uncertainty.
Hutchins fights college football and fun at Chicago
Hal Boyle comments on Robert Maynard Hutchins opposing football and frat culture in American colleges. He argues Hutchins overestimates the anti athletic ideal, praising football and social fraternities for teaching students to interact and enjoy college life while noting Hutchins’ own elitist view and memberships.
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NEW York
Robert Maynard Hutchins
University of Chicago
America
Chicago
Bob
Buffalo
Aristotle
Thomas Aquinas
Kant
Hutchins Hoods
Plato
Beta Fraternity of the
Learned
Phi Beta Kappa
Bob Hutchins
Barbs to a Mexican scientist and centipede comment
The piece notes a Mexican scientist and a centipede image as subway talk in New York. It comments that people who break words lose trust and that promises never fully recover.
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New York Subway
NAM proposes six tenths a wage earner plan to curb raises
Peter Edson reports NAM argues for a Sixth Tenths plan to inflate home income by 0.6 of a wage earner per family to cover a $3,004 to $3,458 cost of living per year. The piece mocks the idea, notes BLS data from 1947, and cites a prior NAM claim to “let em eat beans.”
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Washington
NEA
National Association of Manufacturers
NAM
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Congress
New Orleans
Washington, D. C
NAM News
Legion honors two commanders at Butler event
Twenty years later commanders Roy Newlin and Robert Deem were honored by the American Legion. County dog warden H J Wright began a house to house canvass in Butler County to locate all unlicensed dogs. Warren County commissioners closed a $9999 deal with Warren County Fair and Park Corp for the County Fair Grounds of about 34 acres and buildings.
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Roy Newlin
Robert Deem
American Legion
H. J. Wright
Butler County
Warren County
Warren County Fair and Park Corp
President Truman Cites Government Purpose in Nation’s Service
Truman states governments serve people and economies meet wants, while warning crisis in America mirrors England, as Sen. Byrd of Virginia notes. The remark implies Republican convention may influence national direction amid unsettled political climate.
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Truman
America
England
Sen
Maley F. F. Byrd
Virginia
Political Critique Quotes From UAW Leader and Officials
The record cites Walter Reuther condemning American self interest and politics as usual ahead of an election. Forrestal calls for global balance for peace. Harold Knutson accuses the President of a voter buying tax plan at $40 per vote.
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America
Walter Reuther
UAW
Harold Knutson
Sloan on Regimentation Hinder Enterprise Growth
Alfred P. Sloan warns that heavy industry regimentation erodes individual initiative and entrepreneurship, stressing the need for balance between organized efficiency and personal enterprise. The quote reflects concerns about centralized management stifling innovation across sectors.
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Alfred P. Sloan
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Heaven
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Lovett
Supreme Court
Bse Coroees
James F. Byrnes
Hal Boyle
The
Peter Edson
News of Washington
United Nations
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