Middletown Journal Rates and Coupon Note
The Middletown Journal lists subscription prices for daily and combined evening editions with mail options, including 6 day and 5 day plans, plus outside U S and U S rates. A biblical quote is included but not explained. The notice provides payment terms stating all mail subscriptions are payable in advance.
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Sunday News-Journal
Tract
Sunday News- Journal
U.S.A
Mil Europe defense pact vs economic aid strategy
The article argues that Western Europe needs military and economic revival through a North Atlantic alliance with the United States and Canada. It notes economic aid should take priority over arms, warns that arming Europe risks provoking Russia, and urges focusing on recovery while signaling that the free world will resist Soviet pressure.
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Canada
United States
Europe
Western Europe
Great Britain
France
Low Countries
Norway
North Atlantic
Russia
James P. Warburg
Germany
Mr. Warburg
Rhine
Wiretapping plot targets New York City mayor
The piece argues wiretapping is a dangerous invasion of privacy and notes Mayor O'Dwyer’s phone lines were tapped by a lawyer's hire, tied to Clemdenin J. Ryan, with election pressure looming. It warns the affair could backfire on the administration and offers a cautionary political lesson.
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O'Dwyer
New York City
Justice Holmes
O’dwyer
Clemdenin J. Ryan
Ryan
LaGuardia
The Worry Clinic: Field Museum memberships critiqued
Dr. George W Crane recounts Carolyn F. a 26 year old Field Museum membership sales call. The dialogue exposes memorized pitches and the pitfall of monotone delivery. He argues sales talks must be memorized yet performed with authentic enthusiasm and personality.
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Carolyn F
Dr. Crane
Field Museum
Carolyn
Washington Happenings on the Western World Pact
David Lawrence notes a new United Nations linked defense and cooperation framework arising from the Western pact. The plan embeds military, economic, and cultural cooperation with Russia's possible role, extends to Latin America, and allows member nations to decide on aid use while Congress retains war authority.
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Washington
World Organization
United Nations
Security Council
Russia
Moscow
Senate
Congress
United States
Pearl Harbor
Executive
America
Laissez Faire Folk Heroics From Arthur Baer
Arthur Baer mocks government indecision and farm policy in a satirical column. He quips that farmers push legislation yet farming remains not a business, lambasts laissez faire as a handy, universal but empty policy, and urges restraint and calm in Cabinet action while joking about budget boosts and monotony.
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Dewey
Congress
Elliot Lawrence On Running A Top College Dance Band
The 24-year-old Elliott Lawrence explains the high costs of operating a college dance orchestra. He details salaries, transportation, arrangers, booking agency fees, and staff, noting that even with a $300,000 yearly gross the act is far from rich. He aims to conduct symphonies later.
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New York
Elliot Lawrence
University of Pennsylvania
Elliott
Lawrence
Elliot
Sam
Beethoven
Bootleg war phrase used by Hamilton county officials
Twenty years ago authorities described the bootleg conflict as loaded with dynamite in Hamilton and the county. In that era Middletown Girl Scouts marked their ninth anniversary with 350 participating girls, 18 troops, and 35 leaders.
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Hamilton
Middletown
Girl Scouts
New Year Writing Rule and Quick Warnings
A New Yorker who lied about an alarm fearfully claimed a home shortage but now can stop worrying. The piece notes that nearly everyone contributes to the national tax, and warns against chasing rainbows as it invites trouble. It adds that speaking up at home can lead to being ignored by a husband.
The Electroman invention promises a wired future
Erich Brandeis unveils an imagined device called the Electroman a fully mechanical human wired for electricity with a back zipper no blood and a built in generator and battery system. The concept envisions automatic awakening a dialed alarm like on clocks and a prefab plug powered life with repairs available if anything goes wrong. Utopia is on the way and more details will follow tomorrow.
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Utopia
Stars Say For Wednesday March 23 Propitious Convergence
The column notes a strong astral forecast for March 23 urging concerted effort to pursue personal and professional goals. It highlights confidence, talent, and influence as keys to expanding prestige and success, with favorable prospects for gifts, promotion, and public recognition. An Arab sheik theme ends the piece.
Bowman takes daughter on first ten minute flight
North Swazey New Hampshire reports Lee D Bowman airport manager took his nine year old daughter on a ten minute pleasure hop to accustom her to flying at an early age forming a family aviation moment in a local airfield setting.
Taxpayer jokes prompt county treasurer vent
A humorous letter to Butler County Treasurer complains of postage for tax bills and proposes a mock bill for a visit to the post office. The item ends with a quip about using a heat fog system to clear morning LA airport fog and city fog alike, joking about radio comedians.
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Butler County
Los Angeles
Hollywood pact of fear and loyalty in anticommunist era
George E. Sokolsky argues that two Hollywood groups faced Congress hearings. Pro-Communist figures were pressed on beliefs while anti-Communist advocates faced industry boycotts, resignations, and public ostracism. He cites Mayer, Warner, McGuinness, Ryskind, Menjou and urges personal boycotts.
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Hollywood
Washington
House Committee On UN
United States
Congressional
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Motion Picture Alliance
American- Jewish League Against Communism
Los Angeles
Louis B. Mayer
Jack Warner
Stalin
Stooges
Questions and Answers crossbred dogs and officials
A collection of Q and A explains crossbred dogs as offspring of purebreds from different breeds. It notes Tom Blower's 1947 Irish Sea swim in 15 hours 25 minutes, and explains the term candidate from Roman attire. It also lists the reticulate python as the largest snake at 32–33 feet, with the anaconda second at up to 28 feet.
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Irish Sea
Tom Blower
Nottingham
England
Blower
South America
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