Rankin plan attack sparks mixed pension vote shifts
The column critiques Rep. Rankin's veteran pension bill and its quick reversal to a moderate proposal for WWI veterans, noting political motives and party divides. It also praises Dr. Edwin G. Nourse for urging wage moderation and warns of union pressure from Detroit's UAW over pensions and living costs.
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John Rankin
House
Rankin
Un-American Activities Committee
Vito Marcantonio
Labor Party
Marcantonio
Communist Party
Europe
Warcom
Dia
Council of Economic Advisers
Edwin G. Nourse
Detroit
Organized Labor
United Textile Workers
New England
United Automotive Workers
Ford Motor Company
Dr. Nourse
UAW
Walter Reuther
Worry Clinic advice on planning sales objections
Dr George W Crane column explores a customer who shops for a car wash despite possible rain. The feature urges readers to anticipate objections, check daily weather maps, and use forecasts to persuade customers, illustrating through a parking-lot scene with Pete R aged 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pete R
Pete
Price
Dr. Crané
Freedom of speech and the iron curtain clash
Washington examines public reaction to the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace. The piece argues for universal free expression, urges reciprocal access for correspondents, and warns against subversive influence. It notes US and Soviet entry policies, calls for clear standards, and stresses press freedom as a bulwark for peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
America
Department of State
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Supreme Court of the United States
Department
United States
Britain
Hitler
Russia
Clay
Berlin
Soviet
One Word Led To Another Fire Under The Cold War
A satirical column mocks spy news and global tensions with offbeat reports from Berlin Sofia Constantinople and other locales. It lampoons Moscow Washington and Hollywood while portraying a comical scramble of espionage chatter and absurd headlines.
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Italy
Germany
Spain
Egypt
Koroffitsky
Urals
Kremlin
Secondhand education avenue in a changing world
Hal Boyle argues that modern knowledge shifts rapidly making much learned in youth outdated. He lists examples from health, nutrition, and hygiene showing how previously accepted truths like brushing methods, spinach iron, and sunshine benefits have been debunked. He suggests we need an education resilient enough to fund a new return to college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Becaue
Mesabi Range
Benjamin Franklin
Unfriendly witnesses named in Congress probe list
George E. Sokolsky describes a March 24 cultural conference as a Soviet propaganda tool targeting the United States. He lists Hollywood and theater sponsors including Maltz, Trumbo, Lawson, Dmytryk, and others, noting Communist affiliations claimed by the House Un American Activities Committee and condemning the event as an invasion tactic in modern warfare of propaganda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Congress of the
United States
Albert Maltz
Dalton Trumbo
Samuel Ornitz
Robert Adrian Scott
John Howard Lawson
Edward Dmytryk
Lester Cole
Alvah Bessie
Herbert , Biberman
Ring Lardner, Jr
Communist Party
House Committee On UN- American Activities
New York
Waldorf - Astoria
Carnegie Hall
Madison Square Garden
Russia
Howard Bay
Herbert J. Biberman
Henry Blankfort
Michael Blankfort
Marc Blitzstein
Millen Brand
J. Edward Bromberg
Morris Carnovsky
Edward Chodorov
Jerome Chodorov
Aaron Copland
Norman Corwin
Jules Dassin
Paul Draper
Arnaud D’usseau
Guy Endore
Jose Ferrer
Will Geer
Gale Sondergaard
Donald Ogden Stewart
Paul Strand
Fredi Washington
Charles Weidman
Martin Wolfson
William Wyler
Jocelyn Brando
Mister Roberts
Marlon Brando
Lee J. Cobb
Judy Holliday
Kim Hunter
Sam Wanamaker
Fancy
Albert E. Kahn
Millard Lameell
John Lardner
Newsweek
Emil Lengyel
Kenneth Leslie
A. B. Magil
Clyde R. Miller
Muriel Rukeyser
Agnes Smedley
Louis Untermeyer
J. Raymond Walsh
T. O. Thackrey
New York Post and Home News
Norman Cousins
Saturday Review of Literature
Soviet Russia
Weather Forecasters and a Risky Lawsuit Echo Attitude
A columnist argues a Weather Bureau suit is ill advised as a woman sues over a wrong forecast for sun and warmth leading to a car crash. The piece rails at contempt rulings for discussing pending cases and mocks forecasts as unreliable lightheartedly noting bets on weather and a cynical view of legal outcomes.
Weather and life echo suspense over certainty
A reflective piece argues that forecasts and stories gain tension from the unknown. It notes that predictable outcomes drain interest and likens this to ships or lives that are monotone. The excerpt comments on the value of suspense in art and daily events.
Genevieve Kemble Stars Forecast for Friday April 1
The stars favor sustained effort toward major objectives with ongoing progress over several days. Benefic forces support study plans and ambitions, while social or domestic relaxation aids taxing matters. Birthdays should pursue established projects for future security and growth. family and cultural functions help balance effort. A child born today is poised for a happy life through diligence and fidelity.
No thanks for turkey dinner from Canadian friends
Huntington Indiana reports Samuel A. Lahr declined a turkey dinner offered by Canadian friends living near the Alaskan border where temperatures were noted at 60 below zero.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
Ind
Samuel A. Lahr
Funeral caravan misrouted for Shrine Circus
A Dayton funeral escort mistaken for a circus caravan led the way to the Fairgrounds Coliseum. Police and State Patrol directed the funeral party to the corporation limits, then to Dayton, where a motorcycle officer realized the error after noting funeral signs on windshields. The mix up amused locals and highlighted the misdirected route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Corporation Limits
Fairgrounds Coliseum
Shrine Circus
Fairgrounds
Questions and Answers from a Legal Civics Quiz
A cabinet officer impeachment ends with removal and disqualification from office. Liberty holds a Law book in left arm with date July 4 1776. To go beyond the Pillars of Hercules means to exceed the world’s western limit. Inadequate street lighting cost insurers about 216000000 last year due to accidents claims wage loss and damages.
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United States
Straits of
Gibraltar
Circling Circus Picnics and Everyday Grumbles
Reader snippets mix daily life quirks and humor about breakfast routines, kids headed to circuses for picnics, weather and health notes, winter driving, speeding woes, spanking jokes, and Sunday golf season fears. Tone mirrors a local paper’s casual observations and aphorisms.
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Middletown Journal
First Ave
Middletown
Ohio
Evening Middletown Journal
Sunday News-Journal
Sunday News Journal
U.S.A
George W. Crane
Aospect
Nee
Bob
David Lawrence
Vincennes
Indiana
Paci
Arthur ‘‘Bugs
Baer
Knocropolis
Acropolis
East Lynne
Sofia
Marshal Scurllacka
Constantinople
Sultana
State Department
Dutch West Indies
Hal Boyle
The
George E. Sokolsky
Louis Adamic
Victor Bernstein
Joseph Brainin
Kyle Crichton
Collier's Weekly
Albert Deutsch
Olin Downes
N. Y. Times
Howard Fast
Daily Worker
Joseph Gaer
Arthur Gaeth
Dashiell Hammett
Sam _ Spade
Erich Brande
Weather Bureau
Avi
Genevieve Kemble
Stars
Dave Regan
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