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Overhaul of Military Budget Faces Civilian Control Push
Former President Hoover urged tighter defense spending oversight before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Ferdinand Eberstadt outlines a plan to save about $1.5 billion annually by streamlining accounting and creating a chief comptroller to report to the Secretary of Defense. The proposal has Hoover and major agencies backing it. The piece also discusses spy lore and shifts in European infantry emphasis, noting the U.S. would bear the bulk of land defense if war in Europe occurred.
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Armed Services
Hoover
Senate Armed Services Committee
Kenneth Royall
Army
Ferdinand Eberstadt
Eberstadt
Secretary of Defense
Navy
Air Force
Tria
Military Chiefs of Staff
Bureau of the Budget
Treasury Department
Defense
Johnson
Europe
Congress
United States
America
Russia
Christian Herter
ECA
State Department
China
Far East
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Wedemeyer
Alger Hiss
Chambers-Hiss
Williams pushes probe into CCC wartime accounts
Sen John J Williams of Belmate led a push for a full Senate probe into a 366 million shortage in Commodity Credit Corporation wartime accounts. The Senate Expenditures Committee unanimously ordered a subcommittee to review why the books do not balance, signaling concern over possible mismanagement and urging strict accounting to guard public funds.
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Commodity Credit Corporation
John J. Williams
Belmate
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Williams
Senate
Lifting of Berlin Blockade Redraws Cold War Risk
David Lawrence analyzes the Berlin blockade’s end as a strategic Soviet shift toward winning Germany through withdrawal offers and infiltration. He argues Russia seeks ideological conquest and internal chaos, urges wary diplomacy, and forecasts atom age tension shaping postwar peace over the next few years.
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Washington
Berlin
America
Russia
United States
Moscow
United Nations Assembly
Germany
Iran
China
Korea
Japan
Britain
Worry Clinic: Motivating a Child to Practice Piano
Dr George W Crane discusses Howard Z 11 and the challenge of getting a child to practice piano. He argues children need external rewards linking practice to ice cream money or movie tickets, then eventual appreciation for music. He cites psychology on conditioning and advises parents to evaluate teachers with a test.
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Howard Z
Parents’ Magazine
John D.efeller
Rockefeller
Lord Fauntleroy
Idlewood and the Promoter on Forty-eighth Street
Arthur Baer recalls Idlewood land once bought by Arnold Rothstein as a swamp golf club. The Boy Promoter Billy Wellman hires Billy La Hiff to greens committee and faces a towering bill for grass seed. Runyon jokes about grass seed and La Hiff’s shady ventures, with a punchy panorama of 1940s street life.
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Idlewood
Arnold Rothstein
Arnold
Billy Wellman
Billy la Hiff
House Committee
Billy
Bayside
la Hiff
Greens
Forty-eighth Street
la Hift
Runyon
Richmond
Grant
Katherine
Escrow
Forty - Eighth Street
Marty Sampter
Hit songs and bribes shape a hit record business
Hal Boyle profiles Manie Sacks of Columbia Records as he explains why there is no guaranteed formula for a hit song. He notes the slim odds for unknown writers to break through, the shift toward produced records with singers, and the lure of envelopes and bribes amid a wary industry.
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New York
America
Manie Sacks
Manie
Columbia Records
Sacks
Maine
Burl Ives
Maniel
Oscar Hammerstein
Cole Porter
Irving Berlin
Berlin
Marie
Damon Runyon
Beware of four power conference warnings in These Days
George E. Sokolsky argues against pre conference optimism and denounces secrecy in diplomacy. He criticizes White House engagements with Republican senators over China policy and attacks official secrecy around Tehran Yalta Potsdam and Hiss Chambers cases while urging Sen Pat McCarran to pursue investigations.
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Teheran
Yalta
Potsdam
Breton Woods
San Francisco
Republican Party
Bridges
Wherry
Vandenberg
China
Germany
State Department
Chiang Kai-Shek
Stilwell and
Marshall
John S. Service
Owen Lattimore
Lauchlin Currie
John Carter Vincent
W. Walton Butterworth, Jr
Treasury Department
Communist Party
Aang
Sen
Pat .McCarran
Pat McCarran
Vivian Kellems and the battle over females in Connecticut
Erich Brande notes Vivian Kellems, a Connecticut cable grip maker, fights government tax rules and lobbies to rename females as women. He praises her publicity but quips that in his house the husband is boss, and wife does as she pleases. The piece blends social satire with personal opinion.
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Vivien Kellams
Doughty
Connecticut
Vivian
Sam
Secretary of the Treasury
Howard Cullman
Mike Todd
Vivien
The Stars Say For Friday May 13
Genevieve Kemble notes a generally propitious outlook for Friday May 13 with hopes fulfilled yet warns that judgment or conduct errors could invite interference from elders and others. A moody mood may disrupt favorable business, credit, and social relations and a birthday child may need firm discipline and supervision.
Dealer contracts curb gray market car sales by clause
A local column warns readers to read the contract when buying a new car as some dealers require selling within six months only to the dealer who supplied the car. The clause aims to stop cars from entering the used market for higher profits and is upheld nationwide. One local buyer agreed to donate his profit to a charity. Also notes a rare hot rod sighting and a rough ride to Trenton.
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Trenton
Swallows at San Juan Capistrano and West Point guest rule
The notes state swallows allegedly arrive at San Juan Capistrano on St. Joseph's Day March 19 and depart on St. John's Day October 23 though sprays may alter timing. the West Point access rule allows up to 20 Latin American republic officials at a time with a limit of three from any single republic under a new act.
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San Juan Capistrano Mission
Old Mission
St. Joseph’s Day
St. John’s Day
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