Fair Enough Sendup to Secretary Acheson
A letter to Secretary of State Dean Acheson satirically proposes moving the State Department to a new street name Grimm Street and adopting a curtsey as a greeting. The author muses on titles and ceremonial forms while poking fun at diplomatic protocol and fashion trends.
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Dean Acheson
Department of State
Washington, D. C
Acheson
State Department
Q Street
Congress
District Commission
Seventeenth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Grimm Street
Mussolini
Bergdorf
Czechoslovakia Ordered to Close Chicago Consulate
The United States orders Czechoslovakia to close its Chicago consulate by May 1 in retaliation for U S actions against Czech facilities. Ladislav Hynko named as Chicago consul general. State department warns of serious consequences in bilateral relations and reviews Czech establishments in the United States.
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Washington
United States
Czechoslovakia
Chicago
US Information Service
Bratislava
State Department
Joseph C. Kolarek
Atache
Prague
U. S
New York City
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Ladislav Hynko
New York
Roy Larsen to Address Louisiana PTA Convention
Roy Larsen president and editor of Time Magazine will address the Louisiana Parent-Teacher Association general convocation in Monroe. He will speak on The Citizen's Role in Public Education at 8 o'clock tonight in the Virginia Hotel ballroom, with public attendance invited. Larsen, Harvard graduate and former Harvard overseer, has long been active in education and serves on related committees.
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Louisiana Parent-Teacher Association
Monroe
Roy Larsen
Time Magazine
Virginia
W. S. Vincent
Larsen
Vincent
Louisiana
Harvard
Harvard University
Two Men Executed for Hold-Up Murder in Chicago
In Cook County jail early today, Alfonso Najero and Fred Varela were executed by electric chair for the April 12, 1948, murder of Alfred Brody, a 30 year old war veteran whom they robbed of $18. The double execution was completed in 19 minutes. A Woman Chicago Daily News reporter, Edan Wright, witnessed from the room adjacent to the death chamber, the first female witness noted by jail guards. Both men protested their innocence to the end as witnesses fainted in the room.
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Chicago
Cook County
Edan Wright
Chicago Daily News
Alfred Brody
Alfonso Najero
Fred Varela
Home Credit to Be Cheaper and More Plentiful
Washington reports a government move to lower the top FHA mortgage rate to 4 1/4 percent effective Monday, after President Truman signed a bill expanding federal housing aid by nearly 4 billion dollars. The change aims to lift housing demand, ease rents, and boost residential construction, with VA rates staying at 4 percent. The FHA will insure loans through private lenders, with added authority and funds to buy mortgages via Fannie Mae to replenish lending pools.
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Washington
Federal Housing Administration
Truman
Maybank
Senate Banking Committee
Veterans Administration
E. Bi AX
Franklin D. Richards
Federal National Mortgage Association
Bergman Charged With Desertion in Divorce Suit
Ingrid Bergman is charged with deserting her husband Dr. Peter Lindstrom in his counter divorce suit filed in Los Angeles. The petition seeks a court order preventing Bergman from taking their daughter Pia, 12, out of the United States during custody periods and notes alleged mental cruelty. It cites Bergman leaving their Beverly Hills home March 15, 1949, with Lindstrom learning of the desertion a month later.
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Los Angeles
Ingrid Bergman
Peter Lindstrom
Roberto Rossellini
Miss Bergman
Pia
United States
Lindstrom
Beverly Hills
Rossellini
Rome
Isaac Pacht
Superior Court
Pacht
Gregson Bautzer
House Ways and Means approves another excise tax cut
Washington April 21. The House Ways and Means Committee approved a further 250 million dollar slash in excise taxes. The move eliminates some levies entirely and halves others, bringing total excise tax cuts to about 535 million dollars, roughly double President Truman’s request.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Truman
Chachere Case Near Jury in VA Fraud Trial
The government rested its case against Walter A. Chachere, former Winnsboro trade school operator, charged with submitting three false claims and two false statements to the Veterans Administration. Defense testimony began with Mrs. Nona Marshall and Walter A. Scott as court adjourned for weekend. jury expected late Friday.
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Walter A. Chachere
Winnsboro
Veterans’ Administration
Nona Marshall
Walter A. Scott
Marshall
Scott
Gaston L. Porterie
FE. V. Boagai
David J. Garrett, Jr
Chachere
Veterans Administration
Atlantic Shipping Strike Averted By Mediation
Washington April 21 A walkout by 4,000 deck officers threatening to idle 300,000 maritime workers on Atlantic and Gulf coasts was averted with government conciliators helping resolve hiring and job security issues. The AFL Masters, Mates and Pilots had planned to strike at midnight but delays and sympathy demonstrations backed by other maritime unions helped secure a settlement. Nearby, railroad and telephone labor tensions loomed as mediators shifted focus to prevent potential strikes in four major railroads and the telephone industry.
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Norman Walker
Washington
Atlantic
Gulf
A. F. L. Masters
A. F
Gulf Ports
Francis A. O'Neill, Jr
Railway Mediation Board
Mayors called in crime drive for testimony
Washington April 21. The mayors of three large cities Fletcher Bowron of Los Angeles William M Wolforth of Miami and de Lesseps Morrison of New Orleans testified before a Senate Commerce subcommittee considering a bill to ban interstate gambling information. Attorney General Price Daniel and Richard Ervin were set to appear next followed by Los Angeles police chief W C Worton. The Senate debates a nationwide crime inquiry led by Senator Kefauver with delay on a resolution linked to foreign aid daylight saving. A McFarland inquiry earlier heard Wilmington safety director Andrew J Kavanaugh accuse telegraph and telephone firms of aiding horse race gambling.
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Washington
Senate Commerce
Fletcher Bowron
Los Angeles
William M. Wolforth
Miami
de Lesseps Morrison
New Orleans
Price Daniel
Texas
Richard Ervin
Florida
W. C. Worton
Senate
Kefauver
D.-Tenn
Lucas
Illinois
District of Columbia
McFarland
D.ariz
Wilmington
Delaware
Andrew J. Kavanaugh
McCarthy urges probe beyond Budenz testimony
Senator McCarthy challenged senate investigators to subpoena Earl Browder Frederick Vanderbilt Field and Jack Stachel to verify Budenz's claim that Owen Lattimore was part of a Communist cell. Budenz testified he learned of Lattimore's ties from those high in the party, while Lattimore and Johns Hopkins professor denied the charges and prepared a formal reply.
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Owen Lattimore
Louis Budenz
Senate Foreign Relations
Washington
Budenz
Lattimore
China
Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Senator McCarthy
R.-Wis
Senate
McCarthy
Earl Browder
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
Jack Stachel
Field
Latti
Johns Hopkins University
Soviet Union rejects US protest over Baltic plane incident
Moscow said the aircraft was a B-29 Flying Fortress, not a Navy Privateer, and accused Washington of covering up illegal actions. It warned any unauthorized planes over Soviet territory would be fired upon, and cited intercepts over Latvia.
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Thomas P. Whitney
Moscow
Russia
Washington
United States
United States Navy
Latvia
Soviet Union
Alan G. Kirk
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Vishinsky
Germany
Denmark
115 Million In U S Counted In Census Progress Report
Census Director Roy V. Peel reports the 1950 population count is over 75 percent complete with about 115 million Americans recorded. Eight days remain in April to finish the remaining quarter as officials note some local delays and plan repeat calls to reach people away from home. Ice storms and floods slow work in sparsely settled areas, particularly North Dakota, with no hard deadline to stop the count.
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Washington
Roy V. Peel
Peel
North Dakota
Truman visits Georgia for army review at Fort Benning
President Truman flies to Fort Benning Georgia arriving by plane at Lawson Field at 10 02 a m EST for a review of army and air force troops. The party will later proceed to Eglin Field Florida to witness a live ammunition display. The Inde pendence brought the president and cabinet members from Washington in hours and 23 minutes.
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Fort Benning
Truman
Independence
Lawson Field
Washington
Eglin Field
Florida
Brooks Seeks Flood Funds for Planning Projects
Representative Brooks of Louisiana urges $6 million for planning flood control and rivers and harbors projects in the pending appropriations bill. He argues cutting planning harms continuity and risks losing engineers, citing four Louisiana-border projects and broader allocations to 13 rivers and harbors and 68 flood control plans across 30 states.
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Washington
Brooks
D.-La
Appropriations
Congress
Corps of Engineers
Army Engineers
Appropriations Committee
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P.T. A. Convention
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Mississipp
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Cairo
Tennessee
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Cumberland Nashville
Aransas Little Rock
RED
Shreveport
Alexandria
M’carthy
Army
Baltic Sea
President Truman
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