Fair Enough Is Not An American Prospect
A harsh critique targets the U S State Department and European economic policy linking American unions to European labor drives. The writer accuses Paul Hoffman of shifting from Ford Foundation to Eisenhower propaganda and alleges American taxpayers subsidize European labor actions. The piece portrays ECA pamphlets and union activity as foreign influence and hints at a conspiracy uncovered by a reader.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard
Congressional
Chinaboy Uce
Pentagon
Adame
Paul Hoffman
Ford Foundation
Hoffman
Eurean
Akers
Hoffman's CA
Invason
Europe
ECA
Paris
Belgium
United
Cherry Edges McMath In Arkansas Runoff Victory
Gov Sid McMath loses the Democratic runoff for a third term to Judge Francis Cherry in a result highlighted by Cherry radio talkathon campaigning. Cherry, 43, a Jonesboro chancery judge, benefited from cross‑endorsements and Truman approval while McMath faced AFL CIO backing challenges. In a parallel race, Rep Brooks Hays of Little Rock secures renomination over Amis Guthridge.
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Leon Hatch
Little Rock
Ark
Sid McMath
Truman
Francis Cherry
Cherry
Chancery Court
Jonesboro
John L. McClellan
Boyd Tackett
Arkansas
McMath
AFL
CIO
Ft. Worth
Tex
Oklahoma
Brooks Hays
House
Amis Guthridge
Wholesale Food Prices Edge to New 1952 High
New York reports wholesale food prices rose again to a 1952 high per the Dun & Bradstreet index at 6.66 up from 6.65 last week. The figure sits 4 percent below the year ago level of 6.94 and remains below the July 1948 record of 7.36. The year’s low was 6.31 on April 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Dun & Bradstreet
Monroe City School Board Sets Temporary Boundary Lines
In the first regular session the Monroe City School Board set temporary pupil boundary lines for city schools. Miss Eleona Brinsmade and Supt. Van Dam described lines drawn with principals and teachers’ input to balance teacher loads. Changes may occur if enrollments demand transfers to avoid oversized classes. All white schools will have kindergartens this year and entrants must be five by January 2 next year.
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Monroe City
Varius City
Eleona Brinsmade
van Dam
Tom H. Scott
Ott
Brinsmade
Odom
Tor
Optimist Club Building Destroyed by Early Morning Fire
Firefighters from Monroe Fire Department Engine 102 and 105 responded after a 3:50 a.m. call to Selman Field First and B streets where the Optimist club building, formerly the Officers club, was a total loss with no value estimate yet reported by club members.
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Optimist Club
First
Selman Field
Monroe
Officers Club
Monroe Fire Department
City Council Awards Contract for Substations
The city commission awarded a contract to Monroe Hardware Company as the lowest bidder for three 1500 EVA conventional electric substations. The total amount is $59,624.28, with General Electric bids close to the same figures. Itemized costs are $20,087.28 for item 1, $23,067.00 for item 2, and $16,470.00 for item 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Commission Council
Monroe Hardware Company
General Electric
Monroe Hardware
Monroe Hardware Co
Communists accused of infiltrating Boy Scouts in U S
Senate investigators released sworn testimony describing a Moscow inspired plan to infiltrate youth groups including the Boy Scouts. Harvey Matusow testified that Communists hoped to place Red agents among Scouts to warp teenagers and spread Kremlin views.
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Washington
Boy Scout Movement
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Kremlin
Sen. McCarran
Dnev
McCarran
Reno, Ney
Harvey M. Matusow
Dayton
Ohio Commission On Un-American Activities
Matusow
Scout Movement
Boy Scouts
Cost Of Equal Facilities For Negroes
Mississippi state Sen Earl Evans said equal educational facilities for white and Negro students and equalized teachers salaries would cost an extra 25 million dollars every two years. He noted this would raise education funding by about 15 percent and proposed a one percent sales tax increase to cover costs. Governor Hugh White has pointed to municipal aid and mentioned a half percent sales tax hike.
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Ouachita Parish
James D. Sparks
Gilbert Faulk
Parish Road Committee
Shady Wall
National Guard
Sparks
Faulk
Charles Smith
Ward 2
Froggy Bottom
Jackson
Miss
Earl Evans
Canton
Mississippi
Evans
State Senate Finance Committee
Hugh White
Marines hold Bunker Hill after second day clash
U S Marines and artillery repelled a major Chinese attack on Bunker Hill on the Korean front. Maj. Gen. John T Selden said the ridge near Panmunjom is Marine territory as ground troops and flame throwers aided a defense. Navy and Air Force strikes hit supply and troop concentrations south of Won san with heavy Red losses.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S
Bunker Hill
John T. Selden
Panmunjom
Wonsan
Navy
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Rankin vows hard campaign against FEPC push
U S Representative John Rankin launching a rapid two week sprint before the August 26 primary. He charges Northern interests including Harlem have seized Washington and pressed the fair employment practices commission on the South. Rankin touts freight-rate gains as proof of Southern progress while his challenger Tom Abernethy campaigns in the heart of the region.
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Associated Press
U. S
John Rankin
Mississippi
Harlem
Washington
Tupelo
Fair Employment Practices Commission
South
Nurse Accused of Poisoning Nieces Slashes Wrist Before Trial
A 54 year old nurse Mrs Earle Dennison injured herself by slashing her wrist with a razor at Tutwiler prison hours before her murder trial. She faced charges in the arsenic deaths of two year old Shirley Weldon and her sister Polly Anne Weldon with proceedings expected to be delayed.
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Wetumpea
Ala
Lester Holley
Earle Dennison
Tutwiler
Holley
Mrs. Dennison
Shirley Dianne Weldon
Shirley
Polly Anne
Winston A. Edwards
Nixon assails Stevenson over Truman briefing and boss control
In Springfield Nixon accuses Gov Stevenson of meeting with President Truman to press Truman policies and marshal federal resources for his campaign. He labels Stevenson a captive candidate controlled by political bosses and contrasts him with Eisenhower’s primary victory support.
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Springfield
Richard Nixon
Adlai E. Stevenson
Truman
Nixon
Stevenson
Gov
Washington
Illinois State Fair
Illinois
California
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Estes Kefauver
Harry Truman
Eisenhower
Louisiana Bars Imported Swine Due to Disease Spread
The Louisiana Department of Agriculture revised emergency rules to ban live swine imports amid rapidly spreading vesicular disease seen in at least 21 states. The July 25 amendment allows raw pork products from federally slaughtered animals and permits immediate slaughter swine under strict disease inspection and clearance by a state veterinarian.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Department of Agriculture
Federal Bureau of Animal Husbandry
Teacher Added at Northeast State English Faculty
Harry Richard Sullivan has been appointed to the English faculty at Northeast State with duties starting in the fall semester. A New York City native, he earned a BA at LSU, an MS at Stanford in 1950, and did doctoral work at the University of Toronto plus teaching certificate work at Ole Miss. He is a member of Phi Kappa Phi Mu Sigma Rho and the German language Society. his wife Ramona Franklyn attended Northeast State when it was Northeast Junior College.
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Harry Richard Sullivan
Northeast State
Lewis C. Slater
Sullivan
New York City
Louisiana State University
Stanford University
California
University of Toronto
Canada
University of Mississippi
Oxford
Phi Kappa Phi
Mu Sigma Rho
German Language Society
Ramona Franklyn
Fairbanks
Northeast Junior College
Marine corporal found guilty under DC ridicule car law
Frank Farkas 25 of Flushing N Y stationed at Quantico Va was found guilty of violating a DC ordinance that bars signs ridiculing a vehicle after painting lemons and the word Lemon on his 1949 car The lawyer plans an appeal and sentencing is set for Aug 19.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Frank Farkas
Flushing
N. Y
Quantico
H. Clifford Allder
Farkas
Alider
Andrew J. Howard Jr
First Ouachita Bale Displayed At Central Savings Bank
The first Ouachita parish bale of the 1952 cotton season, weighing about 415 pounds and raised by J W Wilson of Ward 9, was shown at the Central Savings Bank. It will be auctioned at a future date to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ouachita Parish
J. W. Wilson
Ward 9
Central Savings Bank
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Red
Scouts of America
Westbrook
Pegler
State Department
Roth Mutual
Orks
Solons
School Board
Santa Ana
Calif
William F. Rupp Jr
Orange County
Ess Buckle
Ruby Ann Payne
Brea
Here
Los Angeles
Lawrence Echines
BURNS
City Council
U. S. Security Agency
Yodo Island
Grapple
Rankin
Harlem Power
Tom Abernethy
Rex Thomas
Louisiana
Lindy Remigino
Hartford
Eden
Clarissa Spencer-Churchill
Anthony Eden
London
Britain
Spencer -Churchill
Winston Churchill
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