Henry Luce the China boy and Time style history
A Westbrook Pegler column portrays Henry Luce, founder of Fortune and Life, as a cosmopolitan power figure living at the Waldorf Astoria. It traces his ascent from Shantung origins to shaping American journalism with timestyle, nudity debates, and the rise of Life magazine.
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New York
Henry Luce
Chinaboy
Swell Hotel
Waldorf-Astoria
Missy Luce
House of All Nations
Waldorf- Astoria
China
Henry
Shantung
Fuey Pi-Yu
Fuey Pi- Yu
Yale
Fan Tan
Mah Jong
FueyPi-Yu
Yaler
Lure
Fortune
Life
Pi-Yu
Ship-News
Hollywood Pictures
Don Juan and Franco Confer in Bay of Biscay Yacht Meet
Monarchist informants report Don Juan and Francisco Franco held a three hour conference aboard Franco’s yacht in the Bay of Biscay off the French coast. No official details or agenda were released. The talks followed Don Juan’s claim to the Spanish throne and a new succession law naming Franco chief of state for life.
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San Sebastian
Spain
Don Juan
Francisco Franco
Franco
Bay of Biscay
Pedro Galindez
Bilbao
Jaime
Duke of Sotomayor
Julio Danvila
Madrid
Cortes
Alfonso XIII
Alfonso
Airlines fail to agree on across the board fare rise
The civil aeronautics board failed to obtain a unified 10 percent fare increase from five major airlines. Eastern United TWA and Northwest will raise fares across their fleets next month while American plans only on certain DC-6 routes. A 5 percent round trip reduction accompanies the moves, with most increases taking effect September 1.
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Washington
Joseph J. O. Connell, Jr
Civil Aeronautics Bord
Eastern
United
Northwest Airlines
American Airlines
American
Republicans Hit Red Issue In Campaign Talks
Washington dispatch reports Republicans will press the Communists in government issue in the campaign. Senator Revercomb of West Virginia pushes the theme, arguing the administration failed to root out communists in federal service. Rankin’s Mississippi primary win fuels GOP belief in anti Soviet messaging as a campaign strategy.
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Washington
Revercomb
R-W. Va
Keyser
W. Va
Russia
Rankin
Congress
Mississippi
Senate
Joe Stalin
Stalin
Mr. Truman
Louisiana 10 Vote Tuesday in Senate Campaign Clash
The Louisiana primary next Tuesday pits Russell Long against Judge Robert F Kennon in a race shaped by support for Gov Earl K Long. Russell touts social security expansion and federal funds for highways while Kennon accuses the governor of steering a family style government and a dictatorial push for his nephew’s election.
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Associated Press
Earl K. Long
U. S. Senate
Betwen Russell Long
Robert F. Kennon
Minden
Young Long
Kennon
Long
Russell
New Orleans
Bunkie
Louisiana
Tragedy on Kearny Mesa Ends in Double Death
Grief stricken Ronald Earnest 16 and younger brother Ralph 14 die after a hunting trip near Linda Vista California. Kenneth Goetschl 15 witnessed the shootings and Deputy Coroner Lloyd Jones reports the youth killed himself following the accidental death.
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San Diego
Lloyd Jones
Jones
Ronald
Ralph Earnest
Kearny Mesa
Linda Vista
Calif
Kenneth M. Goetschl
Western envoys meet Molotov over German crisis in Moscow
In Moscow three Western envoys United States ambassador Walter Bedell Smith, France’s Yves Chataigneau, and Britain’s Frank Roberts held a about three hour session with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov on the German crisis. They left the Kremlin for the British embassy after a Kremlin meeting and were optimistic that the talks could move toward a procedural agreement. Rain fell steadily as Stalin was not attending tonight’s talks. The envoys had earlier planned an appointment for five p.m. local time.
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Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Kremlin
E. S
U. S
U.S
Walter Bedell Smith
Yves Chataigneau
Frank Roberts
Stalin
Pravda Attacks Tito Regime in Red Letter from Moscow
Pravda published a letter condemning Premier Tito and denouncing Rankovic and other Yugoslav leaders. Maj. Gen. Pero Popivod is named as signatory after fleeing on August 14, the letter claims. It urges Yugoslav Communists to purge officials and align with internationalism.
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Moscow
Pravda
Tito
Pero Popivod
Popivod
Yugoslavia
Rankovic
Alexander Rankovic
Cominform
Milovan Diilas
Montnegro
Diilas
Arso Jovanovic
Jovanovic
Romania
Fund Formed to Aid Refugees From Communism in U S
Common Cause, Inc. announced the Kasen kina Fund For Victims Of Communism to aid Russian teacher Oksana Kasenkina with medical, legal, and future employment needs. The state department promised asylum. Kasenkina, injured but in good condition at Roosevelt Hospital, seeks freedom and safety.
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New York
Common Cause, Inc
Oksana Kasenkina
Kasenkina
Russia
State Department
Voice of America
New York City
Jacob M. Lomakin
United States
Moscow
Lomakin
Pioneer in oil industry dies in Houston
Harry C. Wiess 61, chairman of the Humble Oil and Refining Company, died at his Houston home after two major operations in New York. Funeral services set for tomorrow. Wiess served MIT Corporation, was a Princeton charter trustee and Rice Institute vice chairman of the trustees, and held positions with the National Petroleum Council and the American Petroleum Institute.
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Houston
Tex
Harry C. Wiess
Humble Oil and Refining Company
New York City
Wiess
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Rice Institute
National Petroleum Council
American Petroleum Institute
Real Whizzer Hurricane Heads Toward Florida Coast
An Atlantic hurricane packing 115 mph winds shifts toward the west-northwest, centering about 760 miles east of Miami. Grady Norton and a navy hunter report a possible course turn while ships in the path take evasive action and coast guard crews standby for potential towing.
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Miami
Fla
Grady Norton
Federal Storm Warning Service
Florida
Norton
Navy
C. W. Gibbs
Laurens, S. C
Petmakis Nomikos
Coast Guard
Federal
John Howland
Brunswick
Alabama Democrats shift plan on Truman electors ballot
State Senator Joseph Langan said Alabama Democrats will not nominate a Birmingham slate of 11 Truman electors. The group may instead ask the state Democratic executive committee to arrange for Truman electors to run under the Democratic emblem. Kefauver declined to address the Birmingham convention and two Alabama speakers were set to stand in for Tennessee figures. The May 4 electors are pledged to the states rights ticket and appear on the November ballot under the rooster banner.
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Mobile
Ala
Alabama
National Democratic Party
Joseph Langan
Truman
Birmingham
Langan
Democratic Executive Committee
Guy Matlock
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Matlock
Kefauver
Commercial Solvents expands methanol output at Sterlington plant
Commercial Solvents Corp. announced a $5,000,000 expansion at its new Dixie Plant in Sterlington Louisiana raising daily methanol capacity to 45,000 gallons. The output will feed its anti freeze product line and manufacture formaldehyde amines and other chemicals for its industrial division, surpassing Peoria Illinois plant production.
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New York
Commercial Solvents Corp
Dixie
Sterlington
Peoria, Ill
Industrial Chemical Division
Probers Press Hiss Chambers Link On Maryland Farm
The House un American Activities Committee pressed a link between Alger Hiss and Whitaker Chambers over a Westminister Maryland farm. Witnesses were questioned about Hiss driving Chambers to the site in 1936 and a down payment allegedly made by Hiss.
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Washington
House
UN American Activities Committee
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Westminister
Robert E Stripling
Nixon
R.-Calif
Chambers
Baltimore News-Post
Stripling
Hiss
Carl
Leon Cherner
Henry Cherner
Floyd Brewer
Samuel M. Bialek
Robert Bialek
McDowell
R.pa
Brewer
Cherner Motor Company
Youth Voices Get Stronger Role in World Council Assembly
Amsterdam Aug 27 1944 Youth forces align with elders as discussions run parallel to the World Council of Churches assembly. Leaders say youth views will be included in the encyclical to be issued next week and considered by accredited delegates.
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
World Council of Churches
World Council Assembly
Council
Charles P. Taft
Assembly
Taft
Co founder of Volunteers of America dies at 82 in New York
Mrs Maude Ballington Booth co founder of the Volunteers of America died at age 82 after three months of illness. She helped form the group with her husband Bal lington Booth son of Salvation Army founder Gen William Booth. She leaves a daughter Miss Theodora Booth and a son Charles Brandon Booth.
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Great Neck
N. Y
Maude Ballington Booth
The
Volunteers of America
Salvation Army
Booth
Ballington Booth
William Booth
Theodora Booth
Volunteer Prison League
American Prison Association
United States
England
Booths
Communist led demonstrators seize Berlin city hall
Belligerent protesters broke into Berlin city hall for a second day and attempted to install a Communist dominated regime backed by labor unions in the Soviet zone. The chaotic scene disrupted the anti-Communist city council meeting as crowds demanded a handpicked committee to replace the council and warned they would return.
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Richard K. O'Malley
Berlin
Czechoslovakia
Ferdinand Friedensburg
Socialist Unity Party
Friedensburg
Alexander Kotskov
Otto Suhr
Kotikov
Paul Markgraf
City Hall
Truman Plans to Visit Many States Aboard Wanderer
President Truman plans an unprecedented cross country tour extending into the deep south to visit more states than any candidate. He spoke aboard the yacht Williamsburg Wanderer at Blakestone Island after five Labor Day appearances in Michigan.
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Wanderer
Truman
Deep South
Michigan
Detroit
Cadillac Square
J. Howard McGrath
Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
Yorktown
Williamburg
Naval Mine Depot
Dewey
Williamsburg
Sharpe's Island
Maryland
Blakistone Island
Polio Epidemic Seen Declining In North Carolina
Polio authorities report the state's worst outbreak may be easing with 1 721 cases and 87 deaths this year. Schools are postponed in most areas except the northeast where openings proceed. the Raleigh debutante ball is moved from September to December.
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Raleigh
N. C
Paul Reid
State Board of Education
North Carolina
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