Editorial: News-Star backs two party system in Louisiana
The Monroe News-Star criticizes GOP leadership while defending a two party system. It praises Mr Wisdom for party-building actions in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish but questions Advance movement tactics. The paper urges unity and transparency as Louisiana Republicans face internal struggle and national shifts.
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Louisiana
Republican Party
Wisdom
New Orleans
The
Monroe News-Star
Monroe
Howard
News-Star
Jefferson Parish
GOP
Isianathan Monroe
John Fox
White House
Fiji travel notes mix humor with aviation lore
Henry McLemore writes from Nadi Fiji about Mocambo Hotel architecture mislabeling as native craft, the Nandi Suva distance, and Fiji Airlines. He recalls Harold Gatty and Lindbergh praise, mocks Fiji bus travel, and hints at Tau of aviation legends before boarding a Qantas Super-Connie to Honolulu.
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Gatty
Wiley
Rogers
Anne Morrow
Suva
Lindbergh
Bayeux Tapestry Origin and Free Lancer Etymology
The Bayeux tapestry is actually embroidery, traditionally attributed to the wife of William the Conqueror. The term free lance arose from medieval knights and roving soldiers selling their services to various state leaders.
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Bayeux
William the Conqueror
Grand Old Flag remembered in Father Duffy monument rite
Westbrook Pegler recalls George M. Cohan Jr at a June dedication for a flagpole near the Father Duffy monument in New York. He notes Cohan’s performance of It’s A Grand Old Flag, reflects on his father, and recounts wartime songs and Broadway economics including the 1920 actors strike and figures like Irving Berlin, Ned Sparks, Mary Astor, Eddie Cantor, and Ziegfeld.
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Cohan
Stars and Stripes
George
Tipperary
Cincinnati
United Press
Irving Berlin
Berlin
George, Jr
Actors’ Equity Association
Eddie Cantor
Ziegfeld
Frank Bacon
Lightnin
Ned Sparks
Mary Astor
New York Central
Astors
George Cohan
St. Louis
U. P
Frank Ward O'Malley
The
Old Sun
Steve Riordan
Steve
Chicago
Newark
Hollywood
Bridgeport
Mendes-France Viewed as a Needed Shift for France
Washington reports on Pierre Mendes-France as premier promising to seek peace in Indo China, reform tax and fiscal policy, and renegotiate the European Defense Community. If his internal reforms and stance against colonial entanglements succeed, France may regain influence and stability in the Free World.
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Pierre Mendes - France
Indo- China
M. Mendes - France
Mendes - France
Free World
France
Germany
Assembly
Congress
Italy
Ape To Girdle The Globe
HAL BOYLE reports J Fred Muggs the incorporated ape will fly around the world next month as a goodwill TV icon. The chimpanzee, traveling via Pan American, will visit Paris Rome Cairo Hong Kong Tokyo and Mexico City hitting Africa where he was born. Muggs earns 450 dollars weekly owns ranches and suits and is escorted by Miss J Mary Kelly and two young owners. He remains diapered and supervised by a veterinarian at each stop amid fears he may go native in Africa.
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New York
J. Fred Muggs
America
J. Milton Berle
J. Arthur Godfrey
NBC
Muggs
J. Dave Garroway
J. Fred
J. Christopher Columbus
U.S
Pan American World Airways
Paris
Rome
Cairo
Hong Kong
Tokyo
Mexico City
Africa
Texas
Florida
J. Mary Kelly
J. Roy Waldron
J. Bud Mennella
Fredd
Mennella
Avern
Jan August
Chappaqua
Westchester County
The
Protestant Council
Hat Check King Ellis Drives NYC Tipping Storms
New York columnist notes Abraham Ellis earns about 5 million dollars a year in tips as the hat check king. Restaurants lease hat check rights to him for 20000 to 55000 dollars annually, with Ellis running the operation and staffing largely young women. The piece also sketches a mix of street characters, a Times Square beggar, and a Long Island City fire museum anecdote.
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New York
Bob Ruark
Chapeau
Abraham Ellis
Ellis
Elis
The Monroe News Star History and Editorial Statement
The Monroe News Star details its founding ownership and masthead history with dates 1893 1908 and 1952, lists publishers and executives including John B Ewing and Robert Ewing Jr, and states AP affiliation and advertising network claims. It asserts impartial news and nonpartisan stance despite political leanings elsewhere in the text.
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John B. Ewing
Wilson Ewing
Monroe
News-Star—World Publishing Corporation
North Second Street
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