Eleanor Roosevelt on Author Meets the Critics program
A Westbrook Pegler critique questions ABCs Eleanor Roosevelt broadcast titled Author Meets the Critics. It contends the format misrepresented the subject by featuring Roosevelt relatives and associates as critics, turning the discussion into a defense of Eleanor Roosevelt and her late husband.
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American Broadcasting Company
Eleanor Roosevelt
American Broadcasting
Mar- Solis
Gailmor
Eleanor
Guru
Elliott
MacCaffrey
Mahatma
Roosevelts
Henry Morgenthau
Roosevelt
Sam Rosenman
McCaffrey
la Gale
Elliott Roosevelt
God
Child Movie Star Flees From Home
Lora Lee Michel nine pleads she fled foster home to escape starvation rumors for film roles. Sheriff reports she left in pajamas after foster mother Lorraine Michel 55 left praying. Rev El ford Sundstrum in Burbank found her taxi arrival around 10 PM PST and she said she had to get away.
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Hollywood
Lora Lee Michel
Sheriff's Office
Lorraine Michel
Elford Sundstrum
United Brethren Church
Burbank
Lora Lee
Christoffel Sentenced for Lie to Congress in Milwaukee
Harold Christoffel former Milwaukee labor leader was sentenced to two to six years in prison on five counts for lying to a House Labor Committee about Communist ties He was convicted at a second trial after the Supreme Court voided the first conviction Christoffel once led Local 208 U A W at Allis-Chalmers and was linked by witnesses to Communist influence in unions.
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Washington
Harold Christoffel
Milwaukee
Christoffel
House Labor Committee
F. Dickinson Letts
Supreme Court
Letts
House Committee
O. John Rogge
U. A
McCarthy accuses state dept of favoring Russian agent in post
Senator McCarthy charges the state department with appointing Gus tavo Duran a high post despite U.S. army reports branding him a Russian agent. The dispute centers on Duran a former Spanish republican army officer and the salary cited reaches twelve thousand dollars.
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Washington
McCarthy
R.-Wis
State Department
Gustavo Duran
U.S. Army
Joseph McCarthy
Wisconsin
Haldore Hanson
Senate Foreign Relations
Hanson
Committee On Scientific and Cultural Co-operation
Monroe Sanitary Sewerage Bill Aids City
Monroe’s sanitary sewerage bill passed in a recent special session promises citizens a year saved in readiness and enables low interest rates on sewer bonds if approved at the coming election. Mayor John E. Coon said the act speeds sewer district formation and issues city certificates backed by property owner certificates. The city praised Gov Earl Long for including the measure in his call, noting broad support in the legislature. Opposing Rep Shady Wall withdrew his vote after saying locals wanted it, while sponsors Moe Keithen and Lorris Wimberly highlighted its local focus and financial benefits.
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Monroe
John E. Coon
Earl. Long
Coon
Frank X. Cline
J. P. Simmons
Commission Council of
Executive Council
George Wallace
Shady Wall
West Monroe
Representatives
House of Representatives
Moe Keithen
Caldwell Parish
Lorris Wimberly
Bien- Ville
Yvette Madsen testifies in murder trial
In Frankfurt on March 14 Mrs. Yvette Madsen testified she recalled nothing of the October gunshot that killed Lt. Andrew E. Madsen. The 22-year-old widow pleaded innocent by reason of insanity, saying she might have been drunk during the party before the shooting. She described returning home, finding a gun, and hearing the doorbell as her husband entered.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Yvette Madsen
Andrew E. Madsen
Brooklyn
GM Profits Reach New 1949 Record Figures
New York March 14 General Motors announced record profits of 656.434 million dollars for 1949 and a payroll peak of 1.441 billion. The annual report to 434000 stockholders showed earnings per share of 14.64, up from 9.72 in 1948, with sales totaling 5.701 billion.
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New York
General Motors Corporation
United States
G. M
Canada
C. E. Wilson
Alfred P. Sloan Jr
General Motors
Night Riders Active Again In Alabama Mob Terror Resurges
Birmingham dispatch reports night prowlers, now unmasked, stir new mob terror similar to 1949 acts prompting anti masking law. Four men face murder charges in Pell City Feb 22 slaying of Charlie Hurst. others arrested in the case freed. Indictments touch 18 Birmingham men in masked flogging case.
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Birmingham
Ala
Pell City
Charlie Hurst
Hurst
Ku Kluxers
Claude Luker
Talladega
Charlie Carlisle
Albert Wilson
Talladega County
C.M. Hunter
Alvin Horn
Association of Georgia Klans
Jesse Wilson
E.L. Hudson
Truman plan to curb Denham sparks labor row
Washington March 14 At least one of President Truman s 21 reorganization plans faces trouble as lawmakers react to proposed limits on Robert N Denham chief counsel of the NLRB Some oppose removing Denham s powers while others balk at abolishing the maritime commission and moving its duties to the commerce department The plan aims to end confusion from divided responsibility and will take effect in 60 days unless rejected by Congress.
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Washington
Truman
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
Maritime Commission
Commerce Department
Denham
NLRB
Hoffman
R.-Mich
House
John L. Lewis
Senate
Rep
Hardy
D.-Va
Brown
Ohio
Hoover Commission
Commission
Seaboard
M. P. Boosters Hold Banquet Night of Convention
About 100 attended the annual Missouri Pacific Women's Booster club banquet in the Hotel Virginia ballroom Monday night, with Mike Pickett as master of ceremonies. speakers included Selvidge Monroe and Attorney Thomas Davenport who urged women to use their political and social power for the common good. The event featured music by Garland Shell and Mrs. P. A. Poag, and Cajun stories by Vernon Le Cour. A garden tour to Natchez, Mississippi, was planned by chartered buses, then the group returned to Monroe for the 6 45 p.m. Missouri Pacific train northbound.
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Missouri Pacific Women's Booster Club
Virginia
Mike Pickett
Monroe
Selvidge Monroe
Garland Shell
P. A. Poag
Vernon le Cour
Thomas Davenport
Natchez, Miss
Missouri Pacific
Spectators block rescue of child in Amite fire
Four month old Joann Chavers died in a Amite La fire as firemen could not reach the child because crowds of spectators blocked access. Neighbor Charles Boyd rushed in to save Luther Chavers Jr. but could not reenter. Jessie Dunkin was burned on hands and face trying to reach the girl.
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Amite
Joann Chavers
Charles Boyd
Luther Chavers, Jr
Jessie Dunkin
Czech Foreign Minister Vlado Clementis Resigns
The Czechoslovak telegraph agency said Czech foreign minister Vlado Clementis has resigned. Premier Antonin Zapotocky announced the resignation at a cabinet meeting and recommended President Klement Gottwald accept it. Gottwald reportedly approved.
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London
Czechoslovak Telegraph Agency
Vlado Clementis
Prague Radio
Antonin Zapotocky
Clementis
Zapotocky
Klement Gottwald
Apologizing Man Shot To Death In Georgia
Willie Perry 22 was shot to death as he sought to apologize to Willie Feagin 55 who killed him after a Sunday argument. Perry returned to apologize at Feagin’s door and was blasted by a shotgun. Police say Feagin will be charged with the slaying.
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FT. Valley
Willie Perry
Perry
Willie Feagin
Feagin
L. A. Chapman
Macon
Chapman
Indicted: 34 in wartime income tax cases in NY
Federal prosecutors unsealed 23 indictments against 34 individuals and nine firms for concealing more than 2.8 million dollars in income between 1942 and 1946. Cases involve black market gains, wartime shortages, and unreported income from textiles, hotels, plastics, panties, and military accessories. Potential penalties include up to 30 years in prison per count and millions in fines. back taxes and penalties could total about 4 million.
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New York
Peta
U. S
Irving H. Saypol
Saypol
Cities seek bigger tobacco tax share for firemen
Baton Rouge March 14 Mayor Curt Siegelin of Bogalusa said the Louisiana Municipal Association may ask the state legislature to give cities a larger share of tobacco tax revenue. He noted cities want all firemen on 60 hour weeks, but require more funds. the association's legislative committee proposed increasing tobacco tax money to cover the cost.
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Baton Rouge
Curt Siegelin
Bogalusa
Louisiana Municipal Association
Siegelin
Widow of Actor Arliss Expires in London Home
Mrs Florence Arliss widow of actor George Arliss died Sunday at her suburban London home. Arliss, who died in 1946 at 77, and his wife appeared together in the film Disraeli. The couple were married 47 years before his death.
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London
Florence Arliss
George Arliss
Arliss
Disraeli
Killer Hunt In West Style Shocks Texas Sheriff Murder
Marfa Texas March 14 The hunt for the killer of Sheriff O W Blackie Morrow 43 continued with a mounted posse pursuing an unidentified slayer through rugged mountains near the Rio Grande. Texas Rangers and border riders joined grim faced Big Bend sheriffs as dawn broke with a trail 15 miles long and then lost near the Mexican border.
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Marfa
Tex
Texas
Big Bend
Texas Rangers
O. W
Blackie) Morrow
Texas Ranger
Gully Cowsert
Morrow
Film Writer Leonard Stern Hurt in Collision Near Coushatta
Movie writer Leonard Stern and his wife were in a wreck seven miles north of Coushatta on U S Highway 71. Stern was in critical condition at a local clinic, his wife died shortly after at the scene, they resided in Hollywood and Stern had worked for Universal-International after news stint at the New York Journal-American.
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Coushatta
Leonard Stern
Here
U. S. Highway 71
Sterns
Hollywood
Calif
Universal-International
New York Journal-American
Mass Picketing Ordered Stopped At Chrysler Plant
Mass picketing and intimidation by striking Chrysler workers at the Marysville plant were halted by a circuit court temporary restraining order issued at Chrysler’s request. A hearing set for March 27 will decide if the order becomes permanent as negotiations resume in Detroit amid a 49 day strike idling 89,000 workers and affecting over 140,000 nationwide.
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Port Huron
Mich
Chrysler Corp
Marysville
Fred W. George
Chrysler
Detroit
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