Westbrook Pegler Attacks Frankfurter and Browder Ties
Westbrook Pegler claims Felix Frankfurter courted Bolshevik influence and distorted justice to curry favor with Russia. He cites Frankfurter's letters to Roosevelt on cases affecting U S Russian relations and recalls Browder’s imprisonment as part of promoting unity with Moscow.
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Felix Frankfurter
Roosevelt
Frankfurter
Harold Laski
New York Times
Russia
Supreme Court
Harry Bridges
Department of Justice
Felix
Petrograd
Moscow
Earl Browder
United States
Czar
Lenin
Trotsky
Theodore Roosevelt
Pegler
Browder
Atlanta
State Department
Montreal
Mrs. Browder
Taft urges southern Democrats to back Dewey in Tennessee
In Nashville Taft appeals to southern Democrats to join the Republicans for the Dewey Warren ticket. He criticizes Truman foreign policy as weakening the case against Russia and argues for liberty and justice against European totalitarian ideas. He says northern Democrats align with Republicans on this issue.
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Nashville
Tenn
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Truman
Taft
South
Russia
Vinson
Moscow
United Nations
Marshall
Thomas E. Dewey
Republican Party
Europe
Dewey Assails Truman Ahead of Louisville Speech
On the campaign trail to Louisville, Governor Thomas E. Dewey sharpens attacks on President Truman’s administration both at home and abroad. He uses terms like miserable and vacillating to describe Truman and cites Marshall’s remark on UN and Berlin issues. Dewey defends Taft Hartley to cheering crowds in Pittsburgh and Kentucky.
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Louisville
Thomas E. Dewey
Truman
Fred Vinson
Moscow
Vinson
Marshall
United Nations
Berlin
Hunt Armory
Fittsburgh
Kentucky
Electric power cuts hit France as coal strike widens
Paris reports electric power cut across the country due to a Communist led coal strike now in its ninth day. Rail workers show limited improvements with walkouts continuing and power meant to hospitals and UN not affected.
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Paris
France
Strasbourg
Mulhouse
Colmar
United Nations
Metz
Jules Moch
Cominform
Christian Pineau
Long Protests Double Listing On Louisiana Ballot
In New Orleans on October 12 a Republican suit seeks a court ruling on whether Russell Long appears twice on the November ballot. Judge Wayne G. Borah would decide jurisdiction and order separate counting of votes Long received on the states rights and Truman Barkley tickets. Clarke's lawyers push to certify only Thurmond ticket votes and asked for timing within 20 days.
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New Orleans
Russell Long
Louisiana
Wayne G. Borah
Long
States’ Rights
Truman - Barkley
Clem S. Clark
Shreveport
States’ Rights Democratic
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Louisiana State Central Democratic Committee
Clarke
Wade Martin
Thurmond
Borah
Truman-Barkley
Fair Play
Lewis Urges Unity in Labor Move Toward Shorter Week
John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers propose a unity resolution calling for cooperation across the American labor movement. He cited past efforts with the CIO and AFL and urged leaders to set aside grievances to unify, while pledging UMW readiness to join or operate independently to serve its members.
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Cincinnati
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Today
A. F. of L
American Labor Movement
United Mine Workers
Vice-Press
Prisoner Requests Return to Huntsville After Pardon Revoked
John Carlos Stephens, back in Huntsville state penitentiary after his conditional pardon was cancelled at his own request. Prison records show he sought return because he cannot earn enough to live on while serving a five year term that would end by April 27, 1949 pending good behavior.
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Houston
Tex
John Carlos Stephens
Huntsville State Penitentiary
J. C. Roberts
Stephens
Beauford
GOP feels safe in house in midterm preview
Washington reports Republicans claim confidence in keeping control of the House in November while Democrats say they can win back the chamber with some favorable breaks. The piece details current seat counts 246 Republicans 187 Democrats with three vacancies and shifts in key districts.
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Washington
New York
New York City
House
California
North
Midwest
Russia yearns for cooperation but faces atomic bomb barrier
Paris dispatch reports Andrei Vishinsky telling the UN political committee that Russia seeks cooperation yet insists that such cooperation is impossible while one side wields the atomic bomb. He did not reiterate hints from October 1 that the Soviet Union possesses the bomb.
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Paris
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
United Nations Political Committee
Soviet Union
Blockade of Berlin will continue says Soviet press
The Soviet Taeglische Rundschau declares the Berlin blockade remains until the western powers withdraw the introduced deutsche mark from circulation. It ties lifting traffic limits to currency withdrawal and notes ongoing gunnery and parachute drills over Berlin. Western protests cite safety violations. Britain reports a Yak fighter came close to a British air lift transport near Perleberg. Evacuation of German children to the British zone continues to ease Berlin’s burdens.
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Richard Kasischke
Berlin
Taeglische Rundschau
Paris
Security Council
Perleberg
Germany
Gav
Truman Backs Up New Deal On Campaign Train
President Truman in Indiana denounced Dewey and the 80th Congress for weakening workers and stalling farm programs. He urged support for Schricker and other Democrats. Richmond crowd estimated at 1,500 to 1,800 heard his blunt critique of Republicans.
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Truman
Indiana
Thomas F. Dewey
Richmond
80Th Congress
Henry F. Schricker
Mossbacks
Congress
Lucas Rhee
Thomas E. Dewey
Russia charges racial discrimination at human rights debate
At the UN social committee in Paris on October 12 Soviet delegate Alexei Pavlov accused the United States Britain and South Africa of shameful racial discrimination. He cited oppression of Indians in South Africa and discrimination against natives in British territories and noted alleged gender inequality in the US and Britain. He also criticized Georgia laws on married women's status and mentioned Truman's remark on mistreatment of Negroes. The Cuban amendment to Article 2 faced no immediate action.
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Paris
Russia
United States
Britain
South Africa
Alexei Pavlov
Social Committee
Cuba
Pavlov
Georgia
Truman
Orleans Parish Considers Suit Over Teacher Salary Fund
Orleans Parish may pursue court action to claim its share of an $8 million special teachers salary fund. School Superintendent Lionel Bourgeois said a state bulletin claimed Orleans would not receive funds though the parish is entitled to about a million dollars, having asked only $166. Bourgeois questioned the bill's constitutionality but avoided challenge amid pleas from other parishes. A. A. Fredericks of Gov. Earl K. Long's staff said he knew nothing and urged no discrimination in distributing money.
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New Orleans
Orleans
Lionel Bourgeois
Bourgeois
State Department of Education
Baton Rouge
Orleans Parish
Marshall Returns With U S Envoys In Berlin Crisis
Paris dispatch reports Secretary of State Marshall back with U S envoys as Western powers push for action on Berlin blockade. Warren R Austin accuses Soviet Union of duplicity while Vishinsky offers a cards-on-the-table proposal for full arms and forces disclosure in exchange for a one third arms cut and atomic weapon junking.
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Louis Nevin
Paris
Russia
U.S
Warren R. Austin
United Nations
Berlin
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
United States
Security Council
Little Six
United Nations Security Council
Marshall
U. N. Assembly
U. S
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Juan Atilio Bramuglia
Argentina
Council
Britain
France
Germany
Vishinsky
Court blocks merit pay without union consent
The Supreme Court refused to hear an employer appeal, leaving the Sixth Circuit ruling that merit pay is part of collective bargaining. The decision limits merit increases unless the union is informed and consents, mainly impacting small plants while mass producers are less affected. The case involved J H Allison & Co in Chattanooga and an AFL meat cutters union dispute.
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Washington
Supreme Court
High Court
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
National Labor Relations Act
Circuit Court
J. H. Allison and Company
Chattanooga, Tenn
A. F. of
L. Meat
Bolton held for bond of $75,000
Carl Bolton 39, former minor union official, is held on $75,000 bond in Detroit on an assault with intent to kill charge tied to the Walter Reuther shooting. A plea of innocent was entered as an exam date set for October 19. felony carries up to life in prison. Bolton faces separate Pontiac charges of breaking and firing.
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Detroit
Carl Bolton
Walter P. Reuther
C. I. O.united Auto Workers
Recorders
Christopher £. Stein
Bolton
Stein
Reuther
James N. McNally
Joseph W. Louisell
Wayne County
Oakland County
Pontiac
Mich
Eisenhower to Be Formally Installed as Columbia President
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower will be formally installed today as the 13th president of Columbia University since 194? He will address 58 year old this week and attend a ceremony likely on campus or at St John the Divine if it rains. Leaders from 303 American colleges 38 foreign universities and 37 learned societies expected to attend.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Columbia University
Columbia
Nicholas Murray Butler
Cathedral of
St. John the Divine
General Eisenhower
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