Nine Horsemen and Notre Dame Backfield Depth
The article praises Notre Dame’s 1949 season backfield depth led by Williams Sitko Coutre Zalejski Gay Barrett Landry and notes the nine horsemen behind the 1849 success with a strong line and backs like Hart. It contrasts Notre Dame with Tar Heels North Carolina and coach Snavely noting Notre Dame’s surplus of capable backs.
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Four Horsemen
Carl Snavely
New York
Grantland Rice
Charlie Justice
Tennessee
Notre Dame
Nine Horsemen
Williams
Sitko
Spaniel
Swistowicz
Coutre
Zalejski
Gay
Barrett
Landry
Air
Leon Hart
North Carolina
Dick Bunting
Justice
Frank Leahy
Scrappy season critiques football woes and scheduling
A columnist decries a scraggly 1950 51 college football season with lop sided scores and controversial calls. He cites Hart and Williams non calls against UNC, laments substitution rules and late starts, and urges daylight games, fewer rules, and shorter gaps between kickoffs as fixes while noting Midwest dominance and Notre Dame impact.
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North Carolina
Hart
Williams
Tar Heels
Notre Dame
Hydrogen bombs and Soviet claims spark world alarm
The article surveys the race to develop hydrogen weapons, nuclear science advances, and detectors, then shifts to President Truman’s health myths and a sweeping Soviet boast list. It ends with a dubious claim that Russians discovered America in 1684, tied to Deznev’s voyage.
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Great Britain
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Ural Mountains
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Comrade Grinefetsky
Germany
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Stoletov
Red
Russia
America
Columbus
Deznev
Supreme Court Rules Home Rule Rent Controls Valid
In a weekly news analysis the Supreme Court upholds local home rule rent controls as constitutional. Five million people on public aid are noted in the context of housing policy and welfare programs.
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Supreme Court
Western Newspaper Union
Supreme Court Upholds Home Rule Rent Curbs
The Supreme Court quickly sustained the home rule rent control law enabling states and cities to decontrol. Congress enacted the measure last summer and it expires June 30, 1950. The ruling follows a district court defeat and a direct appeal by Tighe Wood and the justice department.
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U. S. Supreme Court
Congress
U. S
Tighe Wood
Justice Department
High Court
Kentucky
Hoover warns Congress on economy drive at cracker barrel
Herbert Hoover chairs a Washington gathering of more than 500 leaders at the Shoreham hotel. He cites federal spending above 43 billion dollars and a five billion deficit, warns of higher taxes and inflation, and urges adoption of his commission’s recommendations for greater government economy and efficiency.
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Citizens’ Committee
Washington
Shoreham
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Congress
Executive
Hoover Commission
Socialists ousted in Australia New Zealand and Britain
Robert Gordon Menzies predicts the trend of socialist defeats as free enterprise gains in Australia New Zealand and Great Britain following recent elections. The piece weighs whether these swings signal a lasting shift or misinformed voter choices.
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British Commonwealth
Australia
New Zealand
Labor
Robert Gordon Menzies
Great Britain
Republicans denounce 1950 census income questions
Twenty three Republican congressmen accuse the census bureau of a discriminatory plan requiring all persons over 14 to disclose income details. They argue the move has no legal basis and target small earners while the bureau says income data will remain confidential and only a few will object, with declarations possible by mail.
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Census Bureau
Brown
Ohio
Hinshaw
California
Bureau
Truman
Philip M. Hauser
Washington
FBI
Jobless benefits exhaustion rises amid high unemployment
Officials of the federal Bureau of Employment Security report more than 500000 U S citizens ran out of unemployment compensation during the July September quarter. Many remained unemployed after exhausting benefits, despite a period of high employment, signaling potential future problems for the program.
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Federal Labor Department
Bureau of Employment Security
U. S
Ber
Budget: How Much
President Truman relaxes at Key West as the budget deadline nears. Treasury Secretary John Snyder draws taxpayers into a debate over the looming budget message and possible tax changes while cabinet members hint at tax relief. Former vice president Henry Wallace had commented publicly and left the cabinet.
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Truman
Key West
Fla
John Snyder
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
U. S
White House
Henry Wallace
British Doctor Reverses Stance on Socialized Health Plan
Dr. E F St John Lyburn, the first British physician to say he would operate the program and the first to threaten quitting, announces a return to participation. He cites patient requests as the pivotal reason influencing his change of heart.
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E. F. St. John Lyburn
England
Wanted two 1000 acre tracts of bottom land in Texas
Wanted approximately 2 000 acres bottom land at about ten dollars per acre. Plan to divide into two tracts of around 1 000 acres each. Write H R Miller 7 402 Clifford Corpus Christi Texas.
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V.A. Said
Shelby County
New Braunfels
Texas
Seguin
H. R. Miller
Clifford
Corpus Christi
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