United States of Europe via Marshall plan sales effort
The article argues the Marshall plan should aim to create a United States of Europe beginning with Western Europe. It notes France and Italy discuss tariffs, urges astute leadership to overcome prejudice, and suggests expanding to edge states and beyond. It calls for American salesmanship to convert Europeans into Americans without migration.
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United States of Europe
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Italy
United States
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Netherlands
Switzerland
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Austria
Poland
United States of America
Moscow
Balkans
Atlantic
Four-Letter Word Porter Refuses to Name on Price Policy
Former OPA director Paul Porter dodges a request to name a four letter word in response to a Republican approved price control plan. When pressed the newsman hints he knows the word but Porter declines to reveal it, spelling out T A F T.
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Paul Porter
OPA
Porter
Farm Leader Urges Truman Testify Before Congress
James Patton, head of the National Farmers Union, pushes Truman to testify before a congressional committee to win votes by dramatizing policy. The president resists, preferring to speak to the people from a mike. The White House lobbies Ways and Means to back a $40 personal tax cut funded by higher corporate taxes.
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National Farmers’ Union
Truman
Congress
Congressional
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Pennsylvania Avenue
Patton
White House
Jefferson
Denver
House
Ways and Means
Harold Knutson
Minnesota
Robert Doughton
North Carolina
Jere Cooper
Tennessee
John Dingell
Michigan
DP Skills for Useful Citizens in Displaced Persons Camps
News analyst argues displaced persons in Europe could fill U.S. labor needs through resettlement. He notes 95,000 trained farm workers and 21,000 in construction and maintenance among the 11 million displaced and 850,000 others unable to return home. He criticizes cost and confinement of DPs while urging their admission to ease farm and factory labor shortages.
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Eisenhower
Denmark
America
Europe
Congress of the
United States
William G. Stratton
Rep
Ill
Germany
Austria
Italy
House Debates Tax Bill as Gandhi Is Assassinated
The House opens a heated election-year tax debate with talk of a possible tax cut and a veto clash. Separately Mohandas Gandhi, India’s famed peacemaker, was killed by an assassin at 78, shocking Delhi and casting a pall over regional peace efforts.
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House
Gandhi
Mohandas K. Gandhi
India
Delhi
Poona
Little Man and What Now Inflation Talk in Senate Hearing
Cyrus J. Waud of Camden New Jersey testified on inflation before the senate banking committee saying a 50 dollar weekly salary can’t support his wife and six children. He described the struggle to keep pace with rising prices, calling it existing not living. A later item notes a bacterial flypaper chemical that traps germs without killing them, reducing room contamination.
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Pakistan
Gandhi
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
America
Cyrus J. Waud
Camden
N. J
Waud
U. S
Creed of Destruction What Communism Really Is
A critical essay contrasts communism with religion, citing a party rule that uses government power for destruction. It recalls Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and her shift from Wobblies to a Daily Worker column, noting Marxist flavors in domestic life and Lenin memorial gatherings.
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Communist Party
United States
Wobslies
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
York
Boom in Births Reshapes U S Demographics and Markets
The United States faces a historic baby boom with over 26 million births since 1940 and 3.37 million in the last year. The surge expands the nation’s population to about 144 million, driving demand for schools, housing, clothing, food, and transportation while boosting employment prospects and future military strength projections for the 1960s and 1970s.
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U. S
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