Ike and MacArthur Your Uneasy Amnesty in Memoir Echoes
Washington report recounts the clash between General Douglas MacArthur and Lieutenant Colonel Dwight Eisenhower in the Philippines. Ike was fired, returned to the United States, rose to command, and later quipped against military leadership seeking the presidency, a line aimed at his former commander.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Philippine Constabulary
Manila
Dwight Eisenhower
Philippines
MacArthur
Ike
Eisenhower
U. S
United States
Tito Rating Sparks Diplomatic Banter
A Serb was asked how the Serbian people feel about Marshal Tito. He replied that about 99 percent favor Marshall and 10 percent favor Tito.
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Marshal Tito
Marshall
Tito
Tin Shortage Sparks Canning Crisis and Protests
The commerce department ordered tin on a wartime basis forcing curtailment of can production and removal of odd sizes. Campbell Soup protests, accusing officials of shorting the public to aid relief can shipments to Europe. Army and Navy demand emergency tin and oil reserves, none today.
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Commerce Department
Campbell Soup Company
Europe
Army
Navy
Senators Plan 25 Films Glorifying 80th Congress
GOP senators plan to produce 25 political films featuring Hollywood stars and animated cartoons to showcase the 80th Congress. Democrats buy 16 mm projectors to show political films while Republicans skip purchasing gear and ask county chairs to borrow projectors.
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Hollywood
UN- American Affairs Committee
GOP
Six Italians Secure Early Atomic Energy Patent in 1935
A basic atomic energy patent was filed in Rome by G M Giannini Enrico Fermi Edoardo Amaldi Bruno Pontecorvo Franco R osetti and Emilio Segrè and registered with the U S patent office on October 3 1935. The six later sought royalties as their process for producing radioactive substance became foundational to the Manhattan Project and the bomb that shocked the world at Hiroshima.
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U. S
Atomic Energy Commission
Uncle Sam
Rome
G. M. Giannini
California
Enrico Fermi
Edoardo Amaldi
Bruno Pontecorvo
Franco Rosetti
Emilio Se
Fermi
U. S. Army
Manhattan Group
Hiroshima
Tithe dispute and royal color shifts prompt debate
The piece recalls Archibald Waddell a 72 year old Kent farmer facing bankruptcy over 75 pounds in tithes and a broader look at tithe history from feudal times to its abolition. It notes ongoing legal and social implications and ends with a curious aside about a dentist transplanting wisdom teeth.
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Congress
London Daily Herald
Romney Marsh
Kent
Archibald Edwin Waddell
Twice Told White House Tale Retold
News analyst recounts a Truman anecdote about Adams swimming and a reporter sitting on clothes at dawn. He notes later corrections from Daniel J. Kelly Jr. and Anne Royall, explaining Adams did swim but no interview with Royall occurred, calling the tale unlikely yet entertaining.
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White House
Front Yard
Adams
Truman
Mr. Kelly
John Quincy Adams
Anne Royall
Royall
Huntress
Paul Pry
South Threatens Split Over Truman Civil Rights Plan
Southern Democrats threaten a Dixie convention to split from President Truman over civil rights proposals. Key issues include a federal anti lynching law a permanent fair employment practice commission and ending Jim Crow in transportation. Some leaders consider withholding electoral votes to pressure Truman.
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Truman
Congress
Senate Labor Committee
National Commission
Allen J. Ellender
Dem
Permanent Commission On Civil Rights
Joint
Congressional Committee On Civil Rights
Justice Department
District of Columbia
Alaska
Hawaii
Jackson
Miss
Walter Sillers
Mississippi
House of Representatives
Self Rationing Aims at Voluntary Food Conservation Drive
The administration pressed a nationwide voluntary rationing plan after failing to push price controls. Secretary Clinton Anderson and Assistant Secretary Charles Brannan lead a campaign with 18 consumer, producer, and distributor groups. Meat is the focus amid warnings of a spring shortage, while eggs bought to support domestic prices are to be sold only to foreign buyers.
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Congress
Clinton Anderson
Charles F. Brannan
Citizens’ Food Committee
Cabinet Food Committee
Department of Agriculture
Brannan
U. S
Agriculture Department
Miss United Nations 1948 Crown Goes to Nora Martins
In Washington Miss Nora Martins daughter of Brazilian ambassador Carlos Martins is named Miss United Nations of 1948. The designation highlights diplomats as active and engaging. In New York landlord Sam Yachter faces tenant complaints about heat and hot water and offers to transfer his building but finds no buyers.
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Washington
Nora Martins
Carlos Martins
United Nations
New York
Sam Yachter
Journey to the Moon and the Prospect of Interplanetary Travel
The article notes growing interest in lunar missions and interplanetary travel led by the British Interplanetary Society. It discusses rocket velocity, the shift from weapon to peaceful space research, and the plan to launch scientific instruments and satellites before crewed missions, with television aiding exploration of the moon.
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British Interplanetary Society
Earth
Moon
Mars
New Method Simplifies Making Corner Cupboard
A new method lets beginners build a corner cupboard with minimal carpentry knowledge. Trace a full size pattern, follow numbered steps, locate joints and nail sizes. Materials bought at a local lumberyard cost about half of a ready made cupboard. Pattern No. 38, East Bird Pattern Co., Dept. W., Pleasantville NY.
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East-Bird Pattern Co
Dept. W
Pleasantville
New York
Arapahoe and Cherokee Paper Currency Found in Collections
The only known specimens of American Indian paper money are a $5 Arapahoe note from Oregon circa 1850 in Chase National Bank collection and a $1 Cherokee note from Oklahoma in 1862.
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Chase National Bank
New York
Arapahoe
Oregon
Oklahoma
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