Truman Hotline With Reporters Hits Low Point At White House
Washington gossip column reports President Truman clashed with the White House press corps over unverified Chinese prisoner lists and a leaked graft investigation rumor. Backstage, officials led by Joe Short urged restraint while decisions on funding a Hungary ransom hinged on Defense Department influence and fear of provoking the Soviet.
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Truman
White House
Key West
Tom Murphy
New York
Joe Short
Mr. Truman
Propaganda balloons and military cautions across the Iron Curtain
The piece contrasts past calls for balloons behind the Iron Curtain with the success of the Crusade for Freedom using anonymous leaflets in Czechoslovakia and Poland. It notes Pentagon and State Department hesitations for others, cites Gen. Bedell Smith on Stalin’s fear of war, and criticizes Fort Belvoir’s lavish spending versus fire safety and basic needs.
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Joint Chiefs of Staff
State Department
Manchurian
Yalu River
Idef
Moscow
Crusade For Freedom
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Freedom
Radio Moscow
William Oatis
Hungary
Pentagon
Bedell Smith
Central Intelligence
Georges Dimitrov
Stalin
Senate
Fort Belvoir
Senate Preparedness Committee
Potomac Boat Club
Gambling rings linked to New York mob expose in Saratoga case
Estes Kefauver's Crime In America excerpt details a New York New Jersey gambling syndicate with figures like Guarini Adonis Moretti and Willlie Moretti. It notes tax schemes, Mafia cash flow via bank checks and jail sentences. It covers Saratoga Springs police corruption and state policy allowing rural lax enforcement.
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Senate Crime Committee
National Crime Syndicate
New York City
America
New York
City
Manhattan
New York-New Jersey
Saratoga Springs
Thomas E. Dewey
Saratoga
Bergen County
New Jersey
Hudson River
Anthony Guarini
Joe Adonis
Salvatore
Sally Moore
Small Merchants Bank of
Stark
John A. Gaffney
Gaffney
Presidential campaign heads open in Washington
The second session of the 82nd Congress amid a presidential campaign sees campaign offices springing up in the capital. Taft maintains a base at the Standard Oil Building. Eisenhower supporters operate from the Shoreham and Willard hotels. Kefauver backers establish Wilard HQ. Warren plans an eastern HQ, with uncertainty over his candidacy.
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Congress
Truman
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Standard Oil
Constitution Avenue
Eisenhower
Senators Lodge
Massachusetts
Duff
Pennsylvania
Shoreham
Willard Hotel
Harold Stassen
Estes Kefauver
Willard
Kefauver
Stassen signals push for GOP presidential bid
Stassen announced a campaign for the GOP nomination triggering reactions in the Eisenhower camp. Gov. Sherman Adams filed Eisenhower’s name in New Hampshire for the March 11 primary and will lead an Eisenhower delegation to the Chicago GOP convention. Several reporters noted Stassen’s claim of a Paris talk with Eisenhower but he would not reveal details.
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Stassen
General Eisenhower
New Hampshire
Sherman Adams
Eisenhower
Chicago
Paris
Mr. Stassen
GOP
Europe
Truman
Eisenhower Draft Talk Stirs GOP Battle Over Nomination
The article notes debates on whether Eisenhower will seek the nomination amid European duties and describes three active GOP candidates. It discusses a possible Democratic draft, Stassen’s shift toward voluntary profit sharing, firing 200,000 federal “loafers,” and clarifies that most federal workers live outside Washington, countering the loafers stereotype.
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Stassen
Minnesota
Joe Grundy
Pennsylvania
Keystone
James Duff
Washington
California
District of Columbia
Truman Appoints Queens Dr Magnuson to Lead Health Survey
President Truman names Dr Paul Magnuson former VA medical division director to head a mixed committee of doctors and laymen. The group will survey national health needs and report after the elections to avoid political influence amid AMA opposition to national health insurance.
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Truman
Paul Magnuson
Veterans Administration
American Medical Association
Expert Predicts 50 Per Cent Increase In Delinquency
Chicago report cites Dr. E Preston Sharp of Maryland Department of Public Welfare forecasting a fifty percent rise in juvenile delinquency over ten years due to population growth and high divorce rates. He links children from troubled homes, averaging age five, as future delinquents.
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Chicago
E. Preston Sharp
Division of
Maryland Department of Public Welfare
Breakfast did it steak-sniffing burglary tale
Detroit detective Conrad Konetshny spotted two men and a boy eating breakfast steaks. He frisked them, found barber tools and $50 in quarters, and the trio confessed to breaking into a barbershop and a filling station. Clarence Shelly 22 John Rogers 20 and a 16 year old were held for investigation.
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Detroit
Mich
Conrad Konetshny
Clarence Shelly
John Rogers
Classified Department Offers Various Local Listings
Includes a laundry bundle business with 8 Maytag machines in North Pleasanton Texas and a modern home with 10 acres on a lakeside highway. Also an Irontays 1,000 ft lot, rental apartment, Berksh ire Gun Rack ad, an invisible reweaver job offer, a hardware store for sale in Central Texas, and a trade wanted note.
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North Pleasanton
Texas
Six Lakes
Berkshire
Michigan
Theodis Osborne
Milwaukee
Wis
Sm Central Texas
P. O. Box
Austin
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Korea
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N.Y
Guardians OF Capital
U.S. Air Force
Washington, D.C
Crime In America
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Salvatore Moretti
Willie
Frank Costello
Rudolph Halley
Moretti
Costello
Halley
Florida
Jersey
Morell
Jersey Shore
Deal
Patrick
Paddy) Rox
Saratoga Raceway
Walter F. Ahearn
Ahearn
Costello & Co. of
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Doubleday, Inc
General Features Corp
WNU
Gov
Earl Warren
Health Survey
Business & Invest
OPPOR
Farm Machinery & Equip
Gurinsky Impl
Aseen
Antonio
Geo. Buckhauks
Brooks Johnson Co
West Bldg
Houston
Lewis Realty
Waldron
Arkansas
Louisiana
Exas
Comas Mig. Co
Er Street
Orleans
Hone Magnolia
Fremont College
Santa FE
New Mexico
U. D
J. H. McElyen
South Grace St
Crockett
Capitol Supplies
Guadalupe
Sherburne Center
Vermont
Scotch Marine
H.p
W.p
Service
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Corpus Christi
Cold Springs
Lock Box
Three Rivers
Arizona Auto Buyers Association
Filmore
Amarillo
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