Taft Emerges as Domestic Leader Amid Republican Shifts
Western Newspaper Union report outlines Taft as rising Republican domestic leader with crosscurrents from Warren, Stassen, Bricker, Dewey, and Vandenberg. It notes primary dynamics in Pennsylvania Michigan Ohio California and hints at a conservative ticket, while labeling internationalism and isolationism as fading in the East and Central states.
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Taft
Washington
Ohio
Robert Taft
Senate
Truman
Carroll Reece
Warren
California
Pacific States
Nebraska
Minnesota
Stassen
Thye
Shipstead
Russia
Bricker
New York
Dewey
Vandenberg
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Willis
House
Congress
Washington’s seamy side as capital of the world
A veteran editor’s portrait of Washington in 1858 contrasts a rattle trap newsroom and mud streets with today’s status as the world’s capital. The piece notes ongoing rat infestations, public health efforts, and a $75,000 annual rat-control program, reflecting political neglect and civic struggle.
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WNU Service
Eye Street
N.W
Washington
D. C
Washington Evening Star
Theodore Noyes
Canberra
Camelot
Merlin
Baghdad On
the-Potomac
Noyes
American Museum of Natural History
United States Public Health Service
Europe
When People Vote They Win In The June CIO Outlook
The article argues mass registration and voting shape liberal progressive government and notes off year turnout trends from 1938 to 1944. It questions whether party shifts reflect voter habit, warns of wartime waste, taps wires and FBI files, and recalls White House fingerprinting and senate probes amid a Washington heat wave.
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Congress of Industrial Organizations
CIO
Senate War Investigating Committee
Mead
Samuel Johnson
Washington
FBI
Truman's Irritable Temper Shown at Press Conference
President Truman's irritability noted this week as he accused reporter John O'Donnell of lying at a press conference. Doctors say his mood reflects the demands of the presidency, with a strict routine and limited strenuous activity.
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Truman
John O'Donnell
O’donnell
FDR
Col
Wallace Graham
White House
Pegged Lawn Chair Easily Taken Down
Simple pegged chair with removable pegs for easy disassembly. Describes construction from stock lumber with separate sides seat and back joined by pegs. Pattern 292 offers large cutting diagrams and illustrated directions with materials list for 15 cents postpaid.
Rope Sliding Act Halts Tibet Celebration Feats
Collier's says the rope sliding stunt in Lhasa Tibet is the most dangerous acrobatic act of the 15 day New Year celebration. Two men balance on a leather rope a mile long from the Dalai Lama's palace to the plain below using only their arms for balance.
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Lhasa
Tibet
Collier’s
Record corn crop forecast tops prior years in 1946
The Agriculture Department forecasts the largest US corn crop on record at 3,341,646,000 bushels, with wheat and oats also near highs. Corn yields could reach a record 36.5 bushels per acre on 91,500,000 acres, while oats, barley and total wheat harvest project to sizable totals amid favorable weather.
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Department of Agriculture
Missouri
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Arkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
States
United States
Europe
Anderson
Truman
Washington
Department
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Western Newspaper Union
Bricker Also Possibility
France
Bidault
Baukhage
Goldwyn
Georgia Lange
Brooklyn
Bronx
Capital
Evelyn Baker
James Magee
KOTA
Rapid City
S. C
Baker
Okinawa
Magee
Job
South Pacific
Navy
Bikini
Bikini Atoll
Altoona
Elizabeth Chilton Murray
U. S
William Chilton
Ruth Wyeth
Bedford Hills
N. Y
Billingsley
Houston
Tex
Robert J. Ransom
Richmond
Olshan Demolishing Co
Canal
Emil Rohlff
Bank
Douglas
Wyoming
Kansas
New England
South Dakota
Saye Oren
Doan
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