Local leadership seen solving price and delinquency issues
The column argues Newburyport's price cut model could become a national pattern while local leadership tackles juvenile delinquency better than federal action. It cites Eunice Kennedy's Harlem and Chicago efforts, DC bar involvement, and New Jersey's conference as examples of effective local action without federal funding.
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Newburyport
Truman
J. Edgar Hoover
Justice Department
Stock Yards
Chicago
Harlem
District of Columbia Bar Association
New Jersey
Federal Information Bureau
Red School of Sabotage Exposed as Soviet Trains Foreigners
Washington notes quote from Junius Wood about a Moscow Lenin school training foreigners for violence and treason to undermine the United States. The piece cites a congressional record, warns of 800 alleged American alumni, and calls for State Department and FBI awareness.
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America
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Crow’s-Nest
York
Junius Wood
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Kremlin
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Karl Mundt
South Dakota
Wood
Congressional Record
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Chicago Daily News
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International Lenin School
Moscow
United States
Siberia
Hushbush
Mark Aldaney
Chicago
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FBI
Leningrad
Stalingrad
CARE food relief urged to aid war torn Europe
A physician warned of famine in Britain and Germany as war ravages Europe. The piece promotes CARE, Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe, detailing $10 food and blanket packages and cotton goods shipments to a list of European countries plus parts of the UK.
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CARE
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United States
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Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Finland
France
Greece
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Hungary
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Romania
England
Wales
Scotland
Northern
Ireland
Uncle Sam
Postal rate overhaul sparks debate in Congress
A bill proposing the first general postal rate revision since 1879 would raise annual post office revenue by about 110 million dollars. It includes a 30 percent parcel post increase, air mail up to six cents per ounce, and higher second class rates for out of county newspapers, with local first class rates kept at three cents beyond July 1.
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House of Representatives
World Food Outlook Warns of 1947 48 Shortages
The Agriculture Department warns that by 1947 48 the world food situation remains critical due to foreign crop losses. Gains in major producers will be offset by declines in import reliant nations, signaling more grains moving internationally to keep supplies steady.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Office of For
Asia
Department
Lend Lease
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
United States
White House Marriages and Presidential Questions
The note cites Grover Cleveland marrying Frances Folsom in the White House on June 4, 1886. It asks which two presidents died in the White House and why some cabinet members cannot succeed to the presidency. It advertises a Reader Service booklet answering government questions for 25 cents.
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Grover Cleveland
Frances Folsom
Agriculture
Labor and Commerce
West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Georgia Family Has 18 Additional Fingers Toes
Collier's reports a polydactyly record held by the Johnsons in Colquitt County Georgia. The mother inherited it from her father and transmitted it to seven of ten children, totaling eight people with 18 extra digits ranging from a single extra toe to two toes and three extra fingers on a daughter.
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Johnsons
Colquitt County
Georgia
Collier’s
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