Brannan Picked for Agriculture Secretary Faces Farmer Backing
Farm groups overwhelmingly approve President Truman’s choice of Charles F. Brannan to succeed Clinton Anderson as secretary of agriculture. Brannan’s parity reform ideas align with major farm organizations, who warn the 90 percent parity guarantee could lapse if Congress acts by year-end. The piece also covers Arab rejection of a U N truce in Palestine and mixed U S positions on arms and loans.
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Truman
Charles F. Brannan
Clinton Anderson
Brannan
Congress
U. N
Palestine
United Nations
World Councils
Israel
Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha
U. N. Security Council
Security Council
U. S
United States
Chaim Waizmann
Mr. Truman
Weizmann
Middle East
Arab Israelis War and Labor Policy Highlights
Arab states refuse UN truce as fighting persists in the Holy Land with Acre, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem scenes. General Motors averts a 225000 auto plant strike with an adjustable cost of living plan giving 8 cent CPI-based rise and 3 cent pay boost, while Voice of America faces criticism over controversial scripts and staff changes.
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Holy Land
U. N
Israel
Haganah
Acre
Tel Aviv
Jerusalem
General Motors Corporation
Bureau of Labor Statistics
General Motors
United Auto Workers
OPA
Oratorical Flight and Breakfast Club Milestones
Secretary of the Navy John Sullivan urged Congress to accelerate a 65 000 ton super aircraft carrier costing 124 million dollars. Don McNeill and ABC Chicago studios are celebrated as symbols of rising success with his Breakfast Club show entering its 15th anniversary on June 23. He performs off the cuff, courting plain talk and spontaneous humor that has drawn a nationwide early morning following for 15 years.
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Secretary of the Navy
John Sullivan
House Armed Services Committee
Congress
Navy
American Broadcasting Company
Chicago
Don McNeill
ABC
McNeill
New Jersey
Washington Digest on Small Business and Capitalism Decline
A Washington dispatch critiques socialism and stresses small business as capitalism’s keystone. It cites Attlee on socialist democracy, Kiplinger’s survey showing reduced consumer buying power in small towns, and warns that big business and government intervention threaten free enterprise.
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Attlee
Committee On Economic Development
Kiplinger Magazine
Illinois
Iowa
New York S
Kiplinger
Texas
Commerce Department
Congress
Radio Phones Halt Speeding Train in Time Near Johnstown
George Cheslo of Climax spotted a stalled car on the tracks near New Florence and used a radio to warn the JD tower. The PRR freight, traveling toward the hazard, was 22 minutes past Johnstown when the warning arrived at 7 20 p m. There was no intermediate tower to warn the speeding train.
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Johnstown
Pennsylvania Railroad
West Penn
Indiana County
George Cheslo
Climax
New Florence
PRR
Cheslo
Fewer Benefits Lost as Social Security Claims Rise
The Social Security Administration reports fewer workers delay filing claims for old age and survivors insurance. O C Pogge says increased public awareness has led to more people understanding benefits are payable only if claimed.
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Federal Security Agency
Social Security Administration
O. C. Pogge
Administration
Bureau of Old-Age and Survivor’s Insurance
Baltimore
Obscure quiz questions test front page knowledge
Illustrative questions on world capitals, penicillin discovery, and political history. Answers note Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Trans-Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen. Fleming's penicillin germ discovery. Hoover as last GOP nominee in 1928. Truman cabinet size 16. Hartley Jr. as Hartley.
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Israel
Mecca
Riyadh
Baghdad
Damascus
Amman
Beirut
Cairo
Sana
Alexander Fleming
Philadelphia
GOP
Truman
Charles F. Brannan
Taft
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Hartley
Saudi Arabia
Iraq
Syria
Trans-Jordan
Lebanon
Egypt
Yemen
Herbert Hoover
Pountpaves
Kansas City
Fred A. Hartley Jr
Unhealthy Families and Declining Birth Rates Highlighted
University of Chicago education professor Robert J. Havighurst told Cleveland delegates of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers that two child families are socially unhealthy yet fashionable. He warned a significant population slice now has too few children to reproduce.
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National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Cleveland
University of Chicago
Robert J. Havighurst
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Western Newspaper Union
Voice of American
Latin America
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Voice of America
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New England
Nevada
Las Vegas
Reno
National Broadcasting Company
State Department
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Alberto Gandero
Borgia
Washington Digest
Baukhage
Washington
England
Clement Attlee
Labor Party
Wisconsin
Russia
Berlin
Moscow
Germany
Soviet Union
Department, of Agriculture
HOTEL
Columba Washington
Claypool
WUN
WOFM
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Carouna
Nore
Wade Hampton
Stephen F. Austin
Coronado Courts
Jack Tarcourt
Miramar Court
Cavalier
Plaza
Lubbock
Wotel Menger
Virginia Hotel
Mountain Lake
Southwest
Our Memorial Park
Lubbock, Inc
Avenue J
Lubbock Exas
LA Grange Hospital, Inc
la Grange
Tonema Cosmetics
Independence
Kansas
R. C. Bosworth
Canadian Pacific Railway
Union Station
St. Paul
Minn
Camp LA Salle
The
Christian Brothers
Cool New Mexico
College St. Santa Fe
New Mexico
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