Sweeping Republican Gains Redraw Senate and House
National election results show Republicans likely to hold a working majority in the Senate with 47 to 49 Democrats, while the House swings strongly but not to Republican control. Key upsets include Taft’s Ohio win, Lodge over Bowles, and Nixon defeating Douglas. Marcantonio loses to a Democratic-Republican-Liberal coalition amid charges of alignment with the Communist line.
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House
Millard E. Tydingsaryland
Scott Lucas d’ Tlinois
Lucas
Tydings
State Department
Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Taft
Connecticut
John Davis Lodge
Chester Bowles
Brien McMahon
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Joe R. Hanley
Herbert Lehman
California
Earl Warren
James Roosevelt
Richard Nixon
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Vito Marcantonio
Marcantonio
Communist Party
Germ warfare rats found in secret Pyongyang lab
The army disclosed five thousand rats and mice inoculated with bubonic plague, encephalitis, and other germs near Pyongyang after Inchon. Of the carriers found alive, 380 remained with 200 starving, all kept in sealed cages. A Russian scientist supervised the setup.
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Pyongyang
U.N
Inchon
Spain Wins U N Diplomatic Ban Lifting
After four years the United Nations lifted its diplomatic ban on Spain removing the 1946 recommendation to withdraw ambassadors and ministers. It also ended the ban on Spain joining UN specialized agencies while the U S will not send a Madrid ambassador. Truman opposed appointing one. The Axis aid condemnation remains.
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United Nations
U.N
Madrid
Spain
U. N
United States
Truman
Dewey Adds Marathon TV Campaign Stop
Governor Thomas E. Dewey expands campaign reach with a long TV program featuring Mrs. Dewey. He asks her to remove her hat as she jokes about her hair and the need for a permanent. The piece blends presidential politics with contemporary global tensions and Shavian quips.
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Thomas E. Dewey
Mrs. Dewey
Douglas MacArthur
North Korea
George Bernard Shaw
Official Census Shows U S Population At 150 697 316
The official 1950 census count places the U S population at 150 697 316 as of April 1 1950 an increase of 19 028 068 since 1940. The shift in population centers will add seven states 14 seats and remove nine states seats in the next reapportionment for the 1953 Congress as the 435 seat limit stands.
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United States
Congress
House
World War III fears rise over China Korea role
Observers fear China may strike against United Nations forces in Korea, with estimates of up to five million Chinese troops and ten million armed by 1950s standards. They warn American intervention could trigger the wider conflict as Mao Tse-tung’s leadership shapes strategy.
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Andrei Vishinsky
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Mr. Lie
Korea
Douglas MacArthur
U.N
Manchuria
MacArthur
China
Free Nations
Kremlin
Peiping
Russia
Mao Tse-tung
Classified Opportunity Baiting Partners and Small Businesses
Mixed classified items list buy and sell offers across Texas and nearby states. The page advertises an experienced partner for a small all steel fishing fleet in Texas coastal waters, a complete photographic studio for sale, a grocery market and feed store with a long lease, a Kerrville cafe on a main highway, a complete sawmill for sale in Mississippi, and various training and job ads including railroad telegraph operator programs and vocational cooking courses.
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P.O
Harrisburg
Houston
Big Territory
B&h
Spur
Austin
T. E
Patton
Blanco
Tex
Kerrville
Schreiner Institute
W. C. Oil
P.O. Box
Noxubee County
Mississippi
J. W. Barnes
Macon
Miss
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John Boettiger
Roosevelt
LaGuardia Airport
Maurice Costello
Hollywood
Thaddeus Reichstein
Philip Hench
Edward Kendall
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Adonis
Joe Adonis
Hackensack
N.J
Lodi
Bey
Western Newspaper Union
Yellow Sea
Suiho Dam
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U.S
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Harvard
FBI
Business & Invest Oppor
Railroad Telegraph School
Franklin
Gulf Coast Vocational School
S. Flores
San Antonio
Oskaloosa
Iowa
Hassell
Henry Rosenthal
Walnut Hill
Fla
Hugo C. Baumann
Fredericksburg
Harper Route
Lockheed
Exas
Gibbins
Williston, N. C
Payne
Sth Ave
Angeles
Calif
N. Main
EM Walzel
Comfort
Paul Bunyon
Strawberry Kingdom
Sylvan Nursery
Silvana
Wash
Gensee
Oliday
Olympic Holly Farms
Issaquah
Palnutes
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