Brannan Pick Up By Farm Groups Amid Parity Debate
Farm groups back Charles F Brannan to head Agriculture as parity law fears rise with expiration. Arab Israel war intensifies with truce rejection. Truman hints arms loan but dodges embargo. GM unions accept cost of living linked raise. Voice of America program censure sparks Senate scrutiny. Borgia fired.
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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
Holy Land
Haganah
Acre
Tel Aviv
Jerusalem
General Motors Corporation
Bureau of Labor Statistics
General Motors
United Auto Workers
OPA
Voice of America
Latin America
House
Wyoming
Homer Capehart
Rep
Ind
Senate
Capehart
New England
Texas
Nevada
Las Vegas
Reno
National Broadcasting Company
State Department
Rene Borgia
Alberto Gandero
Borgia
Don McNeill and the Breakfast Club Celebrate 15 Years
Don McNeill, longtime toastmaster of ABCs Breakfast Club, marks 15 years on air June 23. He works without a script, delivering off the cuff humor that endears him to plain folks and has built a nationwide cult of early morning listeners since 1933.
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American Broadcasting Company
Chicago
Don McNeill
ABC
McNeill
New Jersey
Throttling of Small Business Threatens Democracy and Capitalism
A Washington column argues that small business under pressure from big firms and high prices imperils capitalism and democracy. It cites Kiplinger survey findings of reduced consumer buying power in small towns, notes Attlee's socialism critique, and warns against socialist government intervention versus full competition in production and labor.
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Washington
England
Clement Attlee
Labor Party
Committee On Economic Development
Kiplinger Magazine
Kiplinger
Iowa
Ohio
Illinois
Wisconsin
New York State
Texas
Commerce Department
Congress
Fewer Benefits Lost as Social Security Claims Rise
The Federal Security Agency reports fewer people forego old age and survivors insurance by delaying claims. O C Pogge in Baltimore notes continued outreach increases awareness that benefits are payable only if claimed, reducing inadvertent loss.
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Federal’ Security Agency
Social‘ ‘Security’ Administration
O. C. Pogge
Bureau of Old-Age and Survivor's Insurance
Baltimore
Capitals and early questions from a 1940s quiz
The piece lists capitals for the Arab League states Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Trans-Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, and Yemen. It notes Fleming’s penicillin discovery, Hoover’s 1928 Kansas City nomination, Truman naming 16 cabinet members, and identifies Rep Fred A. Hartley Jr as the Hartley in Taft 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
Kansas City
Fred A. Hartley Jr
Rep
Socially unhealthy families say Chicago professor
University of Chicago education professor Robert J. Havighurst told the National Congress of Parents and Teachers in Cleveland that two child families are socially unhealthy despite fashion. He warned a significant portion of the population now has too few children to reproduce.
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National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Cleveland
University of Chicago
Robert J. Havighurst
Build It From A Pattern Fireplace Pattern Instruction
How to build a backyard brick fireplace using the East-Pild method with step by step directions. Includes foundations, size and depth, cement mix, and easy assembly illustrations. Materials available at lumber yards. no special tools or experience needed. Send 25c for Pat. No. 78 to Easi-Bird Pattern Company. Pleasantville NY.
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Easi-Bird Pattern Company
Dept. W
Pleasantville
New York
British and American Workers Compare Factory Methods
A British “working party” sent to the United States to study on the job compares American factory methods with British ones. The group finds that productivity per American worker exceeds that of his British counterpart in each industry surveyed.
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U. S
United States
Britain
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California
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