Defeat of Wheeler Marks Passing of Able Legislator
A Montana senatorial primary saw Burton Wheeler defeated by Leif Erickson. The piece reflects on Wheeler's career, loyalty to Truman, and the impact of his isolationist views, with recollections of past colleagues Norris Ashurst and others, and notes on contemporaries like Schwellenbach.
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Wheeler
WNU
Eye Street
N.W
Washington
D. C
Truman
Montana
Burton K. Wheeler
Leif Erickson
Harry Truman
Interstate Commerce Committee
Harold McGrath
Senate Radio Gallery
Sen
George Norris
Kenneth Wherry
Norris
Ellison
Cotton Ed’) Smith
South Carolina
Henry Ashurst
Senate
New Mexico
Ashurst
William King
Utah
Lynn Frazer
North Dakota
Jerry O'Connell
Erickson
Jerry
Connell
Senator Wheeler
Ber
Bird proof windshields and aging housing hints
Civil Aeronautics approves a bird-proof windshield and calls for other protective designs. Figures from the Metropolitan Information Service note that a 20 year old has life left comparable to a 1900 newborn. Petroleum Notes cites millions without central heating and veterans without homes. The Twentieth Century Foundation recalls 1880 readiness of ready-to-wear clothing at 40 percent, now worn in 1946.
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Metropolitan Information Service
Twentieth Century Foundation
War brides from World War II match earlier era in foreign marriage rate
Metropolitan Life Insurance statistics show about 52 500 marriages to foreign brides in World War II versus 4 000 to 8 000 in World War I era. Foreign marriages rose with longer wars and greater overseas service, producing 17 500 accompanying children and widespread settlement across the United States.
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Coblenz
U. S
G.i.s
Hollywood
G.i.q
Arthur Smith
Greenville
N. C
America
United States
British Isles
France
Germany
Australia
Philippines
Werformer
Dusdeangs
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Blood Test Determines Horse Maternity in Study
The American Veterinary Medical Association reports a French study applying blood grouping to identify the dam of a colt. Serum results show mare Fanny in group AB, Clairette in A, and the foal Robert in O, marking a practical use in equine parentage.
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Chicago
Hollywood
American Veterinary Medical Association
Fanny
Clairette
Robert
Soil Field Deemed Great Lab For New Drugs
An article by Alden Stahr and Dr. Boyd Woodruff in Capper's Farmer calls soil a powerful laboratory where many drugs arise to combat disease. It cites penicillin as a soil product and notes the soil hosts fungi and bacteria that create healing compounds while also producing waste products that fight germs.
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Alden Stahr
Boyd Woodruff
Capper
Stahr
Woodruff
Outmoded New Jersey Laws Still On Books
The article lists archaic statutes such as a $2.50 to $10 fine and 30 days imprisonment for riding a horse while intoxicated, magisterial ball and chain orders for tramps, punishments for dangerous hatpins, and penalties for witchcraft and fake divine claims. It notes the legislature meets yearly to update laws but ignores these old rules.
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New Jersey
Trial of Mihailovitch a Propaganda Stunt
Western Newspaper Union report denounces the Mihailovitch defense as a propaganda farce. It argues the so called trial, orchestrated by Tito and Soviet allies, served Russian aims and masked justice with torture and political theater, while blaming Russia for blocking true peace efforts and reparations.
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Russia
Moscow
Jan Valtin
Tito
Yugoslavia
Balkans
Foreign Affairs
Red Army
Chetnik
Communist Party
Ozana
Mihailovitch
Tito Army
Belgrade
U.N
Danube
Finland
Italy
Austria
Germany
Winchell Vacation Lets Lait Fill Broadway Space
Walter Winchell takes a break and Jack Lait fills in with Hollywood anecdotes. Betty Grable, Mary Pickford, and Howard Hughes feature in anecdotes about tours, a gold medal, extraordinary refunds, and Hughes abstaining from sedatives or food, preferring orange juice only.
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Walter Winchell
Jack Lait
Winchell
Hollywood
Bureau of Information
Betty Grable
Harry James East
New York
John Perona
Paris
Mary Pickford
Bill Cagney
Howard Hughes
Pasadena
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Solon
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
OPA
Bridges
Senator Bridges
Schwellenbach
West
Labor
Potomac
Puget Sound
Labor Department
United States Senate
Lew Schwellenbach
Edgar Schwellenbach
Supreme Court
Washington Post
Glen Taylor
Radio Correspondents Gallery
Taylor
Bankhage
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Great Britain
Belgium
Ireland
Europe
North Africa
Pacific
New Zealand
God
Western Newspaper Union
State Department
Lau
Manhattan
Department of Internal Revenue
Andrew Cervinis
Jim Harkins
Jane Churchill
Jon Hall
John Gart
Hollywoood
Gregory
Pappy
Boyington
Jimmy
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