Old Dates Of 1948 Highlight Baukhage Summary
Baukhage lists notable 1948 events from January through December, recalling political speeches, elections, Truman and Eisenhower moves, the Berlin airlift start, Palestine, Israel, Dewey’s rise, and Pearl Harbor style recalls. He notes key dates like January 7 12 30 March 9 and June 26, plus August 16 Ruth’s death and November election shocks.
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New York
Assembly of the United Nations
Palestine Commission
White House
Connecticut Avenue
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gandhi
Truman
MacArthur
Jan Masaryk
House
Wallace
Stephanove Kasenkina
New York City
Babe Ruth
Bernadette
United Nations
Dewey
Bankhage
Revival of Spy Ring Data Sparks Washington Probe
Western Newspaper Union analysis highlights revived espionage scare in Washington with microfilm evidence removed from the state department. Whitaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of delivering films to Russia while Hiss and Sumner Welles deny involvement as Chambers faces new testimony.
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Washington
Stalin
House UN American Activities Committee
United States
Committee of
State Department
Whitaker Chambers
Time Magazine
Alger Hiss
Carnegie Foundation For International Peace
Russia
Hiss
Chambers
Sumner Welles
Higher Taxes Debate Stirs Big Business and Veterans
Senator O Mahoney argues for a modified excess profits tax citing 1929 intent to fund recovery. He urges exemptions for small independent firms while industry leaders seek views. Separately a Chicago council report shows 14.9 million WWII veterans live, with 1.3 million employed on farms or in school and about 450,000 unemployed.
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Truman
Wyoming
Senator O'Mahoney
Congress
O’mahoney
Research Council For Economic Security
Chicago
Golden Fleece Custody Clash Sparks Dijon Debate
The famed Golden Fleece, symbol of a Burgundian order, was kept in Dijon after 1429 and later moved to Vienna. Mary of Burgundy took it to Austria, then the French army recaptured Vienna and the fleece returned to Dijon. Austria now seeks its return, while Dijon officials urge France to refuse and keep the fleece.
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England
Dijon
France
Philip the Good
Burgundy
Mary of Burgundy
Austria
Maximilian the Fair
Vienna
Berlin impasse deepens as Western powers pressure Soviet rule
The United States Britain and France warned Moscow that Berlin must elect on a city wide basis and disown the Soviet appointed government. They warned of measures if the illegal body remains and stressed the need to reestablish normal administration soon. The note cites Soviet violations of quadripartite Berlin accords.
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Berlin
Reich
United States
Britain
France
Soviet Union
United Nations
Moscow
Rain-Making Bag Linked to Berkeley Storms
Archaeologist Franklin Fenenga shows a rain making bag said to come from an Indian medicine man. The bag contained a beaver tail, snapdragon seeds, eagle down, fossil fish vertebra and stones. Rain fell in Kern County after the bag’s exposure and again in Berkeley when Fenenga carried it. The item is now held by the university.
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Franklin Fenenga
California University
Kern County
California
Fenenga
Berkeley
University
Potatoes defined as ideal by U S Department of Agriculture
The Agriculture Department after surveying 3 300 housewives declared the ideal market potato to be clean medium sized with few eyes light colored undamaged and cooking soft and mealy. Housewives prefer medium potatoes for peeling and portioning and many dislike handling injuries from improper machinery. The article asks if growers and shippers will respond.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Department
Anniversary Highlights Book's Effect in Poor Richard's Almanac
The 1949 Poor Richard Almanac, attributed to Benjamin Franklin, influences coastal and rural life by providing calendars, astronomical data, and practical tips. The edition, hanging in homes, stands as a yearly fixture and echoes earlier years, guiding readers on chores from rat control to chick rearing.
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Poor Richard
Benjamin Franken
Robot Ear Advances Telephone Convenience
A new robot ear presented at the American Medical Association meeting in St Louis uses a salt crystal in a box to detect phone bell vibrations and switch on lights. The device links to home lighting and can operate remotely, drawing on wartime sonar detection tech. FBI agents and undertakers are interested due to around the clock on call use.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Tom Edison
American Medical Association
St. Louis
FBI
Undertakers
Rankin Faces Battle Over UnAmerican Committee Post
Representative John E Rankin of Mississippi faces a concerted challenge from northern Democrats to remove him from the House Un-American Activities Committee under the seniority rule. Rankin is set to chair the Veterans Affairs Committee, and critics argue he should be limited to that role if he takes the new chairmanship.
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John E Rankin
Miss
House
Truman
Congress
House un-American Activities Committee
Rankin
House Veterans’ Affairs Committee
Veterans’ Affairs Committee
Bikini blast report denial and White House claim
President Truman denied suppressing a final report on atomic tests at Bikini atoll and refuted Mr Bradley Dewey's charge that the White House clamped the Rikim findings. The press conference clarified the administration's stance on the investigation.
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Bikini
Truman
White House
Atoll
Bradley Dewey
Broadway Notes and Rumors From The Stage Door
Notes on Chicago backed theater money and Ned Gordon nerves with flops and a big advance for M Todd’s As the Girls Go. Nellie Lutcher Nina Porter kiss Me Kate Bianca. Gal Ila Doll replaces Gay Orlova. Midweek matinees slim for hits. The Young and Fair falters while The Silver Whistle shines with Ferrer. Indian millionaire Ali Khan Rita Hayworth chat. Betty Grable and When My Baby Smiles at Me shine. Run of show includes jokes and theatrical quips.
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Chicago
M. Gordon
M. Todd
Nellie Lutcher
Ellectricity
Cole Porter
Kate
Bianca
Gay Orlova
Broadway
Ila Doll
Playbill
Eugene Burr
Jackson
Dutch Elm Disease Control Urges Immediate Bark Burning
Officials warn that dead elms must be cut and burned before April 15 to prevent spreading Dutch elm disease. Burning the bark now kills Scolytus bark beetles that winter there and would otherwise carry infection to healthy trees in spring.
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Marshall
T. Allen Goldsborough
John Lewis
Palestine
Bedell Smith
Israel
Oregon
Smuts
South Africa
Vanport
Schwellenbach
Washington State
Philadelphia
Clare Booth Luce
Vandenberg
Harlan Kelly
Taft
Stassen
Barkley
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John J. Pershing
Arlington
Western Newspaper Union
Jason
Richard
Linda Brown
San Antonio
Tex
Linda
Robert B. Greene Hospital
Notes of A
New Yorker
Wm. Hawkins
Minority Report
Thirthr Guild
Jose Ferrer
Chapman
Ferrer
Betty Grable
Dan Dailey
Miss Tatlock
Monty Woolley
John Lund
Blanche Fury
Red Skelton
Janet Leigh
Edmund Gwenn
Edgar A. Poe
Schopenhauer
Dumas
20Th Century-Fox
Darryl F. Zanuck
WJZ
Gabe Heatter
Geo. Gallup
George
Sarah Bernhardt
Sacasas
Victor
Music Business Mag
Cerf
Norman Corwin
Mr Corwin
Intelligentsia
Matthews
Roy Alexander
Jan Life
Carousel
Esquire
En Carroll
Life
Julian Bach, Jr
Joseph Pons
Liberal
Jesse M. Chase
Salt Lake City
Boise
Pocatello
Blackfoot
C.F
Cornwall
Canadian Pacifi Railway
Vancouver
B.C
Maga Fwandfacturing
Toth Avenue
Idaho
U. S
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Nevada
West
Great Mutual Life Insurance CO
Benson
Uteh
Scott
Scott's
Foley
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
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