Vice President Barkley Seeks Quiet Yet Key Role
The article notes how the vice presidency is often seen as secondary, yet Barkley is poised to influence policy from the Senate while aligning with President Truman. It compares past VPs Garner, Warren, and Dawes, and discusses the balance between executive influence and Senate leadership in shaping the administration's agenda.
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Baukhage
Washington
United States
United States Senate
House
Senate
Garner
Bascom Timmons
Texas
Cactus Jack
Legislative
Garmer
Alben Barkley
Warren
Dewey
Roosevelt
Sage
Uvalde
Capitol
White House
Pennsylvania Avenue
Truman-Barkley
Barkley
New Crisis Emerges in Germany as Soviet Threats Rise
Western Newspaper Union analyzes a fresh German crisis as Soviet threats to Berlin intensify and alternative responses surface. An airlift and rent control extension are proposed amid tense East West dynamics and Allied discussions.
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Germany
Bill Schoentgen
WNU
Western Newspaper Union
Berlin crisis and rent control push outlined in postwar report
The piece reports Soviet threats over unidentified aircraft in the Berlin air corridors as the airlift faces potential danger. It also covers Rent Director Tighe Woods proposing to extend and tighten rent controls, seeking eviction controls treble damages and criminal sanctions with a new Democratic Congress.
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Congress
Berli
Berlin
Germany
C. K. Gatley
G. S. Lukyanchenko
Truman
Tighe E. Woods
Woods
New Democratic Congress
Capitol Hill
Barber Poll Flops in Pawbooley Election Talk
Lucius Clobb and Mayor Rye Buckets debate the failed barber poll scheme used to predict an election. Clobb recounts sneezing in the voting booth and missing marks while describing the hair cut based method as a supposed scientific gauge of voters.
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Lucius Clobb
Pawbooley County
Ryerson Bucket
Rye
Clem
Hal
Mister Clobb
Harry
Ebenezer Snook
Red-Fighting Rep J Parnell Thomas Faces Indictment
Rep J Parnell Thomas and his former secretary Helen Campbell are indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to pad the congressional payroll. The scheme allegedly created fictitious employees to divert salaries to Thomas’s bank account. Thomas, at his Allendale New Jersey home, said he had nothing to say now and awaits trial likely in January.
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J Parnell Thomas
N. Y
House
UN American Activities Committee
Thomas
Helen Campbell
Allendale
N. J
Rep. J. Parnell Thomas
Polling the Volts Strides in Power Production
The Northern Trust bulletin reports the electric power industry doubled output over eight years and rising monthly while unit costs to consumers fell since before the war. For the first nine months of 1948 output was about 11 percent above 1947, and 1947 exceeded 1946 by 15 percent, serving over 40 million customers compared with 29.1 million at end of 1936.
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Business Comment
Bulletin of the Northern Trust Company
China and GOP turmoil shape 1952 political crisis
In China the Nationalist government weakens as Red forces gain ground in Manchukuo and along the coast, prompting evacuation of Americans. Back home, Harold Stassen emerges as a potential GOP rebuilder aiming to shift the party toward liberal policies after a brutal post-election reckoning.
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Nanking
Peiping
Shanghai
China
Hankow
Suchow
Penguo
Yangtze
Chiang Kaishek
RED
Manchukuo
Chiang
Republican Party
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
University of Pennsylvania
GOP
Stassen
Treason in Radio Tokyo: Message to Rosie and Marines
Capt Bree Farrell of the First Marine Division condemns Rosie for treasonous broadcasts on Radio Tokyo that psych warfare against U S Marines. She is accused of wedge driving and misinformation about Allied troops, and the letter calls for a long jail term with daily playbacks.
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Tokyo
Rosie
Ise Koch
Ilse Koch
Buchenwald
Col. Mori
China
U S
Shanghai
Japan
Radio Tokyo
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Australia
Imperial Japanese High Command
New Guinea
U. S
Australis
America
Bree Farrell
First Marine Divi
United Nations Plans Global Death Declaration to Ease War Widows
The United Nations released a draft convention to declare legally dead millions who disappeared between 1939 and 1945 due to war or persecution. The move would ease legal matters like inheritances adoptions and remarriages for families of missing persons.
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United Nations
Pay Heed To Highway Signs And Stick Around Awhile
Safety guidance from the National Safety Council urges drivers to respect signs as they would officers. It outlines sign shapes and meanings, including stop eight sided warning diamond and railroad signals, plus reminders to watch for life signs on familiar roads and that many fatalities occur near home.
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National Safety Council
Gift Cartons of Camel Cigarettes and Prince Albert Tobacco
A local dealer offers Christmas gift cartons of 200 Camel cigarettes and a pound tin of Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco. The festive packaging aims to be ideal gifts for smokers with space for personal Christmas greetings.
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Prince Albert
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Lillian M. Gilbreth
American Woman’s Association
Fanny 8. Sweeney
Dr. Gilbreth
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