Washington Digest GOP Wanted Mac's Return
Washington digest recounts GOP push to invite Gen. Douglas MacArthur to testify on Far East policy, amid party tensions and the 1948 presidential race. It contrasts Republican maneuvering with Democratic reactions and notes Bradley and Streit urging peacetime action and federation of democracies for lasting peace.
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Douglas MacArthur
Senate Appropriation Committee
Washington
Heaven and Earth
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
MacArthur
Japan
Senator Bridges
Bradley
General Bradley
Clarence Streit
Federal Union, Incorporated
Streit
House Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
United Kingdom
France
Switzerland
Belgium
Luxemburg
Netherlands
Denmark
Iceland
Norway
Sweden
Eire
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Uneasy Truce in Palestine and War Talks Halted
The weekly analysis notes an uneasy truce in Palestine with no negotiations with Russia. President Truman states plans to begin draft machinery. editorials frame the stance as a strategic pause while security measures loom.
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Palestine
Russia
Truman
Hold Fire Still No Peace In Holy Land War
The article reviews the faltering U.N. mediated truce in Palestine, with both Arab and Jewish sides accusing violations as Count Folke Bernadotte probes breaches. It questions the efficacy of a world peace body, notes Truman’s Berkeley speech opposing Soviet tactics, and outlines drafts and UN headquarters relocation debates amid geopolitical tensions.
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Israel
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Berkeley
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Soviet Union
Russia
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Korea
Ocean
Marshall Plan funds approved amid congressional feuding
The ECA administrator approved 95,010,905 for 10 European nations and China, boosting total Marshall plan authorizations to 393,737,029. The move followed House cuts seen as Republican power plays against postwar policy, stirring concerns about foreign policy direction and election year tactics.
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GOP
Economic Cooperation Administration
Paul G. Hoffman
ECA
Trieste
China
Great Britain
Netherlands
France
Germany
Austria
Denmark
Italy
Norway
Greece
Congress
House
Senate
U.S
Vandenberg
Dewey
Stassen
Warren
Middle Income That’s 2920 Dollars in 1947 Figures
The federal reserve board places a 1947 middle income at 2920 for the average family, rising 220 since 1946. Half of U.S. families earned more, half less, with 69 percent above 2000 and only 13 below 1000. Business owners led earnings, managers and professionals next, then skilled workers, clerks, and unskilled workers.
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Federal Reserve Board
U.S
Wall of the Emcee and Broadway Gossip Reel
A column mixed with social notes and wry quips about figures from theater and film. It recalls Dame May Whitty in Hollywood stair-lamp hardship and pivots through Shaw, Hoover, Collier’s, and rising stardom stories including Muriel Hanley and a Brass Ball hostess who leapt from waitress to model.
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Dame May Whitty
DeLongpre Avenue
Hollywood
Lana Turner
Rita Hayworth
Dorothy Lamour
Suh Avenue
Copacabana
Copa Lotharios
Oaily
Muriel Hanley
Inflation and Taxes Hit Vacation Costs This Year
The family economics bureau of Northwestern National Life Insurance reports vacation prices have surged 2 to 100 percent since 1940. A 12 day cruise from New York to Nassau Havana and Miami rose from 12 to 213.50 dollars, an 82 percent increase.
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Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
New York City
Nassau
Havana
Miami
Delicate scales weigh air puff and animal energy
Scientists at the Rahway Merck Institute have built ultra delicate scales that measure the weight of a puff of air from a single hand wave. The device is used to weigh potent new drugs and to gauge the energy spent by animals under medicinal influence.
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Rahway
Merck Institute For Therapeutic Research
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