No Right Minded Candidate and the Newsmen at Chaos
The columnist, across a hot convention floor in Philadelphia, laments how newsmen fare in a political year. He recalls Truman's sharp jabs at newspapers and the press’s slanted view, noting past presidents' similar tensions, while commenting on TV-era monitoring and the unease of reporters under bright lights.
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Truman
John Quincy Adams
Chicago Tribune
Spokane Spokesman-Review
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Ell Bertie
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New York
Albany
Newport
Kipling
GOP Convention Nominates Dewey in Unanimous Display
The weekly analysis notes Dewey receives the GOP nomination with broad unity while Warren is a secondary choice on the ticket. The piece reflects Western Newspaper Union editorial stance rather than the general paper.
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Dewey
Warren
Dewey Captures GOP Nomination In Philadelphia Convention
The Philadelphia convention coalesced behind Governor Thomas E. Dewey as the Republican standard bearer. Dewey benefited from a unified machine while rivals Taft Stassen Warren Vandenberg and MacArthur faltered or withdrew. Earl Warren’s vice presidential selection surprised many as a decisive, internationalist ticket emerged amid a forward looking platform.
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Dewey
Taft
Stassen
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Warren
MacArthur
Ame
Dwight Green
Ilinois
Republican Party
California
Earl Warren
Thomas E. Dewey
Charles Halleck
Indiana
Kenneth Wherry
Nebraska
Dewes
Nominee Dewey: Calculated Ambition Drives Career
Thomas Edmund Dewey emerges as a self made success driven by precise ambition and directed energy. By 46 he has served twice as New York governor and faced one defeat for the same post, while earning the Republican presidential nomination twice in a row. Born in Owosso Michigan he rose to prominence in New York City as a racket busting district attorney.
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Thomas Edmund Dewey
New York
Publican
Republican Party
Owosso
Mich
Dewey
New York City
Tito purge and US draft plans loom in postwar era
The article notes Tito’s expulsion from the Communist party amid charges of independence and anti Sovietism. It then details U.S. peacetime draft plans for 1949 including monthly inductions of about 30,000 draft-age men starting September 22, with total army strength targeted at 837,000 and a structure of 12 regular divisions plus six national guard divisions and support troops.
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Congress
Army
U. S
Kenneth Royall
National Guard
Blockade Berlin and the new cold war crisis
Soviet freight blockage of Berlin is part of a broader strategy to push Western Allies from the city. The West ferries food to besieged Berlin as Moscow weighs two paths: threaten war or seek four power talks that could yield appeasement. Britain and the United States face a perilous choice to avoid weakening Western democracy in Europe.
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Russia
Berlin
Europe
Munich
Britain
Emotional asthma linked to family distress, doctor says
Dr. F. B Schutzbank of Tuscan Arizona told the American Medical Association meeting in Chicago that many asthma patients seeking relief in Arizona could improve by cutting family quarrels and distress, suggesting emotional disturbance as a major factor behind choking and wheezing.
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Tuscan
Ariz
American Medical Association
Chicago
Arizona
Broadway Spotlight and City Gossip Sparks at Big Night Out
A collage of Manhattan chatter from the Colony restaurant to Wilma's and the Paramount building features Mrs. Andrei Gromyko merging with Walter Sherwin amid starry guests, Eisenhower greeting crowds, stamps with Gottwald and Zapatocky, and salon anecdotes about Lana Turner, Monte Proser, and partygoers. Other notes mention theater critics, taxi crowds, and Democratic rally remarks in a vivid slice of 1940s New York society.
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Gregg Sherwood
Trousseau
Wilma’s
Walter Sherwin
Powersirens
N. Y. Yankees
Dwight Eisenhower
Paramount
Wendell Wilkie
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