Washington Digest on Small Business and Capitalism Risks
The column argues that throttling small businesses through big business leverage and socialist intervention threatens democracy. It cites Kiplinger’s survey showing weak purchasing power and rising prices in small towns, notes inflation pressures, and contrasts it with anti trust and free enterprise ideals. It warns monopolies and government overreach undermine capitalism and democracy alike.
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Committee On Economic Development
Kiplinger Maagazine
Illinois
Iowa
New York State
Kiplinger
Kiplinger Magazine
Commerce Department
Congress
Brannan Pick Approved by Farm Groups in Postwar Policy
Farm groups back Charles F. Brannan as secretary of agriculture, praising his realism and support for farm parity reform. Congress faces an expiring postwar price support law as Brannan drives a long range program. In Palestine, Arab rejection of the U N truce plea exposes rifts, while Truman wavers over arms for Israel and a potential loan.
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Charles F. Brannan
Clinton Anderson
Far
Agriculure
Brandon
Une
Brannan
Congress
U. N
Palestine
United Nations
World Councils
Israel
Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha
U. N. Security Council
Security Council
U.S
United States
Chaim Weizmann
U. S
Weizman
Middle East
War in Holy Land Keeps Burning Amid Truce Rejection
Arabs refuse UN truce demand and vow to continue fighting until Israel renounces. Haganah captures Acre as Egyptian air raids intensify on Tel Aviv and Arab forces report gains in Jerusalem. GM reaches a landmark cost of living based wage deal for 225,000 auto workers. Voice of America programs spark Senate backlash, scriptwriter fired.
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Aral
U. N
Israel
Haganah
Acre
Tel Aviv
Jerusalem
General 3.1S Corporation
United Auto Workers
U. S
House
Voice of America
Wyoming
Homer Capehart
Rep
Ind
Senate
Navy speed carrier plan backed before House panel
Secretary John Sullivan urged Congress to fund a 65,000 ton super aircraft carrier at 121 million dollars. He argued rapid development would strengthen naval power and national defense, presenting the project to the House Armed Services Committee.
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Secretary of the Navy
John Sullivan
House Armed Services Committee
Congress
Navy
Don McNeill Cornball Symbol Of ABC Breakfast Club Rise
Don McNeill, toastmaster of the Breakfast Club, marks five years on air June 23. The extemporaneous host works without a script, drawing on offbeat humor and everyday anecdotes to build a nationwide early morning following on ABC since 1933.
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American Broadcasting Company
Chicago
Don McNeill
ABC
McNeill
New Jersey
Fewer Benefits Lost Warns Officials on Claims
The Federal Security Agency reports a decline in people losing old age and survivors insurance by delaying claims. Baltimore official O C Pogge says ongoing outreach improves awareness that benefits are payable only when claimed.
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Federal Security Agency
Social Security Administration
0. C Pogge
Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
Baltimore
Capitals and leaders in postwar era quiz
A fragmented trivia item lists Arab capitals and their associated states, notes Fleming's penicillin germ-killing contribution, recalls GOP nomination history with Herbert Hoover in Kansas City in 1929, and confirms Truman's cabinet appointments reaching ten with Brannan. The garbled text mentions Hartley and dates, reflecting a miscellany of 1940s political questions.
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Berea
Riyadh
Arabia
Maysad
Iraq
Damascus
Syria
Aten
Trans-Jordan
Heirut
Lebanon
Cairo
Egypt
Sana
Yeag
Herbert Hoover
Kansas City
Truman
Ree
Fred A. Hartley
Social concern voiced at education convention
Robert J Havishurst, a University of Chicago professor, told National Congress of Parents and Teachers delegates in Cleveland that two child families are socially unhealthy though fashionable. He warned a significant portion of the population now has too few children to reproduce.
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National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Cleveland
University of Chicago
Robert J. Havishurst
Old New Yorkers and Broadway Tales of Showworld Jest
A Brooklyn columnist recalls a bygone era of Broadway prowling from midnight to dawn, mingling with players and scribes. The piece notes writers like Whitman and Masefield, deflates a few literary myths, and mixes anecdotes from theater, press clubs, and the era’s gossip columns with playful quips about lampooned critics, performers, and publishers.
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Bway
Walt Whitman
New York
Herman Melville
Greenwich Village
John Masefield
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