One Way Open To Stop John L. Lewis
An editorial argues the ICC order halving coal powered rail service highlights John L. Lewis’s influence. It urges the National Labor Relations Board to claim jurisdiction and seek injunctions to restore five day work weeks, easing coal shortages for steel, gas, homes, and industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Lewis
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mr. Lewis
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Lewis
Federal and Arizona clash over Indian welfare funding
A dispute between Washington and Phoenix over shared duties for reservation Indian children prompts the FSA to withdraw rheumatic fever treatment and crippled-child aid from Arizona. The move follows Arizona's refusal to cover non-reservation Indian children, highlighting federal penalties against a state with large federal land holdings.
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FSA
Arizona
Congress
Washington
Phoenix
High taxes and deficit financing loom in Truman budget plan
The piece argues that the Union’s fate hinges on tackling high taxes and deficit financing. It notes President Truman’s budget message, likely a deficit budget with a modest tax increase, and forecasts limited major legislation in 1950 amid congressional opposition and looming fall elections. It highlights Rayburn’s forecast of a $1.8 billion budget cut and the political tension over tax policy.
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Truman
Congress
House
Sam Rayburn
Brannan Urges Potatoes Growers to Plant Within Allotments
Secretary Brannan criticizes potato price supports as wasteful and predicts another surplus. He cites $50 million spent this year and $200 million last year for unwanted potatoes. He pleads with growers to plant within acreage limits, acknowledging enforcement relies on refusing purchases. He notes the paradox of asking farmers to be unselfish amid organized pressure.
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Brannan
Beauty on the White Hills Snow Poem Editorial
Editorial reprint from leading newspapers recalls the first real snow of winter as it blankets hills and trees. Vivid sky colors appear at sunset, while the calm landscape grows brighter by the hour. The piece praises winter beauty and notes the heart of winter will linger for weeks ahead.
German Question Still Unsolved
The author argues that disarming Germany is impossible without destruction and cautions that rearming West Germany would shift the balance of power. He urges immediate German unification through democratic means, demilitarization of the East, and mutual security guarantees, noting Russian opposition would reveal true motives.
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Washington
Germany
United Nations
U.S.S.R
Nuremberg Answer and Big Four at Versailles
The questions reveal Nuremberg as the Nazi war crimes trials city, health shows white blood cells exceed red in normal status, a guppy is a tiny tropical fish, the nursery rhyme malefactor is Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater, and the Versailles Big Four are United States Woodrow Wilson and Britain France Italy with Lloyd George Clemenceau Orlando.
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Nuremberg
Peter
Pumpkin Eater
United States
Woodrow Wilson
Great Britain
David Lloyd George
France
Georges Clemenceau
Italy
Vittorio Orlando
Death house skit prompts doctor to advise
Joe Smith of the Avon Comedy Four plays Doctor Kronkhite in a skit. A patient in the death house pleads after hair is shaved and electric chair tests begin. The doctor warns, advising the frightened man with a blunt, comical prescription.
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Doctor Kronkhite
Joe Smith
Avon
Four
Arizona Legislature faces social security and agency budgets
The article outlines expected supplemental state department budgets near five million dollars if a spring special session occurs. It details social security needs totaling about 17.6 million for the biennium, with old age assistance rising to 12,208 cases from six years earlier. It also covers a constitutional question on appointing a new Industrial Commissioner and notes anticipated audits at Arizona State College Tempe and the University of Arizona. It mentions cover misidentifications on the Saturday Evening Post and GOP prospects for Arizona.
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State Department
Hill
Muecke
Arizona
OAA
Senate
Arizona Court
United States Supreme Court
State Senate
Gilbert
Commission
Supreme Court
ASC
Ann Frohmiller
Arizona State College
Tempe
University of Arizona
Uip
Board of Regents
University of Arizona and State Colleges
Early 20th Century Youth Reels From Pessimists And Critics
The passage recalls how college youths in the early 1900s faced a flood of pessimistic thinkers like Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, stirred egocentrism, and a craving for self destruction. It mentions Shaw Tolstoy Wells Hubris Rolland Chesterton James and Atlantic Monthly, noting magazines exposing social evils with figures such as Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair.
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Nietzsche
Schopenhauer
George Bernard Shaw
Leo Tolstoy
H. G. Wells
Elbert Hubbard
Girard, Kan
Romain Rolland
Jean Christophe
Chesterton
Henry James
Atlantic Monthly
Theodore Roosevelt
Ida Tarbell
Lincoln Steffens
Charles Edward Russell
Upton Sinclair
Imagination and indigation in early mass media
George E Sokolsky praises Harvey Wiley and editorial giants like Hearst and Pulitzer while noting the era's readers relied on print. He contrasts theater as intimate art with movies and radio aimed at mass appeal and advertising, highlighting the public influence of editors and publishers.
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Harvey Wiley
Sam Blythe
Saturday Evening Post
Mark Sullivan
Collier’s
Finley Peter Dunne
Nation
Hearst
Pulitzer
Watterson
White
Tide of Toys drives US aid Europe youth
Nationwide campaign led by the American Legion urges post Christmas toy donations to Europe. Generous responses come from Gen. Lucius Clay’s Marietta, Nashville, Des Moines, Toledo, Poughkeepsie, Los Angeles, and Omaha posts, with governors and mayors backing the effort. The piece also notes upcoming Connecticut 1950 Senate and gubernatorial contests involving Luce, McMahon, Lodge, Benton, Bowles, and Mortensen as pivotal party battles.
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American Legion
Europe
Legion
Lucius Clay
Marietta
John Roy
Hirohito
Nashville
Harry Warner
Warner Brothers
Iowa
Des Moines
Mike di Salle
Toledo
Frazier Reams
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
New York
France
Poughkeepsie Legionnaires
St. Lo
Bowles
Connecticut
McMath
Arkansas
Browning
Tennessee
Tuck
Virginia
Omaha
Merion
Harold Keating
Wheeling
W. Va
Post No. 1
United States
Post No. 5
St. Mary’s
Atlantic
Claire Boothe Luce
Time-Life
Senate
Brien McMahon
Senate Atomic Energy Committee
Massachusetts
Henry Cabot Lodge
Bill Benton
Voice of America
Hartford
William Mortensen
Chester Bowles
OPA
GOP
Love’s Sake and a Shoe-Mender’s Quiet Kingdom
A Baltimore art shopper recalls Alphonse Legros and prints once owned by Rev Stopford Brooke. Reading John Drinkwater’s essay on Brooke, the shoe-maker John Pounds is praised as a man who helped the poor without payment. The tale celebrates doing things for Love’s sake and notes anonymous Conscience Fund gifts to the Treasury.
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Baltimore
Alphonse Legros
Rodin
Legros
Stopford Brooke
John Drinkwater
Brooke
Drinkwater
John Pounds
Portsmouth
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Mississippi
Maine
Florida
Mississippi River
Department of Justice
UMWA
Ray Artigue
Gazette
Federal Security Agency
U. S
Union
MR. Brannan
Baltimore Sun
Winter Hills
New York Times
By Dorothy Thompson
Russia
Caleb Colton
BY Bennett Cerf
Capitol Dome
By Bill Turnbow
State Department of Public Welfare
Social Security
Harry W. Hill
Carl Muecke
Arizona Federation of Labor Committee
81St
Ernest W. McFarland
Joe Duke
Miami
Ariz
The
Post
Edwin Martin
Pennsylvania
McFarland
Martin
Carl Hayden
Karl E. Mundt
South Dakota
Mundt
Hayden
United States News and World Report
George E. Sokolsky
Drew Pearson
Heywood Broun
George Matthew Adams
Treasury Department
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