Senator Douglas Calls For Acheson Resignation
Illinois senator Paul Douglas criticizes Secretary of State Dean Acheson as a political liability and calls for his resignation after recent policy reversals on Korea and Formosa. The piece notes the timing with Truman and the joint Senate committee and highlights casualties in Korea.
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Paul Douglas
Illinois
Senate
Truman
Independent Voters League of Illinois
Douglas
Dean Acheson
Acheson
Joint
General MacArthur
Mr. Acheson
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Power and Irrigation clash over Bridge Canyon plan in senate
California lawmakers push a resolution seeking Supreme Court adjudication of the Colorado River dispute to block Arizona’s Central Arizona Project Bill. The issue centers on Bridge Canyon Dam and whether power alone suffices or irrigation must accompany it, shaping Arizona’s defense and California’s access to electricity for industry.
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Senate
U. S. Supreme Court
Arizona
Bridge Canyon Dam
Bridge Canyon
West Coast
Congress
Hayden
McFarland
Memorial Day and the Highway Toll
A Phoenix editorial urges observance beyond remembrance for war dead to include highway fatalities. Citing 110 predicted auto deaths on Memorial Day and 138 Arizonans this year, it criticizes heavy foot driving and promotes the National Safety Council campaign Speed Kills Take It Easy launching in June to stress safer speeds.
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America
Korea
National Safety Council
Free enterprise and rugged individualism in thought and speech
Dr Henry Steele Commager warns at Rochester that freedom of inquiry is endangered by conformity in the intellectual arena. He argues the nation must defend individualism not only in business and finance but among scholars scientists statesmen and philosophers against censorship and dissent.
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Henry Steele Commager
Columbia University
Rochester
N.Y
Editorials Of Current Interest Reprinted From Leading Newspapers
Editorials note the closing of a Louisville tobacco plant once a major chewing tobacco producer as part of a broader decline in chewing tobacco. The piece surveys social shifts toward cigarettes, cites government data on production trends, and muses on esthetic and cultural factors behind the change, recalling Mark Twain and a rhyme about chewing tobacco.
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Louisville
Mark Twain
America
Outdated Cuspidor Returns to Limbo with Spittoon
The era of the spittoon, more refined as a cuspidor, is fading away after a long decline. The piece notes that the cuspidor will likely join the cigar store Indian in limbo as new habits fade from use.
Harriman uniquely served as ambassador to London and Moscow
The article notes W. Averell Harriman as the only person to hold ambassadorial posts in both London and Moscow. It also states that Washington, D C leads among major U S cities in crimes of violence.
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W. Averell Harriman
United States
London
Moscow
Washington
Public Opinion Letters Format Rules Require Writer Details
A guidance note states letters to the editor should be written on one side of the paper, with the writer's name and street address provided and signature included. It allows exceeding 300 words only in cases of unusual interest.
Let The People Vote on Four Reorganization Bills
The letter to the editor cites Gov. Howard Pyle’s large dissident base and about 20 dissenters in the 20th Legislature. It urges voters to study the four reorganization bills stalled by the House and to decide at the next election whether to allow the referendum, arguing the laws could disrupt the state’s constitutional framework.
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Howard Pyle
Greece and Korea as viewed through a historian’s lens
Dorothy Thompson argues the Greece Korea analogy fails by highlighting Greece as Western rooted and surrounded by sea with strong ties to the West while Korea lacks natural defense against Manchuria and is drawn toward China. She criticizes Western intervention and praises Soviet approach to evaluating military action and history.
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Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Albania
Korea
Europe
Lord Byron
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Asia
Iran
China
Manchuria
Japan
U. N
Try And Stop Me By Bennett Cerf
Landlord Vogel slides an overdue rent bill under a Broadway character’s door. The tenant returns it each time, and Vogel concedes he may have to fix the window to stop the draft.
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Vogel
Suppressed RFC Report Links B&O $87 Million Loan
A long buried Senate Banking and Currency Committee report alleges Baltimore and Ohio Railroad conspired with RFC officials to fake bankruptcy after borrowing $87 million. The 1947 probe, halted by Senator Capehart in a closed session, purportedly kept the corruption hidden while Republicans faced internal divides and shifting political outcomes.
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Washington
Jock and Key
Senate
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Baltimore & Ohio
Jesse Jones
Senate Banking and Currency Report
Banking and Currency Committee
B & Or
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Clay
Law Department
John J. Cornwell
Henry W. Anderson
White House
Uncle Sam
Congress
Capehart
Indiana
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Truman
Tobey
New Hampshire
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Teapot Dome
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
House
Capitol Dome Gossip Links Levy Funds to Lawmakers
Federal agents study subsistence funds for legislators and attaches over the last three years, seeking if any expense money became net income unreported. Maricopa County lawmakers get 12 dollars daily, others 17, city attaches 3, out-of-town 10, plus eight dollars salary.
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Federal
Internal Revenue
Uncle Sam
Maricopa County
Phoenix
MacArthur’s March 24 speech questioned by Marshall testimony
The record notes March 20 contact with President Truman and a Joint Chiefs message, while March 24 threats to Chinese Communists sparked questions. Marshall testified before the Russell committee that negotiations among nations were halted due to MacArthur’s threats, challenging published accounts of the sequence.
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General MacArthur
Truman
General Marshall
Russell Committee
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Marshall message misread in Korea policy dispute
The piece argues General Marshall’s note about Korea signals a preparatory shift and pressures toward a cease fire, while denying MacArthur received such a message. It contends Bradley misstates MacArthur’s knowledge and frames the Marshall memo as a bluff to create the impression of a policy message that never existed.
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Marshall
Bradley
MacArthur
Newsweek Magazine
Inner Assurance From Walter Chrysler Inspires Belief
In a private showing of Chrysler’s latest engine I was drawn to a box of tools Walter Chrysler made himself. His story of early work, ambition, and the inner assurance driving great American creators parallels Henry Ford and the Chrysler Building, urging readers to trust their own plans and strive beyond doubt.
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Chrysler Corporation
Walter Chrysler
Kansas
Chrysler
New York City
Henry Ford
Guards posted at Sing Sing during freeze to deter escape
Last winter guards with machine guns were posted outside Sing Sing prison in New York to prevent inmates escaping across the frozen Hudson river. When Britain's Princess Margaret Rose becomes 21 in August 1951 she will receive an independent income of 16800 dollars per year.
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Sing Sing Prison
New York
Hudson River
Britain
Margaret Rose
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