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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1949
Page
6
The Griffenhagen report on the Arizona Industrial Commission urges a full reorganization. It cites a million-dollar 1948 loss, lavish spending, and high rates, calling for a professional executive and businesslike operation free of political influence.
Bill Turnbow argues in favor of reforming parole handling for sexual offenders in Arizona. He cites Florence prison cases and national incidents to support lifelong detention or treatment with permanent restraint for incurable offenders, proposing state hospital transfer and life detention parallels to the insane.
Members of the U S House Public Lands Committee, led by Rep John R Murdock, visit Arizona to study irrigation potential for Indian rehabilitation and Central Arizona Project areas. The trip highlights desert to irrigated land contrasts, Papago, Navajo and Hopi needs, and federal lands untaxable by the state.
Lena Shawen, a Post Office official, argues FDR shaped and approved nearly all stamps during his White House years. The book draws on Hyde Park materials and internal memos showing his hands on design, selection, and clearance of dozens of issues including the 1935 Byrd Little America adhesive.
The piece ridicules a proposed inquiry into Kentucky belles and the Vice President's choice of partner. It argues that romance transcends geography and party, noting Mr Barkley and Mrs Hadley and celebrating a Russian headline about love.
An analysis argues Russia will push to remove Western troops from Germany and spark a civil war modeled on China and Korea. It warns of amnestied Nazis, secret police cadres, and coordinated Soviet diversion tactics, urging public warning and Western political concessions to deter collapse and dismantling.
James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald disliked employee brawls yet praised a printer who covered his face with ink after an altercation. The boss doubled the worker’s salary, praising the extra effort as more work than others.
The text explains Japan adopted the chrysanthemum as national flower after Chinese introduction long ago. It also states the American market sources oysters from three varieties with two native and one of Japanese origin. It adds that irregularly washed windows can reduce light by up to 25 percent.
Inside notes detail a Phoenician figure linked to prison inmate release for a $200 payment and meddling in social security matters. A mother with three dependents faced loss of aid over jurisdiction and alleged clubbing visits as investigations loom. A brewing conflict touches the social security rolls and old age pension.
James Roosevelt, age 42, emerges as a decisive political force in California with strong popular support among young Democrats. The piece notes his growing stature, potential Democratic gubernatorial nomination, and impact on California political culture amid broader national debates. It also covers Admiral Sherman’s consolidation of Navy leadership, confrontations with dissenting admirals, and related regional political frictions among Utah and Montana governors over mining subsidies and federal aid.
The piece discusses isolationism as a long-standing American policy since Washington, restated by Adams, and later challenged by George Kennan. It notes the shift toward recognizing a more proactive stance against global threats, arguing that restraint may no longer suffice to protect U S power and values. The discussion frames a call to support others resisting aggressive powers and to reassess geographic limits.
By George E. Sokolsky argues America faces a modern adversary aiming to destroy the American way of life not just the nation. Kennan described how subjection of others could undermine the U S while costly foreign aid becomes a risky insurance against defeat amid shifting loyalties and group causes.
A reflective meditation on entering new places and wandering at night. The author extols cars as liberators who open country air and human connection while praising the inner realm, a personal country of the mind, as a vast, endlessly improvable space for peace, beauty, and self rule.
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