Arizona Economic Clinics Probe State Growth Start Monday
A regional program starts Monday in Pinal County as the fifth Arizona Economic Clinic studies regional advantages and disadvantages for tourism investment and business, aiming to shape state policies and campaign support. Leaders from Greater Arizona Inc and local enterprises present testimony on community assets and liabilities while promoting cross county collaboration and public understanding of tax and compensation laws.
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Conspiracy Trial Tied to Coplon Case and Russian Agent
The piece explains Judith Coplon faces a second trial on conspiracy charges for allegedly plotting to pass secret U S government papers to a Russian agent with Valentin A Gubitchev. It notes conspiracy's long legal roots, potential penalties, and the unlikely chance of harsher punishment without a new statute.
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Valentin A. Gubitchev
Miss Coplon
U. S
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Arizona adopts high standard school sanitation code
The Arizona State Board of Health approves a school sanitation code to raise health and sanitation in schools. The measure, developed with the State Department of Public Instruction, ensures ongoing inspections, better ventilation lighting water and facilities, and will upgrade additions and future plants while maintaining excellence in Phoenix and statewide.
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Arizona
Arizona State Board of Health
State Departments of Public Instruction and Health
Phoenix
Alben Barkley
Democratic Party
Hayden
Louis Baldwin
State Board of Health
Harold Patten
John R. Murdock
Murdock
Women demand deep hems for new short skirts
Women recalling fashion of the New Look push for very deep hems in newly shortened skirts. Meanwhile reservoirs hold more than four times the water compared with the previous year, signaling broader environmental and resource trends.
Mayor's plan funds strikers with city credit in Clairton
The Clairton mayor proposes using tax funds to aid striking steel workers by extending credit for living costs and keeping their new $1,500 cars, allowing them to stay on strike. He argues it helps workers who cannot sell assets, while noting costs fall on all taxpayers and that driving to city hall requires a car.
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Clairton
Mullen
City Hall
Editorials Of Current Interest Reprinted From Leading Newspapers
A German editorial notes if Paris conference security guarantees satisfy, a war state with Germany could end, bringing advantages. It warns the government acted without Bundestag consultation, surprising Social Democrats who fault the chancellor’s foreign policy promises. Ruhr Authority powers may scale to Western Europe’s heavy industry.
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Ruhr
Bundestag
Social Democrats
SPD
Western
Europe
Science Slices It Thin On Sandwiches
In a playful Times style column the author jokes about a USC machine that cuts 5000 slices per inch and the wonder of science. The piece reflects on how technology outpaces everyday dining, comparing ham visibility in a sandwich to modern consumer culture and ends with a Churchillian quip about value.
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University of Southern California
Winston Churchill
Extra Holiday Rule Sparks Milwaukee Debate
The piece questions why public offices and banks observe additional holidays while private employers continue normal operations. It notes busy weekend activity in Milwaukee, with public employees off work and calls for equal holiday treatment across banks, offices, and private institutions serving the public.
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Milwaukee
Life Not Merry In Chain Grocery
An alumnus defends the A and P grocery chain amid government actions. He recalls starting as a clerk, mishaps with a ketchup bottle, window dressing schemes using brooms, and a love story cut short when he was fired for eating too much free product.
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Groton
Andover
Henry Wallace
Horatio Alger
Hartford
Humorous anecdotes mix cliches and cinema pratfalls
John Chamberlain teaches Sin Clair Lewis a cliche game that stumps Lewis and sparks a rage over literary subversion. A Viennese publisher recalls golf wit at a Long Island club as a player makes a televised birdie. Olsen and Johnson improvise a prank on a press agent in Hellzapoppin with custard pies, prompting the newspaper caption Custard's Last Stand.
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John Chamberlain
Sinclair Lewis
Lewis
Chamberlain
America
Frank Crowninshield
Long Island
Crowninshield
Olsen
Johnson
Hollywood
Endowment Pioneer and Historic Plantings Across America
Benjamin Symmes died in 1634 in Elizabeth County Virginia leaving the first American educational endowment, 250 acres of land a salt marsh and eight milk cows. The largest electric transformer holds 56 tons of magnetic steel 63 miles of copper wire and 6000 gallons of insulating oil. North Carolina claims the most tree and plant varieties. In England 17th century homes used flowers scented leaves and herbs for decoration. Caldwell Idaho processes nearly half the nation’s hybrid sweet corn seed.
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Benjamin Symmes
Elizabeth County
Virginia
America
Caldwell, Ida
Arizona Newspaper Attacks Hayden Sparks Party Power Shift
The Mohave County Miner criticized U S Senator Carl Hayden over Arizona losing the Red Lake air lab project, labeling Arizona a rubber stamp state. The piece spurred GOP interest and questioned Arizona’s political leverage while noting McKellar’s seniority and Tennessee influence, with Labor pushing potential changes at the state level.
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United States
Carl Hayden
Mohave County
Kingman
Hayden
Red Lake
Truman
Arizonan
Republican Party
GOP
Kenneth McKellar
Tennessee
Washington
Air Center
United States Senate
Garvey
Phoenix
Dan E. Garvey
Navy Knuckles Rapped In Talk With Johnson
In Washington on November 25 Admiral delegates faced Secretary of Defense Johnson after presenting inflated Navy budgets. Johnson urged coordination with all services, warning a fifty billion Navy-only plan would starve others. Admirals left red-faced, vowing to rethink.
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Navy
Johnson
Washington
Adm
Forrest Sherman
Louis Johnson
Air Force
Army
American consul-general Angus Ward in China faces arrest rumors
The May 31 State Department notice ordered Angus Ward to return home from Mukden but he and fellow officers were blocked by Chinese and Soviet authorities. Ward later reported contacting a Red China commissar on June 23. On Oct 24 Soviet China announced his arrest for allegedly slapping a Chinese former employee, a claim deemed unlikely given Ward’s 56 years in service and deep grasp of Chinese customs.
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State Department
Angus Ward
Mukden
Red China
Soviet China
China
Angus Ward and the Making of a Consul General
By George E. Sokolsky profile of Angus Ward outlines a career from 1917 to 1946 across Canada United States Finland Russia China and Manchuria. It highlights Ward as a hard working capable diplomat who lived among diverse peoples and held key posts in Mukden Tientsin Moscow Vladivostok and Tehran. The piece emphasizes the consular role's diplomat duties and immunities and Ward's high standing in the foreign service.
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Canada
Chassel
Mich
American Relief Administration
Finland
Russia
Herbert Hoover
United States
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Treasury Department
United States Foreign Service
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Tientsin
Moscow
Vladivostok
Teheran
Manchuria
Foreign Service
Ward
China
Tuning In To Life And Thought Across The Airwaves
The piece extols radio as a metaphor for life, urging readers to tune into diverse interests from art and science to nature and history. It celebrates curiosity, self guided discovery, and the idea that engagement with ideas brings inspiration, hope, and shared enrichment. It ends with a call for nations to tune into peace.
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