Notes to a Newspaperman on Cold War Era Hints and Lively Gossip
The column surveys 1950s concerns about Soviet agents entering the United States under a quasi commercial visa rule, mentions Goering’s widow Emmy, East Side umbrella shops, and Hollywood figures. It glosses over Seattle, Pentagon lunch chats, and Spaatz’s retirement while noting dope purchases and the survival age forecast.
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State Department
U. S
United States
Goering
Emmy
Berlin
East Side
Henry Wallace
Virginia Leigh
Stranger helps crippled beggar led to Supreme Court
A rain soaked Washington street encounter ends with Justice Harold Burton helping a crippled beggar. The man, to Union Station, discovers Burton is the rescuer as the wheel chair is pushed to the Supreme Court. The next day the beggar seeks a meeting with the judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Street
Union Station
Veterans Administration
Supreme Court
Harold Burton
Justice Burton
Burton
Memo to Senator Taft on Inflation and War Spending
The memo urges in the strongest terms that even a partial adoption of a vast arms program could spark record inflation. It cites steel shortages, scarce rail freight cars, auto shortages, and power limits as evidence of an overheating economy and proposes appointing Bernard Baruch Donald Nelson and Leon Henderson to craft a domestic plan to head off inflation.
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West
California
Army
Navy
Bernard Baruch
Donald Nelson
Leon Henderson
Armada of Cargo Planes Urged by Defense Board
The national defense research and development board calls for a vast air merchant fleet to speed supply lines in future war. It warns Russia with a fivefold larger underwater force and cites the German XXI submarine as especially difficult to locate. The report rejects forward-basing stockpiles, urges base locations to follow targets, and prioritizes air transport as the war’s backbone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pentagon
National Defense Research and Development Board
America
Russia
Research Board
Strawberries galore in season with tasty dessert ideas
A nostalgic menu showcases strawberries prepared in many ways though the season is short. Recipes include strawberry shortcake with biscuits or cakes, fresh pie fillings, meringue desserts, Standish pudding, whipped cream, and frozen strawberry treats with orange and vanilla notes.
Luncheon Dish De Luxe and Cookery Tips
A collection of luncheon ideas and cookery tips detailing ham storage with fat coating to prevent mold, slow cooking bacon, using scissors for cutting, and marinating in French dressing. It describes a shrimp scrambled eggs dish with green onion mushroom margarine shrimp tomato eggs cream and cheese, plus vegetable meal suggestions and fruit pies with honey.
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WNN
Garble Sisters panel on world affairs and cinema note
Dialogues touch on Russian submarines U N action on John L Lewis and inflation while referencing universal service draft and a nine year old Czechoslovakian boy Ivan Jandl in a prize winning film. The piece blends satire and praise for the child actor amid wartime era concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yeed
Ivan Jandl
Prague
Surplus Property and Political Quips in One Column
A satirical collage cites surplus rackets and a bomber trade for quick cash. It questions Russia’s threat claims and jokes about quiz shows. It notes a British car offered in the U S at 21250 dollars and a New York ad firm losing a 15 million dollar tobacco account. It mentions Roosevelt sons supporting draft of Eisenhower and speculation on his political prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Communist Influence in Union Elections Draws Fire
A column argues that CIO and United Auto Workers officials aided Communist influence in 1948 campaigns. It highlights Harold Christoffel of Milwaukee and a 1941 Allis-Chalmers strike seen as a Communist frameup with forged ballots and fraud in the union vote.
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C.I.0
Roosevelt
Harold Christoffel
Milwaukee
District Court
Washington, DC
Committee of Congress
C.lco
A.F. of L
C.I.O
Auto Workers
United States
Christoffel
Allis- Chalmers
Wisconsin Employment Relations Board
Clark Sellers
Los Angeles
John F. Tyrell
Allis Chalmers
Hitler
Stalin
Henry Wallace
United Auto Workers
Employment Relations Board
Sellers
Tyrelle
Yes
Allis-Chalmers
Easily Built Children's Giraffes Neck Slide
Do you feel tired or jittery and need a vacation. Relax by working with wood to ease worries. Build this slide from a pattern with simple cuts and fittings. No special tools or skill required. Send 50 cents for Slide Pattern No. 63 to East Bird Pattern Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East-Bird Pattern Company
Dept. W
Pleasantville
Calm Nuns Calmed Passengers After Train Wreck
A Back Bay woman says two nuns in the first car of a wrecked train kept passengers calm. Their peaceful demeanor prevented a panic as others crowded toward the rear door to escape.
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Boston
Back Bay
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Toohey Spaatz
Air Force
Finletter
Spaatz
Rou
Chiseler
Mar Jene Dietrich
Louis Kaufman
Hisenhower
Waldorf-Astoria
Nancy Councilman
Norfolk
Nancy
KR. Ingersoll
Patsy Ruth Millers
Laval
Churchill
Chamberlain
Edythe Farrell
Police Gazette
J. Harrington
Honolulu
Hawaii
Congress
Senator Taft
Lynn Chambers
Lynn Say
Garble
John L. Lewis
U.N
Lake Success
Lewis
Universal Service
Ted Williams
Eisenhower
Johnny Mize
Baruch
Halsey
Tony McAuliffe
General MacWallace
Austin Warren
China
Hudson
N. Y
Junior
Popper
Hank
Mal Braverman
Mr. Truman
By Westbrook Pegler
WNU
Uniox
Sunkist
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Deen
Dean
Doans
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