Scanning The Week S News On Korea Peace Talks In 1951
A digest reports that the UN rejects talks on withdrawing allied troops from Korea, keeping a long path to peace. It notes Red General Nam Il’s demand, Taft’s anti administration speech, and confusion over price control legislation. It highlights GI bill benefits and the Midwest flood appeal.
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Kaesong
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G.I
Senate approves farm work fund with cash and loan totals
The Senate appropriations committee advances a farm work bill calling for 751 million dollars in new cash and 262 million in loans for farm programs. It also orders a 10 percent payroll reduction across the agriculture department. An automatic 172 million set aside by law for farm programs is authorized, with cash exceeding the House by 34 million but below the President’s request by 69 million. The main cash boost, 24 million, goes to soil conservation.
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Soong family soybean scheme and 1952 GOP plan revealed
The column notes T L Soong and relatives cornered the soybean market, earning about 30 million dollars and raising U S prices by a dollar per bushel before the Korean War. It also recounts A B Hermann outlining GOP campaign targets for 1952, including retention of senators in New England and the Atlantic states and potential gains in Arizona New Mexico Wyoming Maryland Kentucky West Virginia and the South.
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Downey Seeks Tide Lands Oil Amid Pension Roots
California Senator Sheridan Downey, famed for a long ago ham and eggs pension scheme, meets radio correspondent Rudy Block in a capitol corridor and lobbies at three thousand dollars per month for tide lands oil, remarking on the shift from pension to oil and gold.
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Sheridan Downey
California
Rudy Block
Capitol
Downey
Tidelands Oil
Black
Christian Spending Lesson Across August Teachings
A 1951 column argues Christian stewardship over money, citing God’s gifts, the earth as the Lord’s, and early Christian pooling. It warns against prioritizing profits over community needs and condemns greed in gambling, liquor, and other evils, urging self restraint.
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Jess
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Bergler and psychology on love and aging
A Lawrence Gould Answer discusses Dr. Edmund Bergler and the gold digger stereotype. It traces motives of money, rejection, and control, then shifts to aging perceptions, midlife attitudes, and social roles for women, noting independence and unpaid welfare work as alternatives.
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Edmund Bergler
Cease-fire chatter and theater in Korea debate
A columnist combines wartime satire with critique of cease-fire talks in Korea. He ridicules projected concessions to the Reds and warns against abandoning South Korea while urging realistic diplomacy. He also riffs on media image battles and war weariness.
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Reds
Keeping Healthy Keen Ill Child Quiet in Polio Time
A medical note from Dr. John R. Paul of Yale highlights polio trends. Younger children show sudden onset while most over 15 experience gradual onset. Early quiet care may delay paralysis and improve outcomes.
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Annals of Internal Medicine
John R. Paul
Yale University
Central Nervous System
Paul
Health Notes and Childhood Foot Health
Health notes discuss high blood pressure as a stroke forerunner and rheumatic fever leading to heart disease in childhood. It warns that chest pain breathlessness and fatigue accompany hypertension and notes sore feet from ill fitting childhood shoes as a lifelong hazard. It also mentions alcoholic pride impeding recognition of drinking limits.
Lighthouse Auction Near George Washington Bridge Draws Collectors
The Coast Guard will auction a lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge in New York. Elmer Twitchell, a noted lighthouse and beacon collector, plans to bid while voicing views on price controls and birding. He emphasizes a lighthouse as a retreat but warns of opposition to birding and playful hints about a roving game.
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Elmer Twitchell
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