Feeling the Nation's Pulse Unify Big Area of Conflict
An analysis of the 1952 presidential race discusses Eisenhower and Stevenson steering divided parties Toward unity while facing rifts within the GOP Taft MacArthur wings and mixed reactions from Democrats independents and Republicans The piece argues Eisenhowers challenge is broad appeal to conflicted voters and balancing party factions to win in 1952.
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Elmoroper
Gen. Eisenhower
Gov. Stevenson
Eisenhower
Taft
MacArthur
United
GOP
Sen. Dirksen
Portsmouth raid nets four in biggest bookie case
Police arrested William F. Keefe and three others after a Saturday raid on the Victory Cafe at 69 Vaughan Street. The group, tied to a city-wide lottery and horse race betting operation, included the cafe owner and two aides. Bail was set for the four as they await municipal court arraignment Friday morning.
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Victory Cafe
Adrien J. Carignan
Stanton G
Vaughan St
Remick
Martin O. Retz
Robert B. Noble
Bookie
Vaughan Street
Portsmouth
Orom
William F. Keefe
Raleigh Way
Islington Street
Broad St
Adam Belmestieri
Wall St
Keefe and Noble
Adrien J! Carignan
Dover
Noble
Belmesdieri
Keefe
Belmestieri
Carignan
Dinghey
Treasury
Linchey
State Liquor Commission
Commission
Exeter man shoots to stop masked robbers in cottage
George H. Lang of Exeter, 80, confronted two masked robbers in Lincoln as they tied dining room owner Joseph Hudon to a bed at 2:25 a.m. Lang shot Wallace Charette dead, then wounded Hudon in the thigh during the pre-dawn gunfight. Vernon Charette fled as Lang and Hudon pursued.
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Lincoln
Exeter
George H. Lang
Cass St
Wallace Charette
Waterbury
Conn
Joseph L. Hudon
Exester
Vernon Charette
X” Few
Lang
Huden
Charette
Pa- Mee
Vernon
Hudon
Associaed
Portsmouth Naval
Indian Head
Leng
Florida
Littleton
Anchor Room
Hadon
Probers Tearing Closed Stamp Off Fraud Case
House investigators examine an alleged Justice Department fraud case that lingered for seven years and was later marked closed without prosecution. The probe, tied to former officials and a 1944-origin case, fuels upcoming Capitol Hill hearings as a subcommittee reviews unexplained inaction and assignment to the Criminal Division under Atty. Gen. Caudle.
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Washington
House
Justice Department
Department
Capitol Hill
House Judiciary
Atty
T. Lamar Caudle
Supreme Court
Tom Clark
Caudle
Truman
House Committee
ICC Allows B and M To Abandon Tracks
The Inter state Commerce Commission authorized the Boston and Maine railroad to abandon about 17 miles of trackage in York County Missouri from Kittery to North Berwick as part of the Western route between Boston and North Berwick. The ICC noted B and M has other connections and that trains using the eastern route can be shifted to the west-route tracks.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Boston and Maine Railroad
York County
Kittery
Portsmouth Navy Yard
B. and M
North Berwick
Boston
ICC
Local Sailor Named Driver in Fall River Death
Alfred N. Moreau a 25 year old sailor from 205 Thornton Street was identified by Fall River police as the driver of the car in a fatal weekend crash that killed Manuel Correia a 46 year old father of three. Moreau pleaded innocent to speeding and operating to endanger and a week long adjournment was set in Fall River District Court.
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Fall River
Alfred N. Moreau
Thornton St
Mass
Moreau
Newport, RL
Fall River District
Manuel Correia
Correia
Edward
Petro
Profile Ave
Portsmouth High School
Boston and
Maine
Dover
Frank J. Newton
Holmes
Portsmouth
Flash Flood Kills 39 in Devon Coast Town Lynmouth England
Army engineers battled debris and washed rocks as a flash flood on the Devon coast near Lynmouth claimed 39 lives. Nine bodies recovered, 30 missing, with damage estimates exceeding seven million pounds. Police sealed lanes as 2,500 evacuees sought shelter in inland halls.
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Lynmouth
England
Eng
Devon
British Press Association
Lyn
Dixie campaign heats up with four states in play
In Mississippi and other southern states the 1952 race fragments Democrats into three camps over Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower. Alabama hosts Senator Sparkman’s homecoming as GOP threats grow. Arkansas warns Democrats against aiding GOP, while Louisiana party strife defeats seating efforts. Eisenhower plans a rapid southern tour. Stevenson readies speeches in Illinois.
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Dixie States
Jackson
Mississippi
Adlai Stevenson
Dwight Eisenhower
Alabama
Kaiser Charges Attempted Murder In Boat Sabotage
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser charged unknown saboteurs who tampered with two of his speedboats in Tahoe City California. Damage found a half hour before race time included a sawn drive shaft, blocked carburetor blower, and gasoline in the bilge. Police hunt for fingerprints followed.
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Kaiser
Tahoe City
Calif
Henry J. Kaiser
Harry Johnson
Lakeside
Max Collins
Eternal life physicist ordered confined after Columbia campus killing
The killer, identified as NEW YORK Bayard Peskes of Boston and Dover-Foxcroft Maine, dubbed the eternal life physicist, was ordered confined as Tunatig following the murder of a young woman who served as a secretary on the Columbia University campus.
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New York
Bayard Peskes
Boston
Dover-Foxcroft
Columbia University
Tunatig
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