Ellen Stevenson Divorce Highlights Public Life Cost
Ellen Borden Stevenson, wife of Illinois Governor Adlai E. Stevenson, divorced in Las Vegas a year after his election as governor, illustrating the strain of public life on a presidential-aspiring family. The tear in the Stevenson home underscores the demands on leaders and their families amid political trajectory.
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Central Press
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White House
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Illinois
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Truman
Ellen Borden Stevenson
Las Vegas
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Libertyville
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United Nations
Ellen
Springfield
Grover Cleveland
Washington
Civil rights filibuster debate blocks passage prospects
James Marlow explains that in the Senate a civil rights bill faces a constitutional two thirds hurdle, with Southern Democrats able to mount filibusters. He notes House passage is easier but Senate rules impede civil rights laws, risking defeat despite earlier efforts. The piece analyzes procedural barriers and strategic timing.
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James Marlow
Washington
Chicago
Senate
House
Air Force says 1000 Communist installations hit in Korean War raid
The Far East Air Forces reported about 1,000 Communist military installations destroyed or damaged in the July 11 air strike on Pyongyang Sariwon and Hwangju. The strike involved UN land and carrier aircraft targeting 29 sites including a communications center transportation parking repair areas and factories making weapons and munitions.
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Tokyo
Far East
Pyongyang
Sariwon
Hwangju
Peiping Radio
United Nations
Duclos Notebook Reveals Decline of French Communist Party
Le Figaro reports Jacques Duclos, France's top Communist, wrote that war is neither inevitable nor necessary and that the party is in decline. Notes from April to May call for antiwar action, mass mobilization, and opposition to Viet Nam Indochina, Korea, and German rearmament, with emphasis on colonial peoples.
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Jacques Duclos
France
le Figaro
Yiots
Matthew B .Ridgway
Duclos
Communist Party
Russia
Stalin
Viet Nam
Indochina
Korea
Gov Fine Pushes National Primary or Binding Votes
Harrisburg Gov John Fine urged replacing the convention system with a national primary or binding convention delegates. He said the system must be overhauled to reflect the people’s will and predicted a Republican victory in November. Fine denied seeking personal honors or a vice presidential offer.
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Pab
John
Fine
Pennsylvania
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Newsimen
New Mine Safety Law Enforcement to Begin Soon
Secretary of Interior Chapman announced the Bureau of Mines will start enforcing the new mine safety law immediately on a limited scale until Congress funds full enforcement. The measure, signed by President Truman, allows federal inspectors to remove workers from imminent danger and directs states to cooperate via state plans.
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Washington
Chapman
Bureau of Mines
Truman
Congress
J. J. Forbes
U S Saved Millions Fighting Tin Cartel
A Senate internal report says the United States blocked a tin cartel led by British Dutch Belgian and Bolivian interests that sought exorbitant profits after the Korean War began. Prices rose from 2 cents to almost 2 dollars per pound before U S agencies refused to pay and a January settlement with Britain set a 1.18 dollar price.
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United States
America
Senate
Lyndon Johnson
D -Tex
New York
U. S
General Dean Moved by Reds in Korean War Camp Swap
In Pyongyang a prisoner transfer moved U.S. Major General William F. Dean to a new North Korean camp. The exchange, reported by Hsian officers at Panmunjom, notes Dean and many Korean captives shifted, with UN requests for accounting of 1,881 missing soldiers. Dean, a Berkeley, California native and Medal of Honor recipient, was captured in 1950.
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Korea
U. S
Wiliam F. Dean
Pyongyang
North Korea
Haisan
United Nations
Panmunjom
Dean
U. S. 24Th Infantry Division
U.N
Berkeley
Calif
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