Business and labor urged to rise to national responsibility
Common Good notes a shared call for big business and organized labor to serve the public beyond self interest. NAM leaders and Gov Adlai Stevenson warned that housing, transportation, schools, welfare, health, and employment require industrial statesmanship and national welfare must come before narrow gains. The message aims to steer free enterprise toward peace, prosperity, and public trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hach
National Association of Manufacturers
New York
Ard M. Dirks
Carrier Corp
John R. Suman
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
Bunting
Atlantic City
Adlai Stevenson
Gov. Stevenson
Walter Reuther Elected CIO President to Succeed Murray
Walter P. Reuther, age 45, elected president of the CIO to succeed the late Philip Murray. Reuther, rising from Wheeling steel and mining roots to head the United Auto Workers, may adopt Gov. Stevenson’s modern idea of union responsibility to members and national welfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CIO
Philip Murray
Reuther
Wheeling, W. Va
Steel and Mining
United Auto Workers
Gov. Stevenson
Toske’s expansion awe inspires San Antonio growth
San Antonio’s big new Joske’s store spans a full block from Alamo plaza to Bonham, with ground floor filled and upper floors under construction. The structure encloses St Joseph’s church on three sides and is described as the largest store in the largest state, a dramatic symbol of city progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toske’s
Alamo Plaza
Bonham
Joske's
St. Joseph’s Church
Joske
San Antonio
Vishinsky and Korea in Stalinist Strategy Analysis
George E. Sokolski examines Vishinsky’s UN challenge to the Indian plan on Korea and argues Stalinist doctrine shapes Soviet aims. The piece links Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin to Russia’s postwar empire, its fight with the United States, and potential British shifts under Bevan. Dulles is viewed as a student of Marxist doctrine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George E. Sokolsky
Vishinsky
Soviet
Russia
United States
United Nations Commission
Stalin
Joe Stalin
Russian Empire
Lenin
Trotzky
Franklin D. Roosevelt
U. S
Soviet Russia
Britain
Great Britain
Aneurin Bevan
John Foster Dulles
U S Air Base at Thule in Greenland Reported
The article notes the United States has constructed an air base at Thule Greenland located about 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle. It cites a figure of roughly seven million high school students in the United States in 1951.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenland
U. S
Thule
Arctic Circle
U.S
Hearst Calls US Government a Great Business Institution
William Randolph Hearst argues that the United States government functions as a large business entity where citizens act as stockholders with rights akin to shareholders. He contends the political system mirrors corporate structures and citizen involvement mirrors ownership duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Pegler and the Language of Epithetics in Politics
A critical survey of Westbrook Pegler and contemporaries who coined biting epithets. The piece traces how reform era figures including Roosevelt and Truman used insults, with examples from Henry Luce to Mussolini, Hitler, and other leaders, and notes the era’s enduring impact on political rhetoric.
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Westbrook Pegler
Roosevelt-Truman
Pegler
Mr. Big
Roosevelt
Mister
Mister Big
Hitler
Mussolini Hitler
Mussolini
Henry Luce
Harry Hopkins
Hopkins
Fui-Piu
Chinaboy
Luce
Col. R. R. McCormick
Chicago Tribune
Nce
Clare
Field
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Chronic Cough and Lung Cancer Risks Highlighted
The article notes that early lung cancer symptoms are often missed, delaying diagnosis and reducing treatment success. It links smoking and inhaled irritants to higher lung cancer risk, especially among heavy smokers and increasingly among women as smoking rises.
Early Signs of Lung Cancer Cough and Chest Pain Warning
Dr. H N Bundesen warns that a persistent cough in men over 40, often mistaken for smoking, can signal lung cancer. A lingering chest infection, blood-tinged sputum, and chest pain or wheezing warrant chest X-rays for early detection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Fea. Syn., Inc
On This Date in History December 6
A compilation of past events dated December 6 across years 1392 to 1942. Notable items include Pearl Harbor losses disclosed by the Navy, Nettie Bringhurst’s funeral, Alamo Heights opposition to a hospital, Baron von Tomasini’s death in Texas, and political notes on Republicans and mayoral resignation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Navy Department
Army
Navy
the Alamo
Nettie Houston Bringhurst
Sam Houston
Schulenburg
Chamber of Commerce
Alamo Heights
Sunset Ridge
New Braunfels Ave
Baron George von Tomasini
Jenette Gulich
Rutz St
Maximilian
Mexico
Texas
Republican
Broadway Scrapbook Humor and Theater Gossip
Walter Winchell collects Broadway chatter from Noel Coward Hermione Gingold Chaplin and others noting wit, flops, showbiz feuds, bankruptcy filings and party quips. The column sketches theater life from the Stork Club to Hollywood and ends with a broadcast tease for Winchell at 8 p m Sunday on KABC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Winchell
Noel Coward
Hermione Gingold
Comédienne
Hermione
Jacomic
Jackie Gleason
Rockefeller Center
Gen. Vaughan
Baering Down: Bugs Baer on the News
Ma Perkins was not the first lady of the land but first to land in the cabinet. Ivy and Oveta join the Roosevelt era high huddle with Ivy as secretary of Ft Knox and Oveta heading federal security. Sir Walter Scott praised the appointments in verse as the new cabinet takes a practice vote amid uncertain times.
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Roosevelt
Louis the Lame
Anjou
William Pitt
Peter Brougham
Harry Twitcher
Alexander the Great
Charles XII
Sweden
Ludwig
Bavaria
Baering
Arthur
Bugs
Baer Ma
Perkins
Ivy
Oveta
Ft. Knox
Walter Scott
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Wallace F. Bennett
Utah
NAM
Earl Bunting
H. E. Humphreys Jr
United States Rubber Co
Walter P. Reuther
Sokolsky
Korea
William Randolph Hearst
By Westbrook Pegler
la Boca Grande
Isabella
Charles VI
France
Elizabeth
Henry IV
Castille
Henry
Joan
Bloody Mary
Truman
England
Scotland
Wilmington
Nicholson
Napoleon
Rome
Duke of Marlborough
Churchill
Disraeli
Queen Anne
Brandy
Crazy Jane
Alfonso
Fat
Devil
Weyler
Buch
Buechenwald
Dr. H. N
S.A
Callaghan
Ants
Ring
Board of Aldermen
Mister Breger
Deer
Broadway Scrapbook
Winchell
Pat Lynch
Harry
Skiddoo
Amayor
Freitag
Taft
Ike
Durkin
Secy
Labor
FDR
Repubs
War Stimson
Navy Knox
Impellitteri
M. Downey
S. Billingsley
Runyon Fund
Variety
Abel Green
Chaplin
Switz
Fran Warren
Victoria Cordova
Reptibs
Washington
D. C
Anne Jeffreys
Chicago
Capone
Hollywood
W. Wanger
Mark Twain
Alan Gale
Martin Burns
Fineway
Steinway
Gene Bayles
O'Brien
Cafe Society
Pattie Page
June Hutton
Mel Allen
Corker
New York Mirror
Hear Winchett
KABC
Accre Wat
Pou
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