A Soldier in Politics by George E Sokols ky
A profile of Ulysses S Grant as president, detailing postwar corruption and the influence of wealth. It portrays Grant’s limited grasp of governance, reliance on Orville Babock, and tolerance of financial gangsters like Gould and Fisk. It notes Black Friday 1869, credit mobilier, and Babcock’s whisky ring trial amid a corrupt era.
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Grant
United States
Andrew Johnson
Congress
Collis P. Huntington
California
Thomas A. Scott
Pennsylvania
New York
Daniel Drew
Commodore Vanderbilt
Jim Fisk
Jay Gould
C. Vann Woodward
Ben Butler
Roscoe Conkling
Simon Cameron
James G. Blaine
Lincoln
Orville E. Babcock
Woodward
Babcock
Hamilton Fish
Jim Fiskie
Abel Rathbone Corbin
Credit Mobilier
Johnson
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Through the Years in the Files of The San Antonio Light
San Antonio Light diary entries from June 29 across years recount city decisions on Ward Robert B Green hospital funding 1948. film adaptation 1933. Democratic ticket 1928. saloon license refunds 1918. sidewalk value 1908. society views on war 1898. and sanitation concerns at West Commerce and Dolorosa 1883.
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The
San Antonio of Light
Callaghan
Robert B. Green
Lloyd C. Douglas
San
Commerce
Dolorosa
Waging Peace and Mutual Admiration Society Rhetoric
A critical note on Cold War diplomacy cites harsh state actions and purges as part of a coordinated effort to achieve neighborly coexistence. The text accuses both sides of silencing resistance while pursuing a manufactured pacificing agenda.
Healthy ship conversions boost world trade and U.S. lines
President outlines plans to convert four modernized cargo passenger ships and add two new superliners, restoring the American merchant marine. The program targets west coast yards, Atlantic and Pacific services, and aims to rebuild maritime industry, provide jobs, and deter future war through national strength.
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West Coast
Congress
United States Lines
American President Lines
Mailing Memo Promotes Early Mail and Zone Numbers
The post office launches a campaign urging faster deliveries by mailing letters earlier in the day, including zone numbers and a return address. It notes 80 percent of mail arrives between 6 and 10 p.m. causing congestion and urges readers to add zone numbers to 106 cities and include their return address for quicker processing.
Slapstick in Geneva at Yacht Club
Reporter Bob Considine recalls a chaotic Geneva Yacht Club scene where a drunken Swiss man in crutches drives a speedboat into a pier, damages the vessel, and triggers a wild chase and brawl. Police eventually arrive as bystanders and witnesses react amid a humorous, disorderly day ending with travel to Paris.
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Geneva
Hathaway
Yacht Club
Switzerland
Lake Geneva
Chinese property rights vs Communist control, a Sheen critique
The piece argues private property guards liberty while state control erodes personhood. It cites Maoist China, Soviet lessons, and peasant desertion from collective farms to claim a human instinct for ownership against a rigid police state. It concludes that history shows humanity clings to ownership of self and soil despite communist aims.
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Soviet Union
China
Mao
Tertullian
Twelve Apostles day and Jerusalem fast observed
The article notes Twelve Apostles day honored in eastern churches and St Paul’s prominence for Greek tradition, then recalls Jerusalem’s 70 CE fall on the seventeenth of Tammuz, a Jewish fast leading to three weeks of mourning ending on the ninth of the following month, with prayers for freedom and no weddings or new clothes during this period. It also discusses reader letters to the column and writing etiquette.
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St. Paul
St. Peter
Jerusalem
Tammuz
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George E. Sokolsky
Fay Bainter
Claude Rains
Democratic Party
Houston
Alfred F. Smith
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Kremlin
Nagy
Mateter
Washington
Lewis Strauss
Mano Dereciea
Bob Considine
Orson Welles
Paris
Orly Field
Sheen
Fulton
Russia
Stalin
Honan
Ote
Eee
Cliy Pri
DR. H.W. Harper
Judas
Matthias
Saul of
Tarsus
Damascus
Apostle
Paul
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