Courts challenge autocracy in steel seizure case debate
In a Supreme Court discussion on President Truman’s steel seizure, counsel for steel companies argues executive power exceeds constitutional limits, while Justice Douglas questions practical gains. The dialogue highlights that courts serve as a check against autocratic action and uphold the rule of law.
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Truman
Urs
Supreme Court
Justces
John W. Davis
Steel Companies
Executive Branch
Congress
Sawyer
United States
Baldridge
William O. Douglas
Gen. Pearlman
How Old Is Old in San Antonio City Policy
San Antonio council praised selecting by department heads to judge employee value rather than blanket age limits. The rationale favors experience and adaptability over retirement by age, noting elder statesmen like Baruch and Hoover as examples of long-term usefulness.
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San Antonio
Gen. MacArthur
Barney Baruch
Herbert Hoover
Steves
Potatoes Scarce and Price Rise Hit San Antonio Home
A San Antonio housewife faces higher food costs as the potato supply tightens. Potatoes grown under a federal protection program were trimmed, growers shifted to corn and oats, and bad growing weather worsened the crop. Canada also reduced imports, pushing prices to historic highs.
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San Antonio
Vyean
Canada
Harriman as presidential candidate in Sokolsky critique
George E. Sokolsky argues Averell Harriman could pivot foreign policy debate if nominated by Democrats. He likens Harriman’s past to Roosevelt policy, notes conferences Harriman attended, and questions his ability to defeat Eisenhower while suggesting potential weaponization of Pentagon and State Department records. He also contrasts Harriman with Kefauver Stevenson and Eisenhower.
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George E. Sokollax
Averell Harriman
E. H. Harriman
Robert A. Taft
Ike Eisenhower
Estes Kefauver
Harriman
Kefauver
Stevenson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
George Marshall
Dean Acheson
Roosevelt
Ile
Irranklin
Sam Rosenman
Casablanca
Quebec
Moscow
Cairo
Tehran
Yalta
Taft
Eisenhower
Stalin
Harry Hopkins
Paul Hoffman
Acheson
Sen. Taft
NATO
Pentagon
State Department
Hartiman
King Fea. Syn., Inc
On Broadway Memos From a Girl Friday
Your Girl Friday column reports on political and entertainment gossip from 1952. It notes Sen Monroney probing McCarthy, Mrs Aleman rushed to Mayo Clinic, divorce plans for Mrs Jackie Cooper, Edna Botts marry date, Truman health influenced campaign timing, Dewey Eisenhower stamp, Korea mail, Athletics sale talk, Johnnie Ray earnings, Stanwyck agent change, Wilde flares at Twentieth Century Fox, Eckstine pay, Kinsey interview, Berle telethon, High Noon motif, USA Confidential sales, civil rights picket plans, Soviet trip in June, Times vs Herald Tribune reviews, FBI prison probe, Denver warden grand jury, parking lot conversion, My Friend Irma FCC incident, Curtis Roosevelt, Riviera bookings, Stevenson biography, and Your Girl Friday closing.
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W. Oklahoma
Monroney
Sen
J. McCarthy
Miguel Aleman
Mayo’s
Minnesota
Jackie Cooper
Jildy Parks
Arkansas
Europe
Sarah Marshall
Herbert Marshall
Edna Botts
Phe
Melvin Wwenchell Bourne
Mr. Truman
Mrs. T
Athletics
Connie Mack Clan
Johnnie Ray
Amnaing
FBI
Colorado State Prison
Denver
Ben Brooks
Washington
Chatham Walk
Irma
FCC
Marie Wilson
FDR
Buzzy Dall
Wm. Weintraub
Rockefeller Plaza
Curtis Roosevelt
Jack Ek. Leonard
Riviera
Tony Martin
Funnyfeller
Politicos
Bleeding under the skin linked to diseases and toxins
The article explains that infections like measles typhoid typhus scarlet fever and smallpox can cause skin bleeding and mucous eruptions. It notes drugs and chemicals such as arsenic carbon tetrachloride chloroform benzine and gold salts may injure blood platelets and spur bleeding beneath tissues.
Blood Platelets Deficiency and Surgical Cure Mentioned
A medical note explains that low platelets may require spleen removal surgery, which cures about two thirds of cases if there are no purpura signs. In active bleeding, repeated blood transfusions help. The passage also answers questions about cancers from duodenal ulcers and liver removal. It defines multiple myeloma as a tumor-like disease causing bone destruction.
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Flo
Medical column tips on anemia eating and eyeing treatments
A medical Q and A style piece discusses severe anemia with bone pain and possible x ray therapy or transfusions, advises against forcing a child to eat, notes yeast is a safe vitamin B source but not blood building, explains spinal anesthesia nausea is not usually related, and covers sty treatment with cold then hot compresses and drainage if needed.
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A. P
Ten and Twenty Years Ago From Files May Nineteenth
A retrospective dated May 19 recalls Gen. James H. Doolittle as the Japan raid leader, a Congressional Medal of Honor, and Roosevelt's personal presentation. It notes 1982SA teachers council elections with T F Tafolla as president and Jackie Miller and Louise Skinner as vice presidents. Other items include 1922 gasoline price hikes to 25 cents, 1912 boxing star James J Corbett headlining at the Plaza, 1902 a damaging windstorm in San Antonio causing significant costs, and 1892 the anniversary of the city’s great hail storm of 1868.
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James H. Doolittle
Japan
Roosevelt
T. F. Tafolla
San Antonio Teachers Council
Jackie Miller
Louise Skinner
James J
Kim” Corbett
San Antonio
Good of Our City The Light Urges Comprehensive Works
The Light urges reconstruction and repair of all city streets and bridges. It calls for completion of the modern street lighting program and a new traffic signal system. The plan includes a new city hall police headquarters and health building, the Commerce Buena Vista overpass, extended sewer and water systems, storm sewer upgrades, and flood control participation.
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Commerce-Buena Vista St
Kall
A Call to Embrace the 1952 New World
A 1952 speech by King Fea Syn Inc urges readers to accept rapid modern change. It contrasts past hardships with present leisure and freedom, warns against nostalgia, and says progress requires courage and hard work to sustain America’s new world.
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America
Rome
King Fea. Syn, Inc
Meanwhile in 1950s world notes and wonders
A mix of short global facts covers geology in Brazil, hydro power in Canada, new Piers for Philadelphia and Houston, a rail link from Lake Titicaca to Matarani, a 1954 New York thruway completion, early atomic energy milestone in Idaho, shellac on books, arches in ancient Mesopotamia, and Irish monk history in Yeeland, reflecting varied developments and antiquity.
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David A. Pine
Mr. Baldridge
Sokolsky
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KABC
Jesus Christ
John
William Randolph Hearst
Walter Winchell
Barbara Stanwyck
H'wood
Paul Small
Elsa
Stan Freeman
Mr. Zanuck
Twentieth Century-Fox
Wim, Eckstine
Judith Evelyn
Kinsey
Berle
Nbc-Tv
Runyon Cancer Fund
Gary Cooper
USA Confidential
Dallas
Civil Rights Congress
House Committee On un-American Activities
Federal Building
Detroit
The
Times
the Herald Trib
Vice
Bop
TL. W
Dr. H. N
B. C
S.A. Light
Elsie Robinson
Cerro Bolivar
Brazil
Des Joachims
Chenaux
la Cave
Ontario
Philadelphia
Houston
Lake Titicaca
Peru
Pacific Ocean
Matarani
New York
Buffalo
State Thruway Authority
Atomic Energy Commission
Idaho
Tigris-Euphrates Valley
Yeeland
Mister Breger
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