Television Opens a New Era in Politics in 1948
Washington reports the start of congressional hearings on aid to Europe as television brings politics to a mass audience. Vandenberg leads the foreign relations panel. Marshall and Lovett testify on funding. Philadelphia hosts conventions with cable networks linking 14 stations and projections of 257 electoral votes.
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Washington
Congressional Committee
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Vandenberg
Marshall
Lovett
Philadelphia
Roger Clipp
WFIL
Wfil-Tv
New England
Schenectady
Clipp
Middlewest
United Nations
U. S
London
Chicago
Europe
French Crisis Deepens as Premier Resigns and Blum Sought
France teeters on civil strife as Premier Ramailler resigns amid Communist strikes. Leon Blum is urged to form a socialist government while De Gaulle mobilizes right wing forces. Marshall in Chicago denounces Soviet tactics and warns against blocking European recovery amid Cold War tensions.
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Aul
Gaul
Paul Ramadier
France
Leon Blum
U. S
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Chicago
George Marshall
Russia
Soviet Union
Marshall
Germany
Editors polling 1948 GOP hopes and Truman bid seen
Fourth Estate editors from 48 states returned 218 ballots in a Publishers Auxiliary straw poll. Results favored Harold Stassen as personal GOP choice while Dewey projected as Republican nominee and Truman as Democratic nominee. The poll suggested Truman would likely win re election and noted strong Republican editor dominance.
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America
Harold Stassen
Minnesota
Publishers’ Auxiliary
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Truman
Auxiliary
Country Weekly
California
Earl Warren
MacArthur
Dewey
Eisenhower
Taft
Stassen
A Voice From the Country on the World Wave of History
The piece argues billions cannot stop a global wave of history driven by wars, demography and economic collapse. It warns against appeasement and stresses resilience, national defense, and a rebuilt moral and political strength to preserve democracy and Western civilization.
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Canute
Orient
Near East
Russia
Europe
Britain
Soviet Russia
Moscow
Isotopes Promise Boost for Farm Yields and Research
Oregon State College researchers in Corvallis and Washington State College in Pullman focus on agricultural uses of the radioactive isotope. Aimed at tracing plant nutrition, the work seeks to improve soil fertility with isotopes in fertilizers and lime, studying potash uptake and mineral absorption to raise crop production.
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Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Oregon State College
Corvallis
Washington State College
Pullman
William W. Waymack
Atomic Energy Commission
Des Moines
Iowa
U. S
Sympathetic Irish Replace Shamrock
In Ogdensburg New York a planted shamrock was stolen from Mrs. George Valley. Police Sergeant and Mrs Timothy O Leary offered help after reading the account and sent slips from their own shamrock plant imported from Ireland 92 years ago.
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Ogdensburg
N. Y
Timothy O'Leary
George Valley
Country Store Proves Good Risk in Littleton Mass
In Littleton Massachusetts a 98 year old country store, now owned by a Boston investment firm Paget, has seen modernization without losing its old neighborhood charm. The shop added new counters and a wider goods line while keeping a simple, non glamorous atmosphere. Licorice sticks, brooms, wheelbarrows and corn husk cord each remain popular as dress shirts sit beside dungarees and bathroom cabinets with rakes and hoes.
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Littleton
Mass
Littleton Common
Boston
Paget Corporation of
Meek man seeks blonde hair to make wife jealous
In a hairdressing shop a small man asks for a blonde hair to wear on his shoulder as he tries to provoke jealousy in his wife. The scene unfolds with a flirtatious shop assistant responding.
Beachgoer Encounters Peculiar Object on Shore
A woman strolling the beach spots a bizarre item and asks a fisherman what it is. He identifies it as a jellyfish, prompting her surprised exclamation and curiosity about its flavor.
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Stalin
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Louis Bromfield
WNU
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Rome
Picayune
England
Walter Lippmann
Balkans
Bromfield
Consolidated- Vultee
Shamrock
Willie
Nature
Lis
Vareolus
Bates Sed Foley
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HALCO
Gist
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