Editorials on UN diplomacy and Philippine tax policy
The piece argues for a United Nations backed cease fire in Korea and a broad Far East settlement with possible Red China involvement. It cautions against bypassing Asia and stresses that peace requires concessions, with Soviet responses to the cease fire plan serving as a barometer for avoiding World War III. It also notes the ECAs guidance to the Philippine Congress on a needed tax program to lift the economy and deter Communist influence, urging fiscal reform and stronger ties to Western defense.
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United Nations General Assembly
Korea
Far East
U. N
India
Sir Benegal N. Rau
Group of Nations
Red China
United States
Great Britain
Rau
Red
Peiping
United Nations
Asia
Kremlin
Philippine Congress
Philippines
General Wu and Vishinsky Speak in English Parallels
A bookmaker notes the quoted phrases from both generals, saying translations of their Chinese and Russian speeches collapse to a similar English rendering. He observes odds on “a Chinaman's chance” have shortened notably.
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Vishinsky
Russia
Christmas dollars give lifelike dolls with doll sitters
The piece notes that modern, pricier dolls are accompanied by doll-sitters, suggesting increasingly life like features.
Orderly universal military training urged by AAU leaders
The Association of American Universities calls for universal military training and service for all men at 18. It favors extending the Selective Service Act with amendments and bans voluntary one year enlistments. Educators seek a planned program to help schooling and careers around training and service. It argues young men will serve within six years and demands clear requirements now.
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Association of American Universities
United States
Dairy Industry Ready For War Headline Echoes Battle Over Margarine
A terse note signals a coming clash between dairy interests and oleomargarine advocates after an initial skirmish. The piece frames the dairy sector as prepared for extended conflict in defense of traditional products and market position.
One university Promotes Career Growth Beyond Typist Roles
A university proclaims there is a career at your fingertips challenging the idea of spending life as a typist. The message urges students to pursue broader opportunities and professional advancement.
Revenue Collector Aims for Tax Money Not Blood
A collector of internal revenue says, We are not looking for blood, we are looking for tax money. The remark highlights the shift from punitive rhetoric to enforcing tax payments. The quote underscores government emphasis on revenue collection over harsh penalties.
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Internal Revenue
Philippine Congress Faces Sharp Tax Increase Plan
Difficult duty lies before the Philippine Congress as it considers a tax rise near 100 percent to fund an Economic Cooperation Administration plan. The program aims to rescue the tottering economy by boosting revenue to about 287 million dollars, roughly double current income, with some tax collection already in place.
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Philippine Congress
United States
Economic Cooperation Administration
Viewers Follow TV Fight and Fashion Trends
Viewers stay tuned as low-cut gowns on TV attract attention while the Joe Louis fight is broadcast, drawing anxious interest from men in their early thirties.
New York Bakery Promotes Bread With Natural Personality
A New York bakery advertises its bread as having a natural personality capable of rising to any occasion. The playful copy suggests versatility and reliability in everyday meals and special events.
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New York
House moves to grant citizenship to 88,000 Asiatics in U S
The House passed a bill to end the long standing citizenship ban for about 85,000 Japanese 3,000 Koreans and 100 Polynesians living as permanent residents in the United States. The measure awaits Senate action and is timed to December 7 1941 anniversary reflections.
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House
United States
Senate
Pearl Harbor
U. S. Naval Base
Pacific Fleet
Japan
Pacific Islands
Asia
Pacific
Australia
U. S
Mount Etna Eruption Prompts Lava Warnings Across Media
Reports indicate Mount Etna's activity sparks lava flow alerts with warnings echoed on radio broadcasts. Authorities monitor ongoing seismic signals and potential impacts for nearby residents and tourism zones.
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Mount Etna
Lame duck session filibuster ponders nation’s mood
At this grave hour in the lives of all Americans the nation confronts a filibuster in a lame duck Congress shaping unresolved policy and public sense of purpose as the clock ticks on.
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Congress
Mr. Billopp Liking to Walk
A humorous essay on people who prefer walking over cars in an automotive age. It notes walkers avoid buses and taxis, while drivers feel compelled to offer lifts, despite urban traffic and social awkwardness. Christopher Billopp offers light social commentary on transportation habits.
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Christopher Billopp
Time Is Short Inspires Late 1950s Iron County Miner Note
A brief quotation from Armand Cirilli notes a man who planned to accomplish something in 1950 has little time left to make good, reflecting a frontier essay mood in the Iron County Miner of Hurley Wisconsin.
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Armand Cirilli
Iron County
Hurley
Wis
Second Thoughts on Dickens and Historic Harness Records
A reader praises A Christmas Carol while noting Proximity, named 1950 top harness horse, set a new-money record surpassing a 73 year-old purse mark by Goldsmith Maid. The piece recalls famous horses Arion Jay-By-Lee Nancy Hanks and Dexter plus Dan Patch from boyhood farm literature.
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Proximity
Goldsmith Maid
Arion
Jay-By-Lee
Nancy Hanks
Dexter
Dan Patch
Wobbling Nobel Rumors Faulkner and Sandburg Echoed
A collage of cultural notes recalls Dav id Dempsey debunking Faul kner’s Stockholm visit while Faulkner accepts the prize. The Dial’s Sandburg controversy about Chicago prompts a tongue in cheek memory, plus holiday greetings and small town musings on fashion, buses, and a dinner jacket tale.
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NEW York Times Book Review
David Dempsey
William Faulkner
Stockholm
Dempsey
Faulkner
Government urged halt to auto price increases
Washington officials press General Motors and Ford to suspend recent price hikes amid a government review. President Wilson of GM cites costs driving increases, including higher wages and material prices. News notes that the Reconstruction Finance Corp. announces a 12 to 33 percent rise in synthetic rubber prices due to rising production costs.
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New York World-Telegram
Sun
Washington
General Motors
Ford
Wilson
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Duke of Windsor Arrives in New York With Duchess
The Duke of Windsor and the Duchess greeted each other in New York on a Wednesday arrival. The scene dispels rumors of a severed relationship and emphasizes keeping focus on current world affairs.
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New York
World-Telegram
Sun
Duke of Windsor
Dare to Live in the Path of High Adventure
Indianola Iowa Record Herald quotes Faye Nixon Speer urging readers to welcome the difficult and untried and to pursue high adventure. She warns that routine dulls intellect and atrophies talent if endured too long.
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Faye Nixon Speer
Indianola
Iowa
Record Herald
Sunday School Quiz Programs Boost Attendance and Interest
Florence the superintendent asks how to maintain pupil interest in Sunday school lessons. Emphasize religious content during lesson time and use objective exams like true-false and multiple choice to engage every child and reduce boredom or teasing.
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Florence
Damascus
The Quiz Habit and Sunday School Instruction
The article argues multiple choice quizzes engage readers by offering a correct answer among distractors. It notes newspapers radio programs and Sunday schools use this format to attract participation and spread knowledge. It praises Jesus as a master of applied psychology guiding educational methods.
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Damascus
Solomon
Jonah
Saul
Judas
Dullard
Jesus
If Winter Comes Pathfinder Imprisoned for Quoting Shelley
A former pro Communist student at National Fujian University Shanghai wrote in a Hong Kong paper that he was jailed by the Communists for 12 days for quoting Shelley's Ode to the West Wind.
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National Fuhian University
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Shelley
Condemned Man Walks to Electric Chair in Sing Sing Tale
A short story recounts a condemned inmate walking to the electric chair at Sing Sing while oblivious to attendants. He carries a copy of Quick! by Bennett Cerf, as reported in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Sing Sing
Bennett Cerf
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Origins of the Cold Shoulder Phrase Traced
The Strafford Ontario Beacon Herald notes the expression cold shoulder arose in medieval France from serving a guest a cold shoulder of mutton or beef.
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France
Strafford
Ont
Beacon- Herald
Can I deduct taxi waiting time under dispute
A reader asks if a 15 minute taxi wait can be deducted amid a current charge dispute. The Milwaukee Journal records the query as a consumer tax issue without concluding the outcome.
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Milwaukee Journal
Union growth seen adding seven to eight million by 1953
CIO vice president Allen A Haywood predicts unions will rise from 16 million to over 22 million in ten years. He cites expansion into deep South white collar, agricultural, and other sectors and foresees better employer employee relations, higher living standards, and broader social programs aided by greater union influence.
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Allen A. Haywood
C.I.O
Deep South
Union Hall
Red Cross
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Alaska
Panama Canal Zone
Mr. Haywood
Haywood
Haywood urges decade plan for stronger American unions
The article profiles Mr. Haywood as a founder of the CIO and former UMW leader who predicts a ten year period could lay the basis for a better America. He notes steel industry unionization under the Wagner Act and cites CIO growth and AFL expansion from the 1930s.
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Haywood
C.I.O
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Philip Murray
A. F. of L
America
Basic Steel
James Thimmel
C.ilo
C.io
Committee For Industrial Organization
C.i.co
Congress of Industrial Organization
Unions Bring Prosperity to Small Communities Says Haywood
Mr. Haywood recalls critics warned the country would collapse if C.N.O. won worker unions. He notes the prosperity unions brought to small communities as a counterpoint to early opposition.
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C.N.O
Haywood
Senator Chapman's Ism Quip Triggers Satirical List
The Courier Journal mocks Senator Virgil Chapman of Kentucky with a humorous run of apocalyptic seems and asks if he opposes capitalism patriotism and other isms. The editorial warns isolationism clashes with internationalism and mocks various ideologies while urging Platitudinism to save him from ostracism.
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Virgil Chapman
Farm Bureau
Kentucky
Louisville Courier-Journal
Courier-Journal
Chapman
Washington
Labor outlook: unions grow, crime may decline with wages rise
The speaker predicts chemical plants entering new fields will join organized labor, cites Amalgamated Clothing Workers as a leader in peace, and argues rising wages will ease social problems. He believes Americans will welcome broader union participation as prosperity grows.
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Amalgamated Clothing Workers
Haywood
Floods Produce Water in Lake Eyre Australia
Flood waters fill Lake Eyre in Australia turning the salt pan into a 4,000 square mile flooded expanse. An exploring party noted seasickness among members and observed a tide measuring 12 to 15 inches.
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Eyre
Australia
West Fights Losing Battle In Palestine
In Damascus, Syria, the Palestinian refugee crisis is described as both a human and political problem. One million displaced persons lack solutions, with U N feeding and housing camps and 23 000 displaced children in Syria alone, only 6 000 in school. Camp schools are bare and cold tents, many children barefoot in rags, while UNRWA provides no clothing.
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Damascus
Syria
U.N
Unesco
UNRWA
Education Drives Budget in Syria amid Rapid School Growth
Syria devotes a quarter of its national budget to schooling as demand outpaces capacity. The drive reflects nations newly independent push to universal primary education, while Arab states debate settlement plans versus rehabilitation in Palestinian homes under UN recommendations.
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Syria
United Nations
Palestine
Settlement Compromise Cast as Political Surrender Urging Caution
The text warns that accepting a settlement would be a permanent fait accompli and politically surrendering. Arab states resist further concessions as such moves could topple governments. Russia and the Communists profit from stalemate while expropriated camps breed propaganda and discontent, though not pro Soviet in ideology.
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Russia
Anti Western mood cited in Middle East refugee tensions
The text argues that anti Western sentiment thrives among Arabs due to long Western imperialist experience and limited exposure to Russia. Refugees blame Britain and the U S more than Israel, suggesting Western policies created the refugee condition and hinder decisive action. This fuels stalemates like calls for evacuating Western troops from Suez.
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Russia
Israel
Suez
Smith or Jones Mystery in Full Hotel Register
A writer recounts traveling with husband Joseph Piper Jones and a hotel registry dilemma. They use the wife's name for literary trips and the husband’s for pleasure, but one night the clerk notes all rooms are booked leaving the couple unsure which name to sign.
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Joseph Piper Jones
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