Readers Views On McCarthy Draw Mixed Reactions
A Southern Illinoisan letter argues against Joe McCarthy, accusing him of arrogance and damaging the party. The writer asserts no evidence of his anti Communist crusade and claims McCarthy’s tactics resemble past totalitarian figures. The piece ends with a strong personal condemnation from Energy Earl Hazemann.
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America
Joe’s
Joe
Communist Party
Moscow
Adolph
Earl Hazemann
Doctors Lose Social Security Coverage Bid in House
The House Ways and Means Committee initially approved a 15 to to require compulsory Social Security for physicians and four other self employed professions but reversed a week later, voting 15 to 10 to exclude doctors from the expansion while dentists and other professionals remain covered. The AMA protested, claiming it did not represent most practitioners. The episode shows pressure from medical groups and public letters.
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House Committee
Eisenhower
American Medical Association
AMA
Congress
McCarthy smear victim Lorwin cleared in loyalty case
Val Lorwin once labeled by Senator McCarthy as a Communist sympathizer had an indictment for lying about alleged affiliations dismissed in federal court after prosecutors conceded misrepresentation and inability to prove the case. The State Department had suspended him a year and he was eventually cleared of related charges.
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State Department
Senate
Val R. Lorwin
University of Chicago
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McCarthy
Justice Department
Department
Prof. Lorwin
Norman Thomas
Sen. McCarthy
Washington
Wisconsin
U. S
Illinois thief steals 168 pounds of coffee
A thief stole 168 pounds of coffee from an Illinois city store. The incident is noted amid editorials on public aggravations and political quips about Sen Symington and Mundt subcommittee members facing fatigue in defending the President.
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Illinois
Sen
Symington
Foot soldier role under New Look in brush-fire wars
The article argues the United States must maintain infantry strength despite a shift to atomic and air power. It warns H and A bombs won t end small wars like Indochina or Korea and notes divisions are being cut while lessons from Indochina persist. It also questions Republican dissidence and legislative activity.
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Pentagon
Congress
United States
Indochina
Washington
Korea
United Nations
Soviet Union
Astrologer Work Sparks Knight Primary Feud
In California a public clash over astrology emerges as Gov. Knight denies accepting astrological guidance while opponent Richard Graves claims Knight has long courted such advice. The exchange comes a week before the California primary.
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Gov. Knight
Sacramento
California
Inquiry Wanders Far in Tax-Exempt Foundations Probe
A Congressional committee funded to inspect educational and philanthropic foundations has instead staged hearings that attack intellectualism liberalism and internationalism. Witness Aaron Sargent claims NEA textbooks favor the Soviet Union and calls the inquiry a stacked deck, prompting calls to restore focus or cancel the probe.
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The
National Education Association
Edward R. Murrow
Sen
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Owen Lattimore
Paul G. Hoffman
Tion
Wisconsin
Sargent
NEA
Soviet Union
Murrow
Lattimore
U.N
David Felts Column: Butter Surplus and Rambling Reflections
David Felts riffs on a government butter surplus of about 375 million pounds and a zany plan to swap walnuts for coconuts in recipes. He recalls strawberry prices from 59 cents a quart and crate economics, notes aging lecture legends, and previews Felts return after a fishing break with his readers urged to stay tuned.
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Chautauqua
Lyceum
Russell Conwell
Ralph Parlette
University of Hard Knocks
Lou Beaucham
William Jennings Bryan
Prince of Peace
Exchange Table Strange Probe of Dr Bunche
The piece notes the Loyalty Board should not need to probe Dr Ralph Bunche director in the United Nations Trusteeship Division. It praises his courage intelligence and unselfishness and recalls his rise from racial disadvantage through Howard and Harvard education to UNICEF and UN roles. The author urges confidence in Bunche amid inquiries in the era of Dag Hammarskjold.
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Howard University
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State Department
United Nations Palestine Commission
United Nations Trusteeship
Bunche
United Nations
Dag Hammarskjold
Doctor seeks suitable wife in worry clinic plea
In a plea for marriage guidance, Dr. Larry J a 31 year old dentist asks for a recommended wife aged 25 to 30. He notes he is Presbyterian avoids alcohol and smoking enjoys sports and reading and wants a Catholic or Presbyterian partner to raise children, while Lois a 29 year old kindergarten teacher offers a photo and asks for a match for him.
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Dr. Larry
Lois
Presbyterian Church
Behold the solitary tree in the forgotten field
Mark Van Doren celebrates a grand, lone oak as king of a meadow. The archer tree stands past fences and wind, crowned by sun, with no peers or birds, a sovereign shadow in a barren field.
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Mark van Doren
Powerful Crystal Palace TV Station for Britain
Britain's first underground television transmitting station to be built at Crystal Palace in London. Designed to be the most powerful in the world, this facility marks a major engineering achievement reported by Engineering News-Record.
Great Excursion Train From Camden to Atlantic City
The July 1881 excursion carried 2,340 passengers aboard two locomotives and thirty-nine cars from Camden to Atlantic City, New Jersey, marking a historic rail journey.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Scientific Dating Bureau proposed as home mission
The text advocates a scientific dating bureau to match eligible singles like Lois and Dr Larry, claiming 100000 romances yearly could yield 250000 healthy, intelligent children in Sunday schools within five to six years, with Cupid handling matchmaking and church leaders needing no extra effort.
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Lois
Larry
Cupid
Foundations Probe Reopened by House Committee in 1950s
A House special committee, chaired by a Democrat with Republican members, reopened questions about tax-exempt foundations including Ford and Rockefeller. The 1952 inquiry, its tentative findings, and later partisan battles centered on foundation spending, communist influence claims, and potential deviations from American ideals.
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Associated Press
Ford
Rockefeller
House Committee
Congress
House
Eugene Cox
D-Ga
United States
Cox
Brooks Hays
D-Ark
Reorganizing The AEC By Roscoe Drummond
Washington column argues the Atomic Energy Commission should adopt a system with a single administrative head while preserving five equal voting members. It cites Strauss proposals to make the chair administratively responsible and appointed at the President’s pleasure, to improve staff oversight and efficiency.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Joint Congressional Committee On Atomic Energy
AEC
Lewis L. Strauss
Strauss
Commission
Pikes
Hoover Commission backs strong federal commission chair
The passage cites former leaders and lawmakers endorsing statutory designation of an administrative head for each federal commission. It notes agreement across Hoover Commission members that chairs should have formal authority to run agencies, aligning with Strauss’s proposals.
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Dean Acheson
John McClellan
D-Ark
George D. Aiken
R-Vi
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Office of Defense Mobilization
Joseph P. Kennedy
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