Wallace Defends Civil Rights Attack on Segregation
Henry A. Wallace denounces Jim Crow as a profit driven system that keeps wages low and race barriers high. He criticizes Truman Dewey and Dulles for civil rights failures and accuses them of blocking anti lynching and equal treatment at the United Nations. Wallace plans to press segregation criticisms on a Southern campaign swing with a stop in Louisville.
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Cincinnati
Henry A.wallace
United Nations
Lincoln
Roosevelt
United States
Progressive Party
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Dregroes
United States Army
Dewey
Ferguson ‘Brothers
Freeport
Rochester
Ato
State of New York
John Foster Dulles
Truman-Dewey- Dulles
National Association For the Advancement of Colored
Wallace
South
Louisville
New York
Iron ore from Lake Superior fuels U S steel output
Lake Superior region ore supplies about eighty five percent of U S Steel and iron production, underpinning national steel output.
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Lake Superior
U. S
Prices Dive In China Gold Yuan Debut Sparks Rush
In Shanghai the first 24 hours of China’s gold yuan conversion saw prices plunge up to 25 percent. The Central Bank announced the government netted about 1.25 million in gold, silver and US dollars for the yuan while banks faced huge demand and unable to meet exchange requests for old dollars and other currencies.
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Shanghai
China
Central Bank of China
Oyes
Ancient powers among invaders of Palestine listed
A historical tally notes invaders of Palestine including Canaanites Egyptians Hittites Babylonians Philistines Israelites Scythians Persians Greeks Romans Byzantines Arabs Crusaders and British across eras.
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Palestine
Student Becomes Lightning Watcher at Empire State Building
John Alger a 20 year old MIT electrical engineering student works as a lightning watcher this summer. He monitors sensitive recording equipment atop the Empire State Building for General Electric to gather storm data. His alertness is constant even when subway rumble disturbs him.
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New York
John Alger
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
General Electric Company
Empire State Building
Alger
Dewey to wage brief hard hitting campaign in fall
Dewey aides expect a short, aggressive drive to win the Presidency with late September speeches on the West Coast or doubtful states. Strategists count on Truman inflation issues to aid GOP gains and plan October down to earth campaigning echoing his Oregon primary tactics.
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Dewey
Truman
Oregon
Harold E. Stassen
Venereal Disease Campaign Planned nationwide radio drive
New nationwide educational effort against venereal disease planned by the U S Public Health Service. Surgeon General Dr Leonard A Sheele announced at a press conference that 14 radio transcriptions have been prepared for free distribution to radio stations across the country.
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New York
U. S. Public Health Service
Leonard A. Sheele
Atoa Jrews
Air safety record improves with low fatalities
The Civil Aeronautics Board reports 2,798,000 passengers carried by U S airlines in the first quarter with 11 deaths. Carriers flew over 1 64 billion miles at a fatality rate of 0 7 per 100 million miles, 0 2 percent better than similar 1947 quarter.
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Washington
INS
Civil Aeronautics Board
U.S
Suffragan Bishop Russell Hubbard Consecrated in Maine
The Rev. Russell B. Hubbard was consecrated suffragan bishop of Michigan in a centuries old Episcopal ceremony at St. Saviour's Church BAR HARBOR ME. The Germantown born canon and rector since 1942 attended with 10 bishops and a large congregation.
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Bar Harbor
Russell
Hubbard
Michigan
Episcopal Church
Germantown
St. Saviour’s Church
Atomic Strike Parley Set as Walkout Enters Week Seven
In Los Alamos 3500 workers remain off the job at the atomic weapons project as AVFL building trades unions accuse one contractor of using nonunion labor and refusing to bargain. A general conference involving all groups is planned, including major contractors, the Atomic Energy Commission, unions, and absentee workers.
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Los Alamos
Avf.l. Building Trades Unions
Kite
Newunion
Atomic Energy Commission
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