Will Dewey or MacArthur Lead GOP at This Week's Convention
The piece surveys leading Republican presidential hopefuls including New York Governor Thomas E Dewey and General Douglas MacArthur as potential nominees. It notes Dewey's 1944 near victory over Roosevelt and MacArthur's long career, plus profiles Joseph W Martin Jr Robert Taft Jr and Earl Warren as contemporaries and likely contenders.
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New York
Dewey
Roosevelt
New York City
Wendell Willkie
Owosso, Mich
University of Michigan
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Pacific
Fop
West Point
Army
Japan
Philippines
Joseph W. Martin
Congress
Martin
House
Massachusetts
Calvin Coolidge
North Attleboro
Mass
Warold
Siassen
Theodore Roosevelt
Stassen
Minnesota
California
Earl Warren
Warren
Los Angeles
Gov. Dewey
Lost German youths crowding streets threaten postwar future
Berlin dispatch reports over 30,000 homeless youths in western Germany living at stations and shelters. Officials say many are from the Russian zone and fleeing labor threats. Welfare officials warn the problem could grow into a lost generation without decisive action, especially in the American zone with 25,000 to 30,000 affected.
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Berlin
Germany
Big
HH. R. Kleinke
Kleinke
U.S
Hleinke
Allied Control Council
Frankfurt
Bremen
St. Johns
Royal Canadian Police Force
FBI
United States
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
District of Columbia
Delaware
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Maritime
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
Prince Edward Island
Maine
Children’s Aid Society of
The
Mounties
New Slant Chinese Spend Money As Soon As They Get It
Chinese parents struggle to save for education as money loses value and thrift shifts to buying commodities. A Missoula, Montana juvenile officer notes a game called pack rat where kids move items between premises, recently including a trailer. Flour and rice are popular investments as earnings quickly devalue.
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Jean Lyon Peiping
China
WMS
Junior
Missoula
Mant.1
Jim Doyle
Doyle
Powwow Delegates Toted Guns Back in 56
Alexander R. George recalls 1856 nominating conventions in Philadelphia and Cincinnati where western delegates carried long rifles, seven weeks travel by stage coach, and fierce battles over slavery. Fremont emerged for the Republicans amid West versus East clashes and hostile press rhetoric. Concluded on Page 2, Column 7.
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Washington
Philadelphia
Far West
Kansas
Massachusetts
Pierce
James Buchanan
John C. Fremont
California
Fremont
Cincinnati
Empire Club
Thomas Benton
Missouri
Ghosts Fed Rumor Reported by Nippon Keizai in Tokyo
Nippon Keizai claims 300000 "ghosts" live in Tokyo and consume over 10000000 bushels of food yearly. The paper suspects dummy names on rolls inflate ration totals.
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Tokyo
Nippon Keizai
Nippon Heizai
Shirtsleeves to wealth in the Berlin Burden tale
A society item traces the rise of the Mackay and Burden families from Irish immigrant roots to wealth. William Mackay hits the Comstock Lode, Henry Burden builds machines for railroads and Civil War horses, and Clarence Mackay expands wealth through finance and social prominence, with the tale concluding on the next page.
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New York
Irving
Berlin
Mary Ellin
Dennis Sheedy Burden
T. Townsend Burden
Newport
William Mackay
California
Henry Burden
America
Bonanza
Menry Burden
Troy
Clarence
France
England
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Robert A. Taft
Taft
Senate
Ohio
Yale
Harvard Law School
Michigan
Vandenberg
Grand Rapids
Thomas E. Dewey
Harold E. Stassen
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Barl Warren
Air
Alexander R. George
Irving Berlin
Ellin Mackay
John William MacKay
Nevada
Mackay
James Gordon Bennett
Commercial Telegraphs
Denis Sheedy Burden
St, Johns
N. B
INS
External Affairs Department
Ottawa
New Brunswick Bar Society
U. S
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