Canton Repository history and 1949 publication note
The Canton Repository tracing its lineage from The Ohio Repository founded in 1815 and detailing name changes through The Canton Daily Repository and The Evening Repository to The Canton Repository. Includes postal info, AP membership, special reps, and subscription rates as of Thursday July 7, 1949.
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Pane
Geieonh
Kinase Sauieanereine
Sh- Moore Newspapers Inc
Market Avenue
Fifth Iseet
Canton
Ohio
Congress
Ohio Repository
Stark County
AP News
Story
Brooks & Finley
New York
New York _ Central Building
Philadelphia
Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust
Chicago
N. Michigan Avenue
Cleveland
Euclid Avenue
Boston
Statler
Los Angeles
Guaranty Building
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Inland Daily Press Association
Confirmation of North Atlantic Treaty by Senate
An editorial argues the Senate will approve the North Atlantic Treaty with little opposition as an inevitable, realigned defense pact. It compares the move to a war vote, notes expansion by Russia as the trigger, and links the treaty to Monroe Doctrine principles and Allied defense of self-determination globally.
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Senate
Russia
Europe
United States
Unnamed Tax Debate on Social Security Contribution Rise
The piece argues for a 200 percent increase in old age and survivors insurance by 1965, starting with a 50 percent jump next January. It critiques the perception of the tax as a mere benefit and warns that funds go to current spending while creating future obligations, effectively taxing wage earners twice.
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Ceres
United States
Federal Treasury
Flanders favors bold talk to spur business but wary results
Vermont senator says Truman should urge confidence in a new economic report, yet many businessmen fear heavier taxes and larger deficits as the government ran a two billion dollar deficit in the year to June 30. Senator Byrd warns of a potential five billion gap without budget cuts. The piece blends political opinion with a note on government and business interdependence before a late jab about a Russian imitator shirt defect.
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Enator Flanders
Vermont
Truman
Flanders
White House
Byrd
Congress
Hoover Commission and its impact on government efficiency
The Hoover commission report and plan for reorganizing the executive branch received near unanimous congressional passage and began implementation under Truman. It framed government as a science and art, created 48 task forces, and linked its work to the original constitutional idea of divided powers amid global calls for totalitarian systems.
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Hoover Commission
Executive Branch
Congress
Truman
Hoover
Unified Armed Forces Move Toward One Defense System
The article outlines steps toward merging the army navy and air force into a single national defense department. It lists four fully unified areas including public relations, legislative relations, a single military budget, and a unified air transport service, with many more changes in progress and years expected before full unification. It notes new uniform code of military justice, pay legislation, revised relations with the national guard, consolidated procurement, and centralized medical and communications services under defense leadership.
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Congress
Army
Navy
Air Force
Department of
National Defense
Air Transport Command
Naval Air Transport Service
Lawrence S. Kuter
U. S
House
Senate
National Guard
Organized Reserve
Gordon Gray
Munitions Board
Mark Clark
Pacific Coast
Joint War College
Joint Chiefs of Staff
West Point
Annapolis
Air Force Academy
James V. Forrestal
Defense
Louis Johnson
Joseph T. McNarney
Raymond Allen
University of Washington
Johnson
Labor Policy Fight Reopens in New Congress
The Truman administration faces a renewed push on labor legislation as Congress contemplates a milder House bill and possible further Senate tweaks. Both sides weigh veto risks, with Democrats hoping to avoid a one sided Wagner Act repeat while Republicans seek to frame the issue for upcoming campaigns.
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Truman
Congress
House
Senate
Uch
Struggle for Possession in the Country Life
A veteran’s wry counsel on country living frames months of crises from mice to chipmunks and insects. The Twills contend with livestock intruders while birds peer through windows, and pets adapt to rural life as humans reclaim rightful occupancy amid a slow, wary calm.
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Twillery
Nature
Editorial on press restraint in Coplon and Hiss trials
The writer notes three communism related trials have received fair coverage while editorial pages remained nearly silent. He argues restraint is a self imposed code rather than fear of judges, urging readers to judge guilt or innocence only from court proceedings and not press commentary.
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Coplon
Hiss
Russia
Once Over Reprinted Satirizes Yacht Club Life and Commodores
A humorous sketch portrays yacht club members as landlocked outsiders chasing a yacht in pursuit after a spectacular cruised misadventure. It describes commodores as damp humidor matadors, flags as cryptic signals, and a cannon that marks daily routines. The piece ends by noting a minor economic slump and a Vaughan quip.
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Yacht Club
Board of Governors
Century of Health Advice and Historic Highlights
A rapid stroll through a century of notes shows cholera-era guidance urging calm duty and health in times of outbreak, a 40-year-ago scene of lynching threats and heated rhetoric, Roosevelt family big game trips near Naivashi Lake, 25-year-ago Convention deadlock at the Democratic National Convention, and a 10-year snapshot of Canton policing and the death of Secretary Claude Swanson.
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M. J. Nash
Toledo
Crystal Park
A. W. Higby
Canton
Columbia Theater
Alliance
Theodore Roosevelt
Kermit
Naivashi Lake
British East Africa
New York
William G. McAdoo
Alfred E. Smith
Secretary of the Navy
Claude A. Swanson
House
Senate
Virginia
Franklin Roosevelt
Target Practice By H. V. WADE
A miscellany piece notes Ireland’s snakes removed by an ice age, a Yale expert’s remarks, March 17 humor, meat prices sagging yet valuable, lamb chops at fifty cents, England’s scarcities, Attlee’s era, canasta’s quick mastery, and Ezra Pound’s poetry standing out amid minor poets.
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St. Patrick
Ireland
Yale
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Stark
Tuscarawas
Carroll
Columbiana
Portage
Summit
Wayne
Holmes
Pravda
By Mark Sullivan
Mr. Hoover
R. Hoover
Capitalism
Peter Edson
William Frye
W. B. Persons
Secretary of Defense
Bernard Baruch
By David Lawrence
By Truman Twill
By Raymond Moley
H. J. Phillips
Bill Vaughan
Kansas City
Charbar
Persia
Karachi
British India
H. V. Wade
Merrie
England
Clem Attlee
Ezra Pound
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