Campaign Planks Batterered House Trumanites Slapped Down
James Marlow reports that Democrats who won control of Congress face setbacks on civil rights and labor. Republicans and southern Democrats have teamed up against Truman era promises, limiting chances for a new labor act and civil rights law. The Wood bill passed the House 217 to 203, with Senate action still unclear and likely tougher. The earlier filibuster over civil rights rules underscores a tough session ahead.
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Associated Press
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Truman
Congress
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Ple
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Wood
Georgia
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Senate
Sue
These Days in Foreign Policy Principles and Shifts
These passages lament the drift from Jeffersonian and Washingtonian norms in foreign policy. The speaker notes concealment, secret treaties, and automatic war, contrasting them with constitutional controls and Senate ratification. It highlights post-1933 changes and landmark conferences like Quebec Teheran Singapore and Yalta as evidence of executive overreach.
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United States
George E.sokolsky
George Washington
Congress of
Senate
Congress
Quebec
Teheran
Singapore
Yalta
American policy shifts from principle to pragmatism
By George E. Sokolsky argues U S foreign policy has abandoned core principles for practical gains. He cites Monroe Doctrine Open Door Nine-Power Truman Doctrines and incidents from Manchuria to Shanghai to condemn a decline in honor dignity and national pride. He urges congressional inquiry and full disclosure to the American people.
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John Hay
United
Hitler
Munich
Teheran
Yalta
Potsdam
China
United States
Soviet
Russia
Tito
State Department
Child Finds 1943 Dime Inside Egg In Charleston
Charleston residents were amused when Barbara Vaughn cracked a hard boiled egg and found a 1943 dime embedded in the shell. The coin appeared to have been swallowed by the chicken, not the egg.
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Charleston
W. Va
Barbara Vaughn
Sawyer Okays 39 Million Cut
Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer told a Senate appropriations subcommittee that his department could operate with about 39 million dollars less than requested. The House cut more than 49 million to 216 million, with Sawyer urging restoration of 10.5 million and offering a 0.3 million cut in a 5 million export controls item.
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Secretary of Commerce
Charles Sawyer
Senate
House
Ohioan
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Census Bureau
Department of Commerce
Sawyer
NLRB Rejects Consolidation Of Printer Cases
Washington May 4 The National Labor Relations Board refused to consolidate cases of illegal closed shop charges against the International Typographical Union AFL The board unanimously rejected a motion by the American Newspaper Publishers Association to group the actions Charges stem from filings as early as September 1947 after the Taft Hartley Act took effect
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National Labor Relations Board
International Typographical Union
A.F.L
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Marion mother loses 45 pounds with Rennel
Mrs. Roy Stapleton of Marion Ohio credits Rennel Concentrate for shedding 45 lbs in just over four months. She reports dress size dropping from 48 to 20 and says she feels lighter and more energetic while caring for four children.
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Rennel
Roy Stapleton
Avondale Ave
Marion
Ohio
New York tiling magnate runs national firm from Bronx
Mary Crocetti, a 50 year old widow and head of one of the nation's largest tile contracting firms, oversees a 1 million dollar yearly business. Her crews lay clay tile on the Brooklyn Manhattan tunnel, the longest in the United States at 9 117 feet. She notes the firm bids nationwide, handles collections, and relies on two trusted aides. Most tile setters are of Italian descent and many have worked with the company since its founding.
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Hal Boyle
Brooklyn
Manhattan
United States
Bronx
Mussolini
G. M. Crocetti
Mrs Crocetti Combines Home Life and Food Fame
Hal Boyle notes Mrs Crocetti, a motherly Italian paper columnist and author of a cookbook with 1500 tested recipes, balancing family with ambition to explore unusual dishes like rabbit and frog legs. Her children pursue sociology, psychology, and college while her grandson dreams of driving a truck.
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Emma
Pennsylvania Man Chains His Sister-in-Law to Bed
York, May 4 AP A chain plant worker, William H. Gable 58, was charged with assault after his sister-in-law Ellen Swemley 48 was found chained to a bed in his home. Gable, a self described gospel minister, said the chains were to punish her for threatening his wife Alverta 38. Swemley said she was beaten and chained after taking bread, hungry and confined in the cellar for days. she had been in a school for defective women for 30 years and recently lived with the Gables.
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Harold B. Rudisill
William H. Gable
Clyde F. Bentzel
Ellen Swemley
Gable
Alverta
Bentzel
York County
The
Gables
Osnaburg students stage Griegs Music Box operetta
Fifth and sixth graders of Osnaburg Township School present a three act operetta titled Grieg's Music Box. The performance takes place Friday at 8 15 p m in East Canton High School with special music provided by the school's swing band.
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Osnaburg Township
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