Call for Budget Cuts and Civic Duty in Economic Crisis
The piece urges citizens to study economics and push federal spending cuts to balance the budget and reduce taxes. It cites John Byrnes’s 1950s analysis on how higher taxes erode purchasing power, showing cross income declines from 1939 to 1952 and urging responsible citizen action and peaceful cooperation.
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John W. Byrnes
Wisconsin
House of Representatives
Byrnes
Congress
Siater
Younist
Suade
Lafayette and Liberty Echoes Through Time and Age
A retrospective notes Lafayette’s bold aid to the American cause 175 years ago and his enduring legacy. It discusses Georgia 1946 voting age changes, a Senate constitutional amendment, states rights, and youths' civic voice, plus a Hebrew edition of Leaves of Grass reflecting American ideals for Israeli readers.
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United States
Republic
Marquis de Lafayette
Ocean
Lafayette
France
America
Georgia
Senate
House
Unsentimental Army Treats National Guards as Replacements
The article argues against keeping soldiers from the same home town together in reserve and National Guard units. It notes that while shared background aids cohesion, heavy local casualties can devastate public morale if many from one area die in a single battle, drawing on World War I and II examples. War, it says, is a hard and unsentimental business.
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Korea
Kremlin Moves in Summers of 1952 Election Year
The column argues Moscow makes strategic moves during U.S. election years. It cites alleged Russian hydrogen bomb tests, Iran turning Communist with riots and a looming Shah abdication, and a frenzied rearmament of East Germany. It also notes Britain’s economic ills and France’s political tensions affecting Western unity against Communism.
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The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
Washington
Kremlin
U.S.A
Europe
Iran
Iraq
Arabia
Suez Canal
Greece
Turkey
Russia
Mediterranean
Germany
West Germany
Red Army
France at a political crossroads amid Cold War pressures
Drew Pearson argues that fear of Communism and U S subsidies kept French middle parties in power. He warns Congress cuts may tilt France toward a Communist left or Fascist right, while the Kremlin intensifies Korea talks and anti American propaganda. The piece predicts renewed abroad trouble this summer and fall.
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United States
Congress
France
General de Gasle
Kremlin
Chicago
Korea
Moscow
Moscow Radio
Hotel Cuts Wasteful Space To Boost Profits
New York hotel management analyzed space use per square foot and found many empty or underused areas. They shrank executive offices and moved accounting and linen rooms to smaller spaces. The freed space housed a private club and converted club rooms into guest rooms, with a dining area leased to a luncheon club.
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New York
Ten Years Ago In Elyria Chronicle Notes
The August 5 1952 Chronicle Telegram page recalls Pvt Frank A Steg er formerly of Elyria who died at Camp Forest Tenn two weeks after enlisting. It notes a Cleveland telephone strike and other local items including a wild man near Kipton and an attempted arson near Huntington. It mentions hotel renovations and space reuse, Old Age pensions petitions, a Y campout for 60 youths, Sheffield school attendance fights, export trade views, burlap price swings, two SDPA small business aids, and rising orange consumption.
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Frank A. Steger
Elvrra
Camp Forest
Tenn
Elyria
Army
Elyria Electric Company
Cleveland
Glass becomes new instrument trade show spectacle
A reporter muses on a music industry trade show where glass instruments move from novelty to potential rivals for brass and silver. He notes glass harps and trumpets, glass drums and cymbals, and jeers at the idea of glass tubes becoming a trombone. He cites a single musician, Nancy Coleman, as the woman who interests him most.
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Arcturus
Truman Capote
Caruso
Nancy Coleman
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
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Nous
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Cordell Hull
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All In
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Business Today
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Backus
Mills Road
Ridgeville Township
Elyria Lodges
Eeagles
Ohio
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Fred Tite
Sheffield
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Mill & Factory Magazine
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