Background Man: Strauss Prefers Privacy at White House
United Press report profiles Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission as a retiring leader who shuns public appearances and press conferences while directing hydrogen bomb development. It notes his past refusal to profit from weapons and his rare, taped White House news conferences amid Eisenhower era staff practices.
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Washington
White House
Lewis L. Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
Navy
Strauss
New York
Eisenhower
Truman
James C. Hagerty
Murray Snyder
Lobbyists Concentrate On New Tax Proposals
Congressional Quarterly surveys show top Washington groups and lobbyists shaping the tax bill fight. NAM, Chamber of Commerce, CIO, AFL and ADA mobilize members with memos, committees, and media campaigns. ADA uses Gunther couple to drive legislative work with rapid write-in campaigns backing the president’s tax plan.
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Washington
Congressional Quarterly
Chamber of Commerce of the
U. S
Chamber
Clarence R. Miles
Congress
National Association of Manufacturers
NAM
Congress of Industrial Organizations
CIO
Robert Oliver
Textile Workers Union
Thomas H. Burke
Ohio
CIO News
American Federation of Labor
AFL
W. C. Hushing
Hushing
Andrew Biemiller
D-Wis
Columbia Grange News Highlights Local Events
Acme Grange plans a plant and seed sale at the town hall on Tuesday evening May 18. Rural Life Sunday will be observed May 16 at 8 pm in the school auditorium with music by the Baptist Youth Choir under Mrs Rowena Smith. The Rev Ralph Backman of Berea Home Christian Mission will speak. Intermediate M Y F members will attend a district rally at Medina Methodist Church Sunday from 3 30 to 7 30 pm. Over 50 attended the Homebuilders banquet with dogwood and pink candle centerpieces. Carroll Bartter was toast master. In Berea Mrs E F Litzenberg and Mrs John Vaidean are in Berea Community Hospital. Mrs Bertha Wright and daughters and son Douglas Wayne and daughter Sherrill who wintered in Lake Worth Florida are home on West River Rd. Mr and Mrs John Snell visit relatives in Chicago. The Rev M H Tadlock, once at Berea Hospital, is convalescing at home.
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Rural Life
Acme Grange
Baptist
Rowena Smith
Ralph Backman
Berea Home Christian Mission
National Lutheran Council
M.Y.F
Medina Methodist Church
Anna Busch
Gordon Hales
Stewart Coleman
Carroll Bartter
E. F. Litzenberg
John Vaidean
Berea Community Hospital
Bertha Wright
Jane Moran
Douglas Wayne
Sherrill
Lakeworth
Fla
West River Rd
John Snell
Chicago
M. H. Tadlock
Berea Hospital
Thailand to Build Bangkok to Yarn Hee Dam Railroad
Thailand plans a new rail line from Bangkok to the proposed Yarn Hee Dam site. The project aims to improve regional transport and power generation access, with execution likely as part of national infrastructure expansion.
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Thailand
Bangkok
Balance sheet of hot and cold wars week
Charles McCann surveys a week of global tensions. Tagg captures an outpost near Hanoi while trains are blown on the Haiphong Hanoi line and a forceful attack strikes Phu Ly south of Hanoi. In the Middle East Israel and Jordan trade border charges as UN observers face fire and the mixed armistice commission adjourns. The good news cites Southeast Asia security pact talks and Thailand's frontier actions, with the Philippines pushing a mutual security treaty and the United States agreeing. Disclosures by Soviet defectors yield results as Britain expels two Soviet attaches and France charges a Polish refugee with spying. Queen Elizabeth II finishes a six month world tour with Gibraltar calm, lower loan rates, and rising exports. Bad news cites deadlocked Geneva Korea talks, stalled Indochina negotiations, and hard demands from the Communists for full control in Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia. Indochina rebels after Dien Bien Phu open new moves.
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Charles M. McCann
United Press
Aidh Red River
Tagg
Hanoi
Delta
Haiphong
United Nations
Dette
U. N
Southeast Asia
Thailand
Indochina
Philippines
United States
Great Britain
France
Iron Curtain
Queen Elizabeth HV
British Commonwealth
Gibraltar
Spain
The
Rock
London
British “Bank
Canada
Geneva
Korea
Viet Nam
Laos
Cambodia
Dienbienphu
2A 2C Draftees to Face Examinations by Oct 1
Columbus Ohio selective service headquarters announced that men classified as 2A or 2C will be examined between now and Oct 1 if not already. The group includes farmers, industrial workers, and teachers deferred as essential to the home front. Officials stressed this does not mean immediate calls but gauges potential eligibility for service if needed.
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Columbus
Ohio
Selective Service
Chronicle Telegram May 15 1954 Elyria Ohio
Chronicle Telegram report from Elyria Ohio dated May 15 1954 covers local events in brief. Features community news, notices and sports results with names and places tied to Elyria and nearby districts.
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Chronicle-Telegram
Elyria
Ohio
Lower Coffee Prices Unlikely Dimmed by Brazil Export Outlook
Brazil plans to export less coffee next year than the year ending June 20. Horacio Cintra Leite of the Brazilian Coffee Institute said total export availability for the year ending June 29, 1955, cannot exceed 14,490,000 bags. For the current year ending June 20 exports are expected near 17 million bags.
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New York
Brazil
Horacio Cintra Leite
U. S
Brazilian Coffee Institute
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