Gandhi Death Shocks India as Tax Debate Opens in U S
Gandhi, aged 78, was killed by an assassin as Hindu Muslim Sikh tensions flare. In Washington the House gears up for a sweeping income tax cut, with Speaker Joseph Martin pushing a 6.5 billion plan and Senate Republicans seeking a smaller cut to win Democratic support while Democrats warn of borrowing for national security and the European recovery.
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Mohandas
K. Gandhi
India
Ans
Gandhi
Pakistan
Mosre
Poy
House of Representatives
the. Bell
Joseph Martin
Rep
Mass
House
Knutson
Congress
White House
Truman
Senate
Robert Coughton
Dem
GOP
Pwpers
U.S
Headliners in Los Angeles
Film actor Allen Jenkins booked on drunken suspicion claimed his cat Smiley was driving, while he just went along for the ride.
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Los Angeles
Allen Jenkins
Smiley
Pravda Rejects Balkan Federation Plan and Militant Unity
Pravda editorial rejects a proposed Balkan federation and customs union as Russia guides its satellites toward independence and internal mobilization. It implies Stalin opposes Dimitrov’s vision while endorsing continued party control in each nation. The piece links to broader policy debates as industrial goals falter.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Pravda
Russia
Balkan
Union of Western Europe
Britain
Bevin
Georgi Dimitrov
Unist
Bulgaria
Marshall Tito
Yugoslavia
Dimitrov
Albania
Romania
Hungary
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Greece
Stalin
Balkans
Hitler
Socialist Leader Norman Thomas Endorses Marshall Plan
Norman Thomas, longtime U S Socialist leader, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in favor of the Marshall plan. He attacked commodity speculators and named Herbert Seaver Henry Wallace and the Truman Doctrine as dislikes.
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Norman Thomas
U. S
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Herbert Seaver
Henry Wallace
Truaman
Tractor Gas Shortages Eased for Spring Says Industry
The oil industry warns gasoline may be tight but not critical this spring as more than 90 percent of Midwest farms rely on tractors. Spokesmen say shortages could appear regionally while preparations shift refining back to gasoline within 90 days to support farm and food production.
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Wopertee
Midwest
National Petroleum Council
What now for the little man in inflation talk
Cyrus J. Waud of Camden, a cannery worker, told the senate banking and currency committee that inflation means his fifty dollar weekly pay cannot support his wife and six children. He described the endless rise in prices and the struggle to keep up, lamenting that they are not living but only existing.
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Senate Banking and Currency Committee
America
Cyrus J. Waud
Camden
N. J
Waud
U. S
Government action key to lowering living costs and dollar value
The author argues government bears responsibility for high living costs. Reducing spending, trimming bureaus, and restoring sane fiscal principles would raise the dollar's value, lower prices, and relieve taxpayers as taxes and currency pressures push costs upward.
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Prin Press
Farm Families Become More Like City Folk
Sociologists George W. Hill and Douglas G. Marshall report farm families are adopting urban traits as education income and culture rise. Highways radios and push button agriculture push farmers toward smaller families and urban styles. President Truman urged industry to invest up to 80 billion dollars and sought tax measures to fund expansion.
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George W. Hill
Douglas G. Marshall
U of Wisconsin
University of Sociologists
Farm Eese
Truman
Congress
Gems of Thought and Wit in Conversation Rules
An assortment of aphorisms on speech kindness and perseverance. It includes Swift on leaving unsaid remarks and Disraeli on constancy of purpose, plus lines about belief, quarrels, and understanding from Bibert Hubbard.
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Swift
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