Government study links red tape to waste and asks for reform
President Truman names a new fourth to push anti inflation measures while Hoover commissions report on executive branch efficiency. Interims point to excessive regulations, overlapping authority, and costly payrolls as barriers to economy. The task force calls for higher salaries to attract capable executives and reduce waste with targeted reforms.
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Truman
Exident
Hoover
Commission On Organizam
Russell Forbes
Purchase
City of New York
Congress
Slaughter Indicted Over Lobbyist Registration Question
Washington notes discuss former Congressman Roger Slaughter of Missouri facing an indictment over alleged failure to register lobbyists and disclose their compensation. The piece weighs whether he acted as a lobbyist or attorney and his role in pushing grain storage provisions that affected prices and rural voters, amid shifting political tides from 1942 to 1946 and Truman-era battles.
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Washington
Roger Cughter
Missouri
Slaughter
Congress
Truman
Kansas City
Maughter
Albert J. Reeves
ADA backed candidates score historic gains in 81st congress
Marquis Childs notes the ADA liberal labor group helped elect Richard Bolling in Missouri and backed Humphrey in Minnesota, McCarthy in Wisconsin, Zablocki in Wisconsin, Furcolo in Massachusetts, and Howell in New Jersey. ADA leaders promise clout in the new Congress and ongoing organizing drives, citing anti-communist, anti-Wallace stance and contrasting results in California.
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Richard W. Bolling
Pendergast
Fifth
Reeves
Bolling
Midwest
Americans For Democratic Action
New Congress
Hubert Humphrey
Senate
Minnesota
ADA
Humphrey
Joseph Ball
St. Paul
Eugene McCarthy
House
Wisconsin
Andrew J. Biemiller
Congress
Milwaukee
Harvard
Arthur H. Schlesinger
Foster Furcolo
California
Wallace
New Orleans
Inhaled Penicillin Trials Face Unresolved Questions
A medical notice outlines early attempts to deliver penicillin by inhalation or aerosol. It notes potential benefits against respiratory infections but cautions unresolved methods for creating effective mists or dusts and uncertain optimal penicillin concentrations.
Fairy godmother tale sparks gifts for Miss Culbert
Fayetteville North Carolina story follows Martha Culbert, 19, who helped a faint hotel guest and later received a 7500 dollar check and a piano plus a store transfer. Local column links the kindness to Christmas spirit and notes other acts of charity in Pocatello including Elks and church groups delivering help to a needy family for the holidays.
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Fayetteville
N.C
Martha Culbert
Martha
Miss Culbert
Titania
Sai
Profit sharing spurs real effort in work says Hoffman
Paul G Hoffman notes European economic cooperation became a fact in six months. John Lawrence of a truck-body plant praises profit sharing for shifting workers from gold brick to productive effort. Frederick N Goldsmith adds stocks act in line with expectations, not timing.
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John Lawrence
Paul G. Hoffman
Truman plans cabinet changes after Jan 20
Washington Merry-Go-Round reports Truman will not replace cabinet members before Jan 20 but will appoint new ones after. The article notes efforts to avoid firing optics and mentions press influence on coverage and several Washington opinions on China aid, doctors, nurses, and labor diplomacy.
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Washington
Truman
U. S
New York
D. Worth Clark
Idaho
China
Clark
Senate Appropriations Committee
T. V. Soong
Chiang Kai-Shek
Lessons in English From a World Tour
The author recounts returning to the United States from an extended trip and learning how to speak English like Americans. He humorously notes his loud, slow pidgin approach in foreign lands and reflects on how Americans in Honolulu reacted when he ordered a milk shake.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Christopher Columbus
United States
India
America
Kit Carson
Daniel Boone
Green Lantern
Cleveland
Dallas
Boston
New York
Bob
The Honolulu student recalling homeward life in speech and chores
A narrator recalls returning home from Honolulu and enrolling in a kindergarten class to relearn English and adjust to American customs. He lists buying clothes and shoes, planning lessons on the blackboard, and jokes about ordering a banana split and immigration attitudes.
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Joe
Honolulu
Nat Norfleet
Buster Brown
Fall Fashion and Local Quips From an Alabama Town
A column notes lighthearted bits from Alabama covering fashion jokes about bare feet in fall, a 1000 hens farm yielding 798 eggs in one day with 202 hens unpaid, and opinions on reformers and dress trends. It mentions a dance orchestra cost, dad’s checkbook, and witty lines about wives’ replies and color shifts in blue to green.
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Alabama
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Goodfellows Club
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W. E. Barkdull
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Santa Clause
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ATS
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Sunar
Sam Hanson
Frederick N- Goldsmith
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Drew Pearson
John F. Davis
Reading
George Schultze
Oscar Ewing
Federal Security Administrator
U.S
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Thomas
Utah
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Chiang Kai- Shek
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