What Voters Said About the Election
The article surveys voter attitudes toward New Deal reform, anti reactionary sentiments, and preference for honest, plainly stated positions. It notes distrust of big business and communism, support for a middle road economy with regulated markets, civil rights, the Taft Hartley repeal, and the Marshall Plan, plus a democratic verdict via undecided voters who swung late.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Truman
Philadelphia
Henry Wallace
Leo Isacson
Lee Pressman
Progressive Party
Wall Street
OPA
Chester Bowles
Connecticut
Congress
Truman
Henny Youngman at Diamond Horseshoe Draws Mixed Wave
A late night at New York City’s Diamond Horseshoe finds Henny Youngman facing heckler heckling and sharp one liners. The anecdote recalls 1909 Chinatown comic Ah Hoon taunting rival tong members and a warning from the Morning Star Mission leader Huie Kim.
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Henny Youngman
New York
N. Y
Henny
Ah Hoon
Little Theatre
Dover Street
Fred Allen
Milton Berle
On -Beong Tong
Hip Sing Tong
Huie Kim
Morning Star Mission
Death of Ah Hoon A Chinatown Murder Mystery
A comic performer Ah Hoon was poisoned onstage in New York Chinatown surrounding events include Billy Rose’s influence, a planned murder on December 30, police involvement, and a later discovery of a man’s killer via a sun chair clue. Investigators pursued a Chinatown shooter theory without resolution.
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Ah Hoon
Keith
Celestial
Dover Street
Coughlin
Funnyman
Chatham Square
Chinatown
Pell Street
Sun
Hiroshima Visit Contrasts A Bomb History With Rebuilt City
The observer reports Hiroshima now a thriving city with rebuilt bridges and streets, busy shops and theaters, and locals pursuing commerce despite memories of the A bomb. Guides point to remnants while residents discuss the event as an unavoidable catastrophe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiroshima
Japan
Gary Cooper
Atom
News Of The Day In Rhyme
A rhymed reflection covers crime honesty and fate with a Reno marriage tale and a wartime Armistice day pause. It contrasts crooked and honest paths and imagines spats brewing in a couple about to wed outside the pen while the guns fall quiet on Armistice Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno
Cabinet meeting sets program to action after election
Truman outlined a future program to convert campaign promises into action with cabinet members urged to prepare for congressional reconvening. He did not fire anyone, with Marshall absent and Forrestal the quietest voice amid discussions of State Department changes and Harriman's possible secretary role.
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Washington
Truman
Alben Barkley
Kentucky
Congress
Marshall
Paris
Dewey
Defense Forrestal
Union Pacific
State Department
Donald Dawson
White House
Averell Harriman
Clark Clifford
Bob Lovett
Lovett
Brown Brothers, Harriman and Co
Harriman
Pearson
Bascom Timmons
National Cat Week
Remember Bert Minwegen Defeated in Primary Contest
United Press reports Bert Minwegen a Montpelier high school social studies teacher now at Potlatch high school edited a new weekly Palouse Valley Post. The piece discusses Democratic primary dynamics and lists several Bannock county politicians contemplating future runs for Congress or the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Minwegen
Montpelier
Asael Lyman
United Press
Minwegen
Potlatch High School
Palouse
Washington Calling for a middle way in civil rights debate
In the wake of an extraordinary upset the piece argues the victory of the middle way over extremes. It cites Truman's civil rights stand and the South’s resistance while urging a workable compromise before Congress convenes, starting with a conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
South
Herbert Hoover
Jonathan Daniels
Raleigh
North Carolina
Truman
Hodding Carter
Delta
Miss
Democrat-Times
Dewey
Congress
A Southern Conference Path To Moderate Progress
Marquis Childs argues for a North Carolina meeting of Southern moderates and progressives to press a federal state approach to lynching and civil rights. He warns that failure could trigger political stalemate, violent Dixiecrat rhetoric, and renewed disillusion among Truman supporters.
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North Carolina
Raleigh
Chapel Hill
South
Washington
Truman
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Billy Rose
Henry
Congressman
Charley
Drew Pearson
Timmons
Bascom
Cinder
China
Canadian Air Arsenal
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Canada
Arctic
Britain
England
Fairchild Aircraft
U. S. Army
Idaho
Bannock County
F. M. Bistline
Bannock
U. S. Senate
Progres Sive Party
Glen Taylor
Bistline
Henry C. O’leary
National House of Representatives
O’leary
Lyman
John Lan
W. H
Pete) Jensen
Bannock Commissioners
Jensen
Sanborn
Gate City
U. S
Senate
Taylor
Democratic Party
New Progressive Party
Democrats
Demos
Sam Page
Milford
N.H
Hartshorn Pond
Indianapolis
Adam Rieb
Melrose, N. M
Mattie Black
H. F. White
Melrose Methodist Church
Bay State
Boston
Massachusetts
Sam Hanson
Marquis Childs
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