Truman’s call for an American economic democracy
President Truman asks Congress and the nation to adopt an economic democracy with national medical insurance education aid expanded social security housing civil rights and a robust labor farm and business policy. He cites Jefferson Jackson Lincoln and Roosevelt as precedents and frames the plan as balancing budget inflation controls and resource development.
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Truman
Congress
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
Grover Cleveland
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
America
Midway
Bartender defends tavern as bandit fires and flees
John Cirricione, a Joliet tavern keeper, told police how a masked assailant threatened him with a nickel plated .32 revolver during a midnight robbery attempt at 922 Collins Street. He escaped unharmed as officers joined the search and the bandit vanished toward the American Steel and Wire guard shack.
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John Chrricidne
Spectator
Collins Street
American Steel
Wire Company
Joliet
Ciriicione
Jerome Krén
Earl Brooker
Cident
Cirricione
Luke Fallinshki
Alex Davidson
Two New Diesels Put In Service On Rock Island Line
Commuters boarded trains pulled by two 1500 horsepower diesels built by Fairbanks Morse for the Rock Island. The engines, aimed at dieselizing suburban service, weigh about 126 tons each, cost around 150000 dollars, and promise faster acceleration and lower maintenance.
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Rock Island
Joliet
la Salle Street
Chicago
Fairbanks-Morse Company
Beloit
Wis
Electro-Motive Division
General Motors
Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company
George M. Shea Jr
George M. Shea
Oneida Street
Defeat predicted for Joliet school unification plan
Authorities forecast a defeat of Joliet township school unification in Saturday’s vote absent unforeseen events. Board oppositions include grade and high schools, civic groups, and labor unions with forms sent to parents outlining three main reasons against the plan.
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Joliet Township
Hugh S. Bonar
Bon‘ar
Gayle N. Hufford
Joliet Association of Commerce
City Planning Commission
A. F. of L
CIO
Louis F. Bottino
Sprague clamps down on nine traffic violators
Nine motorists paid fines as Police Magistrate Thomas K. Sprague began enforcing a new wave of violations. Officers Boles and Daggett led most arrests for speeding. others ran stop signs and red lights or drove with no lights or brakes.
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Thomas K. Sprague
Mike Boles
Bill Daggett
Cass Street
Kenneth J. de- Jerald
Harwood Street
Leonard Hahn
N. Briggs Street
Kenneth Stalzer
Cayuga Street
Hahn
Thomas Tomasino
Prospect Place
McDonough Street
Raynor Avenue
LaVerne Anderson
Manhattan
Cass
Eastern
McDonough
Railroad Streets
Morgan Street
Allen
Richard Johnson
Robert Donley
Margaret Street
Scott
Cass Streets
James Kartz
Miami Street
Kartz
Ray Pesavento
Clinton Street
Letters Granted Administration in Goss Estate
Letters of administration for the $13 000 estate of the late C Stanley Goss, resident of Lockport, were granted to Charles O Goss of 331 E Ninth Street Lockport by Judge Fred R Adams in probate court yesterday.
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C. Stanley Goss
Lockport
Charles O. Goss
Ninth Street
Fred R. Adams
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