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Newspaper
The Union
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1947
Page
1
The item surveys a century of political life featuring MCCORMICK TAFT and TRUMAN across major events, with reflections on leadership, policy shifts, and national challenges framed by a historical almanac voice.
By Roscor Simmons june 11 1947 celebrates the Tribune centennial and honors Joseph Medill and R R McCormick. The piece lauds Medill founders and the McCormick influence on global political thought, noting their families and impact on journalism. It places the Tribune as a world leading and enduring publication.
The piece touts Medill and Abraham Lincoln as dual heroes of the Tribune era, noting Lincoln’s stump speeches against Douglas and slavery while Medill pressed the cause with relentless reporting. It praises editors and publishers like Greeley Dana Bennetts Pulitzers and R R McCormick as epitomes of editorial prowess.
A columnist argues Truman and Taft will clash as a political tactic to divert attention from Wallace and Truman's Doctrine. The piece portrays Democrats as specialists in many fields and suggests the President prompted the fight to shift public focus from Wallace’s criticism.
A compact forecast highlights 1948 politics with Congress, the poll tax, FEPC and anti lynching bills. Truman to address the NAACP in Washington amid filibuster risks and foreign affairs from Greece to India frame the year.
The Mississippi surgeon says Senator Theo dore G Bilbo must wait three to four months for final plastic surgery. The malignant mouth growth was removed in the third operation, with neck gland work and no further infection. The hospital calls Friday’s procedure major and about three hours, pending a fourth step to replace chinbone.
A formerly white theatre in the West End has shifted to colored patronage after financial losses. Colored movie operators are not allowed to work there or receive colored money maintaining the venue, provoking talk among patrons.
In a grand commencement Lane College conferred the Doctor of Laws on Roscoe Conkling Simmons. The citation praises him as a leading youth inspirer, first speaker and writer of his era, and author of The Untold Story in the Chicago Tribune reaching millions with a grand national story.
Composer William Grant Still dedicates his latest choral work Those Who Wait to Nimrod B Allen and his wife of Columbus Ohio. Allen, executive secretary of the Columbus Urban League, has long been a mutual admirer of Still dating to Wilberforce University.
The report notes a Mexico City birth on June 6 of a baby boy to Mrs. Joe Louis and confirms that in San Diego the heavyweight champion and his wife divorced in 1945 and remarried a year ago in Indiana. It cites a New York Times figure for soldiers insurance and covers various unrelated items from newspapers.
The Young Adult Committee of the West End Y W C A completed plans for a Round the World Tea on Sunday, June 22 from 4 to 8 p m. Proceeds go to the National Y W C A Round the World Reconstruction Fund Drive. Mrs Bernice Henry and Mrs Emma Long host at their homes with Rose Nealy as chairwoman. A program of dramatics, soliloquies and music will be directed by Mrs Frank Veal. Public invited.
The Division of Negro Welfare seeks instructors in radio and television. Requirements include a B.S. in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, high school education, and at least one year of practical experience. Starting salary is 2500 yearly with increases to 4200, contact Joseph A. Hall or call PA 3160 for details.
Hudson mayor Colwell faces NAACP criticism over alleged invitations. U S Senate ratified treaties with Italy Romania Hungary and Bulgaria last week. British independence pledge to Senassis deemed non binding in UN talks. France backs restoring Italian control of North African colonies amid US sentiment shift. Deputies will reconvene in London to resume talks later this month.
Vice regal envoy Lord Mountbatten says progress is very satisfactory in conferences with Indian leaders to settle methods for carrying out the British evacuation. Today's meeting was attended by three senior delegates as part of ongoing negotiations.
In Hollywood three thousand Indians heard Msgr J O'Dwyer Cherokee film star Monte Blue and U S Attorney James Carter urge repeal of laws forcing Catholic Indian families to move due to white residents protests. The Crocker case, mother and children ordered to leave while the white husband may stay, reached the Supreme Court. The Crockers belong to St Peter's Parish and Mrs Crocker runs a religious goods shop in Hollywood.
Rev Tollie LeRoy Caution D D in charge of the Episcopal Churchs national work with Negro people was awarded the honorary Doctor of Divinity by Lincoln University at a convocation on June 2.
Roscoe Conkling Simmons a famed orator and writer spoke at Scruggs Memorial church in St. Louis praising his Chicago Tribune series The Untold Story. The piece credits Col Robert R. McCormick for promoting Simmons and his biographical sketches and calls for national support for their applied democratic efforts.
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