Third World War Looms as Truman Faces Soviet Conflict
The speaker argues President Truman is leading the United States toward war with Soviet Russia. He cites potential engagements with Soviet backed guerrillas in Greece and fears covert mine actions in the Aegean or Adriatic. Past incidents like the Panay attack are debated, asserting American naivety and pressing for restraint to avoid a third world war.
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Truman
United States
Russia
Greece
Aegean
Adriatic
Tito
Jugoslavia
Tita
Soviet Russia
Europe
Oh For the Life of Groundhog and Civic Quirks
A quirky column notes inflation fears with a mock budget claiming a $270 yearly cost per person, alongside jokes about groundhogs. It mocks price hikes at a motorboat show and jokes about nurses attending cruisers. It references Congress, Truman, and political jibes. Local Lakewood, New Jersey officials demand student bus safety punishments and a governor's testimony stirs Democratic reactions.
Budget Clash Over Wartime Costs and Cuts
President Truman submitted a 39.7 billion peacetime budget, the largest in history. Critics, including Tabor, call for a three billion dollar cut, targeting defense, foreign aid, or domestic services, while Truman touts high corporate profits and payroll gains but warns prices outpace wages.
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Truman
John ‘Taber
Tabor
Walter Winchell and Liz Mirestone in Town Life
Elizabeth Mirestone, daughter of a rich tire magnate, visits Charles of the Ritz weekly, hair done herself. Society press trails editors, free space wheedling, Tojo war trial drags on, Duchess of Windsor in an old Main gown, and Dumont TV to revive vaudeville as Videoville.
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Elizabeth Mirestone
Liz
Charles
The
Ritz
Society
Morrors
Mainhocher
Duchess of Windsor
Dumont Television
Park Central clerk Mar Bie Roberts in transit arrest
A fragment notes Mar Bie Roberts, described as a former Marine jiu jitsu instructor, involved in a nighttime confrontation near a Park Central drugstore. The item then spars with unrelated world notes about Washington newsmen, German tennis star Baron von Cramm in Switzerland, and others.
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Park Central
Mar Bie Roberts
Baron von Cramm
Barbara Hutton
Switzerland
Britain
Bahamas
Gabriel Pascal
George Bernard Shaw
Truman plan spurs health bill hearings and housing survey
President Truman pushes health legislation as Republicans mobilize. Taft's labor panel to hold hearings on two health bills. Arkansas friends commission a portrait of John Snyder, first Arkansan in the cabinet. Senator Wagner, despite illness rumors, led a major housing survey finding nine of ten large-city mayors say private enterprise cannot meet low-cost housing needs. Bogota Latin America aid talks postponed to July 1 as Congress decides on Europe assistance.
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Truman
Taft
Labor Committee
Arkansas
John Snyder
Treasury
Bob Wagner
New York
Bogota
Europe
State Department
Congress
Wright Patterson Small Investors Help Drive Postwar Production
Small investors and industry back transportation, mills, factories, mines and utilities, powering postwar production. About 60 million stockholders funded jobs for nearly 80 million workers and supplied working capital for plants and tools. In 1947 the average return per dollar invested was 2.7 cents.
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