Powerful Allies and Pressure in Postwar Labor Scene
The piece portrays John L. Lewis and allied power brokers maneuvering amid labor coalitions and Taft Hartley pressures. It notes politics steering industry, price impacts, and public squeeze, with Truman and Taft figures shaping policy, plus reflections on morality in government and a rare Taft mood.
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United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Sut-Traneuvering
Big Clear
Big Steel
Prof.lig
Lewis
Great Plains Bison Family Tree Mapped By Nebraska Museum
Lincoln Neb March photo feature reports the University of Nebraska state museum traces the bison lineage from Asia to North America. Researchers C B Schultz and W D Frankforter describe two key evolutionary trends horn size shrinking from an ancient 80 inch span to about 22 inches and overall body growth. The study notes population rises and falls with climate, human migration, and eventual near extinction with white settlement, planning two more years of work.
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Great Plains
University of Nebraska State Museum
C. B. Schultz
Iefs
W. D. Frankforter
Lincoln, Neb
Plains of
Kan
Nebraska
North America
C. 8. Schultz
Museum
Asia
Frey
University of Nebraska
Kansas
Tve
Woman of 75 Finds New Career in Art
Clarissa Minn town reports Mrs Mabel Radabaugh, age 75, has started a second career as an artist. After attending Portland classes four years ago, she pursued pastel floral prints created by drawing a chalk-like substance into mat or canvas. She now maintains a workshop in her home in Clarissa.
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Clarissa, Minn
Mabel Radabaugh
Portland
Ore
Hadabaugh
The
Vily
Income Tax Cited As Aid to Farmers
Mountain View Oklahoma banker says federal income tax helps farmers by forcing them to tally income from milk checks feed sales and other small items. R M Kobs president of First National Bank argues taxes show exact profit from home crops rather than guesswork.
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Mountain View
Okla
Sam
Okahoma
R. M. Kobs
First National Bank
Unused $100,000 Coal Grant Stalls Since 1840s
In Pittsburgh, a legacy of $100,000 to buy coal for the poor from Charles Brewer and James Crawford remained undispensed for 80 years. Court action redirected the funds to the Pittsburgh foundation after West Penn Hospital could not find enough beneficiaries.
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Pittsburgh
Charles Brewer
James Crawford
West Penn Hospital
Pittsburgh Foundation
Boy Saves Woman From Second Fire
CHICAGO Fawn the Seeing Eye dog again guided her blind mistress Miss Anita Blair to safety as fire broke out behind Bowen high school. She led 3,000 students to exit while Blair attended a safety lecture. In a 1946 La Salle hotel fire Blair escaped with guide Pawo.
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Chicago
Fawn
Anita Blair
Miss Blair
Bowen High School
Farm
la Salle Hotel
Pawo
Woman asks city crew to search for sewing needle drop
Idaho Falls workers in the city sanitary department, handling about 600 tons of garbage weekly, were asked to look for three sewing machine needles dropped in a garbage can by a woman. The request prompted surprise among staff.
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Idaho Falls
Ida
Stove from 1876 Still in Use in Zumbrota Minn
Miss Seceillle Howe keeps a cook stove bought by her parents in 1876 in daily use. The original stovepipe with a right angle elbow remains, no grates, wood piled on ridges, and a hearth door for ashes. The stove has never been repaired in 71 years, with welded hooks added for lifting. her father brought his wife from Norway in April 1876.
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Seceillle Howe
Miss Howe
Zumbrota
Norway
Mind Your Manners No 49 Etiquette Guide Ad
A vintage etiquette promotion explains manners for introductions dining and dating. The ad invites readers to send 25 cents for a booklet titled New Book of Everyday Etiquette from Weekly Newspaper Service at 343 West 17th Street New York NY 11. 9.45.
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West 17Th St
New York
N. Y
Men and manners in a reflective thought piece
A compact reflective snippet compares readiness to embrace brotherhood, notes a train follows a fixed path, and likens marble and billiard players to age. It contrasts male and female reflection scenarios and posits genius as making others endure finite effort.
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