Bell Centenary Reflections On A Telephone Era
Washington columnist recounts Alexander Graham Bell centenary coverage and his own memories of early telephony. He explains Bell's gift for making speech visible, notes his father's phonetics work, and reflects on 19th century experiments, electrolysis challenges, and the writer's electrolysis inspector days across Midwestern cities.
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Eye Street
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D. C
Alexander Graham Bell
Bell
Court Street
Boston
United States
John Paul Jones Birthday Stamp Mystery Unveiled
A naval museum chief confirms John Paul Jones birth date as 1747, based on a letter and scarce notes, amid stamp-planning debates. The tale features Miss Janette Taylor’s marginal remarks and a joke about army mess kitchen reforms and powdered lemonade to General Ike.
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E. John Long
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United States Naval Museum
Annapolis
Lord Carnarvon
Howard Carter
King Tut
Long
H. A. Baldridge
John Paul Jones
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Post Office Department
Baldridge
Jones
America
Whitehaven
England
Charles Sands
Messanes
Ike
Clash on Budget Looms and Labor Merger Advances
The piece covers GOP fiscal battles over Truman's 1948 budget with proposed cuts in military spending and a 20 percent income tax reduction. It notes rising moves toward unification of AFL and CIO led by John L. Lewis and others. It also describes Truman pushing to end the 1938 emergency and repeal or extend wartime laws, plus agricultural moves to export surplus potatoes at 5 cents per 100 pounds to spur exports.
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Taft
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CIO
AFL
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Pres
William Green
Secretary of Agriculture
U. S
Department of Agriculture
Department
Eugene D. Millikin
Improved Medical Care Urged in National Health Report
Surgeon General Thomas Parran urged Congress to expand medical services and ensure basic care for all as a key goal. He highlighted chronic diseases, aging in particular, and praised milestones like the hospital act, the mental health act, and World Health Organization groundwork. He noted progress against communicable diseases but warned of influenza, diphtheria, smallpox, and infantile paralysis challenges. New treatments for malaria, tuberculosis, ringworm, and shock were reported along with advances in dental cavity prevention and a potential morphine substitute.
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Parran
World Health Organization
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Two Regions Hold Power in New Senate Committees
Washington scene notes how North Central and New England states supply eight of fourteen new Senate committee chairmen in the 80th Congress under reorganization. Tobey leads Banking and Currency. Aiken heads Expenditures. Millikin chairs Finance. Vandenberg runs Foreign Relations. Butler leads Public Lands. Aiken is Vermont-born, Tobey New Hampshire native, Millikin from Illinois. other regional reps include Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and West Virginia.
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Walter A. Shead
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Kansas
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Hampshire
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Vermont
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Charles W. Tobey
N. H
Banking and Currency Committee
Tobey
Britain
George E. Allen
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
TF. M. Hoyt Shoe Co
Manchester Chamber of Commerce
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New Hampshire
Congress
House
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World Bank
International Monetary Fund
Bretton Woods
George D. Aiken
Aikens
Vermoont
Aiken
Repub
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Oath Congress
Tom Connally
Dem. Tex
Vandenberg
San Francisco
United Nations
Connally
London
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Paris
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New York
James F. Byrnes
Grand Rapids Herald
He Jong
Alexander Hamilton
Collier Award
Hugh Butler
Public Lands
Butler
Dwight Griswold
Harold 5.Stassen
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Omaha Grain Exchange
National Grain Dealers Association
Blind Girl Quits School Over Seeing Eye Dog
A 16 year old blind student, Patsy Ruth Fergus, quits high school after the city board of education bans her seeing eye German shepherd Lucky from classes. A tutor will be provided at her trailer home, but she fears loneliness and plans to finish three semesters to attend junior college where dogs may be allowed.
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City Board of Education
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