Deep Freeze Gifts and AFL Drive Shape Postwar Politics
A Western Newspaper Union digest reports on the deep freeze gift scandal touching Mrs. Truman and others, calling it a symptom of declining political morals. It also notes the AFL's plan to raise a million dollar campaign fund targeting Sen Taft and Sen Dannell to influence the 1950 elections amid Syrian political upheaval.
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White House
Harry Truman
United States
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U.S. Supreme Court
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General Vaughan
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John Maragon
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Ohio
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Dannell
AFL
William Green
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GOP
New York
Senate defeats Truman Welfare department plan in 60 to 82 vote
The Senate joined Republicans and southern Democrats in rejecting President Truman's proposal to create a federal department of Welfare with cabinet status. The vote blocked transforming the federal security agency into a Welfare department, a Hoover Commission idea endorsed by some but opposed by Taft and other Republicans who argued it misread Hoover. A Maryland judge later ruled loyalty oaths cannot punish thoughts, stressing laws punish acts not beliefs.
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Hoover Commission
Whch
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Taft
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Hoover
Lucas
Illinois
Maryland
Joseph Sherbow
Baltimore
Supreme Court
Sherbow
Communist Party
Too Much Wheat Demand Mounting Farm Price Issue
The National Industrial Conference Board reports falling domestic wheat consumption for the year starting July and warns price support will be a national problem as stocks on April 1 are high. The 1948 49 harvest may be the third largest in history with the US holding over a quarter of last year’s crop.
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Hatias
National Industrial Conference Board
U.S
Barkley and Widow Stir Nation in Ado Over Romance
The nation follows Vice President Barkley amid rumors of a romance with Mrs. Carlton S. Hadley of St. Louis as debates on his role and speculation about marriage unfold. Public interest rivals coverage of MacArthur and Stalin news of the era.
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Rita Hayworth
Aly Khan
Carlton S. Hadley
St. Louis
Paducah
Veep
Culpepper
Virginia
Sailors Win Pact on Pockets and Zippers
The navy agrees to pockets in sailors pants by June 1952 and ends the l-button fly in favor of a zipper. The move follows a long-standing complaint dating back to 1797, with potential for further delay before full implementation.
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Mac
Navy
Uncle Sam
Blind man regains sight after 18 years in Hopkinton
Edward R. Ray, 63, of Hopkinton Mass, awoke to sight after 18 years of total blindness. He described faces, flowers, and the sky as rich and bright and shared first reactions with his brother in law wife and grown daughter. He cannot yet judge distances but expects improvement.
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Hopkinton
Mass
Edward R. Ray
Joan
Edward
Ray
Bulls and Bees Crack Up Italian Wedding Scene
In a Naples area farm tale a wedding guest Francesco Minniti 5 in a red suit fled a charging bull that toppled a beehive. Bees chased the bull into the dining room as guests leaped from windows into a water filled ditch. No one was hurt.
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Rome
Naples
Francesco Minniti
Francesco
Honeymoon Ends Abruptly as Narcotics Case Emerges
In Miami Beach an 18-year-old groom and his 44-year-old bride, Mrs. Katherine Boart, see their honeymoon end when federal agents arrest her on charges of fraudulently obtaining narcotics prescriptions from a local doctor. The couple, who eloped from Gary Indiana and wed in Charleston South Carolina on June 10, arrived for a honeymoon that quickly collapsed as authorities acted.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Miami
Katherine Boart
Herman Bogart
Gary
Ind
Charleston, & C
Air Propulsion to Power Italian Inland Barges
Prof Luigi Santo Darios proposes using airplane propellers to drive barges on Italy’s northern waterways. The plan aims to avoid canal wash from underwater screws and uses Venetian canals long unable to resist such forces. Presented at the Padua inland waterways conference, the idea blends ancient canals with modern propulsion.
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Italy
Padua
Luigi Santo Darios
Man Never Cashed Pay Envelopes for Five Years
In Wilkes Barre area, 10 year old Harry G Lamborn found weekly pay envelopes dating to 1944 totaling 6231 dollars stored in a paper box in his one room apartment. His will on wrapping paper left 2500 dollars of his estate to landlady Mrs Mery A McLear. Attorneys say the residue will likely be divided among Lamborn's first cousins.
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Chestish
Harry G. Lamborn
Lamborn
Mery A. McLear
Poeta Lamborn
Nina First Cous
Speedway Races Overtake Bullfighting as Spain’s National Sport
Madrid promoter Gregorilo Brendis, who runs dirt track racing in Madrid, says speedway racing is rapidly replacing bull fighting as Spain’s national sport. He recently visited Glasgow to scout new talent.
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Spain
Madrid
Senor
Gregorilo Brendis
Glasgow
Military Pet Cemetery at Arlington A Hidden Burial Plot
Arlington hosts a small World War I era pet plot at Fort Myer near the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. About 100 pets including dogs cats an alligator and a monkey rest beneath markers showing owners affection with names like Smokie Sgt Yordbird and Peepsie tied to Fort Myer Battery C 65th Field Artillery and Fort Belvoir.
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Washington
Arlington National Cemetery
Third Cavalry
Fort Myer
Ordjaina
National Cemetery
Virginia
Oldthnere
Fort
Smokie
Fort Myer Tire Department
Sgt
Yordbird
Battery C
65Th Field Artillery
Peepsie
Col
Martin du Fresne
Fort Belvoir
Dentist Earns 100000 Under British Health Plan
In Edinburgh Scotland a Scottish dentist earned 25000 pounds about 100000 dollars in 11 months under Britain's National Health Service. Sir William Marshall of Lanark County Health Service Executive notes dentists bill the government per patient treated and patients pay nothing. He laments patient care quality under the system.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Britain
Wwiliam Marshall
Lanark County Health Service Executive Council
Dental Estimates Board
National Health Service
Sir William
Expert Claims Women Waste Time On Trifles
Mayo Clinic doctor Dr Walter C Alvarez told Ramsey County Health Day audiences that women waste energy on trifles by blowing $10 on a 10 cent problem and by trying to change ordinary husbands into movie stars. He urged women to live sensibly, while noting some in the crowd were women and he stayed unharmed.
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Minn
Walter C. Alvarez
Alvarez
Charles Boyer
Division of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Ramsey County
St. Paul's
Lord Fauntleroy
P. S
Mother and Daughter Enroll as Freshmen at EWU
Mrs. Fred McDaniel has joined the education department at Eastern Washington College in Cheney Washington while her daughter Mary Low begins as a freshman in business administration at the same institution.
Stagecoach Robbery Hits West Coast Town
In Redwood City California a stagecoach aged about 50 years was reported stolen from a parking lot. The vehicle had arrived for the 49er rodeo celebration, part of a local event.
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West Coast
Redwood City
Calip
Sewing Circle Patterns House Dress With Slimming Line
The First and Winter Fashion offers patterns with easy to wear styles and special designs. Pattern No 169 includes sizes 33 to 48 and 4% and features a slimming line. Inside the book there is a wealth of sewing ideas for home dress makers and fabric news.
Handy Sewing and Cleaning Tips From Home Wardrobe
Reinforce tucks pleats and darts by turning fabric and stitching back half an inch. For stain removal use a cotton cloth and clean outdoors or near an open window to lower fire risk. Save fabric scraps in a scrapbook with labeled pages for family clothes and patches.
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