Editor-Publisher Criticism of Arizona Officials Faces Public Scrutiny
A morning editor blasts William Brooks and Wright of the Arizona Corporation Commission over CALAPCO's purchase of Arizona Power Company and Tucson water rate decisions. The piece argues for fair, open editorial critique of public officials and utilities.
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Arizona Corporation Commission
William Brooks
Our Morning Contemporary
Brooks
Wright
Central Arizona Light & Power Company
Arizona Power Company
Arizona
Calapco
Commission
Water Department
Tucson
Tucson Water Department
General Fund
Hce
Citizens’ Water Committee
Procurement a Problem by George E Sokolsky
A reader urges a committee investigation into Washington quartermasters spending. He cites $41 for army overcoats with 1½ year life versus $19 for marine coats with 4 years and questions why surplus army shoes are resold higher than costs. He condemns waste and hidden subsidies as dangerous to national security.
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Washington
Quartermasters Department
Shoes & Leather
Eberstadt
Hoover Commission
United States
Western Europe
Kremlin
Moscow
Toynbee
Army
Navy
Air Force
Congress
Hoover address at Ohio Wesleyan punctures graduation myths
Herbert Hoover urged self reliance over security in a commencement talk at Ohio Wesleyan University. He praised enterprise and warned against bureaucratic dampening of risk, urging youth to seize opportunities and resist a rising aura of state patronage. He framed the road to opportunity as a call to grit.
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Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Ohio Wesleyan University
Cassandra
Mr. Hoover
United States
Eleanor Roosevelt Attacked Over Chambers in Hiss Case
A New York opinion piece accuses Eleanor Roosevelt of prejudging the Hiss perjury trial and discrediting Whittaker Chambers. It denounces her as aligned with Communists and cites her driving record and autobiography as evidence of alleged moral unsavoriness and motive.
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Westbrook Pegier
New York
Eleanor Roosevelt
Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Chambers
Alger Hiss
Felix Frankfurter
State Department
Yalta
Roosevelt
Christendom
Dies
Thomas
Frankfurter
Jerome Frank
Court of Appeals
Dean Acheson
Secretary of State
United States
Eleanor the Great
White Plains
N. Y
Seabright
N. J
Hyde Park Avenue
King Features
Prank Pass Lets City Car Freedom Run
In Chicago aLoop parking ban prank led a veteran bookman to receive a forged pass signed by the mayor granting unlimited parking. The ruse fooled police for years as he showed the card to tormentors and used it without challenge, creating a lasting comic aftermath in Cerf’s 1949 vignette.
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Bennett Cerf
Chicago Loop
Chicago
King Features
Looking Ahead With a 59 Lively Motoring Quip
Sir trades old 39 for a deluxe 49er car and jokes about 59. A Kansas City Star reader from Kirk in Bucyrus reflects on aging and humor in a light social note.
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Kirk Bucyrus
Kansas City Star
Baseball's High Paid Tool Ruark
In Cincinnati June 14 a column defends Baseball Commissioner A B Chandler as a tool of owners while criticizing players who jumped to the Mexican league. It recalls suspensions of Leo Durocher, alleges Chandler’s bias, and notes a polo grounds incident amid a broader critique of baseball power and legal delays.
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Upper Cincinnati
Ol’ Happy
Baseball
A. B. Chandler
Chandler
Cincinnati
Kaintuck Hills
Promised Land
Mr. Chandler
Pasquel
Leo Durocher
Durocher
Polo Grounds
Fred Boysen
Happy
Bill Robinson
Landis
Hidden mural and White House ties in Washington
Washington Scene notes a concealed mural in the state department ordered by Gen. Marshall and not restored by his successor. A larger lobby mural also faced a protest over shrouding. The piece links to the old state building, its warlike imagery, and the shift to the Pentagon.
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Washington
State Department
Gen. Marshall
Dean Acheson
War Department
Pentagon
White House
Gen
Left Handed Inventions And Sports Boost Southpaws
A Kansas City Star item notes growing interest in left handed products from banks in Colorado and Massachusetts to a Salisbury trumpet with left side valves. It also highlights Florida spin training camps filled with right field friendly left handed batters, celebrating南
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Colorado
Massachusetts
Salisbury
England
Florida
Kansas City Star
Wise Old Benjamin’s Library Plea Behind Bell Bill
In Massachusetts the town named for Benjamin Franklin planned a courthouse bell after a ceremony. The mayor asked Franklin to fund part of the bell. He sent payment with a note preferring a public library over a bell, saying sense to sound.
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Massachusetts
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Milwaukee Journal
Make It Salmon A Fractured Tale From a Montreal Stas
A weary angler enters a fishmonger shop and orders salmon as if just caught today. He explains his wife asked him to bring salmon because she prefers it, in a curiously comic, fragmentary Montreal Stas tale.
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Montreal Stas
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George E Sokolsky
Warren G. Magnuson
Department of Agriculture
Manhattan Island
Appropriations Committee
J. Howard McGrath
Maine
Vermont
Oregon
George Dixon
Marshall
The
Senate
Leslie Biffle
Betty Kraus
Theodore Francis Green
Rhode Island
Milton R. Young
North Dakota
Alcatraz
Benjamin
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