Draft bill clears rules committee paving path to passage
The draft bill faces potential presidential veto but House approval seems likely after a 6 to 4 vote in rules committee. It outlines exemptions for aliens veterans and students, provisions for medical staffing, absentee ballots, and empowerment to seize noncomplying plants, with young men aged 19 to 25 slated for service.
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Rules Committee
House
Truman
Selective Service
Uncle Sam
United States
U. S
Army
Air Force
Congress
America
House Rules Committee
Rivalry Between Britain and United States Through the Years
The Kansas City Star surveys enduring Anglo American frictions and eventual cooperation from postwar loans to lend lease. It notes mutual distrust and affection across decades, with episodes from 1919 through the prewar and wartime periods and a lingering chip on both sides.
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Palestine
Britain
United States
John Bull
Uncle Sam
Washington
London
British Isles
Paris
League of Nations
Damon and
Pythias
Manchuria
Shanghai
Roosevelt
Hitler
The Cracker Barrel Argument
George E. Sokolsky voices views from his trip about the 1948 presidential race. He surveys Republican prospects Taft Dewey and Vandenberg potential candidates and notes Truman West visits and Wallace faction fading. He warns against a one term president and notes public calls for peace without cowardice.
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George E. Sokolsky
Butte
Mont
New York
ECA
Wallace
Stalin
Taft
Dewey
Philadelphia
Senator Vandenberg
Vandenberg
Waldenberg
Warren
California
Senate
Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Stassen
Joe Martin
Truman
West
Northwest
General Eisenhower
Supreme Court
Douglas
Harry Truman
Henry Wallace
Hamburger, Rare, and a Plate of Slop
A New York reader laments dining disappointments from burgers and other meals, complaining about sloppy slaw, old kitchen scraps, and misserved orders across the United States. He recalls frustrations with food service, poor preparation, and customer disrespect, urging standards to improve.
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New York
Department of Sanitation
United States of America
Park Lane
Sir Longfellow
Big Boy
United States
Texas
Maine
Tom Collins
Turning The Key On The Nater
Arthur Bugs Baer mocks the political keynote process as party machines select a single orator to energize audiences. The piece portrays the keynote speaker rehearsing before a mirror, dreaming self importance, and the spectacle dissolving as conventions reveal vanity and flawed leadership.
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Arthur “Bugs” Baer
Philadelphia
Alice
Gaucho Life and Humor in Argentina’s Estancias
A first person piece from Argentina details gaucho life at Estancia La Elisia, noting sensitive horses, traditional dress, and daring riding. Don Salvador Bondia guides a grueling day ending with a heavy asado and a rough attempt at lunch with a knife. The narrator endures misadventures, then turns to a partridge hunt before reflections shift to roses and a Nixon era political jab.
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Rober Sarmiento
Argentina
Estancia
Buenos Aires
Rudy Valentino
Pedro Duggan
Estancia la Elisia
Don Salvador Bondia
la Elisia
Don Salvador
Salvador
Testado
Peron
Coaching Harry Truman by Yeui Washington
A humorous National Geographic Society News bulletin column blends a jab at aLobbying scene with a playful portrait of a boyish figure in Washington and a playful contrast to ant life. It also notes a telephone gag about pay raise lobbying and a Florida senator’s wife noting a rose king.
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H. H. Munster
Hayward
Calif
Mrs. Pepper
Claude
Mr. Munster
Yeui Washigton
Harry Truman
Congress
Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin
Cliff Clevenger
Ohio
Claude Pepper
Florida
Senate
California
Panama
Solomon
National Geographic Society
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King Features Syndicate, Inc
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Nater
John W. Coxbiddle
King Features
Ruark
Tostado
National Press Building
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E Dixon Quired
Charles Halleck
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