Price Controls On Crutches Economics Of 1950s Free Market
A Missoula Times critique argues price controls and the OPS burden the economy with 71 million annually, calling for ending ceilings. It cites pork purchases, a Tucson grocer’s records job, and widespread consumer choice as safeguards of a free market amid ample supply and competition.
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Office of
Missoula, Mont
Times
Arizona
Missoula
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
OPS
Good News For A Change In Washington 1952
Victor Riesel reports that government surveys show no recession in sight and a rising job market through 1960. Demand spans earth scientists oceanographers accountants lawyers physicians and many technical fields, with unemployment easing and prosperity extending to both defense and civilian industries.
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Washington
White House
Department of Labor
Arizona Pioneer William Cairnes Smith roving 92 years
William Cairnes Smith known as Bill Smith was a Pinal county pioneer merchant mine operator rancher and postmaster in Casa Grande. A 32nd degree Mason active in politics and civic affairs he lived in a dozen places across two hemispheres. He was born May 12 1850 in Fifeshire Scotland and died October 1942 in Los Angeles.
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Arizona
William Cairnes Smith
Pinal County
Florence
Casa Grande
Bill Smith
America
U.S. Grant
Smith
Texas
Washington
California
Frank H. Vore
Politics Over Security by Senator Margaret Chase Smith
Senator Margaret Chase Smith argues that President Truman clashes with Congress and the Supreme Court over laws and national security. She criticizes his partisanship, urges Congress to act to prevent strikes, and asserts the Senate’s role in representing the people during this crisis.
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Margaret Chase Smith
Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Truman
80Th Congress
Supreme Court
United Feature Syndicate
Roberta Levitt
Roberta
Mock Republican Upheaval in Texas Convention Sparks Turbulent Debate
The Old Guard backs Taft delegates while Henry Zweifel controls Texas convention machinery amid critiques of the Herald Tribune and New Deal alignment. Texans favor Ike for glamour, though concerns persist over voter acuity and party politics shaping the Chicago convention.
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The
New York Herald Tribune
Eisenhower
Old Guard
Texas
Taft
Henry Zweifel
Herald Tribune
Zweifel
Joe Barnes
Frederick Vanderbilt Field
Barnes
Moscow
New York
Wendell Willkie
Kremlin
Gen
Roosevelt
Germany
Herald-Tribune
New York Times
Chicago
Political Manipulation in Party Conventions and Delegates
Westbrook Pegler discusses how Democratic groups and party bosses manipulate Republican conventions using temporary rolls and seating powers. He cites Texas and Connecticut examples and notes union conventions where credentials and resolutions committees decide floor issues and officer elections. The piece links such tactics to securing loyalists and jobs for the Old Guard.
Hal Boyle on Olympic intrigue and Soviet athletes
Hal Boyle notes the Helsinki Games will test Soviet ideology as Moscow sends athletes to prove superior bodies. The piece jokes about prep methods, Western contact, and imagined outcomes including a weight lifter and Tarzan ambitions, finishing with a quip about a horse preferring hay to sawdust.
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New York
Ivan Ivanovich
Helsinki
Politburo
Russia
Karl Marx
Stalin
Mikhail Botvinnik
Botvinnik
Jim Biceps
Jim
Tarzan
Ivan
Press Conferences 5 y George E. Sokolsky
The author argues that politics cannot endure mob questions and ridicules televised press events. He critiques Eisenhower publicity stunts in Abilene and New York, urges frank discussion, and condemns TV as replacing serious reporting with theater. He cites Truman, Taft, Ridgway, and Vandenberg while defending truth in journalism.
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Gen. Eisenhower
Abilene
Kas
New York
Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Herbert Hoover
John Foster Dulles
Dean Acheson
George Marshall
Truman
Ridgway
Vandenberg
Congress
Mr. Truman
Sen. Taft
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Detroit
Korea
Connecticut
CIO
AFL
Walter Reuther
Post-Hali Syndicate
Riesel
Albert R. Buehman
President Truman
Eleanor Roosevelt
John J. Glavin
Albany
Earl Miller
Dallas News
Ike
Mr. Zweifel
By Westbrook Pegler
New Haven
South
King Features
Hal Boyle
George E. Sokolsky
Sokolsky
Paderewski
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