Disturbed Hannegan Faces Democratic Dilemma in 1948 View
The piece paints Mr. Hannegan as unable to cite national progress, battling party disharmony, and facing losses in big city districts. It condemns OPA meat controls, bread shortages, and strikes while blaming Democratic leaders for postwar policy woes and weak labor support.
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Robert Hannegan
National Democratic Committee
Hannegan
Kid
Washington
Truman
OPA
House
North
Middle West
Far West
Labor
Mr. Wallace
Claude Pepper
Mr. Truman
Mr. Hannegan
Welcome Backsliders Defection From the Communist Party
Bruce Minton former editor of the U S Communist weekly and Ruth McKenney author of My Sister Eileen have been expelled for attacking the party line and undermining leadership The St Louis Post Dispatch mocks their reentry as a sign of deluded free thinking in a limited member nation context.
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Bruce Minton
Official
Communist Weekly
United States
Ruth McKenney
Eileen
Communist Party
National Committee
The Puzzle Of UNRRA Political Tool Or Relief Failure
The article argues UNRRA under Herbert Lehman served Soviet interests, draining Austrian relief and starving Vienna while Western officials warned against using aid for politics. It contends three years show limited reconstruction, urging a US relief administration to feed the hungry without power politics.
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UNRRA
Herbert Lehman
Yugoslavia
Ukraine
Russia
Soviet Russia
United States
Fiorello LaGuardia
Austria
Vienna
United Nations
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Lesson Unlearned From Nuremberg Trial Verdicts
An Allied court at Nuremberg sentences remaining Nazi leaders for aggression. The piece argues that despite Nazi defeat other nations still pursue expansion and appeasement persists among some statesmen, suggesting the world has not learned the dangerous lesson of World War II.
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Nuernberg
Opposed The Closed Shop By Westbrook Pegler
Westbrook Pegler criticizes the closed shop drawing on Brandeis views and wartime labor rackets. He cites unions profiting from initiation payments and urges clergy and public figures to challenge labor bosses. He argues monopolistic power by leaders harms public welfare and industry.
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Westbrook Pegler
New York
Louis D. Brandeis
Alpheus Thomas Mason
Princeton
Brandeis
Alfred Lief
Benjamin Stolberg
Albert Einstein
Supreme Court
Hell
Roosevelt
Sumners
Pittsburgh
King Features Syndicate, Inc
First U S Superspy Arrives Quietly in Guadalajara
A new undercover agent described as a wine salesman arrived in Guadalajara from Washington in secrecy. The local police chief welcomed him and offered help in gathering information for Uncle Sam, with assurance of cooperation.
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Uncle Sam
Washington
Guadalajara
Mexico
Inter-American Magazine
Army brass hunter finds house in Jopeka Kansas
An Army officer spent three months searching for a home in Jopeka Kansas and finally located one. He was transferred the following day.
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Snafu
Jopeka
Kas
Christian Science Monitor
Religious freedom debate sparks Library of Congress study
A column cites Rep. Everett Dirksen s report from the Library of Congress on religious freedom in Russia arguing the church remains subservient to the state. It notes declines in orthodox churches since 1917, limited seminary openings, and government control over church activities, urging a fuller investigation.
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Washington
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Legislative Reference Service
Library of Congress
Dirksen
U. S
Government Printing Office
Kalinin
Communist Party
King Features Syndicate
Washington Scene: President faces press and humor at odds over meat controls
In Washington the President endures a noisy press conference over meat controls amid party discord. Aide Vaughan jokes about a Moscow contact as Mr Truman shows moments of both levity and resolve while discussing national worries. He grows grave when the topic shifts to policy pressures.
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White House
President Roosevelt
Joseph Medill Patterson
Fdr
Truman
Washington
Graham Wallace
Dames
Treasury
John Snyder
Hugh Dalton
the Treasury
Exchequer
Mr. Snyder
Ellis
Geo Washington
United States
Ana
Harry Vaughan
General Vaughan
George Dixon
Moscow
John R. Steelman
Minsk
Flower nicknames and new blooms provoke garden club jest
The Ladies' Garden club held its final meeting of the season as the chairman joked that husbands have named new flower varieties after their wives. Mrs Teagarden’s rose and Mrs Van Snipperty’s snapdragon were cited in a playful exchange.
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Ladies’ Garden Club
Christian Science Monitor
Leave It To Them Teacher Quips On Study Of French
A teacher questions a pupil about dropping French and the pupil replies that trying to imitate the French is a waste of time. The remark reflects a witty classroom exchange captured by the Christian Science Monitor.
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Willie
Christian Science Monitor
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