Cold Winter Ahead for Miners and Steelworkers
The piece argues a hard line by Lewis and Murray on pension and wage debates. It contrasts union demands for employee security with employer claims that such outlays harm productivity and living standards. It notes wage rises without price relief and cites past strikes, while urging focus on productivity beyond worker hours.
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Lewis and
Murray
Ford Company
Lewis
Who Is Splintering Germany and Dulles for Senate
The piece argues West Germany faces Soviet pressure while Britain France and the US are accused of breaking faith on German unity. It reviews postwar diplomacy, the Paris talks, and UN debates, then profiles John Foster Dulles as a strong Senate candidate from New York opposing Herbert Lehman, critiquing Lehman’s Liberal stance and praising Dulles’ intellect and foreign policy leadership.
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Germany
Bonn
Britain
France
United States
General Assembly
Jessup
Berlin
Paris
Austria
UN General Assembly
United Nations
People’s” Congress
Soviet
United States Senate
John Foster Dulles
San Francisco
Dewey
Herbert Lehman
New York State
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lehman
New Dealer
Fair Dealer
UNRRA
la Guardia
Soviet Russia
U. S
Elihu Root
James W. Wadsworth Jr
Root
Wadsworth
Empire State
James A. O'Gorman
William M. Calder
Royal S. Copeland
Robert F. Wagner
James M. Mead
Irving M. Ives
Lee Pressman
CIO
Irving Ives
Dulles
New York
Vito Marcantonio
Senate
King Features
Boy Scout age rule shifts from twelve to eleven
The Los Angeles Times notes a change allowing an 11 year old to become a Boy Scout, down from the former age of 12. The piece reflects on how twelve had marked boyhood milestones and wonders about the trend toward earlier readiness.
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Boy Scouts
Jacob
Los Angeles Times
Who is Splintering Germany in the Bonn Controversy
The article argues the Potsdam and limited Paris agreements aimed at unifying Germany. It criticizes Western delays in Berlin and in foreign ministers meetings and questions whether the West or East is causing disunity by advancing the Bonn constitution and potential second German government amid three Western zones.
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Potsdam
Paris
Germany
Bonn
Berlin
Woman wins vacation fund from powerful union in small claims court
Helen Kulesha of the Bronx, solo and without a lawyer, won $44 from the Ladies Garment Workers Union in Manhattan small claims court. The case pits a low earning Polish immigrant against union leaders including David Dubinsky and Luigi Antonini, with broader notes on union political activity and charity demands.
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New York
Helen Kulesha
Bronx
Small Claims Court
Manhattan
Ladies Garment Workers Union
David Dubinsky
Garment Workers
Luigi Antonini
Dubinsky
Antonini
Liberal Party
Union
Kulesha
Poland
Congress
Baltimore
Carpenters’ Union
Jacobs
Emil Schlesinger
Schlesinger
Leopold Prince
Prince
Judge Prince
Try And Stop Me By Bennett Cerf
A collection of brief anecdotes and quips from Bennett Cerf including sports, police, and radio humor. Highlights reference Bill Dickey Johnny Sain and a World Series moment, a rookie Irish policeman painting a precinct facade and a joke about political oratory.
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Bill Dickey
Braves
Johnny Sain
Feller
Cleveland Indians
A Comforting Mummy By Robert C. Ruark
In New York a 3,000-year-old Peruvian mummy is showcased while Ruark and his uncle muse that ancient holes in heads offer comic calm amid modern fears. They compare eras from Pizarro to atomic age aliens and joke about eggs and ovens as they ponder humanity’s stubborn temper.
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New York
Britain
National Museum
Lima
Peru
John O'Rourke
Mr. O’rourke
Pompeii
North Africa
Mr. O'Rourke
The
Grandpa
John
Washington Scene Highlights Color TV and Farm Debate
The column notes Sherman Minton's wit after a Georgia speeding stop and shifts to color television chatter with Paul Porter. Capitol figures Rep. Clarence Brown and Rep. Adolph Sabath spar over farming, ending in a pastoral, backhanded compliment exchange.
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Clarence Brown
Ohio
Taft
Adolph J. Sabath
Illinois
House
Brown
Sabath
Rep. Brown
Rep
Chicago
Nature
Mr. Brown
Washington by Bugs Baer on investigations and vaudeville ideas
A 1949 King Features column criticizes prolonged Washington investigations and suggests turning hearings into short comedy skits with a big prize contest. It likens procedural gimmicks to blocking justice and humorously imagines a secretary in charge of production.
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Washington
George Dixon
Ile de France
David O. Selznick
Paul
Italy
Santa Claus
Justice
King Features
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Madame Pandit
India
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Federal Security
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