Smuts Urges Three Powers to Meet for World Peace
Premier Jan Smuts, aging diplomat of South Africa, champions a Big Three meeting with Stalin Attlee and Truman to resolve reparations and territorial disputes. He warns that distrust and force endanger future global peace, urging living principles over partisan aims and prompt face to face talks.
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Jan Christian Smuts
South Africa
Union
Great Britain
Premier Smuts
Stalin
Attlee
Truman
Smuts
Thomas Paine
Gen. Smuts
Lobbyist Registration Deadline in Washington Nears
Washington lobbyists face a Thursday deadline to register with the House clerk, disclose employers, receipts, and expenditures, and declare intent as honorable under the La Follette Monroney Act. Provisions remain loosely drawn. court review may determine coverage.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Congress
Senate
House
How To Buy Votes By George E. Sokolsky
The Wheeler primary hearings show a defeated senator and evidence of campaign financing patterns. The piece argues unions and allied groups used funds from New York Chicago Detroit and Hollywood to influence primaries, challenging U S democracy and the Smith Connally act in Montana and beyond.
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George E. Sokolsky
Wheeler
Senatorial Committee
Montana
Ellender
United States
Cio-Pac
Brotherhood of Railroad
Leif Erickson
United Automobile, Aircraft, Agricultural, Implement Workers
West
Milwaukee Avenue
Detroit
Mich
Walter J. Nilan
House of Representatives
Nilan
Barker
New York
Chicago
Committee On Public Affairs
Arthur J. Goldsmith
Automobile Union
Hollywood
United States of America
King Features Syndicate, Inc
State official calls for Onion usage amid market glut
A Kansas official urges residents to use onions freely and frequently to relieve a grave market glut, warning non cooperation will have its own punishment. The prompt cites cross outlet commentary on timing of Maine elections and early ballots amid winter constraints.
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Kansas
Kansas City Star
Counterfeit Law By Wagner Act outlined by Westbrook Pegler
Pegler rebukes the Wagner Labor Relations Act as a counterfeit measure intended to strengthen unions and empower union bosses led by John L. Lewis and Robert F. Wagner. He argues it undermines commerce, expands federal power, prompts riots, and labels the act the labor Magna Charta while criticizing Roosevelt and the New Deal.
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Westbrook Pegler
New York
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Robert F. Wagner
Congress
Truman
White House
Pittsburgh
United States
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Farmer rejects shepherdess in jest over Bo Peep reply
A young girl offers shepherding to a farmer after seeing an ad. He refuses saying he wants a shepherd not a shepherdess. She questions the gender bias and prompts a retort referencing Bo Peep as the failed previous worker. The anecdote ends with the humorous punchline.
War Crimes and the Nuremberg Verdict Debate
Washington columnist argues the Nuremberg trials criminalize losing a war and notes mixed reactions. He singles out Hjalmar Schacht and remarks on Von Papen and Fritzsche escaping punishment while questioning the precedent for military leaders and international jurisprudence.
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Pau Washington
Nuernberg
Jackson
Justice Jackson
Hjalmar Schacht
Reichsbank
Schacht
Hitler
Fuehrer
Scha
Fritzsche
Wheels of Justice
Yamashita
Mallon
Jodl
Czechoslovakia
Norway
Greece
Yugoslavia
War Department
Hollywood to Washington Riff on Screen Actors Guild
A Washington critique cites Hollywood actors aiming for independence yet clashing with unions over using personal cars for location work. The piece mocks liberal rhetoric, notes a Read campaign bystander, and ends with a syndicated joke about a bailiwick gas-station robbery venture.
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Ry Vear
Washington
Hollywood
Screen Actors Guild
Wallace
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Screen Actor
The
Guild
American Federation of Labor
Prisoner on the train meets legislator on return home
A traveler says he just got out of prison and fears facing old friends. A fellow passenger replies with sympathy, noting he is returning home from the state legislature. The Bealiner.
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Bealiner
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Maine
Boston Globe
CIO
Steel Workers
United Auto Workers
Keitel
Doenitz
Maeder
King Features Syndicate
Washington Scene
Dixon
Tallyho
Movie Stars Union
Tommy Tompkins
Cairo
Artesia
N. M
Republican Party
Richard Read
Arlington
Washington, D. C
Mr. Read
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