Labor stalemate tests Truman amid Taft Hartley clash
Leaders Murray and Lewis push for government seizure of coal and steel as the White House weighs options under Taft Hartley. A seizure path via Selective Service would delay settlements, while nonstatutory fact finding is rejected by the unions. The piece argues Truman’s conciliatory approach is failing and predicts prolonged strikes.
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Murray
Lewis
Truman
Congress
Selective Service
National Security Resources Board
National Security
Dartmouth lecture on newspapers and fear of Soviet Russia
A Dartmouth lecture by Joe Barnes on Great Issues subjects draws attention as Dean Acheson attends. The piece argues the talk calls for readers and writers to embrace change while noting Cold War anxieties and Soviet vetoes at the UN.
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Hanover
New Hampshire
Joe Barnes
the Star
Marshall Field
The
Dartmouth
Acheson
Barnes
duPonts
Kremlin
Dean Acheson
United States
Russia
Joe Stalin
America
Soviet Russia
Mr. Barnes
Soviet
Stalin
Great Britain
France
United Nations
Europe
People’s democracy fear under Soviet rule described
Jack Roberts, a wartime translator for the Soviet purchasing commission, reflects in the Saturday Evening Post on how Soviets parrot official slogans yet live in terror of their government, sick with fear after minor missteps, a view cited by the Milwaukee Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Roberts
Soviet Purchasing Commission
Saturday Evening Post
Milwaukee Journal
Fear and resolve under Communist power in a wartime critique
The speaker warns that churches, the army, professionals, and business leaders face arrest under Communist leadership and labels Titoism as a crime. He contrasts economic weakness after war with remaining spiritual strength from democracy and recalls Czechoslovakia’s 1938 betrayal as a warning.
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Communist Party
Czechoslovakia
Dubinsky Omits Kulesha Story in Justice Publication
In New York on October 14 1949 a piece notes that Dubinsky and the Garment Workers union avoided reporting Mrs Helen Kulesha's Sept 19 small claims victory over union lawyer Emil Schlesinger. The article accuses the union leaders of diverting vacation funds to political aims and criticizes the newspapers for omitting the case and portraying Dubinsky as donor and reformer.
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Westbrook Pegier
New York
David Dubinsky
Democratic” Garment Workers Union
Dubinsky
Helen Kulesha
Emil Schlesinger
Small Claims Court
Kulesha
Poland
Schlesinger
Leopold Prince
Luigi Antonini
Antonini
Justice
National Association of Manufacturers
Israel
Italy
Liberal Party
Max Danish
Leon Stein
Ernest Bevin
United Nations
Bevin
Britain
Truman
Barkley
Ben Shalleck
Congress
F. D. Roosevelt Jr
Roosevelt
Rayburn
O'Dwyer
Prince
King Features
Try And Stop Me By Bennett Cerf
A magazine column item recalls a New York ad agency call to Rickard and Company with a dead man’s name and a switchboard reply. Comedian philosopher Edman misreads his own note while awaiting a confrere, and playwright Russel Crouse tests box office seating by asking for the last row and learns Row D is the last row.
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Bennett Cerf
Title Magazine
New York
Rickard and Company
Rickard
Russel Crouse
Crouse
King Features
Charles
Buddy
Durante
Lauritz Melchior
Ezra Rachlin
Austin
Texas
Sweetest Day Musings From a Cynic Columnist
A dated column lampoons Sweetest Day as commercial hype spanning 200 cities and cufflinks with charity, listing celebrities and jokes. The writer complains about candy merchants, endorses Guy Lombardo and Mary Pickford as contenders, questions the term Sweetest Columnist, and ends with a government spending quip.
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Leilani
Mary Pickford
Wherry Urges Republicans Stay In Town For Final Vote
Washington dispatch reports Senate Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry asked all Republican senators to remain in session to prevent last minute Democratic maneuvering. The piece also notes shifts in signatures by Jane B Hadley and recounts a Spain train theft allegation involving Rep. Eugene J Keogh and a related pants-pocket loss tale for Rep. James P Richards with Rep Noble J Gregory.
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Geo Washington
Senate
Kenneth Wherry
Wherry
Midwest
Eugene J. Keogh
Brooklyn
Spain
Keogh
Jamaica Bay
Flatlands Avenue
Dixon
Bushwick
Rockaway
East New York Avenues
Halsey Street
Fresh Creek Basin
Ebbets Field
Mr. Keogh
Capitol Hill
James P. Richards
South Carolina
Mr. Richards
Mr. Gregory
Churchill Winsome and the Tug of English Power
A satirical appraisal of Churchill as England grapples with Labour governance. The piece recalls past political shifts from Baldwin to current leadership, portraying Winsome as a dramatic yet flawed savior whose rhetoric stirs storms but cannot prevent cycles of support and rejection.
Smiling waiter aids homeless family with furnished home
A British dining car waiter given a fully furnished house by a businessman he served on trips between London and Manchester. The gift is described as repayment for the waiter's constant cheerful smile during their frequent journeys.
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London
Manchester
Walter Harry Singleton
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Mussolini
Hirohito
Belsen
George E. Sokolsky
Irwin Edman
Columbia
Edman
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Pension Jungles
Robert C. Ruark
Pegler
Louise Baer
Guy Lombardo
Earl Wilson
Truman Capote
Methodist Board of Temperance
Sadie
Homer Joseph Dodge
Shirley
English
Mr. Dodge
Washington Scene
Carleton B. Hadley
St. Louis
Carleton
Jane B. Hadley
Churchill
By ‘Bugs’ Baer
England
Baldwin
Labor
Winsome
Daniel Webster
Winnie
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