Government Controls and Inflation Debate by Harvard Expert
Dr Malcolm McNair of Harvard Business School told a food chain association meeting that inflation is best fought by increased production. He warned against pervasive controls as a substitute for a healthy economy, urging strict government economy and elimination of political luxuries to avoid hamstringing growth.
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Macolm McNair
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration
Food Chain Association
Death of a Racket Shuttered by Federal Gamble Ban
Congress and the President signed a bill barring shipment of slot machines across state lines unless legal, choking the two billion dollar racket. Senator Estes Kefauver warns legalization worsens crime and graft, praising church opposition and highlighting gambling as anti social. He cautions reliance on gambling taxes would destroy moral fiber and leave rackets to die naturally if demand fades.
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Congress
Estes Kefanver
Tennessee
Senate
Kefauver
Congress Adjourns Aims Deliver Broad Defense Bill
The session approved a multi billion dollar defense appropriation, an excess profits tax, rent control extension, a civil defense law with a three billion dollar allocation, emergency aid to Yugoslavia, a ban on interstate slot machines with state exceptions, and a massive defense construction program worth 1.66 billion dollars. Taft led as a central foreign policy figure amid a tense move into the new Congress with focus on price and wage controls and labor-industry coordination for national stabilization. Congress eyed February or March for controls to take effect as Alan Valentine prepared a wage stabilization plan.
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Bist
Robert A. Taft
Department of Defense
82Nd Congress
Senate
House
Hollywood
Taft
Republican Policy Committee
Cincinnati
Ohio
Repubican
Congress
Alan Valentine
ESA
Lucius Clay
Germany
Crusade Foredom
Charles E. Wilson
Office of Defense Mobilization
Berlin
Radio ‘Ee Europe
Congressional Quarterly
Committee For Constitutional Tamers
Fiee
James Kern
Missori
Truman
Demand for Congress to cut Federal waste urged
Winter Park Florida Herald notes a call to action urging Congress to adopt recommendations for cutting waste in Federal expenditures as essential ammunition for the ongoing war effort. The piece frames fiscal restraint as a key support to national defense and wartime priorities.
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Winter Park
Florida
Herald
Congress
Funeral Held For Peggy Lake
Funeral services for Miss Peggy Lake of Roosevelt were held Saturday in the Roosevelt Second Ward Chapel. She died January 9 in a Salt Lake hospital from injuries in a head on collision Christmas Eight. A popular Roosevelt high school senior, she was returning from a Christmas dance when the accident occurred and had been in critical condition with a broken back. Services directed by Bishop Ezra J. Nixon. Burial in Roosevelt Cemetery under Orpin Mortuary.
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Roosevelt
Peggy Lake
Salt Lake
Roosevelt Second Ward
Phanel
Luke
Ezra J. Nixon
Roosevelt Cemetery
Orpin Mortuary
Public utilities stance favors private ownership
In Ashland Kansas a Clip opinion argues that most Americans oppose government ownership of public utilities. The piece contends private, privately operated services deliver better, cheaper results than government control hampered by red tape and graft.
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Ashland
Kansas
We Must Stop Business As Usual Says Somervell
The piece urges ending politics as usual and cutting nondefense spending to the bone while awaiting official Washington plans. General Brehon Somervell argues the United States is not defeated in Korea, notes past setbacks, and calls for decisive wartime measures over politics and rhetoric.
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Washington
Brehon Somervell
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