Postmasters Fired for Nonpolitical Reasons Says Department
Assistant Postmaster General Norman R. Abrams defended the removals as nonpolitical noting 538 postmasters out of 39 000 have been removed since January 20 1953. He listed embezzlement poor management and other non political grounds and rejected Johnston’s charge of illegal political dismissals.
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Husband Home Too Much Causes Divorce Claim
Santa Monica California. Johnson Archer 28 divorced her husband actor known as Archer McDonald citing he stayed home too much. She testified he followed her around the house while she worked and made her life unhappy.
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Petroleum Tops State In Taxes
The Texas petroleum industry is the state's largest taxpayer accounting for 67 percent of all business and property taxes collected. Last year taxes paid by the industry totaled 173 million dollars. Texas employs 120,500 oil and gas production workers and 47,900 refinery workers, among the highest paid wage groups in the state.
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Phony foliage triggers elephant rampage on film set
Hollywood headlines describe veteran elephant Old Emma injuring actors Vito Scotti and Nino Marcel and trainer William Gamble during a jungle scene when rubber plants angered her. Producer Perrin restrained her outside the sound stage while an ambulance treated the injured.
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Frank Perrin
Beast
Perrin
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Theater Owners Pleased at Vote Against Paid TV
Theaters owners in America report progress against pay as you go home television. Alfred Starr of Nashville Tennessee, chair of TCA's executive committee, said public opinion shifted 10 to 1 or 20 to 1 against paid TV and may influence FCC decision. Starr asked for more funding for the campaign.
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Theater Owners of America
Alfred Starr
Nashville
Swallowers Of Swords Warned On Germs Not Blades
Paris observers show X-ray films of a sidewalk sword swallower and warn he faces greater danger from germs on the weapon than from the blade. The Pasteur Institute comments that the act is not faked but risky due to contamination.
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Pasteur Institute
Mysterious XYZ Pays Income Tax Again
Virginia's mysterious taxpayer known as XYZ sent $600 in one hundred dollar bills as his personal income tax to the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS still has no idea who he is and says he has been sending money this way for several years.
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Xyz
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John Marshall and the U S Supreme Court Landmark
A historical overview of John Marshall's pivotal role as the nation's greatest Chief Justice. It notes his 1803 Marbury v Madison decision establishing judicial review and the 1819 McCulloch v Maryland ruling, shaping federal supremacy and individual rights under a government of law.
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Marbury
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U. S. Supreme Court
What is Good Citizenship A 1930s Overbrook Opinion
The Overbrook Citizen argues that good citizenship is not a simple label tied to taxes votes or bonds. It questions blind obedience under dictatorial regimes and cites Jefferson to define good government as allowing maximum individual freedom. The piece frames good citizenship as living for good government and warns that government is only good when it stays small.
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Kremlin
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson
Overbrook
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The Angel Visitor Delights Little Billy
Henry pats a torn pay check while Billy learns an angel brought a baby sister. The doctor asks if Billy wants to see the newborn, but he insists he wants to see the angel, not the child.
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Billy
Advertising ethics panel formed by NADA
A National Automotive Dealers Association committee on advertising ethics is to adopt and enforce rules to end misleading and deceptive advertising of new cars.
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Washington
National Automotive Dealers Association
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