Loyalty and Qualification in a High Office Nomination
The piece criticizes Harry S. Truman’s loyalty leading to poor appointments, focusing on Mon C Wallgren as head of the National Security Resources Board. It doubts his training and competence for a top national role, noting past offices and a questionable appointee, urging the Senate to sustain denial of his confirmation and favor a figure like Bernard Baruch.
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Mon C. Wallgren
National Security Resources Board
Secretary of Defense
Wallgren
United States Senate
Washington
Senate
Armed Service Committee
Bernard Baruch
Government Printing Office distributes odd public dope and catacombs
A column notes the Government Printing Office publishes whimsical and practical bulletins on topics from watermelons to pigeons to muskrat recipes and bat deterrence. Senator Bridges criticizes the cost and scope, citing hundreds of millions of pieces printed for the public good.
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Government Printing Office
Washington
Senator Bridges
United States
Virginia transit strike settlement praised as model for public utilities
The Roanoke World News hails Virginia’s no strike law after a quick mediated settlement with the Virginia Transit Co. in Richmond, Norfolk and Portsmouth. Drivers gain four cents an hour retroactive to Jan 1 with potential extra one and a half cents if fare hikes are approved, otherwise contract ends May 31. The piece contrasts with Philadelphia losses from a ten day bus driver walkout and defends state mediation.
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Roanoke World News
Virginia Transit Co
Richmond
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Philadelphia
Virginia
Tuck
Corporation Commission
Commonwealth
T Co
Pennsylvania
A Strange Spectacle in New York Graves Digging Controversy
Cardinal Spellman led priests and students into a Catholic cemetery to dig graves amid a CIO strike that left over seven hundred unburied bodies. He denounced the strikers as Communist-controlled and supervised burial work despite frozen ground and police tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cardinal Spellman
CIO
Virginia apples bought for school lunches in 1947 48 batch
U S Department of Agriculture buys 93 box cars of Virginia apples for school lunches. Jack Denny named general chairman for 1948 Soap Box Derby. Winchester keglers lead four divisions in state tourney. A baby boy born to Mr and Mrs Willard Spaid at 12 Shirley Street with Mrs Mil dred Sargent as former Miss Mil dred Sargent. Allied infantry and tanks push toward Odessa and Nikolaev after a major bombing. Timber cutting in George Washington forest to raise 30 to 50 percent income shared among 15 counties. Black market in cat meat exposed in Budapest.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Virginia
Jack Denny
Winchester Keglers
Willard Spaid
Shirley St
Shirley
Mildred Sargent
Cassino
Russia
Odessa
Nikolaev
George Washington National Forest
Budapest
Britain urged to withdraw diplomats from Berlin
A 1939 report notes Britain is urged to pull its diplomats from Berlin as the world marks ten years since 1929. Guam improvement plan is dropped and Frances Trimple will head COC work.
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Britain
Berlin
Guam
Frances Trimple
Postmaster Hunter Kern Recovers From Appendicitis
In 1924 Postmaster Hunter Kern recovers from an appendicitis operation. The Prince of Wales breaks his collar bone after a fall from his horse. The Auditorium presents the show Dont Call It Love.
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Hunter Kern
Prince of Wales
United Brethren Conference Opens With Bishop Kephart Presiding
The 1899 United Brethren annual conference opens with Bishop Kephart presiding. R P Glass of the county executive committee is in town on business. J William Parkins dies at his home near town.
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Kephart
R. P. Glass
J. William Parkins
Russia claims credit for many inventions in bold outlook
The article claims Soviet outlets Tass and Pravda credit Russian scientists with inventing the telephone, submarine cable, telegraph on poles, radio, electric light, airplane, parachute, transformer, and even penicillin with other Western milestones. It questions why Western progress arose elsewhere and ponders Soviet aims in diplomacy and technology.
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Tass
Offi
Pavel Schilling
Alexander Graham Bell
Schilling
John
Latesus
Marconi
Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin
Wright Brothers
Pravda
Russia
Springfield
Mass
Volga
Frank Merriwell
Merriwellovitch
Yale
Moscow
Princeton
Dick Merriwellovitch
Urals
Irvan
Thorns and achievement in a sermon by Earl L. Douglas
The article discusses how birds teach fledglings to face storms by leaving the nest. It argues thorny nests symbolize effort and necessity driving progress. It suggests the crown of thorns on Christ points to the link between hardship and achievement.
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Theagle
Mrs. Eagle
How's Your I. Q. Memory Genius Test Overview
A brief guide shows a 100 question quiz spread over 10 days. Daily results classify performance with 9 or 10 correct yielding Memory Genius, 7 or 8 marking Very Superior. The item emphasizes scoring and daily averages for self-assessment.
Penicillin Cures Osteomyelitis Quickly In Most Cases
Medical bulletin explains osteomyelitis may arise from spread of infection via the bloodstream from teeth tonsils or sinuses. Penicillin proved effective in most cases, especially with Staphylococcus or Streptococcus germs, shortening illness duration and reducing complications.
Beaming Puzzles and Suspects in a Beechcroft Mystery
Reader questions test like a packed page of clues from a Beechcroft weekend. Deb and Tim chase motives, romances, and a hidden threat as Stella, Romney, and Professor Dane collide over a missing link in a murder puzzle at the Clinton University setting.
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Lucky
Sandy McGregor
Stella
McGregor
Stella Dane
Romney
Mr. Grant
Deb
Tim
Steeds
Debby
Burke Romney
Beechcroft
M. C
Marine
Molly Burton Stewart
Molly B
Little Brown & Co Distrity
Grant
Ingrid
Sherry
Mark Taylor
Mark
Clive Warner
Yellowstone
Amphibious Division
Gallery Bay
Henry Lander
Sarah
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