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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1949
Page
7
In Jersey City on May 14 a dozen literature boxes on CNJ ferry boats to New York vanished. Railroad police seek the twelve missing boxes and their abductors amid passenger curiosity.
Wanted salesman to sell rock wool insulation and aluminum combination storm windows. Car essential. Good proposition for right man. Apply O'Connell Air Conditioning Mr. Ross 22 S Braddock St Winchester Va. (-11-14-16-3t)
President Truman nominates Assistant Secretary Gordon Gray to be acting undersecretary and run the Army until a new secretary is named. If Senate approval follows, Gray will replace William H. Draper Jr., who has chaired the department after Kenneth C. Royall’s resignation.
The piece notes Southern Democrats delaying a farm program under Brannan, while President Truman pursues about a $4 billion business tax hike. Republicans and allies oppose the tax rise, urging expense cuts as the cost of government grows.
Washington May 14 Truman’s program stalemates across Congress as housing moves toward approval but medical insurance minimum wage labor civil rights and social security face uncertain fate Taft predicts defeat for much of the Truman agenda with little progress expected in the near term.
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