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Time for a Rally. Despite growing indications that they could not win with Candidate Truman,* some Democratic bigwigs decided that it was time to show some rallying strength behind him. In Maine, the state Democratic convention agreed, after some rumblings of dissent, to instruct its delegates to vote for the...
For exposing another sort of censorship, Nat S. Finney, 44, Washington correspondent of the Cowles Bros.'s Minneapolis Star and Tribune and Des Moines Register & Tribune, last week won the $500 Raymond Clapper memorial award. Last fall, Finney reported, President Truman had approved a "security code" under which Government...
Departed: Hon. Michael Astor, little-noted 31-year-old son of much-quoted chatterbox Lady Astor; from the U.S. after a silent six-week visit. Mother lingered behind, possibly to paste in the family scrapbook a piquant social item from the Des Moines Register; "When [Lady Astor] finished speaking at...
* A somewhat exaggerated account. Lady Astor and the Des Moines lady, both laughing heartily, did kick out playfully at each other, but neither kick landed. Later, the Des Moines lady reported admiringly: "She talks with her feet as well as her hands."
The farm leaders and agricultural experts who gathered at the National Farm Institute in Des Moines felt the same way. They agreed that the break was a natural and much-needed corrective. Said one national farm leader: "We can't say officially that the price drop is a good...