Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor Fielding Wright, the Dixiecrats' vice presidential candidate, urged all Mississippians to behave. In Greensboro, N.C., Judge E. Earle Rives sentenced two teenage egg-throwers to write over & over: "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it." The nation's press, including the South's, lectured on the right of free speech...
...list of union men registered at the halls. It was clearly discriminatory; non-union men could get jobs only when there were not enough union men to fill them. Thus the hiring hall became a stronghold of union security. But it brought a measure of peace to the nation's waterfronts...
...Department of Commerce announced that the average income per person in the U.S. last year was $1,323-up $110 from 1946. Highest average among the 20 states which exceeded the national figure was Nevada's $1,842. New York was second with $1,781. Mississippi had the nation's lowest average...
House for All. Drafting a constitution for a Western German state at the suggestion of the Western powers was an act of political courage. The Communist argument that a Western German government would split the nation has been losing ground ever since the Russians laid brutal siege to Berlin. Westphalia's Minister President Karl Arnold spoke of the Germans now under Russian domination: "We must be sure that what we construct will some day be a good house for all Germans...
...just go into a dime store and get a kid's story, twist it a bit and turn it into music"). His You Call Everybody Darling is the nation's No. 1 song hit. (His recording of it with his "Happiest Band in the Land" is also the No. 4 bestselling popular record.) And last week, "so people will be sure to identify it with me," Blackhawk customers were getting liberal doses of his latest number, Brush Those Tears from Your Eyes...