Laurel outlook., 1949-12-28

January

1GA Jonuoy .,.. ,,..
taxes, universal mill
tary training, wage
price controls in the state-of-the
union message.
7-Secretary of State George C. Mar
shall resigns and is replaced b,
Dean Acheson.
14-State department policy statemen
says us. will join North Atlantic
defense alliance.
February
3-Truman declares Constitution give.
him power to stop walkouts affect
ing national health and welfare.
17-Presidents says current price de
cline and unemployment increase
nothing to worry about.
24-Hoover commission makes report or
government reorganization. Truman
says he will stump nation to defend
| his program, stalled in congress.
March
2-Air force B-5O makes first nonstop
trip around world.
3NLouis Johnson replaces James For
| restal as secretary of defense.
| Illus. senate rejects ruling against
filibusters. UNIV. announces two
week memorial walkout.
! 30-PreSident signs bill extending rent
control through June 80. 1850
! April
| 14-Congress passes second year E.R.P.
authorization. House votes SIG bill
lion for arms.
19-Government rests case In trial of top
us. Communists
26-Navy Secretary John L. Sullivan re-
signs in protest against cancellation
of plans to complete super aircraft
carrier.
Muy
Administration efforts to repeal
Taft-Hartley act come to Temporary
halt in congress.
5-Strike of 62,250 CLIO. workers
closes Ford Motor Co.'S River Rouge
13-Francis Patrick Matthews, Omaha,
succeeds John L. Sullivan as secre-
tary of navy.
fire as pound of uranium reported
missing. Franklin d. Roosevelt, Jr.,
elected to congress by New York
district.
25-Congressional investigation of atom
ic energy commission begins.
June
3-Alger Hiss perjury trial opens. Three
top Communists sentenced to Jail
for contempt of court.
7-Gordon Gray appointed secretary of
army.
s-John L. Lewis orders one-week mine
3o-John L. Lewis orders miners to
work only three days a week.
Judith Coplon convicted as spy.
gets from 40 months to 10 years.
July
John Foster Dulles appointed to
us. senate.
Thurman abandons tax increase plans.
and calls for deficit spending.
21-U.S. ratifies Atlantic pact. House
rejects Brannan farm plan.
28-Truman offers Attorney General
Tom Clark seat on supreme court.
TO become attorney general.
August
5-State department white paper marks |
off nationalist China as lost cause. |
8-Five per center probers accuse Mai.
Gen. Harry Vaughan OF influence |
Omar Bradley appointed
first chairman of joint chiefs of
staff.
recesses without senate's per-
mission. Probe of corruption in B-36
program collapses. John Maragon.
alleged influence peddler. refuses to
talk in five per centers" investi-
CATION.
fact-finding board re-
jects steel workers demands for
fourth-round pay raises.
Judge Sherman Minton nom-
mated to supreme court.
15-Government files antitrust suit to
break up A & chain.
19-Strike called by coal miners John
l.. Lewis.
October
800, 900 CIO steelworkers strike over
pension-Welfare dispute.
3-Navy air force dispute brings on con-
gressional probe.
l1-Eleven Communist party leaders
convicted on charges of conspiracy
ct mi
l9-Dr. Edward c. Nourse resigns as
head of the Presidents Council of
Economic Advisers. General Omar
Bradley says navy criticism of de-
fense set-up endangers nation. First
session 81st congress ends. Pennsyl-
vania Railroad drops Jim Crow"
seating.
9-Dismlssal of Admiral Louis Denfeld
as chief of naval operations by the
President raises political storm. Tru-
man freezes air force at 48 eroupS./
1-Bethlehem steel and steel union
sign pension plan. breaking solid
front of steel companies during
strike.
November
1-Vice Adm. Forrest P. Sherman
named chief of naval operations.
2C.I.O. Gusts left-wing United Elec-
trical and Farm Equipment workers:
3-Eleven convicted Communists freed
on bail to press appeals.
8-Navy Captain John Crommelin rep /
rimanded for revealing navy's bit
terness at defense setup. Fair Deal
program triumphS In New York as Z
Democratic Lehman defeats Repub- 3
lican Dulles in senatorial race. /
.-John L. Lewis issues back-to-work
order, postponing coal strike until J
United Mine Workers and US. Steel
sign pact, breaking back of steel
strike. Undersecretary oscar L. 3
Chapman succeeds Julian Krug as 4
secretary of the interior.
senator Thomas ID. Okla.I says &
Sweden failed to show proper re- S
spect for him on recent visit. B
1-Leftwing demonstrators in New York 4
City riot at National Maritime Union s
hall: Aleer Hiss perjury trial opens;
Alger Hiss. q
John L. Lewis calls off meeting with B
looms. US. announces impending 8
tests of new A-bombs at Eniwetok. 81
Device to "breed" atomic energy &
fuel disclosed by US. 81
drops innocent plea to charges of II
payroll padding. 81
ecember 81
Government denies FILA. loans up b
on racially restricted properties. 81
Lewis orders three-day work week u
after miners quit work again. q,
John L. Lewis signs pact with some 81
creases. Former air force major, r
Racey Jordan. says Reds, got atomic :
materials and radar equipment DUR -
ing war with official aid.
1t. Gen; Leslie % Groves denies mes ~
Harry Hopkins prodded him to give q
atom secrets or materials to Rus.
sia. Steelworkers end strike at