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March 30, 1948 – Foreign Aid – Fragile Elections – Italy Goes To The Polls.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”20424″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 30, 1948 – Alka-Seltzer News Of The World – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] A busy and “interesting” news day, this March 30th in 1948. Starting with news on the upcoming elections in Italy, which were awash in violence and fears

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Waiting for the new Pope

October 13, 1958 – Burying A Pope – Reviving A Red Scare

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”23857″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”October 13, 1958 – Fulton Lewis Jr. and the News – Mutual – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for this October 13th in 1958 had much to do with the goings-on at The Vatican. The death of Pope Pius XII and the mourning, as

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Gerald Ford

October 12, 1973 – Who Is Gerald Ford? – Nixon Appoints A New VP.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”17495″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”October 12, 1973 – Special Report – Nixon Chooses Ford – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Just as America was reeling from the shock of vice-President Spiro Agnew‘s resignation amid a flurry of accusations of improprieties, President Nixon announced the selection of

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America’s Little Insurance Problem – 1940 – The Fleece Factor And Morris H. Siegel. Past Daily Reference Room

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”45443″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”WINS, New York – Morris H. Siegel, Insurance Counsellor – Talk – March 3, 1940 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Become a Patron! Insurance – an integral and inescapable part of our national fabric; the thing that hounds us, protects us and promises us.

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Nguyen Van Thieu

October 13, 1972 – Bubbling Peace, Brewing Scandal

October 13, 1972; a lot happening that didn’t seem all that earth shattering at the time, but which wound up becoming game changers in our country’s history. News began with the Peace efforts over the Vietnam War and the major obstacles blocking a settlement. For the previous several days there

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