Get Involved to Reform South Carolina Welfare
The column calls for public involvement to reform the South Carolina Department of Social Services welfare spending. It argues reform benefits truly needy citizens, rejects the notion welfare reform is a racial issue, and urges action to hire an efficient firm to improve welfare services nationwide. It warns against protecting ineffectual spending and stresses accountability at all government levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
Department of Social Services
DSS
California
Our Nation
Ulysses Grant
Grant
Philadelphia
New York City
Boss Tweed
Henry Adams
Walt Whitman
CIA Beware Excess Curbs By HOLMES ALEXANDER
Column argues Congress debates new joint CIA FBI oversight while public opinion shifts on intelligence secrecy. It recalls Cold War era limits and warns rotating committees risk leaks and compromised security. The piece questions extending covert power in modern defense days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holmes Alexander
CIA
Congress
Abe Ribicoff
D-Conn
Senate
FBI
Nicholas Katzenback
Truman
Eisenhower
Central Intelligence Agency
Styles Bridges
Richard Russell
George Mahon
House
Mideast
Western Hemisphere
Francis Gary Powers
Ussr
Russia
Sen Frank Church
Rep
Otis Pike
Chile
Cuba
Italy
Central
Africa
Frank Church
Ribicoff Committee
Joint Intelligence Committee
Joint Committee
Castro
We Can Un Invite Party Poopers by Paul Harvey
Paul Harvey rebuts party poopers opposing Bicentennial celebrations arguing that past critics like during 1876 and Grant’s presidency spurred reforms. He notes depression, mobility, corruption, and reform calls, predicting America’s resilience and continued progress through shared effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Harvey
Role of Press: newspapermen must answer to law
A columnist argues that journalists are not above the law and should cooperate with law enforcement when crimes or espionage are involved. He recalls colleagues who aided FBI exposure of Soviet agents and reflects on his own past disclosures while defending press duties to protect sources and support public safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twentieth Century Fund
US Court of Appeals
State Supreme Court
FBI
Congress
CIA
United Nations
Soviet Union
U.N
United States
Frederick Woltman
Scripps
Howard
Woltman
New York
Fred
Journalistic Code of Ethics
Mystery of the Pilfered Pennies and Mint Turmoil
A report links director Mary Brooks of the U S Mint to a puzzling missing set of experimental pennies on Capitol Hill. The piece notes her hospitalization for nervous exhaustion and cites proposals on new coinage while detailing audits and secrecy surrounding Mint documents. Senator Ted Kennedy rescues a staffer in a separate elevator incident on Capitol Hill.
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Mary Brooks
U.S. Mint
Capitol Hill
Senate
House
Brooks
Congress
Ms. Brooks
Kennedy
Ted. Kennedy
D-Mass
Carol Chealander
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Senator Kennedy
Ms. Chealander
Prevost Retreat in 1779 Charleston Skirmishes
In May 1779 William Moultrie formed defenses at Charles Town Neck as Col. McIntosh and Col. Marion took right and left flanks. Gen Prevost crossed the Ashley River, demanded surrender, but Moultrie refused. Prevost fled as Lincoln's Continentals approached, driving British retreat toward Savannah.
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Dorothy Macdowell
William Moultrie
Charles Town
Charles Town Neck
McIntosh
Col. Marion
Prevost
Ashley River
Rutledge
Ledge
Moultrie
Moultire
Lincoln
Georgia
Ashley
Savannah
Chattal
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William Graham Sumner
Custer
Little Big Horn
Arthur Schlesinger
Stalin
She
Aiken
Samuel A. Cothran
Robert D. Cathcart
Aeans
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