Government role in business overreaches in free enterprise era
A 1975 statement argues that government involvement in day to day business activity has grown beyond founding intentions. It criticizes regulation across safety, employment, accounting, pollution and advertising. The piece urges business to engage with officials to restore public confidence and reduce bureaucratic overreach. It calls for proactive communication and a stronger private sector role in shaping policy.
Federal Diary Reveals Old Boy Network Within Nixon Era
Notes, memos, and scraps show political hiring meddling at the Commerce Department during 1973. Wanda Phelan sought a job with White House and Nixon-era sponsors pushing for a Commerce post. An aide suggested the secretary not commit to a non-existent slot as OBN struggled to deliver favors.
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OBN
White House
Varios
Watergate
Norbert Klien
Nixon
Phelan
Commerce Bureau
Commerce
Herb Klien
Haldeman- Ehrlichman- Ziegler
Oet
Commerce Secretary
LeTendre
Dent
Klien
Elien
Ashenden Recounts Spy Setup in World War I Tale
The text recounts Ashenden meeting a colonel in London who recruits him for the Secret Service, detailing a staged address, a dimly lit room, and a blunt warning about help and consequences. It frames Somerset Maugham's Ashenden as a lens on prewar and wartime intelligence operations and their resonance in modern America.
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Washington
Ashenden
England
Cate
London
Baker
Intelligence Department
Secret Service
Geneva
Somerset Maugham
Maugham
America
United States
We Can’t Get There in a Rocking Chair
Paul Harvey argues that after the Great Depression and wartime mobilization the nation still believes a portion of the population is unemployable. He critiques unemployment benefits and the minimum wage as barriers to full employment while noting growth in new energy, medicine, and engineering sectors offer future opportunity if we shed reliance on rocking chairs.
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Michigan
Charles Killingsworth
Ups
Lips
Prof
Killingsworth
Sve
Los Angeles Times
Will Rogers on Dieting, Stock Market and Worth
Will Rogers quips that dieting lingered as the stock market returns to scrutiny. Financiers say good values endure, yet none can recall what they were worth. Selected and edited by Aryan Sterling for the Will Rogers Memorial archive.
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AML
Will Rogers
Aryan Sterling
MacArthur as Roosevelt rival and wartime vision
A retrospective column argues MacArthur as Vandenberg's favored candidate in 1944 would have reshaped US policy. It cites the general's personality, wartime leadership of Japan, and possible presidency as a hypothetical path to different postwar outcomes, including the absence of Ike and altered decisions at Yalta and Potsdam.
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MacArthur
Washington, DC
Gerald Ford
Arthur Vandenberg
Vandenberg
Franklin Roosevelt
Fdr
Roosevelt
North America
Van
Secasion
Houghton Mifflin
Dougaul
Doug
Japan
Yun
Mac
Michigan
Cailter
Vansman
Emn Elf
the Gulch
Wad MacArther
Yalta
Truman
Potsdam
Eisenhower
Ike
Nisan
Ted
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Revisiting Hornblower and the Mediterranean’s shifting power
Kevin Phillips surveys naval history and the Hornblower novels, tracing how the Mediterranean shifted from a Western dominated sea to a region of rising Russian and Arab influence. The piece links Napoleonic era battles, Barbary piracy, and 20th century geopolitics to show Europe’s southern flank rising and falling with industrial and diplomatic tides.
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Kevin Phillips
Mediterranean Washington
Rfs
C. S. Forester
Horatio Hornblower
Forester
Hornblower
Mediterranean
Nelson
Cape St. Vincent
Gibraltar
Malaga
Sicily
Malta
Crete
NATO Alliance
Aloo
Portugal
Turkey
Horatio Tisrnblower
Henry Kissinger
Europe
Britain
France
Captain Hornblower
North Africa
Barbary States
Cairo
Algiers
Suez
Moracto
Russi
Russia
Chesma
Aegean Sea
Greece
Coarist
Spiridov
Paul
Italy
Napoleon
Yugoslavia
Adriatic
Uriola
Lissa
Tisit
Spain
King Features Syndicates
Thankful residents praise Madison County deputies
A country resident reports a late return to a home with an opened back door and screen. Three officers arrived within four minutes and conducted a thorough search, while the caller expresses gratitude for the Madison County Sheriff's Department. The note ends with a decorative transcription of constitutional text.
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Madison County Sheriff's Department
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