Junk mail tax urged by senator against postal rate hikes
Senator Stephen Young urged rejecting President Eisenhower's plan to raise first class and airmail rates to cover deficits. He argued heavy magazines and junk mail drive deficits, while newspapers and many mail items provide value. He called for economy in Post Office operations and higher junk mail taxes, preserving first class stability.
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Stephen Young
Senator Young
Senate
Eisenhower
Post Office Department
U.S. Mail
Dear Abby Columns Jump From Jealousy To Social Etiquette
Readers ask about jealousy in marriage and hosting duties for a bride shower. Abby advises embracing small sacrifices, maintaining distance with the boss’s wife, and handling sensitive remarks about single women with tact. Also notes on married life, divorcees, and dating expectations.
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Abby
Mrs. X
Case Morris clash marks liberal rise in New Jersey race
George Sokolsky analyzes the New Jersey Republican primary where Senator Clifford Case backed by Eisenhower forces defeats Robert Morris. The piece argues the battle framed as Radical Liberalism versus Conservatism and ponders Nixon’s political direction and possible shifts in 1960 strategy.
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Robert Morris
New Jersey
Clifford Case
Eisenhower
Time
Henry Luce
Columbia Broadcasting System
William Paley
Philadelphia “Bulletin
South New Jersey
Christian Herter
James Mitchell
Case
Jacob Javits
New York
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Fund For the Republic
A.D.A
Congress
McCarran
McCarthy
Morris
Republican Party
Nixon
Take Care Of Your Husbands Things
A newspaper columnist notes how wives can reduce widowhood years by caring for husbands now. The piece cites birth and marriage patterns, aging demographics, and quotes Marcus Porcius Cato while touching on productivity, cleanliness, and national trends with a humorous aside on Eskimo words.
Peculiar Presidential Race Hints at Democratic Split
The piece outlines a fragmented Democratic field led by Lyndon Johnson and Adlai Stevenson with others like Symington Humphrey and Kennedy, while Nixon nears the Republican nomination but avoids asserting new positions. It notes Kennedy's Catholicism as an issue in West Virginia and questions about whether a Catholic can win the nomination.
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Richard M. Nixon
Adlai E. Stevenson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Senate
Johnson
Sen
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Organized Labor
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Kennedy
West Virginia
Humphrey
West
Hazardous Blizzard Crash Highlights First Aid Caution
Dr Crane urges practical home safety lessons from a blizzard accident. Harry B. 34 died after being struck by cars while chasing a hat in a cold Chicago street. the piece emphasizes not leaving victims in cold, maintaining warmth, and basic steps like checking breathing, controlling bleeding, and using soapsuds for disinfection.
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Harry B
Chicago Tribune
Michigan Avenue
Harry
Tribune
A Community Plea for Aged Care and Hospital Aid
The Public Forum.Editor urges support for a social security style insurance for the aged funded by workers and employers. The piece argues doctors and hospitals would gain and that the plan improves care, urging participation in the Sheltering Arms Hospital Auxiliary and thanking Athens Junior Women’s Club for their Red Stocking Revue effort toward a new hospital.
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UMWA
G. G. Young
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Athens
T. H. Morgan
Sheltering Arms Hospital Auxiliary
the Messenger
Athens Junior Women’s Club
Gossip Columnist Tales From After Theater Parties
A gossip columnist boasts of meetings with royalty while an unimpressed producer questions the pace. Cecil DeMille and Cliff Arquette share quips about world trips and jokes, illustrating Hollywood bravado and comic leanings in a 1960 Bennett Cerf piece syndicated by King Features.
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England
Belgium
Netherlands
Hollywood
Cecil de Mille
New York
DeMille
Charley Weaver
Cliff Arquette
Grandma Hogg
Mt. Idy
Bennett Cerf
King Features Syndicate
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Theodore Roosevelt
America
Hoover
Commerce Department
Transportation
Pop
Irma Snicklefritz
Dear Abby
Abigail van Buren
Hubby
George Sokolsky
Rockefeller
Barry Goldwater
Alger Hiss
California
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Symington
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
Has Boyle
U.S
Chicago
U. S
Marcus Porcius Cato
B. C
American
Soviet Union
Britain
Lord Nelson
James Marlow
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Doctor Crane
George W. Crane
the Public Forum
A.M
Ike
Gerald Kyle
Frank Rauch, Jr
The
Sheltering Arms Hospital Foundation
Napoleon
Nelsonville, R. D
Athens Messenger
Cacegt
Messenger
Boatey
D.&s
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Ohio
Associated Press
Geesser Publishing
Ueten St
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