Minnesota Ends Nonpartisan Legislature Era
The Minnesota Legislature abandons nonpartisan designations with a party label bill set to take effect in 1974. Governor Wendell R. Anderson endorses the change, ending decades of unofficial liberal conservative labels and linking voters to Democratic Farmers Labor or Republican parties.
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Minnesota
Wendell R. Anderson
Nebraska
Legislative
Democratic Farmer Labor
Republican
License Commercial Tax Preparers Under Senate Hearing
IRS spot checks show nearly half of returns prepared by others contained inaccuracies or fraudulent statements. A Senate subcommittee weighs licensing and testing for commercial preparers, with exemptions for some professionals and penalties for preparers who err.
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Internal Revenue Service
Senate Appropriations
L. Hart Wright
University of Michigan Law School
Henry W. Block
Abraham A. Ribicoff
IRS
Area Congress Voted On Grants Taxes and REAP
Between February 26 and March 2 area lawmakers backed a bill to reinstate an Agriculture Department water and sewer grant program for small rural communities and supported a 15 month extension of the U S investment tax. In the Senate REAP and wetlands protections were approved, with Saxbe not voting and Taft voting against on the REAP amendment.
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Washington
Congress
HOUSE
Agriculture Department
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Clarence E. Miller
Lancaster
U.S
Nixon
U.S. Treasury
U. S
Miller
Senate
William B. Saxbe
Robert Taft Jr
Agriculture
Saxbe
Taft
Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare
Education Racket Spurs Conservative Letter from Kansas Retiree
A Kansas retiree denounces public schools in a forceful letter, arguing conservatives face hostility for backing basic skills. She criticizes education schools, new administrators, gadgetry, and textbook schemes, calling the system a stalled, commercialized racket and proposing private school tuition grants as a fix.
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Washington
Kansas
Missouri
Ohio Legislature Stumbles as New Assembly Grinds On
In Columbus the 110th General Assembly moves slowly with inexperience and politics delaying action. House leaders and Senate members await major bills, while 603 measures sit unsigned by Gov Gilligan as of March 9. The budget debate centers on Gilligan’s 9.7 billion plan amid rising internal tensions.
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Columbus
Ohio
110Th General Assembly
A. G. Lancione
Bellaire
Senate
House
John J. Gilligan
Gilligan
Ted W. Brown
Lancione
109Th General Assembly
Ways and Means
Capitol
Broad St
Growth politics shift France Japan and United States
Peter Washington offers the growth politics theory to explain rapid economic expansion and political shifts. He notes France’s 6 percent annual growth thinning Gaullist control, Japan’s swing to Socialists and Communists, and U.S. Democratic majorities braking growth. The pattern favors divided governments and redefined party roles.
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Japan
France
Herman Kahn
Hudson Institute
Europe
Nicholas Wahl
Princeton
Wahl
Liberal Democratic Party
Liberal Democrats
Kakuei Tanaka
Tokyo
Washington
Nixon
Congress
Gallup poll in France mirrors outcome of first round
The French Gallup Poll five days before France's first round shows the government party at 36 percent, later 38.1 percent with 90 percent of votes counted. Socialist, Communist and Centrist Reformers also align with actual results, across eight nations averaging 0.7 percentage points error. The U.S. 1972 pre election estimate was within 0.2 points of Nixon’s share, preserving Gallup’s accuracy.
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Princeton
N.J
Gallup
France
Socialist Party
Communist Party
REO
Ices
U.S
Nixon
America
Fragmented Historical Snippet Contains Royal Betrothal and Wartime Remarks
The piece blends old quotes about Princess Ileana’s betrothal to Bulgarian royalty and Truman and MacArthur political notes with a family diary line. It juxtaposes wartime admonitions with domestic humor about a mother adopting Kellogg’s All-Bran. The source mixes era reflections and casual household chatter.
Messenger Publishing Co. subscription rates and address
The Athens Messenger announces its delivery options and rates for daily and Sunday editions. It lists prices for carrier, tube route, and mail subscriptions across Ohio, West Virginia, and nationwide, and provides the Athens return address for mail.
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D&s
Ohio
West Virginia
Athens
The
Messenger Publishing Co
Johnson Head
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Fred W. Weber
M. W. McDargh
G. Kenner Bush
Charles W. Reamer
Richard R. Paynter
Nonpartisanship
James Kilpatrick
Peter
Joseph Kraft
Gaullist
Small Society
Brickman
Interest
Bic Kater
Gallup Actual Devia
Ileana
Romania
Boris
Bulgaria
Edward Cecil
Harry Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Kelley
Che Athens
Smessenger
Associated Press
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