Big Givers Fire Up Ohio Campaign Finance Debate
A weekend surge in campaign finance reports shows Ohioans for Jobs and Progress funded by major state business groups. The Ohio Contractors Association publicly disclosed nearly 400000 dollars backing the four point economic package, with supporters arguing disclosure aids voter decision making and transparency.
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Ohioans For Jobs and Progress
Ohio Contractors Association
OCA
Caribbean
On Again Guns: Handgun Control Debate Returns in Congress
The 94th Congress is likely to weigh handgun control measures after assaults on President Ford. Proposals would ban the Saturday night special while allowing sporting handgun ownership, using quality standards to deter criminal use and imposing mandatory sentences for crimes committed with firearms.
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94Th Congress
Gerald R. Ford
Congress
Alowing
Common Situs Picketing Threatens Freedom in Construction
A citizen plea urges Senators to block the common situs picketing bill feared to empower unions to shut down multi subcontractor sites. The piece likens the omnibus bill to Mussolini era controls, warns of forced arbitration, and argues for safeguarding free labor practices and independent contractors.
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Anthony Harrigan
U.S. Senate
America
National Right To Work Committee
Building Trades Unions
Senate
Pepa
Oem
Sien
Labor
Dunlop
Mussolini
National Recovery Administration
U.S. Supreme Court
Nelsonville P T O thanks donors for fall festival success
Letter from The Messenger notes the Nelsonville Elementary P T O raised about two thousand dollars at a one day fall festival with thanks to organizations and individuals. The writer recounts a February 1974 sidewalk accident near W State Street cemetery claiming city liability questions and lack of action after reports.
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the Messenger
Nelsonville
P.T.O
W. State St
Service-Safety Director
Council
Nothmg
Issue 4 housing amendment seen as best of package
Associated Press Ohio voters weigh Issue 4 to empower the Ohio Housing Development Board to issue up to 1 billion in revenue bonds to fund housing and nursing home facilities. Supporters cite a deep housing slump, rising costs, and lower bond rates, while critics warn on bond rates and nursing home provisions. The AFL-CIO backs the housing aim despite concerns.
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William Kronholm
Associated Press
Columbus, Ohio
General Assembly
Ohio Housing Development Board
Ohio
Michigan
Urban Development Corporation
New York
UDC
Ohio Afl-Cio
Sup
Beanie Becomes Bond Bound in White House Parable
A Wall Street era fable shows a poor mayor Beanie Beame unable to sell his inherited bonds to relieve poverty. He travels to a lavish White House ball to offer them to Uncle Gerald the Grand Gumchewer, only to be told the bonds’ sale won’t solve his debt and that the elite bear their own burdens. The allegory ends with a cruel ruler’s policy contrasting mercy and hardship.
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Washington
Beanie
Hugh Cary
Beame
Gerald
White House
Uncle Gerald
Eric Sevareid and the true catechism of the right wing
A reader recalls Sevareid’s take on conservative doctrine, listing themes such as disorder over injustice and free market supremacy. The piece then mentions Burgess’s Macbeth-lecture analogy about a student reciting the true catechism.
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Eric Sevareid
Ford
Anthony Burgess
City College
New York
Burgess
Macbeth
Macbeth and Burgess on Ambition and Waste in Politics
A 1930 column contrasts Shakespearean themes with modern media analysis. It critiques Sevareid’s disjunctions, argues conservatives oppose waste, and notes one network's biased coverage. It cites Burgess, Sevareid, Feuer, and English parliamentary openness as benchmarks.
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Sevareidiaus
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William J. Buckley
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Small Society
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Sevareid
AFTRA
Lewis Feuer
Eric Sevaried
England
House of Commons
Rogers
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