Scoop Jackson Faces 1976 Democratic Challenge
Washington Senator Henry M. Jackson, backed by Mayor Daley and George Meany, pursues the Democratic nomination amid support among Jewish donors and liberals. He advocates a strong defense, nuclear capability, and a tough trade stance while debating busing and the energy crisis, aiming to unite the party but risking McGovern-era divides.
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Cook County
Daley
Chicago
Fettle
Henry M. Jackson
Washington
Scoop Jackson
Jackson
Mayor Daley
George Meany
Robert Strauss
Miami Beach
Daley- Meany
Watergate
George McGovern
McGovern
Edward Kennedy
Gas pumper's price squeeze protests oil policy
Ronald T. Alderman argues major oil firms and the Cost of Living Council hurt gasoline retailers. He describes April limits, Phase Four price cuts, a September wholesale-to-retail hike, and potential station closures to draw public pressure on lawmakers Sen. Stafford Rep. Mallory and Sen. Aiken. Letters policy noted.
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Cost of Living Council
CLC
Ser
Sen. Stafford
Rep
Mallory
Sen
Aiken
Washington
The Bennington catamount on the Fay’s Tavern sign tale
A reader argues the Bennington catamount was hoisted atop the sign at Fay’s Tavern around March 1791, with a chain of local history linking land disputes with New York, Vermont statehood, and the animal’s later removal by spring rains.
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Bennington
Vermont
New York
Green Mountain Boys
Mount Anthony
Fay
Congress
Keep your cotton pickin hands off the Granite State
William Loeb publisher of the Manchester Union Leader and Gov Medrim Thomson Jr. criticize Senate Watergate investigators in New Hampshire over questions about a Muskie letter. The editorials provoke readers with Loeb’s outspoken stance, bold rhetoric, and clashes with presidents governors and senators.
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Granite State
William Loeb
Manchester
N.H
Sam J. Ervin
Senate Select Watergate Committee
Loeb
New Hampshire
Edmund S. Muskie
Medrim Thomson Jr
Editorial Fire and Brimstone in The American Way
The writer, portrayed as mild and hospitable, delivers sharp editorials against public officials and investigates political figures. He urges Senator Ervin to halt Nazi Russia style investigations in New Hampshire, praises publisher Bill Loeb, and questions Nixon era aides, suggesting more publishers like Loeb would improve the country.
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Ervin
Nazi Germany
Russia
New Hamsphire
New Hampshire
Palace Guard
Bill Loeb
Manchester Union
Bennington Girl Links Man to Doping Claim in Court
In Chittenden County court Miss Katherine Humphries testifies that David MacCracken gave her "dope" and kept her "in his power" from May 5 to 6 during the Vermont State Music Festival in Burlington. She and MacCracken are later detained in Detroit. The trial resumes amid other county notices as two girls die and their mother remains critical.
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David MacCracken
Bennington
Chittenden County Court
Katherine Humphries
MacCracken
Burlington
Humphries
MacCrack
Vermont
Bennington High School
Detroit
Bennington adds first local zoning law in four towns
A two-car head on collision on U S 7 at 7 30 am claimed Diane Della Chaffee 13 and left May Cindy Chaffee 2 dead at Putnam Memorial Hospital. Their mother Mrs Lawrence A Chaffee 42 in critical condition with severe injuries. The village of Old Bennington passed a zoning ordinance unanimously becoming the first of four towns to enact current zoning. The new code replaces a 1932 ordinance once deemed invalid by Village Counsel George H Plumb in 1962.
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U.S
Diane Della Chaffee
May Cindy Chaffee
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Lawrence A. Chaffee
Pownal Center
Old Bennington
Bennington
George H. Plumb
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Ragu
Walker
Ronald V. B. Sinclair
Elm Street
Carver Childs
Sheraton
Francis van Buren
China
Childs
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Joyce Hall
Saturday Evening Post
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George E. Hughes
Chuckie’’ Marsh
Lee Marsh
Arlington
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Camp David, Md
U.S. Supreme Court
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