Magazine translation project aims to plain English jargon
Washington University plans a magazine titled Interaction to render sociological and academic jargon into plain English. Editor Myron Schwartz, with critiques of Mills and Koerner, questions whether translating PhD prose yields clear insight or mere gloss.
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St. Louis
Washington University
Interaction
Social Science
Myron Schwartz
Dr. Schwartz
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Miners’ Union
AFL
United Mine Workers’ Convention
Lewis
Green
Mr. Lewis
League of Nations
Schwartz
James Koer
Jeremiah and Ruskin on pride and sorrow
A reflective note cites Jeremiah 13 17 about weeping for a captive flock and adds John Ruskin on pride as the root of many errors. The quotation links spiritual lament with a warning about pride as a recurring human flaw.
WV Welfare Faces Scrutiny After ADC Ineligibility Report
A federal survey shows 17 percent of West Virginia Aid to Dependent Children recipients were ineligible and 38 percent had irregularities such as overpayments. Senator Byrd urged alarm, noting prior state investigations had already trimmed cases, raising questions about the true ineligibility rate.
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West Virginia
Robert C. Byrd
D-W.va
Washington
Byrd
Zooming Taxes and Burden on State Local Governments
The piece compares rising costs of federal and state local governments. It notes state local employment growing from 412 million to seven million and monthly pay rising to 2.6 billion. Tax collections climbed to 20.6 billion in 1962 from 10 billion in 1952, fueling calls for new tax sources.
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Tax Foundation, Inc
Fine Idea on Salaries Tied to National Debt Cuts
A pair of House bills propose raising Congressional pay by one percent for every billion dollars shaved from the national debt, but would also cut pay as debt rises. If enacted in 1943, today’s salaries would be about half the 1948 scale, a politically unlikely but intriguing idea.
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Pancho Gonzalez
Bill Tilden
James M. Buchanan
Gordon Tulloch
House of Representatives
Congress
Immigration Service
Guatemala
Marcello
Banana Republic
United States
George Lincoln Rockwell
Washington
Virginia
Daily Telegraph
Atlanta, Ga
Drew Pearson PHS Has A Funny Pharmacy Fund
Drew Pearson reports the Public Health Service provided 100800 dollars to the American Pharmaceutical Association to study pharmacies as community health centers with further funds to the University of Pittsburgh. APhA executivesPaid staff include George Griffenhagen. Critics question public benefit versus pharmacy interests.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
Jack Anderson
Public Health Service
American Pharmaceutical Association
William Apple
University of Pittsburgh
George Archambault
Brass
Apha
PHS Pharmacy
Archambault
George Griffenhagen
Apple
Armstrong Cork Company
PHS
Fifty Years Ago and More In World Affairs And Schools
A recap of past events from five to ten decades earlier highlighting President Wilson seeking peaceful Mexico talks Warren G Haring buried in Marion Ohio Cuba under Machado declares revolutionary war and U S Navy sinking Japanese ships in the Solomons Mac Bowles named Bluefield High principal from Triadelphia High School Wheeling
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Wilson
U.S
Mexico
Warren G. Haring
Marion
Ohio
Gerardo Machado
Cuba
Mac Bowles
Triadelphia High School
Wheeling
Bluefield High School
Fourteenth Amendment in Questionable Legal Status
Washington opinion notes that the Fourteenth Amendment may not have been validly adopted. Everett C. McKeage argues Congress could undo the amendment with a 51 percent vote, leading to possible resubmission for state ratification. The piece discusses historical proclamations, state withdrawals, and Supreme Court refusals to rule on adoption.
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Washington
Congress
Everett C. McKeage
San Francisco
American Bar Association
California Public Utilities Commission
Superior Court
Seward
Ohio
New Jersey
United States
Secretary of State
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
Mr. McKeage
Reconstruction Congress
A Wish from May Ward for Old Danish Furniture
The speaker laments replacing middle-aged furniture with Danish designs and decorator colors. She asks to undo the furniture’s fate, wishing to return sawn oak to trees and spin wool back onto sheep, craving comfort over trend.
Ward’s fall and the Reuters of a tawdry cast
In a satiric voice the piece recalls Doctor Stephen Ward and the Profumo affair, contrasting Ward as a humane yet flawed figure with a cast of entangled figures. The narrator critiques press sensationalism, politics, and moral decline amid a summer of scandal and power games.
Goldwater Proposes Railway Labor Act Featherbedding Ban
Barry Goldwater urges an amendment to the Railway Labor Act to ban featherbedding in rail and air industries. He cites the Lea Act and United States v Petrillo, arguing courts will decide what constitutes reasonably needed workers and that unions should not compel excess staffing.
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Congress
United States
Caution Needed In Boycotts And Autos
Two readers discuss social unrest and automobile safety. J Spencer Thompson urges negotiated action and intergroup discussion to avoid upheaval, while J C Rarick Sr. argues for strict traffic enforcement and shares a dramatic 55 mph crash account to stress driver responsibility.
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