Nixon Wins Veto Battles In Congress Amid Spending Fight
President Nixon hailed a 51 vote House veto override victory on a $120 million rural water and sewer grant bill and noted a separate Senate sustain of a $2.6 billion handicapped rehabilitation program. The session underscored a clash over federal spending with Republicans backing Nixon and Democrats split on key measures. The defeated water grant would aid small communities while the rehabilitation bill sought broad aid for disabled Americans.
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Nixon
America
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House
Senate
Carl Albert
Congress of the
United States
W. R. Poage
Texas
House Agriculture Committee
Poage
Gerald Ford
Michigan
Court Ends Probe for Hitler Aide Bormann
West Germany closes case on Martin Bormann after a skeleton is identified as Hitler’s deputy. The attorney general says Bormann died May 2 1945 near the Invalidenstrasse bridge in Berlin. The search ends and the arrest warrant is lifted as the family accepts the find.
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Germany
Martin Bormann
Hitler
Invalidenstrasse
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Adolf Hitler
Horst Gauf
Bormann
Fuehrer
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Berchtesgaden
Nuernberg
Hitler Youth
Arthur Axmann Axmannn
Eagleton targets tea tasters wasteful government spending
U S Senator Thomas Eagleton, a Missouri Democrat, denounces the cost of the Board of Tea Tasters at 117000 plus this year. He notes Nixon in 1970 called to abolish it but no action followed. Eagleton proposes fees on tea companies to cover expenses and cites the Tea Appeals Board as still operating.
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Nixon
Thomas Eagleton
Missouri Democrat
Eagleton
Board of Tea Appeals
Lanza Fired by MGM Over Temperament Cost $800000
Movie singer Mario Lanza was dismissed by MGM after accusations that his temperament caused the studio to lose more than $800,000 in production costs and delays.
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Mario Lanza
MGM
Veterans Unit Moves To Spike Insurance Hoax
The Veterans Administration says a long running hoax claiming WWII veterans receive a special dividend is false. It notes inquiries and a standard reply letter, stressing only WWII I veterans with active government life insurance receive annual dividends, not the supposed 50 cent per $1000 bonus.
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Spike Insurance
Washington
Veterans Administration
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