In Defense of the Axe Goredox Contingent Urges McNamara Stand
A defense of Defense Secretary McNamara against a row over closing 95 installations nationwide. The piece lauds the plan as efficient, with phased reductions, retraining, and job absorption, asserting no loss to military strength and potential federal savings near half a billion yearly.
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Washington
Commerce
Labor
Justice
Agriculture
State
Interior
Treasury
Postal Service
Hoover and King Urged to End Public Spat
The piece urges J Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King Jr to resolve their public disagreement privately after Hoover called King the most notorious liar. It notes mutual respect but questions Hoover’s Oswald–Warren Commission issue and suggests a cooling-off period and a private conference as the better path to a sound resolution.
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J. Edgar Hoover
Martin Luther King, Jr
Mr. Hoover
Dr. King
Hoover
Warren Commission
FBI
Secret Service
Lee Harvey Oswald
Dallas
Kennedy
Oswald
UGN Campaign Nearing Goal Led by C C Birr’s Tenacity
United Good Neighbors chairman C C Birr and staff keep working after many would quit. Cedar Rapids campaign history shows goal reached only 18 of 51 drives. This year’s goal tops all previous at 807 918 dollars, with about 7000 dollars still needed but likely to be raised soon.
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Tenacity United Good Neighbors
C. C. Birr
Birr
UGN
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Wallace
United States Senate
John Sparkman
U.S. Senate
Alabama
Senate
Pierre Salinger
Robert Kennedy
U.S
Johnson’s 1965 farm package widens idling cropland plan
President Johnson’s farm bills likely include a land retirement program paying farmers to idle marginal cropland, aiming at up to 40 million idle acres by 1970. The package centers on price supports and diversion payments for wheat and feed grains, cotton subsidies, and continuation of existing programs amid sweeping farm legislation debates.
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Ashington
Johnson
89Th Congress
Congress
House
Harold D. Cooley
D-N. C
House Agriculture Committee
Cooley
G.O.P
U.S
Administration
Remembering John F Kennedy by Mary McGrory
An editorial from The Washington Star on November 23 1963 honors John F Kennedy. It praises his gaiety charm and grace noting his wit public temperance and princely bearing while recalling his warmth and enduring smile.
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Mary McGrory
Washington Star
Alabama Democrats Seize Wallace Blame After Upset
In a wary turn after a Deep South defeat, Alabama Democrats fault Gov. George Wallace for the loss. A Wallace crony says the governor’s posture of standing above the fray is blamed for the setback and the party’s drift toward oblivion.
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Ashington
Alabama
George Wallace
Deep South
Wallace
Montgomery County
Montgomery
Board of Education
Board of Revenue
Glenn Curlee
Elmore County
Congress
James D. Martin
Sparkman
Goldwater
Martin
Democratic Party
Soviet Trade Ambitions and U.S. Policy Debates
The Soviet Union seeks large scale buy of American know how and favors most favored nation status while criticizing U S tariff and credit terms. Washington faces stiff domestic politics as Wallace era alignments shift, with Republicans gaining ground in Alabama and debates over 1966 Senate prospects.
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Soviet Union
Moscow
Foreign Office
State Bank For Foreign Trade
Ministry For Foreign Trade
Chamber of Commerce
U. S
U.S.S.R
United States
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United Press International
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Republic
Petunias
Ageratum
By Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
J. A. Livingston
Livingston
Russia
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
NATO
Ministry of Foreign Trade
Institute of Market Research
Dimitry Kocyukhin
Kremlin
Armistead Selden
Selden
Barry Goldwater
George Andrews
Robert Jones
Judge
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