One Request to Congress Feed Our Hungry Millions
Editorial urges Congress to enact a free food stamp program with uniform eligibility and expanded commodity distribution. Cites hunger cases from hunger and malnutrition reports, urging action after mass media and marches pressure. Notes bills by Byrd Mondale and Sullivan and calls for voters to demand feeding the hungry.
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Cochairmen
Benjamin Mays
Morehouse College
Leslie Dunbar
Field Foundation
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Robert C. Byrd
Walter Mondale
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Enforce Law Not Moralize in Charleston Demonstration Clash
An editorial argues Charleston police should enforce laws not impose personal views during a Lee Street Triangle clash between peace demonstrators and hecklers. It notes officers knew of the gathering, warns against letting bias affect duty, and stresses lawful protection for peaceful assembly and against disturbance of the peace.
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Charleston
Lee Street Triangle
We Too Wish The Lady Well For Rep Sullivan
The St Louis Post Dispatch notes Rep Leonor Sullivan faces no opposition in the August 6 Missouri Democratic primary for an eighth term. The paper praises her progressive record on housewives and consumers, meat and poultry inspections, the Food Stamp Act, housing law, and civil rights support, urging victory for the people.
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Leonor EK. Sullivan
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Readers Forum and Letters on Religion and Politics
A readers section features letters criticizing a columnist, debating faith and birth control, and urging political action in West Virginia. Contributors include Ruth Williams, D L Stone, B D Keldin, u L Stone, and K E Given, touching on charity, road bonds, and death control.
Humility and hubris mix in a mock acceptance speech
Russell Baker mocks political conventions with a delivered speech that never happened. The satire riffs on humility ego and a hypothetical victorious campaign with renown names and political promises rendered hollow.
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New York Times Service
Miami Beach
Republicans Steal Their Show At Miami Convention
Miami Beach dispatch reports friction as Republicans vie for spotlight at a national convention. press club head Hazlitt Harbinger cites bias against reporters and calls for safeguards, limiting Republican presence on the convention floor and in caucuses. Rockefeller Brinkley Nixon Huntley referenced as influential figures amid the dispute.
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Republican Party
Hazlitt Harbinger
National Political Convention Press Club
Harbinger
Miami
America
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Richard Nixon
Walter Cronkite
Nelson Rockefeller
Happy
David Brinkley
Chet Huntley
Charntiet
Politicians, conventions stir strong words and satire
At the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach critics mock the process while diplomats watch. The piece cites Heywood Broun and H. L. Mencken as it examines the enduring images of American politics and the tension between revolution and law and order in the drive toward national conventions.
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Miami Beach
Heywood Broun
Ware Luce
Washington
The
Republic
Chicago
Supreme Court
Ferdinand Lundber
Foundling Fathers
H. L. Mencken
Mencken
Hill
Dale
War on poverty cited by insurance man Montgomery
A note dated Aug 8 1968 from N Montgomery an insurance man in City discusses how insurance firms involve themselves in the war on poverty. The item references a longer story on page 47.
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Frank
X. N. Montgomery
Political conventions and the drift toward unity
A columnist critiques a party convention as a patchwork with little purpose, noting a cross section of society choosing the GOP nominee. The piece cites A J McLaurin, Alexander Pope, and George Orwell to warn that party unity ideals mask self interest and pervasive political deception.
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Ken Hubbard
GOP
Cros
Sen
A. J. McLaurin
Republican Party
McLaurin
Alexander Pope
George Orwell
Potomac Fever and Political Rhetoric Across 1968 News
A collection of sharp political quips touches on a House vote to defund student rioters and debates over policing, U S foreign policy in Cleveland, an aborted Pueblo crisis, a Dior shop bombing in Paris, a bankrupt Paris husband, and Te Ron Reagan’s stance on presidential runs.
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Christian Dior
Paris
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