Solons Press Dubious Damage Claims In Navy Payout Row
Four powerful Louisiana Democrats push to settle $73.5 million in unsubstantiated Avondale Shipyards claims. Navy officials faced political pressure from House and Senate leaders, with Yardley Rule vetoing the $73 million until full factual support is shown. Excerpts to follow.
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Edward Hebert
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Allen Elfender
Senate Finance
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Avondale
Adm
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Sonenshein
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In Our Opinion on Broadcast News Versus Print
The Journal argues that spoken word media often misleads and forgets details while on the spot TV coverage excels for big events. Radio and TV repeat, shorten, and gloss stories, unlike newspapers, which remain available in print for reference.
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Mentator
Bangkok
FDR Romance and a Treasury of Hyde Park Memorabilia
A retrospective on Franklin D. Roosevelt highlights his Hyde Park archive as a vast tide of items from 50 million pieces to personal artifacts. It notes lifelong habits, Top Cottage, and a long romance with Lucy Page Mercer Rutherford, set against the presidency and world history.
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Hudson River
Henry J. Toombs
Atlanta
Lucy Page Mercer Rutherford
The Great Leveling Act By Bill Eaton
The piece argues that youth culture now carves a classless style through footwear hair and fashion. It notes shift from conspicuous wealth to imitating poverty with sandals short shorts and combed straight hair. Designers push hot pants fueling the trend, while youth strive for a classless society at personal cost.
Word meanings through the years spark Randoph opinion
Grass roots opinion from Randolph in the Enterprise questions how word square has changed from Mark Twain era. It contrasts honesty loyalty and thrift with the current crop of angle-players corner-cutters and goof-offs, arguing squares are decent but misread today.
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OVA
Enterprise
Mark Twain
Joe
Watt sburg Fair Aids Corry Attendance Record
In Corry the Watt sburg Fair drew crowds as weather boosted turnout with about 3,000 attendees yesterday and a similar crowd at last night’s show. Frederick Ahl marked his ninth birthday on Tuesday August 29 at a parents’ party on Chestnut Street. A scorching sun pushed Corry’s official temperature to 90 and a half degrees. August 30, 1931 Sunday. No paper.
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Frederick Ahl
Corry
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