County Commissioners Stand Firm Against Federal Human Resources Ploy
Erie County officials rejected a Washington firm’s plan to fund a new human resources bureau with 190000 dollars, arguing the plan duplicates existing programs and could trigger a flood of federal money. The county, with a balanced budget, has until December 31 to decide.
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Jud Breslin
Washington D.C
Pennsylvania Department of Community Affairs
Erie County
Uncle Sam
Parishioners attend dedication at St Pauls Lutheran church
More than 200 parishioners gathered for the dedication of the new parsonage at St Pauls Lutheran church as Dr G Lawrence Hillelman president of the Pittsburgh Synod preached. A heavy wet snow impeded travel causing at least one accident with about 900 dollars in damage on area roads.
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St. Paul's Lutheran Church
G. Lawrence Hillelman
Pittsburgh Synod of the
United Lutheran Church In America
Christmas Tree tax bill tricks families and taxpayers
Washington report says end of year rush to adjourn drives quick votes on a tax measure said to aid Vietnam veterans families of missing servicemen. The package is loaded with gifts for lobbyists clients, including a multi million dollar deduction for trona ore used by Allied Chemical FMC and Stauffer. Senator Clifford Hansen added the major allowance benefiting chemical firms.
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Washington
Indochina
House
Senate
Clifford Hansen
R-Wyo
Tax gifts and political gifts in Christmas tree bills
A staff memo warns Nelson about resistance from other firms as senators debate tax concessions. The piece notes amendments by Hansen and Mills promising benefits to corporations, auto dealers, and distributors to the Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, and other entities, with White House involvement and industry lobbying. It also covers Goldwater Haig clashes, Rebozo probes, Papadopoulos’ fall, and diplomatic embarrassment over U S support.
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White House
U.S
Netherlands Antilles
Antilles
Leonard Silverstein
House Ways and Means
Wilbur Mills
Santa Claus
Nixon
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Republican Party
Goldwater
Alexander Haig
House
Spiro Agnew
Haig
Senate
Bebe Rebozo
Louis Mastriana
Rebozo
George Papadopoulos
Greece
Richard Gary Colbert
Papadoupoulos
Henry Tasca
Papadopoulos
1929 Year in a Trunk Narratives and Echoes
A diaristic year end note from December 31 1929 reflects on Broadway to Hollywood, stock market collapse and Prohibition era brews, with vivid mentions of Elinor Dunning Eddie Cantor Ruth Gehrig Garbo and Hoover. The writer imagines a future asking what 1929 was like and vows to record impressions for youngsters.
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Frank Carson
Wall Street
Eddie Cantor
New housing approach defines housing-deprived households
The Joint Center for Urban Studies at MIT and Harvard adds a new statistic to the U S portrait: 13.1 million of 63.4 million households are housing-deprived. They define deprivation as unsound units, overcrowding, high cost, or poor neighborhoods, noting many in sound buildings remain deprived.
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New York
United States
Joint
Center For Urban Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard
Mit-Harvard
Center
Bernard Frieden
David Birch
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