Welfare and union abuses spark a political expose
The piece exposes food stamp fraud by a Berkeley hippie and critiques the Labor Department under Landrum Griffin Act enforcement. It details a New Jersey operating engineers local led by Pete Weber, a convicted extortionist, manipulating nominations to keep power, with Larry Cahill blocked from running and Weber’s brother poised to take over.
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International Union of Operating Engineers
Books and labor turmoil pop from a summer reading list
A columnist reviews summer books including Where Am Now- When I Need Me and The Rising Sun while detailing the United Mine Workers ballot abuses under Tony Boyle. The piece shifts to a Navy hair style controversy sparked by Adm Elmo Zumwalt, noting Army and Marine responses and a funded poster program.
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Books praised for history and psychology across eras
A reader recommends James D. McCabe’s Lights and Shadows of New York Life 1872 facsimile noting vivid detail. Irving Stone’s The Passions of the Mind is lauded for Freud biography and Vienna portrait, with critique of overstated passages. B H Liddell Hart’s History of the Second World War is praised as concise and insightful, despite his speculative rewrite style.
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New York
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Irving Stone
Sigmund Freud
Vienna
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B.H. Liddell Hart
Corry social events and local updates noted in column
Corry residents enjoyed a Cousins Club gathering at Mrs. Lowell Fargo's Columbus home with games and awards for Mrs. Katherine Neilson Mrs. Mabel Lawson and Mrs. Warren R. Fargo. Girl Scout Day Camp is planned for Mead Park July 16 and 23 inviting Scouts from Corry Waterford Union City and Wattsburg. Lawrence Airport undergoes a major renovation under Thomas’s supervision this spring. A.L. Sederburg's pool near the State Fish Hatchery remains popular with supervised swimming. The K-9 Ranch rodeo will visit Corry, arranged by the Corry Merchants baseball club’s Booking Manager Cobbett. The piece also reviews several books and authors including The Genis by Red Rudensky Brendan Behan O’Connor Darry Zanuck Alvin Karpis Ruth Adler Navy ship tales and other titles, ending with shop guidance for Corry stores.
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Lowell Fargo
Columbus
Katherine Neilson
Mabel Lawson
Warren R. Fargo
Mead Park
Government employment surges amid rising taxes in U.S.
A Everett Herald piece argues government is the fastest growing U.S. business, with about one in seven Americans employed by government at all levels. It notes government jobs rise faster than private sector work, explaining why tax burdens grow.
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Japanese stocks boom on Tokyo Exchange in 1970
The Tokyo Stock Exchange traded 42.7 billion shares in 1970 as Japan’s economy boomed, dwarfing New York’s 29 billion. Despite high volume, Tokyo’s total equity value was $25.4 billion versus New York’s $636 billion. Foreign buyouts rose, targeting Sony Hitachi Matsushita, with officials hinting at easing capital restrictions in the next liberalization phase.
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