Constitutional majority in Pa Senate a Civil War footnote
The 1864 Pennsylvania Senate faced a deadlock with 16 Republicans, 16 Democrats and one POW, needing 17 votes to function. Sen. Harry White’s resignation from prison broke the tie, shaping a rule still used today. An absentee voting reform proposal seeks to end the constitutional majority that delays bills and empowers the absent to veto.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania General Assembly
Harry White
Indiana County
Harrisburg
Winchester
North Carolina
Pennsylvania Senate
Senate
White
GOP
House
U.S
Congress
Washington
State House
Herbert Fineman
Philadelphia
O Pake bill strengthens child protection in Pennsylvania
The Harrisburg Patriot notes that more than 2,000 cases of child assault by guardians were reported in 1974 with fatalities, and only a tenth of cases may be recorded. Senator Michael O Pake's child protection bill passed the Senate 45 to 0, shifting burden of proof to defendants and granting immunity to reporters.
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Pennsylvania
Michael O’pake
Senate
Harrisburg
State highway bill faces defeat over 80,000 pound truck limit
Beaver County Times reports Gov. Shapp supports House Bill 869 to raise the truck weight limit to 80,000 pounds, risking harsher highway deterioration. Opponents urge defeat, citing unsafe road conditions and the need for infrastructure fixes amid ongoing debates in Harrisburg.
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Shapp
Harrisburg
Gev. Shapp
Pennsylvania
Beaver County
Tragedy of jobless youth sparks debate on reforms
A journalism backgrounder surveys the rise in teenage unemployment, arguing Feldstein favors two reforms: a youth employment service modeled on the British system and subsidies for on the job training via youth employment scholarships. It also surveys Bureau of Labor Statistics data, race gaps highlighted by Bernard E. Anderson, and calls for 500 hours of work experience in high school as a broader solution.
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America
Ford
National Commission On Manpower Policy
U.S
United States
Commission
Eli Ginzberg
Columbia Business School
Congress
House
Senate
Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Isleading
Martin Feldstein
Harvard
Feldstein
B.L.S
Bernard E. Anderson
Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Anderson
Balck
Ginzberg
Columbus
W. Willard Wirtz
Labor
Johnson
National Manpower Institute
Wirtz
White House
Capitol Hill
Soviets Use Lake Ladoga Microwave Beam to Watch U S
From Lake Ladoga near the Russian Finland border the Soviet Union allegedly fires a powerful microwave beam to monitor U S intercontinental missile sites 4500 miles away The beam is said to cause health problems in nearby Finnish towns and is directed from a distant control center The piece cites Dr Milton Zaret linking Finnish illnesses to the installation and notes U S safety standards could trigger Pentagon changes The report also recounts a Wright Patterson wage dispute involving 13 painters unpaid for work and a delayed government remedy
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Soviet Union
U.S
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Les Whiffen
Dakotas
Lake
Ladoga
Leningrad
Kuopio
Joensuu
Ilomantsi
World Health Organization
Koitsanianti
Parikkala
Milton Zaret
Warsaw
Corry
Pentagon
Fuddle
Solomon Ward
West Virginia
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Ohio
H.J. Stewart Company
Air Force and Labor Department
Ward
Ken Hechler
D-W
Air Force
Labor Department
H.4. Stewart
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