Brown Manager In Name Only
GOV Edmund G Brown has long basked in left field cheer without paying patrons backing his moves. He ignored Berkeley’s anti housing vote and backed Rumford, lost voters to Yorty, and faced defections at the convention. The piece argues Brown governs in name only, beholden to radical left and non paying fans, risking the party’s fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmund G. Brown
Brown
William ¥. Knowland
Richard Nixon
Berkeley
Rumford
California Democratic Council
Jack Wedemeyer
Jack
Carmen Warshaw
Warshaw
Alan Cranston
Hayward Mother attacks teacher review board and bans classic authors
A letter to The People Speak condemns a proposed Hayward Castro Valley teacher review board for banning works by Shakespeare Chaucer Dryden and others. The writer derides censorship as a modern Inquisition and warns the move would ban many canonical authors for alleged pornographic content. The piece likens the stance to the Birch Society and calls for open discussion rather than censorship.
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Hayward
Shakespeare
Chaucer
Dryden
Swift
Aristophanes
Moliere
Walt Whitman
Voltaire
Debate editor asks why Gov Brown seeks outside help from reporters
Castro Valley reader Andrew A. Koval questions Governor Brown on using outside reporters for a debate with Mr Reagan. He urges a direct state issues only Q&A, stressing the governorship as a state office and asking for a clear exchange on state matters.
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Brown
Reagan
Andrew A. Koval
Castro Valley
This Day In Review Highlights Key Historical Moments
United Press International notes events across centuries including Britain's abolition of slavery, WEAF radio sponsorships in 1922, Japan’s peace note in 1941, a 1963 Civil Rights march with over 200000 demonstrators in Washington, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s line urging deep passion in winning a woman’s hand.
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Japan
United States
Washington
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Taxing Situation In California Politics
A Bay Area political sketch notes tax shifts that raise house payments next year, as Assembly Bill 80 and uniform assessment rules draw fire from Patrick Petris supporters and opponents. The item also touches local figures and the Indian burial grounds controversy, plus labor federation rifts and Fremont party leadership clashes in a broad, pointed column.
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Alameda County
Nicholas Petris
Oakland
Kelly
Petris
Little Nick
C. J. Hearn
Hearn
Pettis
Nick
Newark Kiwanis Club
Punt Pass Play ORO LOMA Indian in political football
Wimpy Winterbourne, director and former Oro Loma football figure, stirs a district bond issue before June elections and again campaigns to back a new bond in the fall. At Annapolis they might call him a man who sinks the ship then seeks to crew the next voyage.
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Wimpy Winterbourne
Allro Loma
Winterbourne
Oro‘Loma
Annapolis
Wimpy
Rewriting the Record for Political Benefit
A column criticizes political spin in California labor policy, contrasting Sen. George Murphy with Rep. John J. McFall. It recaps bracero labor debates of 1965 and 1964, noting shifts by Wirtz and bipartisan reactions. The piece accuses McFall of rewriting history and omitting Murphy’s role, calling the portrayal a major whopper.
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George Murphy
George
California
Wirtz
Mexico
Murphy
John J. McFall
Manteca
Department of Labor
Congress
Harold T. Johnson
Sen
Rachel
Yorktown
Washington
McFall
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Watts
Los Angeles
Samuel Yorty
Matt
Joe McCarthy
Sophocles
John Donne
Henry Fielding
Boccaccio
Rabelais
Ben Jonson
Hemingway
Faulkner
Steinbeck
Hardy
Christopher Marlowe
Omar Khayyam
Oscar Wilde
James Michener
Shelley
Byron
Moscow
Hamlet
King Lear
Falstaff
Prince Hal
Mercutio
Juliet
Nurse
Othello
Thersites
Cleopatra
J. D. Salinger
Antony and
Julus Caesar
Venus and
Adonis
Troilus
Cressida
The
Birch Society
United Press International
Empire
New York
WEAF
Uur
Senator
Abe Lincoln
Southlander
Colin C. Kelley
Piedmont
South County
Daily Review
American Indian Historical Society
Jeannetta Costa
Jim
East Bay Labor Journal
Robert Coate
Journal
Ronald Reagan
California Labor Federation
San Diego
Labor
Fremont
Fremont Democrats
Fremont Democratic Club
General Demo
James Bray
Fremont Democratic
James O'Donnell
Bray
O’donnell Ernst
Oro Loma
Morrie Ryskind
Beniuses
Willard Wirtz
Thomas H. Kuchel
Roseville
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