Due Process in FTC Power Debate Editorial
Paul Rand comments on FTC chair Dixon's push for immediate cease and desist orders in advertising. He argues rapid action could label advertisers as guilty, chilling innovation and misleading customers. He urges reliance on due process and existing 1914 enforcement to protect rights.
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1947 Factory Worker Income Rise Highlights Tax Increase
Tax Foundation data show average factory workers income rising from 3031 to 5620 dollars, a 65 percent gain. Tax liability with a wife and two children climbs from 138.32 to 531.90 dollars, up 284 percent.
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Tax Foundation, Inc
Reader letters on veterans loans and mayoral endorsements
Readers praise the Cal Vet program noting 14 000 veterans aided with no taxpayer cost and loan repayment cited. A second letter protests mayoral office endorsements of candidates, urging neutrality and noting support should be personal, not official.
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Daily Review
Mayor Scared Halter In The Matt
A letter from the Office of the Mayor in San Leandro criticizes endorsing any candidate for State Superintendent of Schools. Editor Joehane Doyle praises leadership in education and supports Dr Jafferty Rafferty for statewide reform, citing better textbooks and core teaching.
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Max Rafferty
Jafferty
State Superintendent of Schools
California
San Leandro vote solicitation sparks letters to editor
Readers criticize a mail campaign for Valance Gill in district 2 signed by Mayor Jack Maltester on city stationery. Envelopes show from the Office of the Mayor, but small print says printing and postage aren’t city-paid. A second letter thanks Dr. Russell Kirk’s piece on state medical care and calls for clearer patient information from doctors.
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Valance Gill
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Mayor's Office Letter Sparks Candidate Bias Protest
A reader protests a letter from the Office of the Mayor endorsing Valarie Gill for Jed District Supervisor. The writer calls for fair representation and objects to the mayor using official channels to back a candidate. They state they will file a protest.
Subversion Fight Highlighted by Hoover and Courts
The piece cites J Edgar Hoover warning that denying subversive threats risks national suicide and notes congressional probes into internal communism. It references the ABA report on Communist tactics and Rosalie Gordon's book Nine Men Against America, plus a Federal judge's warning about overprotecting the guilty and a director of the FBI warning against subversion immunity.
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J. Edgar Hoover
United States
American Bar Association
Special Committee
Rosalie Gordon
One Life Echoes In Dr Kirk Story And Chance
Dr Russell Kirk recalls a chance meeting on a Chesapeake and Ohio train with a former traffic engineer who becomes a symbol that one life is very like another. The piece muses on fate, personal drift, and finding happiness in work, ending with a note on how one plays the game rather than winning.
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Irving Babbitt
Red China birth control crisis echoes in world growth
Marquis Childs notes China’s failed birth control push of 1955 amid rising population. He cites Population Reference Bureau estimates of 12 to 16 million annual growth, food supply strains, and potential civil disturbance by 1965–66 if surpluses and transport capacity fail to keep pace. The piece discusses foreign aid, famine history, and regional population pressures as drivers of policy and conflict risk.
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Population Reference Bureau
China
Kennedy Economy Spars With Heller and Taylor Critique
An opinion piece scorches President Kennedy and his advisers, debunking Dr. W. W. Heller and Henry J. Taylor. It argues fundamental industries are failing while government action repeats FDR era measures. The author warns of recession unless leadership shifts toward self-reliance and private enterprise.
Senate clash over new public works power for JFK
Senator Barry Goldwater urges a $600 million immediate public works program and a $2 billion standby fund allowing the President to spend beyond Congress. The standby power would activate after unemployment rises 1 percent within three months, transferring purse strings to the White House and drawing funds from World Bank and federal agencies. Republicans condemn the plan as an unprecedented executive power grab risking vast raid of specific funding.
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Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Senate Finance Committee
Feleral Deposit Insurance Corp
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp
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