Senate rewrites fate of budget office power shift
The article notes the 1921 creation of the Bureau of the Budget, its 1939 move to the White House, and 1970 renaming to the Office of Management and Budget. Senator Byrd cites expanded powers and calls for Senate confirmation, and the Senate votes 63 to 17 to subject OM&E top offices to confirmation, signaling renewed congressional oversight.
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Treasury Department
Andrew Mellon
Treasury
Alexander Hamilton
F.D. Roosevelt
White House
Senate
Secretary of the Treasury
Roosevelt
Congress
Bureau of the Budget
Virginia
Harry F. Byrd
Office ‘of Management and Budget
Byrd
Office
Om&b
Om&e
Ike And The Cross Of Iron Ghostwritten Speech
A ghostwritten Ike speech circulated claims to slash defenses amid a world at war. It contrasts Ike with Sherman, denounces war’s costs, and argues losing a war endangers freedom, urging burial of the impressionistic remarks attributed to Eisenhower.
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Eisenhower
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Dwight Eisenhower
Soviet Union
China
Pearl Harbor
Wm. T. Sherman
Sherman
Ike
William Jennings Bryan
Rival on Jefferson Street Sparks Private Enterprise Debate
Col S Stone Gregory Jr has long led in private enterprise in Java and environs. A new rival may be forming on Jefferson Street as a man named Sam advertises an unusual mix of goods and services at 669 recently listed as unoccupied. Items for sale include old rubber dust, compost, sauna baths, whole chickens for carry out, hot dogs to eat, and free arthritis treatment. Harry Link also may be affected as Sam begins to offer diversified wares. The piece stresses enterprise, market needs, and local entrepreneurial spirit.
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Gregory
Harry Link
Sam
McGovern Speech At Oxford Sparks Debate On Sports Metaphor
Washington critique highlights George McGovern's Oxford address January 21 as a mix of sharp insights and bluster. The piece notes Nixon's November victory and argues McGovern fails to grasp the public mood and the sportslike nature of politics, accusing him of insult to the presidency and the idea of good sport.
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Washington
George McGovern
Oxford
South Dakota
Richard Nixon
Peter
Andrew
McGovern
England
Science and religion clash over Creation in school texts
The National Academy of Sciences urges California to exclude as nonquantifiable supernatural accounts of special creation from public school science textbooks, arguing science rests on objective criteria. The piece contrasts this with California boards seeking to present creation and evolution side by side, and cites philosophers and scientists on religion’s role in understanding biological development.
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National Academy of Science
California
Academy
State Board of Education
Charles Darwin
Academy of Science
Mircea Eliade
Albert Einstein
Nixon economic victory in a market rather than battlefield
Russell Kirk argues Nixon and his advisers frame the Cold War as a competition in the marketplace not the battlefield. He claims the President has several economic successes that could boost his popularity through fireside chats, though he warns against bragging as it may backfire.
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Washington
D.C
Nixon
Phase II free enterprise in U S outperforms Soviet system
A political portrait contrasts American wage and price policy with Soviet shortages. It notes Phase II economic liberalization, reduced inflation, and rising citizen earnings in the United States while warning of Brezhnev’s 1971 75 targets and Russian labor inefficiency. It suggests US gains amid Soviet output criticisms and a looming defense budget squeeze as farm spending rises.
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Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Council of Ministers
Russia
Liberty
Nixon
Ussr
Washington
Arab cabal at work behind scenes in Washington
Ralph de Toledano claims a quiet, high-stakes power game in Washington over the Middle East. He alleges pressure from diplomats representing the Communist bloc, the African bloc, and Arab countries to push a settlement favorable to Egypt and Jordan, targeting Israel with a military aid cutback. He names Secretary of State Rogers, President Nixon, and Henry Kissinger as central figures amid press and political responses shaped by oil profits.
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Washington
Middle East
State Department
Israel
Egypt
Jordan
William P. Rogers
Nixon
Egypt First
Henry Kissinger
McGovernism and McGovern in the Oxford spotlight
The piece criticizes George McGovern post election, calling Kissinger lied and McGovern’s intellect weak, then notes his Oxford appearance and campus appeal. It argues the Democratic Party seeks to purge McGovernites while Republicans would benefit from his continued public life as a potential splinter force.
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Kissinger
George’ McGovern
St. Catherine’s College, Oxford
Democratic Party
St. Catherine’s
George
Oxford
George McGovern
South Dakota
Danville Register subscription rates and terms
The Danville Register lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions, with in city carrier delivery at 50 cents weekly and mail rates of one year twenty dollars, six months ten fifty, and three months five twenty five. Notices mailed ten days before expiration. renewals should be prompt.
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