Bring On A Snowfall In Danville A Call To Unity
A column urges municipal harmony in Danville with discussions of a 10 inch snowfall to trigger electric line maintenance and street clearing. It mocks poll-framing questions on city leadership, power politics, and staff outcomes while warning readers of upcoming 1948 taxes and IRS dates.
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Lawville
City Hall
Electric
Public Works
Frank Farson
Roman Eagle Lodge
George
A. Danes
B. Anperson
C. Wallace
Appalachian
Laborers Union
Danville
Ronald Reacon
Newson Rockefeller
John Lindsay
Ted Kennedy
Eugene McCarthy
Henry Howell
Pauline Frederick
Paytuss Dinter
Jacqueline Onasis
Vic McCuszins
Joan Carter
Internal Revenue Service
State
Inflated Personal Worth Amid Inflation and Biology
A study notes the dollar’s reduced value since 1939 and compares national currencies, while Northwestern biochemists estimate the human body's elemental worth at about $3.50. The article cites body composition as 65 percent oxygen, 18 percent carbon, 10 percent hydrogen, 3 percent nitrogen, and minor elements, suggesting ego can be restored to “normalcy” by grounding self worth in facts rather than flattery.
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de Gauliz
U.S
Northwestern University
Harpine
Treasury seals and odd legal notes drift through history
A historical column ponders changes from the old Seal of the Treasury of North America to the new Treasury seal, noting unclear reasons for the name change. It offsets with quips on tax payer funds, a joke about deducting a dog, and humorous lines about North Dakota law on jockeys and surf-boarding, plus a aside on continental drift and Pueblo sailors.
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United States Treasury
the Treasury of
North America
Teasury
Department of the Treasury
Treasury
Hemisphere
North Dakota
Moynihan in Washington A Laughing Polemic
Pat Moynihan, director of the President's council, is described as a free spirited satirist in Washington. The piece paints Moynihan as a provocative, laughter loving critic of New Left excesses and conservative restraint, noting his past roles under Kennedy and Johnson and his upcoming Nixon administration position. It highlights his sharp humor toward welfare state ideas and his wit about political contradictions.
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Washington
D.C
Pat Moynihan
President's Council On
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Moynihan
Nietzsche
Shelley
Nixon
Robert Kennedy
Eugene McCarthy
Hubert Humphrey
John Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Averell Harriman
Rocekfeller
Harvard University
White House
New Left
Richard Nixon
New Frontier
Office of Economic Opportunity
Kennedy
Frank Mankiewicz
Ted Sorensen
Richard Goodwin
Bob Kennedy
America
Nader Critic Ralph Nader as Indian Advocate and FTC Attacker
Ralph Nader, praised by some for fairness, attacks corporate ethics and the FTC chair Paul Rand Dixon. The piece questions Nader’s funding, influence, and shift from consumer issues to American Indian advocacy, noting his widespread notoriety in Washington and his tactics of headlines and investigations.
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Mr. Nader
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Washington
Ralph Nader
America
Federal Trade Commission
Paul Rand Dixon
FTC
Dixon
National Press
FIC
Nader
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
United States
New York
Chicago
Commission
Simple Runoff Plan for Electors Could End Deadlock
Nixon urged Congress to adopt a runoff between the top two presidential nominees, preserving federalism and two party rules. He warned against proportional plans or district methods, arguing a runoff would prevent House bargaining and curb third party distortions. The piece notes static U S political dynamics and skepticism about rapid amendment passage.
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Richard Nixon
Congress
Nixon
George Wallace
Henry Wallace
House of Representatives
George
House
Senate
Chicago
New York
South
Nixon seeks united Europe before new summit with Russia
The piece argues Nixon wants strong NATO backing and a united Europe to strengthen his bargaining position before a decisive U S summit with the Soviet Union. It notes internal Kremlin doves and hard liners wrestling for policy, Brezhnev as a cautious power, and Tito and Ceausescu warning against Moscow's intervention doctrine.
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Nixon
Leonid Europe
Brezhnev
Europe
Russia
Eisenhower
Geneva
Moscow
United Arab Republic
Middle East
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Com
Stalin
Lenin
Kremlin
NATO
Berlin
Yugoslavia
Tito
Nicolae Ceausescu
Romania
Soviet Russia
Potburo
Tia Kremlin
Koesygin
Sine
Technnocrat
Sare
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