Meany grilled as inflation foe in farm panel clash
In a Washington hearing room George Meany faces hostile questions as Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz argues ongoing world grain demand and price trade offs. He pins inflation on budget spending and labor wage demands, while critics blame Meany for grain shipment delays and price pressures.
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Washington, D.C
Committee On Agriculture and Forestry
Earl Butz
Butz
Russia
U.S
Ussr
Farm Senate clash over McGovern and wheat policy
The farm-state Senators targeted McGovern of South Dakota, accusing dictatorship as Bellman of Oklahoma pressed wheat farmers about market movement. Bulry remained silent while Meany, labeled inflationist, absorbed criticism amid tense debate.
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McGovern
South Dakota
Bellman
Oklahoma
Bulry
Meany
New Hampshire Political Outlook For 1976 Primary
Concord essay surveys New Hampshire voters in 1976, noting Reagan and Ford campaigning, Wallace staying out, and New Hampshire’s blue collar and ethnic Dems. It contrasts Thomson’s tax stance with Peterson and analyzes NH GOP centrism, voter mood, and heating oil cost as a unifying issue.
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Concord
Nah
New Hampshire
Robert Frost
Ronald Reagan
Gerald Ford
Louis Wyman
John Durkin
Democratic Party
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Laconia
Nashua
Keene
Boston
Hanover
Durham
New Hampshire Democratic Organization
Wallace
Meldrim Thomson
Richard Leonard
Thomson
Leonard
Vermont
Durkin
Dartmouth
Republican Party
Henry Cabot Lodge
Barry Goldwater
John Ashbrook
George Romney
N.H
Walter Peterson
Squire
Wyman
Reagan
Ford
Washington
We can not fund everything for everybody
The article argues that Congress overrid Ford on an education bill and pushes for higher pay, expanding federal spending. It warns that more than 1,000 federal programs divert funds from productive activity, risking higher debt and lower living standards for all. It emphasizes restraint is needed.
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Gerald Ford
Congress
House
Senate
Ford
Senate Civil Service Committee
Older Than You Think Man’s earliest migrations push back to 40,000 years
Archeologists report at the Pacific Science Congress in Vancouver that humans built fires in Australia 40,000 years ago. Finds in La Jolla previously dated 65,000 to 30,000 years but older dates are questioned. Jose Luis Lorenzo asserts Americas arrival at least 30,000 years ago as well established. If you came 7500 years ago you’d be an immigrant.
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America
Pacific
Pacific Science Congress
Vancouver
British Columbia
Australia
la Jolla
San Diego
California
Jose Luis Lorenzo
Mexico
National Institute of Anthropology and History
Americas
Michigan Governor Signs Public Officials Disclosure Bill
Governor William G. Milliken of Michigan signs a reform bill requiring 20 000 public officials to disclose finances. The act funds governorship elections with tax money, caps contributions, and creates an enforcement agency with subpoena power. Violations face up to three years in prison and a 10 000 dollar fine.
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William G. Milliken
Michigan
Weep for Lebanon a plea to rescue a neutral nation
Lebanon faces intrastate clashes with leftist Muslim groups and Palestinian guerrillas while Israel bombards the south. The crisis is worsened by foreign meddling, with Soviet influence suspected as Moscow allegedly engineers the conflict. Call for Western and Arab pressure to avert catastrophe.
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Lebanon
Israel
Four Million Improvement Costs Spark Taxpayer Alarm
A long critique of Supplemental Security Income as a major reform claims overpayments since 1974 total $403.8 million, with estimates nearing a billion by completion. The piece argues the program, blamed on bureaucratic error and computer flaws, shows 23 percent error in reviewed cases and questions the administration’s figures and transparency.
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Washington
Republic
Social Security Administration
Robert P. Bymiun
Holding Action in Congress Stave Offs Irreversible Damage
A group of lawmakers including Steve Symms John Conlan Phil Crane and Lawrence McDonald form a holding action bloc to limit deficits and block costly environmental and energy bills. They back vetoes and budget balancing ideas while McDonald proposes a Sound Money Index to reward Congresspersons with anti inflation voting records.
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Congress
Barty
Steve Symms
Idaho
John Conlan
Arizona
Phil Crane
Illinois
Lawrence McDonald
Georgia
Jack Conlan
Conlan
Jack Kemp
New York
Basis
Carl Curtis
Nebraska
Skip Bafalis
Florida
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