Early American schooling and public education origins
The passage traces education from colonial Latin teaching to universal schooling. It cites 1642 Massachusetts literacy law, Franklin’s 1751 academy, and the 1821 Boston public high school as milestones toward free, tax-supported public education. It ends by urging student effort and noting a contest prize won by Charles Barnes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greece
Rome
Massachusetts
Benjamin Franklin
Boston
New Tax Rules Change Expense Account Deductions
A Washington AP report outlines the 1963 IRS rules for travel and entertainment deductions. The new regulations, effective Tuesday, impose strict record keeping, limits on gifts, and a 30 day familiarization period with leniency for good faith efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
Sterling F. Green
Washington
Congress
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Federal Register
Official Journal of Government Actions
TRS
Internal Revenue
Mortimer M. Caplin
Caplin
Khrushchev Faces Tough Year After Cuba Crisis
Khrushchev ends a grim year shaped by Cuba and faces a harder 1963 with China tensions and farm shortages. While Moscow hails Cuba as a victory, ordinary Russians feel scarcity at butcher counters and rising prices as production outpaces everyday goods.
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Preston Grover
Moscow
Khrushchev
Stalin
Cuba
Kennedy
Soviet Union
China
Siberian
Alexander Shelepin
State Department and Congress tied in foreign policy
The article details the Office of Congressional Relations in 1949 led by Frederick Dutton to secure congressional support for foreign policy. It covers Senator Ellender’s controversial Africa trip, reactions from Kenya and other nations, and the need for ongoing cooperation between the State Department and Congress in shaping U.S. policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Meisler
Congress
Secretary of State
State Department
Department
Congressional Relations
Frederick G. Dutton
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
Africa
Ellender
U.S
Senate Appropriations Committee
Dutton
Salisbury
Southern Rhodesia
Uganda
Tanganyka
Ethiopia
Congo
Tom Mboya
Kenya
United States
Kennedy
Cordell Hull
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hull
Senate Agricultural Committee
Senate
Rep
Barratt O’hara
House Foreign Affairs
O'Hara
O’hara
Rep. O'Hara
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Charles Barnes
Rochester
Minn
Awad A
America
Wer Seimer Caplis
Canada
Jerry Saunders
Dacron
Cotton Skimmer
Une
Dras
MTA Ty
Res
Champ
Second Avenue
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