Observer By Russell Baker Weighs In On Washington’s June
Washington arrival with a retinue of lightning bugs and wild roses frames a tense reception. Commentators urge June to resign for Vietnam policy fatigue and sterility, arguing the President should replace June with a month that can weather drought.
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Russell Baker
New York Times News Service
Washington
Vietnam
Treasury
Labor Department
June
State Department
Williamsburg
Disneyland
Indiscreet Visit to Washington Sparks Policy Debate
A satirical profile portrays June pressing for a midnight move into Blair House, while the White House counsels patience. Officials from Health and Welfare and the Treasury mock the affair as a destabilizing Great Society distraction and warn of effects on policy and the economy.
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June
Asia
Mr. Johnson
Billi D. Moyers
White House
Washington
Blair House
dis-Moyers
May
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Chares ‘de Gaulle
Crowder Lottery Reconsidered in Vietnam Draft Talks
The Nation notes administration debates on reviving universal draft lottery to address conscription inequalities in Vietnam. It recalls Crowder era reforms and congressional fears of unrest on registration day, contrasting 1917 calls for democracy with today’s war. The piece suggests renewal could ease antiwar sentiment by tying equity to national security.
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New York Times
Washington
Vietnam
Enoch H. Crowder
Crowder
America
Sen. Reed
Missouri
Baker
Wilson
United States
Draft by Lottery and Fairness in World War I Service
In a Harvard study Professor Bruce Hopper notes the U S draft in World War I used lottery to assign liability from 10 5 million eligible men. The process ran over 16 hours in Washington with 258 drawn first guiding 687 000 immediate inductions. Exemptions covered officers, elected officials, aliens, essential workers, and conscientious objectors.
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United States
Bruce C. Hopper
Harvard
Congress
Senate
Sec. Baker
Washington
Hitler and Mussolini Meet at Brenner Pass in 1941
In 1941 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini convened at the Brenner Pass to discuss war strategy and alliance steps as Axis tensions intensified across Europe. The summit marked a key moment in Axis leadership coordination during World War II.
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Adolf Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Brenner Pass
Drought Cuts Wheat Crops Across Great Plains
Drought and late freezes devastate Kansas Oklahoma and Texas wheat crops driving down May forecasts from 265 to below 251 million bushels in Kansas and prompting revisions nationwide as frost damage worsens yields in Garden City and surrounding counties.
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Donald Janson
New York Times News
Garden City
Kan
Texas
Oklahoma
U. S
J. E. Pallesen
Topeka
Kansas
Andrew B. Erhart
Kansas State University
Agricultural Experiment Station
Pallesen
Colorado
Panhandles
Lew Meibergen
Oklahoma Board of Agriculture
John C. White
High Plains
Panhandle
John Orcutt
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Arthur Krock
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