Commercial hype taints Bicentennial push in ARBA plans
The Milwaukee Journal reports criticism of the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration for backing a Chicago conference where business leaders would be taught to tie promotions to the 200th birthday. Rep Reuss urges denouncing such commercial promotions as harmful to the observance and questions ARBA's judgment.
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Charles Beard
Beard
Chiago
Arba
Bicentennial Commission
Rep
Reuss
D-Wis
Chicago
Congress
Economic Stress In Carolina
The Raleigh News & Observer notes North Carolina’s per capita income rose 8.4 percent to 4120, but the cost of living climbed 9.4 percent nationally. Inflation and lagging income create greater burden for many residents, with more households earning far less than the state average, masking broader hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commerce Department
North Carolina
Paperwork reform eyed to cut quarterly SSA filings
The Portland Oregonian notes a push to let employers file only once a year with the W 2 form instead of quarterly Social Security Administration reports. Proponents estimate saving about 235 million dollars for small business and potential SSA staff reductions, with no delay to Treasury cash flow. Senate sponsor Sen McIntyre and Rep Ullman back the move, claiming inflation control and productivity gains.
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Social Security Administration
Treasury
George Shultz
House
Senate
Thomas McIntyre
D-N.h
al Ullman
D-Ore
National Federation of Independent Business, Inc
Sen
McIntyre
Ullman
U.S. Treasury
Turkey Talk and the USDA Bargain Curse
The Twin City Sentinel laments USDA announcements of cheap food as a trigger for market distortions. It details turkey oversupply after price spikes, resulting price dips to 39 to 49 cents per pound, and producers slaughtering breeding stock. The piece warns government advice can spur unintended shortages and urges quiet acknowledgment of occasional bargains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
USDA
Usda Turkey
Virginia Knauer
Heinemann Defends West German Democratic Tradition
President Gustav Heinemann rebutted the idea that democracy was imposed on West Germany after World War II. He asserted that democracy is part of Germany’s own tradition and that the country occupies a high point in democratic values.
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Gustav Heinemann
Federal Republic of Germany
West Germany
Millionchair bonanza and local notices in one edition
Jack V. Thompson recounts a life spanning VMI, tobacco buying, and 45 years in chair manufacturing best known for a one million chair order to Woolworths from a mini replica toy chair. Carter Holbrook advances a Methodist Center project in Charlotte with a 760000 building, ground breaking set for June 23 1975. Bee infestation disrupts a Greensboro home as a widow seeks swift extermination and a Pennyworth copper value rise shapes local commerce and urges redemption drives.
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New York
Thompson
Woolworth's
Colonial Furniture Company
Woolworth
Carter Holbrook
North Carolina
United Methodist Conference
Statesville
Charlotte
Methodist Home
Wesley Nursing Center
Howard Hughes Papers Portray A Reclusive Tycoon Portrait
Xeroxed Hughes papers reveal an eccentric billionaire obsessed with secrecy and big schemes. From 1966 to 1970 he ran a Las Vegas financial empire from a guarded penthouse, feuded with aides, and plotted political moves while wary of leaks and personal ties.
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Washington
Xerox
Howard Hughes
Las Vegas
Hank Greenspun
Hughes
Nixon
America
Richard Nixon
Ughes
Robert Maheu
Los Angeles
Howard
Maheu
Jean Peters
William Gay
Mojave Desert
Belaire
Calif
Boston
Gay
Bill
Rehabilitation Lacks In Prisons As Agnew Case Sparks Debate
A national debate erupts after Spiro Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and serves unsupervised probation. Critics argue the decision harms deterrence and widens inequality while acknowledging long-standing failures in rehabilitation. A House subcommittee finds prisons offer minimal vocational training and poor care, costing taxpayers over a billion annually.
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New York
Spiro Agnew
Agnew
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Joe Brown
THE
Milwaukee Journal
Raleigh News & Observer
Carolina
Portland Oregonian
Twin City Sentinel
Turkey
Holt McPherson
Jack V. Thompson
Virginia Military Institute
VMI
American Tobacco Company
J.B. Duke
Tobacco Trust
United States
Jack Thompson
Matt
Bonie) Wall
Greenway
Bonie
Cer
Herbert Dale Pegg
Deep River Township
Pegg
Unc-Chapel Hill
Davidson
Davie
Forsyth
Guilford
Montgomery
Moore
Randolph
Stokes
Wilkes
Yadkin
Mayme Kate Carter Pegg
Greensboro
High Point
Israel
Bill Gay
Offic Space
Bob
New York Times
John Mitchell
Watergate
G. Gordon Liddy
Greenspun
White House
Bebe Rebozo
OF Crime & Punishment
Mr. Agnew
Cearly
Robert W. Kastenmeier
U.S
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