Editorial on 86th Congress dull session blamed by era
President Eisenhower criticizes Congress for failing to lift the long term debt ceiling and for the vetoed pork barrel bill while praising Hawaii statehood and a labor law. Democrats defend the session, but editors call it dull with little progress on schools, economic aid, tax loopholes, minimum wage, and space policy.
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Lyndon Johnson
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Foreword on Conant study of American high schools
An editor notes the start of Dr. James Bryant Conant's two year Carnegie funded study of over fifty public high schools in twenty states. The piece outlines his aims to improve secondary education with layman involvement and local action, and introduces the National Citizens Council for Better Schools.
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James Conant
National Citizens Council For Better Schools
James Bryant Conant
Harvard University
Federal Republic of Germany
Carnegie Corporation
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Chemical Warfare Service
Atomic Energy Commission
Germany
Eisenhower
Educational Testing Service
Princeton
New Jersey
Educational Policies Commission
National Citizens Commission For the Public Schools
Prohibition Debate Prompts North Carolina Mockery of Dry Law
Opinion-saturated piece laments hypocrisy of dry laws in North Carolina regions except Greensboro and Winston-Salem. It notes sermons against alcohol, arrests for violations, bootlegging and moonshine as visible economies, and argues a local vote should reflect honesty whether wet or dry.
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North Carolina
Greensboro
Winston- Salem
High Point Leadership School
Winston-Salem
United States
France presses for atomic bomb in Sahara amid UN debate
Editorial notes U N and Sahara tests draw Western propaganda risk as France pushes to join the nuclear club. Morocco leads Afro Asian protests with Soviet and bloc backing while Ireland proposes bans on new weapons. The West faces delicate talks with the USSR over a testing ban as Khrushchev vows no tests. France's status as a Western power complicates the scene.
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United Nations General Assembly
Morocco
Sahara
Iceland
Turkey
Ireland
Paris
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Guinea
Liberia
Nigeria
France
Oasis
Touat
El-Hammoudia
Guillaumat
London Times
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U.S.S.R
U.S. State Department
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Soviet Union
State Department
Great Britain
Soviet Russia adopts installment buying amid mixed economy shift
The text compares US installment buying to Soviet plans for consumer credit. Investia says workers may buy phono graphs to sewing machines with 20 percent down and 6 to 12 month terms. The government will deduct installments from wages, charging 1-2 percent interest, signaling a move toward market-like financing within a state system.
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Soviet Russia
Moskva
Union Republics
September 7 letter over wool blankets at Palmer House
A guest at the Palmer House in Chicago recounts a cheeky exchange about wool blankets valued at $8 each. He describes returning blankets after needed drawer space and asks the manager to count all blankets, joking about other absent minded thefts and elevators.
Palmer House Correspondence Becomes Snicker-Worthy Guest Column
A reprinted exchange from the Palmer House Chicago to a guest, altered only by names and dates, portrays a room inspection note about two missing brown wool blankets valued at $8 each. The letter asks for their return and ends with polite patronage thanks.
Palmer House letter shows the hotel’s playful mercy toward thefts
A Palmer House Chicago note from September 14 1956 thanks a guest for a letter that humorously weighs the hotel thefts of silverware linens and Gideon Bibles as part of a large operation. The writer defends its check up system and recalls a maid error that started the incident while praising the guest’s reply as the bright part of the mess.
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