Subversive Activities Control Board under fire in Congress
Abner Mikva warns that the SACB remains a costly, ineffective tool that threatens First Amendment rights. He notes the 450000 dollar annual appropriation, executive order expansion, and Senate Ervin Amendment as checks that failed to halt the board, now renamed the Federal Internal Security board.
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Department of State, Justice and Commerce
Attorney General’s Select Club
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Erwon
Conference
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Wisconsin
California
Your Alderman Reports on Hyde Park Nonpartisan Elections
Alderman Leon Despres argues the Home Rule Commission seeks to abolish nonpartisan aldermanic elections to weaken independent liberal challengers like Langford Cousins Singer and Mikva. He warns the machine would tighten patronage and block future reformers, urging resistance to the reform move.
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Hyde Park
New Home Rule Commission
Chicago
Paul Douglas
Robert Merriam
Illinois
Illinois House of Representatives
Mikva
Langfords
Cousins’s
Singers
Simpsons
Rayners
Despres’s
Mikva pushes universal voter registration plan with McGovern
Rep. Abner Mikva and Sen. George McGovern unveil measures to create year round federal voter registration through Social Security records. The plan would auto register citizens when they obtain a Social Security number and allow mail registration with no re registration required, aiming to boost turnout and simplify access for new voters.
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Abner J. Mikva
D. 2d, Ill
George McGovern
D. S.C
Social Security Administration
Social Security
United States
Tion
Mikva
Sen. McGovern
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