Long Beach Los Angeles transit study praised by paper
The Metropolitan Transit Authority receives the Daniel Mann Johnson & Mendenhall final report on a rapid transit plan for the Long Beach Los Angeles area. The editorial endorses an elevated system for efficiency and cost, notes questions about airport links and loop routes, and praises the plan’s relative affordability enabling future extension.
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Metropolitan Transit Authority
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall
Los Angeles County
MTA
Daniel, Mann
Johnson & Mendenhall
Irvan Mendenhall
South Bay Cities
International Airport
San Fernando Valley
Review of Long Beach S and L Board Seizure Debate
The piece argues that coverage has favored the Home Loan Bank Board in its seizure of the Long Beach Federal Savings and Loan Assn. and criticizes the board’s failure to present its case to Congress. It emphasizes awaiting full testimony from both sides and calls for legislative action if warranted. It notes the press duty to report while withholding final judgment until evidence is complete.
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Washington
Long Beach Federal Savings and Loan Assn
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Home Loan Board
Congressional Committee
Long Beach Loan Association
Thomas A. Gregory
Federal Board
Democratic Rifts Threaten 77 Electoral Votes in 1960
Democratic leaders warn liberal factions and key figures like Eleanor Roosevelt and Herbert Lehman threaten unity on eve of the Los Angeles national convention. factional disputes risk splitting labor and liberal voters, with New York and California at risk of flipping to the Republican column if Mayor Wagner or Governor Brown cannot reconcile the warring sides.
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Washington
Los Angeles
New Deal
Fir Deal
Roosevelt-Tru- Tan
Rayburn Johnson
GOP
Eleanor Roosevelt
Herbert H. Lehman
Carmine G. de Sapia
Tammany Kass
Michael
Israel
E.D
Roosevelt-Lehman
Tammany
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Averell Harriman
Robert F. Wagner
New York
Ofte
California
Edmund G. Brown
Paul Ziffren
Stanley Mosk
Roosevelt
Lehman
Ziffren
Paul M. Butler
Du Pont Tax Bonanza Moves Through Senate Finance
Drew Pearson reports that in a closed Finance Committee vote the Du Pont amendment would slash their tax bill from 650 million to about 43 million. He details how Democrats and Republicans lined up for and against the measure, naming key senators and the impact on capital gains.
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Washington
du Pont
Delaware
Rockefellers
Pew
Sun Oil
Mellons
Gulf Oi
Alcoa
du Ponts
Senate Finance Committee
Finance Committee
Allan Frear
Big Chemical Family
Supreme Court
Giant
du Pont Co
General Motors Combine
Frear
Eugene McCarthy
Minn
Senate
Russell Long
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Bob Kerr
Okla
Kerr-McGee Oil Co
George Smathers
Fla
Clinton Anderson
Vance Hartke
Ind
Sen
John Williams
Willams
Harry Byrd
Virginia
General Motors
Sen. Frear
Town Meeting on World Peace Treaty Amendment Debate
The note discusses a long troubled view of Japan and Manchuria, blame on subversive world politicians, and calls for amending the UN charter to allow a world peace treaty to proceed without veto. It asserts historic Japanese resilience and criticizes Czarist and Communist influence internationally. It urges public approval of the amendment.
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Japan
Manchuria
Russia
Isi
UN Council
Earth
Strictly Personal Education Always Produces Change
Sydney J. Harris argues that education inherently brings change and fuels demands for equality. He contends segregation cannot halt this tide and that shutting down Black education would be illegal, immoral, and impossible. The piece frames education as a historic driver of social and economic parity, making the South’s efforts futile.
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Sydney J. Harris
New May Co 99 year Lakewood store lease giant project
The May Co chain signed a 99 year lease for a 300000 square foot store at Lakewood Center bounded by Lakewood Boulevard Clark Avenue Del Amo and Market Streets costing 3500000. Artist Jean Swiggett was commissioned to paint seven murals for the SS President Jackson. City politics shift as old council ends and a new city manager race among Buck Dobbin Hague Barton unfolds ahead of next week’s meeting.
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May Co
Lakewaod Center
Lakewood Blvd
Clark Ave
del Amo and
Market Sts
Jean Swiggett
Long Beach
President Jackson
Maritime Commission
Finis
G. L. Buck
E. 8. Dobbin
Oscar Hague
Dark Horse
J. J. Barton
Quotes from world leaders and a Welsh mine disaster
United Press International reports Jules Moch criticizing the Russia walkout at the arms talks as propaganda driven and sharing Soviet responsibility for the summit's collapse. In Wales Harold Legge recounts escaping a coal mine explosion that trapped 45 men, noting a fatality nearby and his narrow escape amidst dust and roar.
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Geneva
Jules Moch
Russia
Albertillery
Wales
Harold Legge
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Ree Man
Drew Pearson
DuPont
Thruston Morton
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Frank Carlson
Kan
John M. Butler
Paul Douglas
III
Albert Gore
Tenn
Wallace Bennett
Utah
National Association of Manufacturers
Carl Curtis
Nebraska
Dem
Pearson
Town Meeting
Africa
Asia
United Press International
Sermon H. Ridder
Daniel WH. Ridder
Harold M. Hines
Samuel C. Cameron
Tarry Colling Jr
L.A. Collins Sr
Penonscot
Minneapolis
Oshay
Sema Argyle
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