The British Empire Ends and the Commonwealth Grows Messy
An opinion piece argues the empire is gone and the Commonwealth is a fragile, diverse collection. It notes Britain’s rise from naval supremacy to postwar decline, the Cost of empire, and tensions with the United States and Europe. It praises the empire’s ideas yet warns of its self-undoing.
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Commonwealth
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
United Nations
British Isles
Britain
George III
England
Charles de Gaulle
Dean Acheson
West Point
London
Bunker Hill
Jumped-Up Sukarno Tops Old Colonial Bosses
Roark savages Sukarno as a jitterbug dictator who exploits aid from the US and others to push Indonesian claims in Western New Guinea and Brunei. He condemns UN, U.S. policy, and calls for denial of entry for moral turpitude while lampooning colonial era dynamics and postwar decolonization.
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Threadneedle Street
Leeds
Manchester
United Kingdom
King Coal
King Oil
Sukarno
Islands
Indonesia
America
South
Freedom
West Irian
New Guinea
United Nations
Western New Guinea
Armenia
California
Bill Saroyan
U.N
Brunei
Southeast Asia
Stevenson
Cuba
Zorin
Angola
Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Africa in wartime talks
Review of the news from 1943 recalls Roosevelt and Churchill outlining a worldwide offensive in Africa. The president visits troops in French Morocco, with Adm. King Gen. Marshall and other Allied leaders present. Notable: Lt. Robert Weisbecker, 23, son of Kingston Weisbecker, killed in action January 7. Rationing notes mention 10 cans per family.
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Roosevelt
Churchill
Africa
U.S
Atlantic
French Morocco
Navy
Adm
Ernest J. King
George C. Marshall
Army
Harry Hopkins
Charles Portal
Britain
John Oil
Carl Spatz
Lord Mountbatten
Eisenhower
Bernard Montgomery
Henry H. Arnold
Harold Alexander
Robert K. Weisbecker
Kingston Weisbecker
Jackson St
North Africa
Adjutant General's Department
North Side laborer spared by leniency in theft case
Joseph K. Kidder district attorney Stanley Gordon urges a light penalty for a North Side laborer who diverted funds from shop workers to subsidize a 17.10 weekly wage for his wife and children. Acting County Judge C. W. Hunt imposes the minimum one year.
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Stanley Gordon
North Side
C. W. Hunt
Ruhr
Caroline Schweizer
Social Service Foundation
Douglas Fairbanks
Will Hayes
U.S
Editors Question Kennedy Tax Plan And New Law
Editorial criticizes President Kennedy's appeal for tax cuts while proposing a comprehensive tax reform. The piece notes that the plan would cut personal and corporate taxes yet remove deductions like mortgage interest charitable gifts and state local tax payments, reducing overall benefit to many taxpayers.
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Kennedy
Congress
Portraits by John C Mitcalfe and varied opinions
A poem by John C Mitcalfe reflects on love from dawn to night. The piece is followed by commentary criticizing a presidential tax plan, warning reductions to charitable deductions and rising public spending could harm health and education funding.
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Field Enterprises, Inc
Confusion Over Kennedy Tax Plan Threatens Economic Stimulus
President Kennedy proposes tax changes causing confusion and potential recession as businesses face earlier collections, tighter deductions, and complex capital gains rules. The plan shifts tax burdens, delays real rate cuts, and may curb investment and consumer spending through 1963 to 1969, raising doubts about actual relief.
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Washington
Kennedy
Congress
Wisconsin Democrats push partisan county office repeal
John Wyngaard notes the Wisconsin debate over abolishing partisan county ballots led by Assemblyman Frank Nikola. The piece argues the reform is a political tactic with little chance of passage, reflecting Democratic frustration in staffing courthouse offices and maintaining statewide power.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Wyngaard
Frank Nikola
Clark County
Democratic Party
Capitol
la Follettes
State Assembly
Lucey
Five Husbands for One Eastern Woman
A brief item notes an Eastern woman who has had five husbands and is described as a congenial soul who cannot say no. The passage further remarks that a pointed remark often leaves a person stuck, reflecting a humorous social aside.
The Luckiest Grand Slam In Bridge History
North opens one spade and after a flurry of bids from West and his partner the hand reaches a grand slam in spades. Oswald Jacoby describes a sequence of doubles and redoubles ending with a seven spade contract that makes despite West's aggressive play.
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West
North
East
Dummy
La Crosse Tribune Publisher and staff listed in masthead
The La Crosse Tribune masthead lists Papengs as publisher E L Burgess as business and production manager Howard Colvin as retail advertising manager Maxine Kahler as general advertising manager Luther Wilkins as classified manager and notes circulation and subscription details for La Crosse Wisconsin area and surrounding regions. It also lists press affiliations with Lee Enterprises and the Associated Press and provides pricing for home delivery and mail subscriptions.
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la Crosse Tribune
4Th and
Cass Sts
la Crosse
Wisconnate
Wisconsin
Lee Enterprise, Inc
Associated Press
Tribune
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East Asia
Dames
Ruark
White House
Sion
Ishmael
Garrison Siskin
Garrison
Mose
Chattanooga
Tenn
Siskins
365 Club
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Alma Dam
Fernadine A. Geiger
Milwaukee
Oliver H. Belmont
New York
Paris
Conservation Commission
Black River
Bump Pump Co
M. Rosenstein
A. O. Sorge
Quincy Hale
Leroy A. Thompson
Rosenstein
Sorge
Herman Tillman
Frank Koppelberger
George Phillips
Blaine
Paul Reinsch
China
Shanghai
Joseph K. Kidder
Constantinople
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John Alyward
Ekern
McGovern
Brit
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Star Knitting Co
Sam Johnson
Robert Henry
National Gauge and Register Co
John C. Mitcalfe
David Lawrence
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Republican Congress
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