Richardson Selected as Commerce Secretary After Fast Cabinet Run
Elliott Richardson, honored as Wealthy and well educated, is chosen by President Ford to replace Rogers Morton at Commerce. The Harvard Law grad and former Attorney General of Massachusetts has held three cabinet posts in quick succession and recently served as ambassador to Britain. Critics urge broader leadership rotation.
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Ford
Rogers C. B. Morton
Commerce
Richardson
Harvard Law School
Learned Hand
Supreme Court
Felix Frankfurter
Massachusetts
Watergate
Nixon
Britain
White House
Ivy League
Elliot Richardson
Concert pianist turns coal mine worker near Fairmont
Clifford J. Merchant, a 31 year old with a piano career and a $125000 insurance on his hands, takes a mine job near Fairmont West Virginia after a dare. He drives a Cadillac and sports a $13000 diamond ring. He plans further study in mining engineering and speaks five languages. He cites his practical father as inspiration for a dual career. A health note accompanies the piece noting a decline in duodenal ulcers and a rise in inflammatory bowel diseases according to Dr. Mendeloff.
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Clifford J. Merchant
Fairmont
W.V
Merchant
Albert I. Mendeloff
Sinai Hospital
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore
Labor Bill Threatens Freedoms in Construction Politics
The author argues the common situs bill would force unions on contractors by allowing a single union to shut down sites. It cites Taft Hartley limits on secondary boycotts and criticizes a Ford Dunlop plan as pro union. The piece links higher costs, reduced demand, and unemployment to the bill.
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National Labor Relations Board
Congress
Ford
Cassius Clay
Muhammad Ali
House
Senate Labor Committee
Senate
MacDonald’s
Con Ed
Eisenhower
Nixon
John Dunlop
Dunlop
Shirley Temple
America
Honesty Doomed Schlesinger
Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger warned of grave U.S. military weaknesses in speeches from San Francisco Gainesville and Pensacola detailing reduced defense spending manpower and fleet size since World War II era. The remarks, cited as grim statistics, followed his dismissal by President Ford.
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Washington
James Schlesinger
Ford
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Charles DeGaulle
Churchill
Eden
DeGaulle
Gerald Ford
Schlesinger
San Francisco
California
Gainesville
Pensacola
Florida
Department of Defense
Department
United States Navy
Schlesinger warns of military weakness and political denial
In San Francisco Pensacola Gainesville and other cities James Schlesinger warns that budget cuts erode U S military strength. He cites rising rework rates, Soviet armed forces growth and budget gaps likening current stance to Nelson’s Copenhagen signals. He asserts White House denial risks national collapse.
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Department of Defense
San Francisco
Schlesinger
Gainesville
Pensacola
Horatio Nelson
Copenhagen
Nelson
America
White House
James Schlesinger
Oklahoma Republicans split over New York aid stance
Oklahoma members of Congress split on aiding New York with the New York crisis. Some may vote for help while others refuse citing domestic priorities. The Sooner Cynic calls the fruitless can teloupe ticket a warning.
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Congress
New York
Revolutionaries Use Talk of Free Nations
The piece argues that political figures misuse vocabulary to advance revolutions within the form. It cites Chilean events under Allende, the role of forged voter IDs, and warnings by Enrique Urrutia about Marxist influence, warning against verbal manipulation by liberals.
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Allende
Urrutia
Quotes on work and farming from press and satire
A compilation of editor quotes contrasts a career woman with traditional roles. It also notes a joke about Russia sending farmers to Siberia for crop failures versus paying them in the United States.
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Chicago Tribune
United States
Russia
Siberia
U.S
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Wm. H. Sullivan
James T. Gentry
Oklahoma Press Association
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American Newspaper Publishers Association
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Alfred Wallace
Denver
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William Buckley Jr
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Syndiate
Pearl Harbor
Kevin Phillips
Soviet Union
Carl Albert
New York City
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Garet Garrett
Weimar Republic
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Huey Long
Chile
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Enrique Urrutia
Lenora Allende
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