The Midnight Ride and Paul Revere’s Legacy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the Paul Revere Ballad and placed Revere’s deed within a wider American heritage. The piece notes Longfellow’s birth in 1807, his 1863 Tales of a Wayside Inn publication, and the enduring message of courage that spanned generations.
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Paul Revere
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Longfellow
Falmouth
Portland
Maine
Revere
William Dawes
Craigie House
Cambridge
Massachusetts
New England
How Job Attrition Works in Rail Labor dispute
A five year dispute over rules led to an arbitration that allowed carriers to remove up to 90 percent of freight and yard firemen. Within a year 15,700 of 3,235 full time diesel firemen were gone through promotion retirement death resignation severance or transfers. Severance pay totals about 30 million while potential annual railroad savings reach 500 million.
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J. E. Wolfe
National Railroad Labor Conference
Grand jury probes spread of false libel against Kuchel
The Los Angeles County grand jury examined witnesses in a criminal conspiracy case accusing four men of libeling Senator Thomas Kuchel with an affidavit claiming a 1950 morals arrest. Testimony showed widespread though disputed circulation, with some witnesses invoking the Fifth Amendment to name distributors.
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Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Thomas Kuchel
Kuchel
Los Angeles
Ruchel
Grand Jury
Rachel
Republican Party
Johnson
Ernie Pyle remembered as a fearless war correspondent
Hal Boyle reflects on Ernie Pyle, the beloved World War II reporter who died on Ie Shima, describing his humble, empathetic stance with soldiers, his disdain for war, and the lasting impact he left on the home front and journalism.
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New York
Ie Shima
Pacific
Ernie Pyle
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Richard Harding Davis
Davis
Ernie
Indiana
Fifty Years Ago War Updates and Local Fire Report
Fifty years ago British troops pressed near Ypres with French help in Alsace and eastern France. A Saturday night fire in the Catoctin Mountains burned through Sunday and into last night, destroying 4 000 to 5 000 acres of woods with an estimated loss of 10 000 dollars. A Frederick resident urged lights on county and state roads after dark to improve safety. Richard A. Anderson’s West Patrick street woodwork is being repainted by a crew led by Lourren L. Welty.
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Concord
John Hancock
Samuel Adams
Lexington
Great Britain
Paul Revere
United States
Longfellow
Catoctin Mountains
Frederick
Richard A. Anderson
West Patrick Street
Lourren L. Welty
Keyser named Frederick office manager for telephone company
Twenty years ago Lee Keyser Jr. was appointed manager of the Frederick office of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company announced by district commercial manager RB Schleunes. Keyser succeeds A R Bolz who recently entered the Navy. No opposition being advanced, the City Planning Commission approved part of a master plan for a southwestern Frederick plat development. Buyers across eight states paid 27555 for 53 Hereford cattle at the Maryland Hereford Breeders Association sale, averaging 520 per head at the fairgrounds. Leipzig fell to First Army troops and other Americans, ending the Ruhr resistance.
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Lee Keyser JR
Frederick
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
RB. L. Schleunes
Mr. Keyser
A. R. Bolz
Navy
City Planning Commission
Maine
South Carolina
Maryland
Humphrey speech at editors shows party line on voting and economy
Vice President Humphrey spoke to the American Society of Newspaper Editors outlining administration views on literacy tests, the Voting Rights bill, and federal versus state powers. He defended economic growth while denying a current US fiscal crisis, drawing contrasts with Johnson era poverty programs and 1920s prosperity.
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Washington
Humphrey
American Society of Newspaper Editors
United States
Department of Justice
Civil Service
Johnson
Congress
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Hal Boyle
Pyle
Don Whitehead
Honolulu
Ernest Taylor Pyle
News-Post
Ypres
Belgium
Alsace
France
Leipzig
First Army
Ruhr
Washington Today
David Lawrence
MR. Humphrey
Europe
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