Nixon moves toward bold economic changes echoing FDR era
The article analyzes President Nixon's weekend policy shift aiming to revive the economy. It compares his 1971 approach to FDR's 1931 actions, notes a dollar standard shift abroad, a 10 percent import surcharge, and calls for a voluntary 90 day wage and price freeze plus tax cuts. It questions effectiveness given labor and industry incentives and warns of possible long-term impact.
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Nixon
Richard Nixon
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Fort Knox
Abraham Lincoln
Bretton Woods
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William Howard Taft
Herbert Hoover
America
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Wilbur Mills
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Why did the steel industry cooperate with its own decline
The piece warns that a costly steel labor contract may trigger a steep, prolonged slump. It notes a planned 8 percent price rise, mill closures, mergers, and possible offshore mills to blunt the settlement’s impact. It questions industry cooperation in diminishing returns and its effect on workers and recovery.
Why Has Congress Not Acted
Washington report notes Congress grants a month recess while Nixon administration cites ambitious goals from the State of the Union. Welfare reform advances in the House with Senate hearings, but general and special revenue sharing lag in committee agendas. The piece critiques urgency and committee inaction on major goals.
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David Lawrence Washington
Congress
Nixon
Clark MacGregor
Congressional Relations
House
Senate Committee On Finance
MacGregor
Senate
White House
Residents Debate Pool Fencing Ordinance In Local Letters
Letters to the editor debate whether private pool fencing should be required. One writer argues public safety justifies limits on individual rights, citing toddlers drowning and the need for supervision. The exchange frames government regulation versus personal liberty and community welfare.
Secure child guidance prompts frank talk on violence
A reader argues that exposing children to harsher realities, including violence in films, helps them understand history and become well adjusted. The letter urges less shielding and more candid discussion as society faces ongoing government reform and health policy debates in Congress.
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Mary B. Squires
Middletown Roadwork Budgets and Delayed Marriages
Surveyors work on state and town funded concrete shoulders along the Middletown road at a total cost of 20000 dollars with half paid by the state and half by the town. Marriage licenses in the Clerk of the Court office have not been issued since August 13 amid staff explanations. Dan Hollings of the American Legion condemns U S neglect of the blind disabled tubercular and insane in a speech at the local Armory.
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Middletown
Court House
United States
Dan 3. Hollings
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American Legion
Frederica to appoint Corbin as police chief in September
First Sergeant Woodrow W. Corbin of Frederick will become chief of the Frederica City Police Department at the start of September, an appointment by Mayor Donald P. Rice and confirmed by the Board of Aldermen. The gathering at Roger Wolfe’s picnic discussed a proposed bond issue of 900000 dollars for city improvements following a city survey.
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Woodrow W. Corbin
Frederick
Frederica City
Donald P. Rice
Board of Aldermen
Kennedy Center scandal and patronage taint public arts push
Washington column charges the Kennedy Center overruns 43 million flowed to favored contractors and magazines. It cites ITT connections, suppressed critical pieces, and party politics, while alleging lavish concessions and biased bidding practices at the new cultural complex.
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Washington
Kennedy Center For the Performing Arts
la Grande Scene
Saturday Review
Wolf von Eckardt
Washington Post
von Eckardt
Review
Kennedy Center
Irving Kolodin
the Renew
Center
Brit Hume
Norman Cousins
International —Telephone and Telegraph
Roger Stevens
Broadway Impressario
Hoyle
Washington Area
ITT
Ohio
John F. Kennedy
Nixon
Lee Talbot
Council For Environmental Quality
Talbot
State Department
Stuart Blow
International Whaling Commission
Blow
Curtis Bohlen
Bohlen
Fred Harris
D-Okla
White House
Bella Abzug
New York
House
William “Fishbait” Miller
Hale Boggs
D-La
John Anderson
R-L
Martin Agronsky
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