Humphrey urges steady course against isolationism in wartime speech
Vice President Hubert H Humphrey spoke to a Jewish War Veterans convention urging Americans to support the Vietnam effort and oppose domestic calls for isolationism. He criticized a vocal minority and unnamed critics who favor domestic spending over the war, warning that halting the effort could risk broader global conflict.
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Vietnam
Hubert H Humphrey
United States
Southeast Asia
Humphrey
Hitler
Profit Inflation Demands for Higher Wage Increases
The AFL CIO executive council labels today’s inflation a profit inflation and pushes substantial wage raises to balance pay with prices and profits. George Meany says wage gains should not be capped by 32 percent guidelines and views the 5 percent airline machinists settlement as a signal for broader raises across sectors. He notes wages are the largest cost in most industries and rising pay erodes dollar value, stressing dollar stability over wage gains as inflation erases real increases.
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Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
George Meany
The
Labor Movement
Labor
President's Council of Economic Advisers
Machinists
Meany
Johnson Civil Rights Conference Follow Up Falls Short
National Scene reports private skepticism from Negro movement spokesmen as President Johnson releases the final White House Conference on Civil Rights report. They deem the follow up vague, delaying concrete action and relying on interagency reviews rather than a bold, coordinated push led by white business, labor, and civic leaders.
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Johnson
White House
Ber
Ben Heineman
Courtland Gross
James Linen
G. William Miller
The Poor Man's Philosopher Mailbag Brevities
Hal Boyle collects readers notes on quirky topics from pets to moonlighting and vending machines. Snails as pets boast 80 000 teeth and no need for walks while future land use grows crowded by 2000. Moonlighters average 13 weekly hours in a second job. Historic quips and jokes close the column with social punchlines.
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New York
Walter Lippmann
America
Fifty Years Ago Train Strike Looms in U S
Trainmen and firemen of 245 railways nationwide are ordered to strike on Monday, affecting 1,000 to 1,500 Brunswick workers and many transfer shed staff as trains halt. About 1,200 farmers from Baltimore to Howard counties support milk price rise by two cents a gallon. A lightning strike set fire to William Thompson’s barn near Colesville, destroying the barn and hundreds of bushels of wheat.
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United States
Brunswick
Baltimore
Carroll
Frederick
Harford
Howard Counties
Odd Fellows’ Hall
William Thompson
Colesville
Trolleys Out After Braddock Heights Wreck Near Fulmer's
Twenty years ago on the Braddock Heights line near Fulmer's station a wreck halted two H and F trolleys around 7 15 with a calf killed and passengers shaken up. Urbana's J Tyson Lee withdrew from the Democratic House of Delegates race and William Haover of Myersville was named to replace him on the ticket. Frederick County Draft Board 1 called nine local registrars to Fort Meade on September 12 for induction.
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Braddock Heights
Fulmer’s Station
J. Tyson Lee
Urbana
House of Delegates
William £. Haover
Myersville
Lea
Frederick County
Fort George G. Meade
Johnson speech on the South’s growth challenged by data
Washington columnist argues official figures from 1955 to 1965 show the eleven southern states outpacing the rest of the nation in jobs factory output and income. The piece notes rising college enrollment and a shift toward technology while dismissing racial equality as the sole cause for growth and questions the president’s lagging south claim.
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Washington
Johnson
University of Denver
American Republic
U.S. Departments of Commerce, Labor and Agriculture
Federal Reserve Board
South
United States
Denver
U.S. News & World Report
Dixie
Southern Colleges
North
Mr. Johnson
State
Texas
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